Contributors

Volume 3, Issue 2. Fall 2001

Bernard W. Andrews is a member of the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa where he teaches undergraduate music certification and graduate curriculum courses, and conducts research in curriculum, creativity and alternate forms of inquiry.  Currently, he serves as President of the Arts, Researchers and Teachers Society (ARTS), an organization within the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, and is the national evaluation consultant for ArtsSmarts and New Music for Young Musicians, two cross-Canada arts education initiatives.

Joyce Bainbridge is a Professor in the Department of Elementary Education, University of Alberta. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in language arts and children’s literature, and she is the co-author with Sylvia Pantaleo of Learning with Literature in the Canadian Elementary Classroom.

Sandra Bosacki is an assistant professor at Brock University, Faculty of Education. Her research and teaching interests include sociocognitive and emotional development in preadolescents, gender issues, pop culture and media and resulting socioeducational implications.

Anne Elliott is an associate professor at Brock University, Faculty of Education where she has primary responsibility for teaching Language, Teaching Methods and Children's Literature courses. She has an on-going interest in children, media and popular culture.

 Bonnie Erlandson is a Reading Consultant with Edmonton Public School Board, Edmonton, AB.

Leah Fowler is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.

Angela Kublik recently completed a MLIS at the University of Alberta and is currently working as the Children and Youth Services Librarian at the Grande Prairie Public Library in Grande Prairie, Alberta.  Previously, she completed a BA in English and Creative Writing, also at the University of Alberta.

Sonia MacPherson currently holds a Killam Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. She received her doctorate at the University of British Columbia for an ethnographic study of education in a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in the Indian Himalayas. She shares her time between researching and writing an upcoming book entitled Educating Ecological World Citizens; non-profit work in human rights; and developing an educational and cultural project in North America for Tibetan refugees, The Tibetan Village of the Americas.

Merle Richards, of  Brock University, specializes in the areas of language and multi-cultural education. In particular, she is interested in teacher education and curriculum design for ESL and Aboriginal learners

Vera Woloshyn is an associate professor at Brock University, Faculty of Education where she teaches a number of courses in educational psychology, cognition, reading, language arts, and research methodology.  She has many on-going interests including related to the betterment of  children's lives both inside and outside the classroom.