Congratulations to all of our Graduate Students and their Supervisors on the successful defence of their PhD dissertations, and or MA thesis.
Dana Lee
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies
August | 2024
Dissertation title | ChildCareBC initiatives: a Foucauldian-inspired policy analysis
Supervisor | Dr. Anne Phelan
Meghan Allen
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Science Education)
August | 2024
Dissertation title | An in-depth exploration of student experiences and perspectives of learning technical writing in undergraduate computer science education
Supervisor | Dr. Anne Phelan
Ken Morimoto
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Art Education)
July | 2024
Dissertation title | Walking an a/r/tographic garden: propositions with art education, curriculum theory, and love
Supervisor | Dr. Rita Irwin
Shahidul Islam
Master of Arts (MA) | Science Education
July | 2024
Dissertation title | British Columbian and Bangladeshi secondary science teachers’ views on the role of professional learning communities in the growth of their knowledge for teaching
Supervisor | Dr. Marina Milner Bolotin
Margaret O’Sullivan
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Music Education)
June | 2024
Dissertation title | Community music making and learning for the 21st century: autoethnographic stories, touchstones of quality, and positive youth development
Supervisor | Dr. Peter Gouzouasis
Suresh Ghimire
Master of Arts (MA) | Curriculum Studies
June | 2024
Dissertation title | Hands-on pedagogies in science classrooms: exploring Nepali teachers’ perspectives on learning kits and inquiry-based science learning
Supervisor | Dr. Marina Milner Bolotin
Laura Werbitsky
Master of Arts (MA) | Curriculum Studies
June | 2024
Dissertation title | Exploring how discourses of curriculum reform shape teachers’ subjectivities
Supervisor | Dr. Anne Phelan
Ting Zhang
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Mathematics Education)
April | 2024
Dissertation title | Exploring children’s mathematics learning and self-regulation in robotics
Supervisor | Dr. Ann Anderson
Angela Baldus
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Art Education)
March | 2024
Dissertation title | Art, address, and correspondence: variations on pedagogical presence
Supervisor | Dr. Rita Irwin
Tsubasa Saito
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Math Education)
March | 2024
Dissertation title | Sense-making in learning mathematics across languages and countries: cases of multilingual students in a weekend Japanese school (hoshuko)
Supervisor | Dr. Susan Gerofsky
David Strich
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Science Education)
January | 2024
Dissertation title | Exploring Students’ Understandings and Perspectives of Place: The Case of Place in a Skagit Valley
Supervisor | Sandra Scott and Samson Nashon
Naomi Kawamura
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Social Studies Education)
December | 2023
Dissertation title | The intergenerational transfer of nikkei memory: museums facing the absence of “witness” founders
Supervisor | Dr. Penney Clark
Matthew Isherwood
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies (Art Education)
November | 2023
Dissertation title | Towards a pedagogy of disidentification: the promise of queer aesthetic sensibility as a cultivated disposition
Supervisor(s) | Dr. Rita Irwin and Dr. William Pinar
Travis Fuchs
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies
August | 2023
Dissertation title | Engaging in Socially Responsible Science Education (SRSE): professional development of secondary science teachers through a Learning study approach
Supervisor | Michelle Yuen Sze Tan
Conan Chung Man Lee
Master of Arts (MA) | Science Education
May | 2023
Thesis title | Science learning through YouTube comments on science videos embedding movies
Supervisor | Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin
Renee Diemert
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies
May | 2023
Dissertation title | Exploring International Baccalaureate students’ experiences of community-based learning: an interpretive case study
Supervisor | Dr. Cynthia Nicol
Hannah Sanvido
Master of Arts (MA) | Health, Outdoor & Physical Education
May | 2023
Thesis title | Women and nonbinary people’s understandings of their sports-based activism
Supervisor | Shawn Forde
Kshamta Hunter
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies
February | 2023
Dissertation title | Urban youth sustainability leaders’ leadership competencies in engaging transformative social innovative solutions for local wicked problems
Supervisor | Dr. Samson Nashon
Joann Ihuoma Anokwuru
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies
January | 2023
Dissertation title | Living and Learning with Disabilities in Nigeria: An Ecological Narrative Inquiry
Supervisor(s) | Dr. Karen Meyer and Dr. Leyton Schnellert
Anna Ryoo
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies | Art Education
November | 2022
Dissertation title | Art, education, Arendt : political and aesthetic gestures of amor mundi
Supervisor(s) | Dr. Rita Irwin, Dr. Samuel D. Rocha
Angela Rutakomozibwa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies | Science Education
December | 2021
Dissertation title | Effect of computer simulations on female students’ motivation for and engagement with physics learning: a case of secondary schools in Tanzania
Supervisor(s) | Dr. Samson Nashon and Dr. Sandra Scott
Anne Hales
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies
December | 2021
Dissertation Title | Towards a genealogy of the mentor in early career teacher mentorship programs
Supervisor | Dr. Anne Phelan
Haideh Hashemi Nouri
Master of Arts (MA)
December | 2021
Thesis Title | Becoming anew as an educator: thinking with Arendt through narrative
Supervisor | Dr. Anne Phelan
Alexis Gonzalez Donoso
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies | Science Education
November | 2021
Dissertation Title | Exploring in-Service Science Teachers’ Assessment Literacy on Teaching with Models
Supervisor | Dr. Samia Khan
Fay Bigloo
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies
October | 2021
Dissertation Title | Cosmo-Currere: To Understand Curriculum as Bio-Geospheric Justice and Terra-Didactic Text
Supervisor | Dr. William Pinar
Amanda Fritzlan
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies | Mathematics Education
September | 2021
Dissertation Title | A Narrative Inquiry Into Teachers’ Experiences with Community, Place, and Indigenous Knowledge in Mathematics Education
Supervisor | Dr. Cynthia Nicol
Keenan Way
Master of Arts (MA) | Home Economics Education
August | 2021
Thesis Title | Women’s experiences of knowledge sharing, empowerment & connecting through domestic cooking
Supervisor | Dr. Kerry Renwick
Bruce Moghtader
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies
August | 2021
Dissertation Title | Human capital theory of education
Supervisor | Dr. William Pinar
Kwesi Yaro
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Curriculum Studies | Mathematics Education
August | 2021
Dissertation Title | Understanding African immigrant families’ support for their children’s mathematics learning in Canada
Supervisor | Dr. Ann Anderson
Current Position | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
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