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Senate
Dean of
ATTENTION Bobbie Grant
TEL
Graduate Studies
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Trude Heift, SGSC
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Maggie Benston Student
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Faculty of Education:
PhD Program
(GS2007.19)
Services Centre 1100
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V5A 1A6
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New Stream - Languages,
Cultures,
and Literacies
Canada
DATE
June 21, 2007
NAILING ADDRESS
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12:38 PM
8888 University Drive
For information
Bunaby BC V5A 1A6
Canada
At its 14
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May 2007 meeting, Senate Graduate Studies
Committee approved a new stream of the Ph.D. Program -
Languages, Cultures, and Literacies -
in the Faculty
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of Education:
Languages, Cultures, and Literacies
A new stream or focus of the Ph.D. program was
proposed with a set of new graduate courses, as listed
below. Audience may include ESL and K-12 teachers,
aboriginal educators, French and international
students.
New courses
EDUC 923-4 The politics of difference: Coalition building and
critical pedagogy
EDUC 924-4 Multilingual societies and identities in a
globalizing world
EDUC 925-4 Critical literacies in multilingual contexts
EDUC 926-2 Doctoral seminar A: Anthropological approaches to
educational research: Case study, ethnography and
visual methods
EDUC 927-2 Doctoral seminar B: Sociolinguistic approaches to
educational research
EDUC 928-2 Doctoral seminar C: Critical and sociocultural?
approaches to educational research
Senators wishing to consult the documents concerning this item
should contact Bobbie Grant, Senate Assistant at 604.291.3168 or
bgrant . ca
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C: T. O'Shea, Education
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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Faculty: Education
Purpose:
To describe a variant of the Faculty's PhD program having a focus on
Languages, Cultures, and Literacies.
Rationale for program:
Many students who come from cultural or linguistic backgrounds different from
those for whom most curricular materials and practices are designed (in Canada, Anglo-
European, English- or French-speaking students) encounter difficulties in their education.
First Nations students graduate from high school in shockingly low numbers, for
example, and economically-disadvantaged immigrant students as well show difficulties in
completing educational programs. The failure of public education systems to provide
schooling for minorities is a recognized global problem.
The aims of this program are first, to offer educators/researchers the opportunity
to focus on the cultural and linguistic diversity that characterizes contemporary
classrooms, and second, to provide opportunities for students to participate in ongoing
research and ultimately conduct their own research regarding how diversity might be
recognized, strengthened and taken as a resource in public education. The program's
instructors are committed to practices of equity and access. Courses offer a range of
opportunities to question meanings and practices of social difference including those
based on race, gender, language, class, and sexuality.
Strong statements have been recently made about the necessity for graduate
students in education to be involved from the outset of their graduate education in
collaborative interdisciplinary work with colleagues. This program explicitly attempts to
provide an experience in which students will learn interdisciplinary research methods,
participate in educational research projects with mentors, have opportunities to report on
that research, and finally to conduct their own research projects for their dissertations.
Through this work, they will also become familiar with current theory and practice in
their specific fields of interest.
We anticipate that the program will appeal to students who wish to take "core"
courses with a cohort, but who may be interested in conducting research in aboriginal,
French or English language settings; students equally might be interested primarily in
anthropological approaches to educational research, or in diversity generally, or language
and Iiteracjes instruction or other foci.
Faculty members involved in the program:
1.
Kelleen Toohey, Professor
2.
Diane Dagenais, Associate Professor
3. June Beynon, Associate Professor (and her replacement after August 07)
4.
Maggie Hawkins, Associate Professor
5.
Daniele Moore, Associate Professor
6.
Marianne Jacquet, Assistant Professor
7.
Cecile Sabatier, Assistant Professor
8.
Oziem Sensoy, Assistant Professor
9.
Steve Marshall, Assistant Professor
10.
Dolores van der Wey, Assistant Professor
11.
Replacement faculty for Rosalind Stooke
Each course together with the associated doctoral seminar will be team-taught by
teams of three faculty members. In the case of the courses in Semester 1, normally Drs.
van der Wey, Sensoy and Jacquet will teach Educ
923-4
and the Doctoral Seminar 926-2.
Courses in Semester 2 will normally be team-taught by Drs. Moore, Marshall and
Sabatier. Semester 3 courses will normally be team-taught by Drs. Dagenais, Toohey and
Hawkins. The doctoral seminars will be offered in a face-to-face format, but on a non-
traditional schedule—i.e. scheduling will be late afternoon or weekend meetings twice a
month. The other courses will be taught in a face-to-face format once weekly.
Calendar Entry
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(To follow the entry describing the Educational Technology and Learning Design PhD program)
Languages, Cultures, and Literacies
This PhD program offers educators/researchers the opportunity to focus on the
cultural and linguistic diversity that characterizes contemporary classrooms and provides
opportunities for students to participate in ongoing research and ultimately conduct their
own research regarding how diversity might be recognized, strengthened and taken as a
resource in public education. Courses offer a range of opportunities to question meanings
and practices of social difference including those based on race, gender, language, class,
and sexuality.
Students are required to complete all of
EDUC 923-4 The Politics of Difference: Coalition Building and Critical Pedagogy
EDUC 926-2 Doctoral Seminar A: Anthropological Approaches to Educational Research
EDUC 924-4 Multilingual Societies and Identities in a Globalizing World
EDUC 927-2 Doctoral Seminar B: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Educational Research
EDUC
925-4
Critical Literacies in Multilingual Contexts
EDUC 928-2 Doctoral Seminar C: Critical and Sociocultural Approaches to Educational Research
EDUC
866-5
Advanced Qualitative Methods in Educational Research
EDUC 983-5 Comprehensive examination
EDUC 899-10 Doctoral thesis.
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0Students are welcome to take other courses in the Faculty of Education and
throughout the university, with their Senior Supervisor's permission.
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