About the Authors
Terry
Carson is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Secondary
Education at the University of Alberta. He studied with
Ted Aoki, completing his Ph.D. in 1984. His research
interests include curriculum change, teacher identity,
intercultural dialogue and teaching in contexts of cultural
difference.
Ingrid Johnston
is currently Associate Dean of Research and Graduate
Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University
of Alberta, and Associate Professor of English Education
in the Department of Secondary Education. She teaches
courses in English Education and Curriculum Studies.
Her research interests focus on postcolonial literary
education, and questions of culture and teacher education.
Jyoti Mangat is
currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. She
has taught high school English language arts and has
an extensive background teaching in the International
Baccalaureate Program. Jyoti’s research interests
include issues of race, culture, and gender in English
language arts—particularly viewed from a postcolonial
perspective.
Joyce Mgombelo
is currently an Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education.
Her research interests are: Mathematics Education; Teacher
Education: Curriculum Issues (Culture, Popular culture,
Cognition); Qualitative research methodologies (Action
Research, Phenomenology, etc.); Enactivist and Psychoanalytic
inquiry in Education.
George Richardson
is currently an Associate Professor of Social Studies
Education in the Department of Secondary Education at
the University of Alberta. His research interests include
the role of education in national identity formation,
citizenship education, multicultural education, international
education, teacher education, and action research.
Jennifer Tupper
is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department
of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta.
She has taught high school social studies and has been
involved with the writing of the new social studies
curriculum in Alberta. Jennifer's research interests
include issues of race, culture, and gender in social
studies and the ways in which teachers understand citizenship
in the curriculum and their own teaching.
Lynn Wiltse
is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of
Curriculum Studies at the University College of the
Caribou. Her research interests include multicultural
education, First Nations education, teacher education,
and action research.
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