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!
Upcoming Doctoral Defence – Samuel Andema
LLED’s, Samuel Andema, will defend his doctoral dissertation on Friday, July 4th. All are welcome to attend. Title: Promoting Digital Literacy in African Education: ICT Innovations in a Ugandan Primary Teachers’ College When: Friday, July 4, 2014 at 9:00 am Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 Supervisor: Dr. Bonny Norton Doctoral defences are public. […]
Christi Kramer – Doctoral Exam
LLED’s Christi Kramer’s doctoral exam will be held Monday, March 31st, 9:00 a.m., in Scarfe room 310. (Latecomers will not be permitted; doors lock at 9:00 a.m.) All are welcome. Title: Poetics of Return: Toward Poetic Imagination and Peacebuilding Abstract: Toward a deeper understanding of poetic imagination, this poetic inquiry explores the creative process itself […]
Klara Abdi Ph.D. proposal presentation
Klara Abdi (TESL) will present her Ph.D. proposal, titled: Bilingual Language Socialization across Transnational Social Fields: An Ethnographic Multiple Case Study of Chinese-Canadian Returnee Families. (Abstract available here.) Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013. Location: Ponderosa Annex E Boardroom (room 105) Time: 9:30am – 10:30am We will have approximately 20-25 min for the presentation itself and […]