Production and Editorial Team The production and editorial team are located on-site in the Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Luanne Armstrong Luanne Armstrong is a Kootenay writer, now relocated to Vancouver. She has published three adult novels, two books of poetry, and three children's books. Her new adult novel will be out this fall from New Star Books. She is presently writing a non-fiction book about the Kootenays titled Blue Valleys. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and is now working on a Ph.D. in Education. She freelances on a regular basis for the Vancouver Sun and other magazines. She is also the managing editor of Hodgepog Books.
Yu-hui Chang I was a proofreader for an English/Chinese dictionary, then I worked as an editing assistant at The Chinese News English Daily in Taiwan. Later on, I taught G3 - G8 EFL for five years. Before moving to Canada, I edited EFL textbooks for vocational schools. Besides, I taught CSL in Calgary before I arrived UBC.
David G. Darts David G. Darts is an artist and graduate student at the Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction at UBC. He is interested in issues around social response-ability and the trans(form)ative qualities of creativity and is currently developing the concept of Creative Resistance. David is one of the key designers for Educational Insights
Ruth Du Mont Ruth Du Mont is completing her Masters in Education from the University of British Columbia. She is the mother of two small children and a teacher in the Burnaby School District.
Lynn Fels Lynn Fels is the Co-ordinating Editor of Educational Insights, and Writer in Residence at CSCI. My research interests are in performative inquiry, writing, teacher education, and curriculum design. Specifically, I am interested in exploring issues of empowerment, and the explorative spaces the emerge through performance. Key publications include:
Carol Fulton Carol Fulton, Ph.D. student, CSCI, Faculty of Education, UBC
Hartej Gill Hartej Gill is a Ph.D. student in the Centre for Studies in Curriculum and Instruction at UBC. She is currently on leave from her position as a Vice-principal and French Immersion teacher in the North Vancouver School District. Her research area involves looking at issues of identity in Multicultual Education. She has recently co-authored a resource guide for educators and community groups in B.C. with Dr. Graeme Chalmers the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education at UBC. This publication is entitled: Educating Against Racism through the Arts: Programs of Promise.
Douglas Hagerman Douglas Hagerman is a grade 3-4 French Immersion teacher in Vancouver. He is currently enrolled in a Masters in Education at UBC and has previously completed a B.A. Music at McGill and a B.A. in Anthropology at University of Western Ontario. He has been an orchestral musician in his past and continues, from time to time, to play. His instrument is the oboe.
Louis Jefferson I am a part-time graduate student in the Center for Curriculum and Instruction. Currently my teaching assignment is at Magee Secondary School in Vancouver. I teach Grades nine and eleven Social Studies and Law twelve. My area of interest is in the Career Preparation area related to Law twelve. Three years ago I designed a Mini- Police Academy for Grade Twelve students who are interested in pursuing a career in the Police Department. Currently this program is being run by the Vancouver Police Department. It was designed around already existing models run by the R.C.M.P. and those in some cities in the United States.
Shelley Jones Shelley Jones is an English/History teacher, who has taught in Vancouver, rural Japan and inner-city London, UK. She is currently teaching adult education, tutoring students of all ages in various subject areas, and is enrolled in the MA programme (Education) at UBC. Her research interests include postmodern considerations of canonical knowledge, narrative as a legitimate form of knowledge, and international education.
Henry Kang Henry Kang is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of British Columbia. His doctoral research focuses on developing responsive and cultural sensitive school mathematics curricula, especially in formerly colonized regions of the world, using indigenous mathematics as a foundation. His research interests include ethnomathematics, indigenous knowledge, cultural studies in mathematics, and developing ways of incorporating other forms of mathematizing into the school mathematics curriculum. He is co-author of Toward Global Horizons: Student Stories from an International Teacher Education Project, Action in Teacher Education, 17(2), 40-46, Summer 1995.
Shulamit Klinger I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in teaching & learning technologies. I have been working with educational multimedia since 1994. I was initially interested in how users of interactive texts familiarized themselves with the medium, given that they did not develop sequentially, like familiar narratives. This was the subject of my Masters thesis which I wrote in England in 1996, the year I moved to Canada. During my Ph.D., my interest shifted towards a study of the internet as an educational space, a space which is shared, public and mostly text-based. I am interested in the ways how individual users understand this virtual space as an environment in which our conversation, our intellects, emotions, social beings and professional aspirations might be invested. I have published articles in English Quarterly (2002), Taboo (2002), the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (UK, 1999), Electronic Publishing Journal (trade press, 1996) and the Guardian Newspaper (UK, 1996) and Educational Insights (forthcoming).
