Rosa Bruno-Jofré

Professor, Graduate Faculty

Contact Information

Room: A117

Phone: 613-533-6210

Email: brunojor@queensu.ca

Research Interests

• History of education
• Social issues in education
• Citizenship issues in education, polity formation, and globalization
• History of women in teaching congregations

Profile

Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Ph.D. is a Professor at and former dean (2000-2010) of the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Canada. Her areas of expertise are history of education and educational theory. She is founding co-editor of Encounters/Encuentros/Rencontres on Education published jointly by the Faculty of Education at Queen’s and the Department of Theory and History of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She also serves as senior co-editor of Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation, the journal of the  Canadian History of Education Association and as co-editor of Sembrando Ideas, published by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Villarrica Campus. She is the founding editor of the Queen’s Education Letter  and serves on the board of numerous journals including theRevista Complutense de Educación (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); Bordón  (Journal of the Spanish Pedagogical Society); and EDUCARE (Journal of the Association of Indonesian Scholars of History of Education).

Bruno-Jofré coordinates the Theory and History of Education International Research Group that reports to the Advisory Research Council at Queen’s.  Her most recent book is Democracy and the Intersection of Religion and Traditions: The Readings of John Dewey’s understanding of Democracy and Education (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010) co-authored with members of the Group Scott Johnston,  Gonzalo Jover, and Daniel Tröhler. She is the co-editor with Jürgen Schriewer (Humboldt–Universitat Berlin) of the Global Reception of Dewey’s Thought(Routledge, forthcoming) which includes contributions from members of the Group and a host of international researchers.

She is the sole author of The Missionary Oblate Sisters: Vision and Mission published by McGill/Queen’s Press in 2005 and translated into French in 2008.  The book was short-listed for the Margaret McWilliams Award in the category of scholarly history for 2005. She also published Methodist Education in Perú: Social Gospel, Politics, and American Ideological and Economic Penetration, 1888-1930, Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 1988. She edited, among other books and monographs, Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society, with Natalia Aponiuk, a book published by the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association in 2001. She has published articles and chapters in books in various languages and has others in press including a chapter in Vatican II in Canada , edited by Catherine Clifford and Michael Attridge, University of Ottawa Press. Two of her most recent articles  are “Visions of Excellence in Ontario: The case of the Hall-Dennis Report (1968) and For the  Love of Learning (1994)”(co-authored with Skip Hills), in Educational Theory,the Journal of the John Dewey Society,61, no. 3(July 2011) and” Popular Education in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s: Mapping its Political and Pedagogical Meanings”,  in  Bildungsgeschichte. International Journal for the Historiography of Education (successor of Zeitschrift für pädagogische Historiographie).

Bruno-Jofré has lectured or served as a visiting professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid at various times; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago and Villarrica Campuses; Humboldt–Universitat Berlin; Institut d’Études Européennes-IEE; University Paris 8; Université du Luxembourg, campus Walferdange; University of Salamanca, Spain; and Universidad del País Vasco, among other places. She was a keynote speaker at a number of international events, among them: member of the keynote panel at the 2005 Global Forum:  The Broad Convergence, at the Palais d’ Egmont in Brussels, Belgium; plenary keynote speaker at the Congreso Iberoamericano de Pedagogía: 200 años después de la independencia, September 2010, Toluca, sponsored by the Secretary of Education of the State of México and the Sociedad Española de Pedagogía; keynote speaker as part of the Celebration of the Centenary of the Normal School Building, Escuela Normal de Toluca, Estado de Mexico, September 2010;  and keynote speaker at the International Congress, Cultural Diversity: From Discrimination to Inclusion, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (organized by the Villarrica campus), Santiago, Chile, 2008.

She served as  Vice-President representing English-speaking Canada, Consorcio Interamericano de Educación a Distancia (CREAD between 2007-2009.  She has been a Member of the Steering Committee (North America)  of Global Forum  since 2008. Global Forum is oganized by Items International (Paris) and  Fondation Sophia Antipolis and sponsored by an international roast of organizations, leading high tech  companies, and governments.

Current research includes work on Fernando Vives del Solar, S.J. and social Christian democracy, with data collected in the Jesuit Archives in Chile and in Spain (research almost completed);  The Pedagogical Creeds of the End of the XIX Century in the United States: The Transatlantic Movement of  Ideas with Gonzalo Jover (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); and Transnationalization, Teacher education, and Issues of Excellence.  The latter involves a large number of investigators from Queen’s University, Stanford University, University of  Luxembourg, Lund University, Sweden, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Bristol University, and others. Bruno-Jofré  is starting now as a book on the history of Our Lady of Missions in Canada, originally a French congregation.

In 1989, Bruno-Jofré received  and Award for Distinguished Service from Western Washington University. In 2004, Bruno-Jofré received the Lamp of Learning Award in recognition of her contribution to public education in Ontario presented by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation. She was a Distinguished Visiting Professor from March to mid June 2010, at the Department of Theory and History of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as a recipient of a Group Santander Award.