Theory and History of Education International Research

Coordinators: Rosa Bruno-Jofré and James Scott Johnston, Assistant to the Coordinators: Jon Igelmo Zaldivar

The Theory and History of Education International Research Group aims at sharing research, engaging in collaborative scholarly work, generating academic exchanges or symposia, editing Encounters/Encuentros/Rencontres on Education (a well-established and indexed trilingual monograph series that started in 2000), and producing scholarly work in various languages related to History and Philosophy of Education.

Specifically, the goals of the research group are to:

• Conduct interdisciplinary research in History and Philosophy of Education
• Encourage interdisciplinary dialogue
• Participate in public discourse on issues pertaining to our research
• Promote collaboration with other research groups in our respective countries

Dr. Rosa Bruno-Jofré (past dean of the Queen’s Faculty of Education) founded and served as the first coordinator of the research group in Winter 2007. In addition to Dr. Bruno-Jofré, the group initially comprised James Scott Johnston (then Associate Professor, Queen's Faculty of Education) and Daniel Tröhler (Head of Languages, Culture, Media and Identities (LCMI), University of Luxembourg; formerly Director, Pestalozzianum Institute and currently at the University of Luxembourg); and Gonzalo Jover (Department of History and Theory of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, coordinator of the Doctoral Program at the Faculty of Education); and Cristián Cox (Dean of the Faculty of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; former head of the Head of the Centre of Educational Research and Innovation Project, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago; former Curriculum and Evaluation Unit of the Ministry of Education of Chile) who joined the research group in 2008.

New members are Elizabeth Smyth (Professor, OISE and Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies, University of Toronto); William Pinar ( Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia, formerly St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor); Carlos Martínez Valle (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, formerly at Humboldt University), and Maria Eugenia Merino-Dickinson (Professor, Faculty of Education, and Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Chair, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile).

Associate members of the Group are George (Skip) Hills (Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen's University); Jon Igelmo Zaldivar (Post-doctoral fellow with a grant from the government of the Basque Country, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University and Deusto University, Spain); and Josh Cole ( Ph.D. candidate, Department of History Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen’s University).

For more information, see the Theory and History of Education International Research Group website.