John Maxwell Scholar, Instructor in the Master of Publishing Program at SFU, and part-time software developer. Working on broad-based research on the culture(s) of IT and how it flows differently in different communities and at different times. Recent work includes a forthcoming chapter on the history of educational technology in the upcoming Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, written with Ricki Goldman.
Jenny Peterson Jenny Peterson is a Ph.D. student studying the relationship between digital technologies and the performative/visual as inquiry. She studies at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Curriculum Studies within the Technology Studies wing of this program. She currently works as the Department of Curriculum Studies Web Curator. Jenny is the co-creator with Mary Shem, of the new Educational Insights Flash Introduction.
Kadi Purru At the moment I am in the process of writing a Ph.D. thesis entitled "Journeying Homewards: Poetics, Politics and Pedagogies of Belonging." As an immigrant myself, I am particularly interested in the im/migrants' experiences of home. Thus, my work has evolved around such notions as 'home,' 'border,' 'diaspora,' and 'belonging.' For me, an academic space is not only an intellectual but creative space where I can explore contact-zones between cultures, languages, identities and disciplines. My academic work co-emerges with my community theatre work. Currently, I am involved in the collective creation project based on the life-stories of im/migration of the Canadian-Estonians in Vancouver. I have described my earlier work with this group in the article "From Theatre to Community" published in Popular Theatre in Political Culture: Britain and Canada in Focus, Oxford: Intellect, 2000. My latest work, an article, co-written with Warren Linds and Alejandra Medellin, "Resonating Testimonies from/in the Space of Death: Performing Buenaventura's La Maestra in Vancouver, Canada" will be published in Poetics of Memory: Vision, Voice, and Performance (a forthcoming volume in Routledge's Memory and Narrative series, September, 2002)
Larson Rogers Larson Rogers completed an Honours program in Physics at UBC in 1996, including an undergraduate thesis in the area of theoretical immunology. He then went on to complete two further degrees in education, specializing in the area of science education. He presently teaches part-time at the senior-secondary level in physics, math, and information technology, while continuing research in science education as part of a doctoral program. Larson's work within the Georgia Basin Futures Project emerges from his research into how science education contributes to students' understandings of, and relationships to the natural world. The development of sustainability education and the prospects for sustainability education within existing public school science curricula serves as a specific focus of this wider research area. Included here are the possible roles for GB - QUEST and similar 'tools for sustainability.' Larson is also actively involved in educational research and development surrounding the GB-QUEST Exhibit, 'Envision the Future' at Science World, Vancouver.
Mary Shem I was born in Moose Factory, Ontario but I was raised in northern Quebec, on the shores of Hudson Bay and Great Whale River, in a small village of Whapmagoostui/Kuujjuaraapik, Quebec, a community of 1200 inhabitants. I have a undergraduate degree in Indian Studies from the University
of Regina,(1990), an B.Ed in Primary Education from Nipissing University
in North Bay, Ontario (1994). I am on Sabbatical from Badabin Eeyou School of Whapmagoostui,
Quebec. I taught Individual Pathways to Learning, Grades Six, Three,
Four, and in Secondary Sectors. Mary is the co-creator with Jenny Peterson of the new Educational Insights Flash Introduction.
Faith Shields Faith Shields is a committed contrarian and doctoral student at CSCI. Publications: Poetry
Munir Vellani Munir is a Ph.D. graduate at the Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction in the Faculty of Education. His current area of research looks into disruptions of narrative identities of individuals and communities in diasporic movement. Over the past three years he has also coordinated the development and implementation of a K-12 economics curriculum in Tajikistan, Central Asia.
Ursula Velonis Ursula Velonis' current research interests: East/West psychologies, perennial philosophies/universal wisdom teachings, education of the Heart, experiential and integral education, moral and spiritual development and consciousness studies.
Meg Zuccaro
I am a graduate student at Simon Fraser University. My work involves the practice of listening from an embodied perspective, weaving together contemplative traditions, phenomenology and women's autobiographical writing. My three teenagers have graciously taught me much about the art of listening.
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