Published on Brock University (http://www.brocku.ca)
Associate Professor (PhD)
Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Education
Available for Graduate Advisement
Courses Taught
EDUC 5P30: Introduction to Studies In Teaching and Learning
EDUC 5P31: Sociological Foundations of Education
EDUC 5P35: Adult Teaching and Learning
EDUC 5P36: Critical Perspectives in Adult Learning
EDUC 5P40: Developing a Personal Philosophy of Educational Practice
EDUC 5P90: Research Proposal Tutorial
EDUC 5P93: Research Project
EDUC 5F95: Thesis Tutorial in Educational Studies
EDUC 5P98: Independent Study in Education
EDUC 5V96: Internship in Educational Issues
EDUC 7F40: Core Residency 1 (PhD Course)
Research Interests
Metaphysics of learning; Conceptual inquiry; Hermeneutics/deconstruction; Phenomenology of teaching; Existential post-modern interpretations of education
Publications
Chapters in Books
Educational research and teacher development: From ivory tower to tower of Babel. In Surgue, C. & C. Day (Eds.), Developing teachers and teaching practice. London: Falmer. With Kompf, M. (2002). Pp. 41-57. Primary author
Understanding postmodernity and its implications for adult educators. In Barer-Stein, T. & Kompf, M. (Eds.), The Craft of Teaching Adults, 3rd. Ed. New York: Irwin. (2001). Pp. 35-52. Single author.
Papers in Refereed Journal
Vitae Scholasticae. Fall/Spring. (2002). Zarathustra’s pedagogy: Lessons for none and all. Single author. Pp. 1-12. Single author
Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. 13(4). (2000). Caring as a practice of disciplinary power. Pp. 55-67. Single author
Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education. 3(2). (1999). A critical look at metaphor in teacher education research. Pp. 9-16. Single author