ConferencesPresentations
Exploring Preservice Teacher Agency Through Contemporary Multicultural Picture Books, Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, November 29, 2010.
Informing Literacy Pedagogy: Preservice Teachers Respond to Canadian Multicultural Picture Books. Symposium on Culturally Relevant Research and Pedagogy, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, November 15, 2010.
Interrupted Identities: Understanding Diversity through Children’s Picture Books. Poster Session. Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, January 8, 2010.Understanding global citizenship through multicultural picture books. United Kingdom Literacy Association, Greenwich, England, July 11, 2009. Co-presenter: Dr Anne Burke.
Diverse understandings of multiculturalism: How picture books inform literacy pedagogy for preservice teachers. Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii. Co-presenters: Anne Burke, Mary Claire Courtland, Roberta Hammett, Ingrid Johnston, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Angela Ward, Lynne Wiltse, Ismel Gonzales. January 4-7, 2009.
Preservice teachers explore cultural identity and ideology through picture books. United Kingdom Literacy Association, Liverpool, England. Co-presenter: Dr Roberta Hammett. July 12, 2008.
Interrogating issues of place and identity in Canadian multicultural picture books with preservice teachers across Canada. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Vancouver, BC. Co-presenters: Anne Burke, Mary Clare Courtland, Roberta Hammett, Ingrid Johnston, Farha Shariff, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Angela Ward, Lynne Wiltse. June 2, 2008.
Re-viewing Performativity, Image, and Ideology in Canadian Multicultural Picture Books with Pre-Service Teachers. A Place for Children’s and Young Adult Literature in New Literacies Classrooms Conference, Toronto Reading Council and OISE/University of Toronto. Co-presenters: Anne Burke, Mary Clare Courtland, Roberta Hammett, Ingrid Johnston, Farha Shariff, Ismel Gonzalez, Angela Ward, Lynne Wiltse. Saturday April 5, 2008.
Puzzling the Jigsaw: Pre-service Teachers’ Understandings of Representations of Culture, Identity, and Diversity in Canadian Multicultural Picture Books. Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Saskatoon, SK. Co-presenters: Anne Burke, Mary Clare Courtland, Roberta Hammett, Ingrid Johnston, Farha Shariff, Khalida Syed, Angela Ward, Lynne Wiltse. May 29, 2007.
Enacting critical explorations of culture, identity and diversity with pre-service teachers through Canadian picture books. Provoking Curriculum Conference, Banff, AB. Co-presenters: Ingrid Johnston, Mary Clare Courtland, Roberta Hammett, Farha Shariff, Khalida Syed, Lynne Wiltse, February 23, 2007.
Teacher education for effective literacy teaching. Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Adelaide, SA, November 27, 2006. Canadian picture books: Exploring national identity with pre-service teachers. 4th Annual Hawaii Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii. January 7, 2006.