Upcoming Doctoral Defense – Yanning Dong
LLED PhD student Yanning Dong will defend her doctoral dissertation on Friday, September 18, 2015. All are welcome to attend. Title: Critical Thinking in Second Language Writing: Concept, Theory, and Pedagogy When: Friday, September 18, 2015 | 9:00 a.m. Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 Supervisor: Dr. Ling Shi Doctoral defences are public. Examinations normally take […]
Upcoming Doctoral Defense – Joseph Cecil Stouffer
LLED PhD student Joseph Cecil Stouffer will defend his doctoral dissertation on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. All are welcome to attend. Title: The Classroom Impact of Reading Recovery Training: Examining Resitutated Reading Recovery-Based Teacher Learning When: Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 9:00 a.m. Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 Supervisor: Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates Doctoral defences are public. […]
Upcoming Doctoral Defence – Donard MacKenzie
LLED PhD studnet Donard Anthony James MacKenzie will defend his doctoral dissertation on Thursday, February 19, 2015. All are welcome to attend. Title: The Story of an Idea: Moving with a Playmaking Education When: Thursday, February 19, 2015, 9:00 AM Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 The supervisory committee comprises: Dr. Carl Leggo, Dr. Rita Irwin, Dr. Stephen […]
Successful thesis defenses in LLED
LLED is proud to announce the successful defenses of three PhD students. Laura Nimmon defended her dissertation titled, “Meaning Making within Social Activity Domain of Health Maintenance: Role of Social Networks” on September 22. Her supervisor is Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates. Amanda Wager defended her dissertation titled, “Applied Drama as Engaging Pedagogy: Critical Multimodal Literacies […]
Upcoming Doctoral Defence – Amanda Wager
LLED PhD student Amanda Wager will defend her doctoral dissertation on Friday, September 26, 2014. All are welcome to attend. Title: Applied Drama as Engaging Pedagogy: Critical Multimodal Literacies with Street Youth When: Friday, September 26, 2014 at 9:00 am Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 Co-Supervisor: Drs. George Belliveau and Theresa Rogers Doctoral defences […]
Upcoming Doctoral Defence – Ji Eun Kim
LLED PhD studnet Ji Eun Kim will defend her doctoral dissertation on Wednesday, September 10, 2014. All are welcome to attend. Title: Parent-Child Shared Reading: The Affordances of Print, Digital and Hand-Held Electronic Storybooks When: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 9:00 am Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 Supervisor: Dr. Jim Anderson Doctoral defences are public. Examinations […]
Upcoming PhD Defence – Kerri Mesner
Rev. Kerri A. Mesner, completing her degree within Department of Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education, will be defending her thesis, Wrestling with the Angels of Ambiguity: Scholarship in the In-Between: Queer Theology/Performative Autoethnography When: Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:00 AM Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, Room 200 Supervisor: Dr. Carl Leggo All are welcome to attend and support […]
Upcoming PhD Defence – Laura Nimmon
LLED’s Laura E. Nimmon will be defending her thesis, Meaning Making within Social Activity Domain of Health Maintenance: Role of Social Networks. When: Monday, September 22, 2014 9:00 AM Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, Room 203 Supervisor: Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates All are welcome to attend and support Laura.
Congratulations Samuel!
The Department of Language and Literacy would like to congratulate Samuel Andema who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday, July 4th. His thesis, entitled, “Promoting Digital Literacy in African Education: ICT Innovations in a Ugandan Primary Teachers’ College”, is a case study of college tutors’ and primary teachers’ innovative use of digital tools, in […]
Congratulations Chelsey
The Department of Language and Literacy would like to congratulate Chelsey Hauge on her successful PhD defense. Chelsey defended her thesis, “Global Networks, Local Reels: Youth Media and Civic Engagement in Transnational Settings” on Tuesday, June 24th. Well done Chelsey!