Rita Irwin
A/r/tography; Arts teacher education; Socially-engaged art in education; Teacher education in refugee camps; Mentoring early career teachers; Artists-in-residence programs; Participatory action research; Research creation.
Dr. Irwin facilitated a group of UBC faculty and students in conceptualizing a/r/tography, a form of arts based educational research first published in 2004. Since then countless theses and dissertations, journal articles and exhibitions/performances have been written/created using this form of research in over 20 countries in the world. In addition, her teacher education scholarship has advanced early career mentoring in BC, refugee education in Kenya, and arts education world-wide.
E. Wayne Ross
Critical pedagogy; Curriculum studies; Social studies education; Education reform; Teacher education; Academic labour.
Dr. Ross is interested in the influence of social and institutional contexts on teachers’ practice as well as the role of curriculum and teaching in building a democratic society. His most recent research develops a radical critique of schooling as social control and a collection of strategies that can be used disrupt and resist the conformative, anti-democratic, and oppressive potentialities of schooling, practices he describes as dangerous citizenship.
Theresa Rogers
Literacy education; Adolescent literacies; Sociocultural perspectives on literacy and teaching; Teacher education; English education; Young adult literature, Literature instruction; Qualitative methodology.
Dr. Roger’s research focuses on how youth/adolescents use literacy practices in learning and civic engagement in formal and informal educational contexts. Her work extends the notion of literacy practices to include a range of media, arts, and critical practices. She has been particularly interested in examining the literacies of disenfranchised youth, including street youth, as productive, critical and engaged practices. She also does research on critical perspectives in teaching literature in classrooms.