Faculty of Ed Research Celebration Event

Pamela Beach - Promoting Language and Early Literacy Development - Practical Insights from a Parent Researcher (2024). Combining teaching experience, research findings, and first-hand parenting stories, this compelling and practical resource distills everything you need to know for a thorough understanding of language and early literacy development. With an emphasis on the diversity of classrooms and types of learners, this is invaluable reading for parents and caregivers, early years teachers, learning support assistants, and nursery workers. 

Rosa Bruno-Jofrè - Rethinking Freire and Illich: Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives (2023).  Co-edited with Michael Attridge and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society. The collection uniquely analyses Freire and Illich together, although not in a comparative way. It acknowledges that both Freire and Illich led in different ways to a new approach to perceiving and understanding the concept of liberation as a human condition, while also presenting current criticisms of their work from a gendered perspective and by Indigenous scholars in the US and Canada.

Ivan Illich, Fifty Years Later - Situating Deschooling Society in his Intellectual and Personal Journey (2022). Co-authored with Jon Igelmo Zaldívar. In 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate schooling from the state. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later looks at the theological roots of Illich’s thought and the intellectual and ideological strands that contributed to his ideas. 

The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions: From Ultramontane Origins to a New Cosmology (2021). This book traces the journey taken by the Canadian Province of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions / Religieuses de Notre Dame des Missions (RNDM), from its establishment in Manitoba in 1898 to 2008, when the congregation as a whole redefined its mission and vision. Using archival research conducted in Canada, England, and Italy and incorporating oral interviews with RNDM sisters, this book explores the historical work of the sisters in schools and the part they played in the developing educational state.

The Peripatetic Journey of Teacher Preparation in Canada (2020). Co-authored with Joseph Stafford. This book situates teacher training, preparation and education in Canada within national and global histories. The authors lead the reader through an exploration of the objectives of schooling, the contextual role of teachers, and the political undercurrents sustaining various educational conceptions and policies.

Christopher DeLuca -  Learning to Assess - Cultivating Assessment Capacity in Teacher Education (2024). Co-authored with Jill Willis, Bronwen Cowie, Christine Harrison, and Andrew Coombs. This book presents a new framework for how teachers develop their assessment capacity, based on a multi-year study conducted in four countries—Australia, Canada, England, and New Zealand—which focused on student-teacher learning in assessment in their initial teacher education programs. It examines how teacher learning is shaped by the complex dynamics of assessment capacity within larger teacher education contexts.  

Patty Douglas - Unmothering Autism, Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care (2024). As global rates of autism diagnosis rise, dominant cultural representations continue to define autism as a tragic neurological disorder. And mothers – as primary caregivers and advocates – are centrally implicated in the impulse to find both cause and cure. How should we care about autism and autistic people?

Benjamin Kutsyuruba - Mentoring for Wellbeing in Schools (2024). Co-edited with Frances K. Kochan. This volume of the Perspectives on Mentoring Series explores the role of mentoring in promoting wellbeing of mentees or proteges and mentors in K-12 school settings. At its core, mentoring is about helping, advising, supporting, and guiding mentees and proteges to gain a variety of skills, abilities, and attributes. A less discussed outcome of mentoring is the positive impact it can have on the mental health and wellbeing of both the mentor and mentee. Of particular interest for this edited volume is how mentoring can promote mental health, build resilience, and develop capacity to maintain and sustain emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing for all in K-12 school settings.

The Emerald Handbook of Wellbeing in Higher Education; Global Perspectives on Students, Faculty, Leaders, and Institutions (2024). Co-edited with Keith D. Walker.  Scholars from around the globe discuss initiatives, practices, and structures that can provide a positive outlook and flourishing in higher learning, and offer lessons from efforts to promote positive emotional and social aspects for students, leaders, and faculty.

Sandy Youmans - Beyond 1, 2, 3; Strengthening Early Mathematics Education (2024) co-edited with Professor Emerita Lynda Colgan. This book is a comprehensive collection providing an overview of important topics within the field of early childhood mathematics education in Canada. Chapters include a mix of theory and practice and feature rich pedagogical tools including, a set of learning objectives, key terms, and discussion questions.