Theses and dissertations

Doctoral dissertations (co-)supervised

Brett Schrewe, Ph.D. (2023) Medical citizenship and the social right to health care in Canada: A genealogy of medical education discourses

Kate Thomas, Ph.D. (2023) The potential to be out of commission: An art practice for teacher contemplation

Gang Li, Ph.D. (2020) Chinese international students’ engagement with democratic discourses and practices in Canada and the United States

Amanda Bolderston, Ed.D. (2019) An autoethnographic lens on the identity work of lesbian and gay radiation therapists in practice

Marcelina Piotrowski, Ph.D. (2019) Subjectivity in the folds: Education, media practices, and environmental activism amongst more-than-human pleats

Alejandra Sánchez Álvarez, Ph.D. (2019) Hermeneutics in early childhood education: Broadening interpretations of children’s ideas and actions, and learning in the process about our conceptions of children, our educational practices, and ourselves

Autumn Knowlton, Ph.D. (2016) Q’eqchi’ Mayas and defense of territory: Learning through the contentious politics of land in “post-conflict” Guatemala

Lilach Marom, Ph.D. (2016) From experienced teachers to newcomers to the profession: The capital conversion of internationally educated teachers in Canada

Jim Bigari, Ph.D. (2015) The relation of education for autonomy and education for morality: Implications for debates over educational aims

Shayna Plaut, Ph.D. (2014) Writing/righting truths across borders: Learning from transnational peoples’ journalism and politics

Lian Beveridge, Ph.D. (2012) Just like everyone else: The knowledge/ignorance binary in censorship and lesbian and gay picturebooks

Cristina Delgado, Ph.D. (2012) Aporetic openings in living well with others: The teacher as a thinking subject

Drs. Brett Schrewe and Claudia Ruitenberg,    November 2023

 

Master’s theses (co-)supervised

Wendy Atkinson, M.A. (2023) “Unconfinable knowledge”: Curating, the curatorial and decolonization in the performing arts

Rosemarie Desmarais, M.A. (2023) Education & ecology: A systemic study of ecological literacy projects

Jennifer Mansour, M.A. (2018) An autoethnographic exploration of being human through teaching and learning

Ryan van den Berg, M.A. (2016) Canadian civic education, deliberative democracy, and dissent

Amy Clausen, M.A. (2014) Playing with history: Settlement narratives in performance at three history museums of the Lower Mainland

Vanessa Liston, M.A. (2012) On being a ‘sama7’ teacher: Reflecting on colonization, non-Indigenous identity, relationships, and responsibility in Indigenous contexts

Kozue Matsumoto, M.A. (2010) Unsettling Japanese Canadianness in Vancouver: Negotiated and hybridized identity

Shantel Ivits, M.A. (2009) Disturbing the comfortable: An ethical inquiry into pedagogies of discomfort and crisis

Stephanie Bonic, M.A. (2008) Educational value is not private! Defending the concept of public education