Colleagues,
We continue to have many student successes in EDCP. Please join me in congratulating the following students (and their supervisors) who have completed their Ph.D. Degree during 2014-2015:
Daniel Bakan, Ph.D.: Thesis title: A song of songs: A/r/tography, autoethnography, and songwriting as music education research. (Supervisor: Peter Gouzouasis)
Guopeng Fu, Ph.D.: Thesis title: Physics teachers and China’s curriculum reform: the interplay between agency and structure. (Supervisor: Samson Nashon)
Lindsay Gibson, Ph.D: Thesis title: Understanding Ethical Judgments in Secondary School History Classes. (Supervisor: Peter Seixas)
Gilmour Jope, Ph.D: Thesis title: Grasping Phronesis: The Fabric of Discernment in Becoming an Ethical Teacher. (Supervisor: Anne Phelan)
Jong-Mun Kim, Ph.D: Thesis title: Changes to Ocean Literacy During a Marine Aquarium Summer Camp Experience. (Supervisor: David Anderson)
Donald MacLennan, Ph.D.: Thesis title: Mapping how students conceptualize ancillary movements in instrumental music performance. (Supervisor: Scott Goble)
Sylvia McLellan, Ph.D.: Thesis title: How young children negotiate sociomathematical norms during inquiry-based learning in mathematics: a discursive psychological perspective. (Supervisor: Ann Anderson)
Marion Pearson, Ph.D.: Thesis title: Conceptions of Curricular Integration in an Undergraduate Degree Program: A Case Study in Pharmaceutical Sciences. (Supervisor: Harry Hubball)
Anita Prest, Ph.D.: Thesis title: The Growth and Contributions of Bridging Social Capital to Rural Vitality via School-Community Music Education Partnerships. (Supervisor: Scott Goble)
Gabrielle Trepanier, Ph.D.: Thesis title: Visitors’ conceptions and self-report of learning in museums. (Supervisor: David Anderson)
Please also join me in congratulating the following students (and their supervisors) who have completed their M.A Degree during 2014-2015:
Heather Fisher, M.A.: Thesis title: Measuring students’ engagement and learning during problem-solving in introductory genetics: the effects of problem-solving and self-regulated learning prompts. (Supervisor: Marina Milner-Bolotin)
Katie Gemmell, M.A.: Thesis title: The Impact of Progressive Education on Roman Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Vancouver: 1924-1960. (Supervisor: Penney Clark)
Takako Gillard, M.A.: Thesis title: Trust through art and its practice: a/r/tography study. (Supervisor: Rita Irwin)
Matthew Isherwood, M.A.: Thesis title: (Re)presentations of homosexuality: the frame and knowledge in the making. (Supervisor: Donal O’Donoghue)
Alexandra MacDonald, M.A.: Thesis title: Investigating factors underlying undergraduate physics students’ attitudes and beliefs about physics through a revalidation of CLASS. (Supervisor: Marina Milner-Bolotin)
Anna Ryoo, M.A.: Thesis title: Art Education and new media: Understanding the roles of artists and educators in the age of immediacy. (Supervisor: Rita Irwin)
Kevin Sandher, M.A.: Thesis title: Students’ Social Experiences Through Inventing Games. (Supervisor: Joy Butler)
Annette Tushabomwe, M.A.: Thesis title: Sexuality education within high school curriculum in Uganda: exploring teachers’ perceptions of contextual influences on classroom discourses. (Supervisor: Samson Nashon)
Hearty congratulations to all students and their supervisors. Their successful work adds to the growing reputation of the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy as one of the top academic units of its kind in North America.
Best, Peter
Peter Grimmett
Professor and Head, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy