Congratulations to all of our Graduate Students and their Supervisors on the successful defence of their PhD dissertations, and or MA thesis.

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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