 | Kathleen Marie Gallagher phone: (416) 978-0160 email: kgallagher@oise.utoronto.ca | |
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Academic History Ph.D "Drama and Self-Construction in a Single-Sex School for Girls". CTL, OISE, University of Toronto, 1998 M.Ed. "Arts Education: The Living Curriculum". CTL, OISE, University of Toronto, 1995 B.Ed. Faculty of Education, Intermediate/Senior Division, Dramatic Arts and French, University of Toronto, 1989 B.A.(Honours) French Literature, University of Toronto, St. Michael's College, 1988 Research Overview Dr. Gallagher's research in drama and urban schools/students continues to focus on questions of pedagogy and the social contexts and relations of schooling. Teaching Overview Dr. Gallagher teaches in both the pre-service teacher education and graduate education programs, specializing in drama/theatre education and pedagogy, urban school research, school-based ethnographic research, applied theatre research, anti-discriminatory education policy and practice, gender and identity construction. Her graduate courses include “Qualitative Methodology: Challenges and Innovations” and "Urban School Research: Youth, Pedagogy, and the Arts". Professional Activities Invited Conference Presentations: •October 2009 World Alliance for Arts Education Summit. Theatre and Quality Arts Education. Newcastle University, England (Oct 30, 2009). •February 2006 Catholic Educators‟ Conference (CISVA) The Bullying Issue: Can We Respond Differently? Vancouver, British Columbia. (February 17, 2006). Invited Lectures: Open Concept Lectures. Featured Speaker on Youth and Safety in Schools. (June 7, 2010) Warwick University, England. In collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Invited speaker. Verbatim Theatre: telling other people’s stories. (May 14, 2010). Central School of Speech and Drama, England. Research Talk. Performance Research: Urban Cultures and Urban Tales. (May 11, 2010). Central School of Speech and Drama Faculty Professional Development. Creating a Strong Research Culture among Graduate Students (May 10, 2010). University of Bergen Masters Drama Program. Creating a Research Program. ( May 6, 2010). Elementary Teachers‟ Federation of Ontario. Identity and Leadership. Invited Speaker for Women‟s Leadership Series (October 5, 2009). Graduate Centre for Study of Drama Performance Methodologies. (March 10, 2009) Faculty of Physical Education and Health. Bringing Gender into View. (February 11, 2009) Law Society of Upper Canada and the Ontario Justice Education Network (March 2008) The Great Debate: School Safety. Osgoode Hall. Seminar/Workshop Presentations: February 10, 2010 Workshop on Theatre Feedback Sessions for the Performing Arts Organizations Network for Education (PAONE) at Canadian Stage Theatre Company. December 2009, Safe Schools Conference. OISE/UT. Using drama to respond to bullying. November 8, 2009. Teacher Preparation Workshop Event for Blind Spot at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People. February 2009 Drama for Inclusive Practices. Additional Qualifications Course. University of Toronto. Sept 2009 The Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Doc Talk Series. International Ethnography and Digital Communications (with Anne Wessels and Burcu Ntelioglou) (September 30, 2009) Representative Publications REFEREED BOOKS Gallagher, K. (Ed.). (2008). The Methodological Dilemma: Creative, Critical and Collaborative Approaches to Qualitative Research. New York and London: RoutledgeFalmer. (260 pages) Gallagher, K. (2007). The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. (222 pages) CHAPTERS IN BOOKS Gallagher, K. (submitted). M/Otherhood as Contradiction. In S. Springgay, D. Freedman, and N. Jolly M/othering a bodied curriculum: Theories and practices of relational teaching. Toronto, London, Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. Gallagher, K. Theatre as Methodology or, What Experimentation Affords Us. (in press). In Shifra Schonmann Key Concepts in Theatre/Drama Education. Sense Publications. Gallagher, K (in press). (2010). Ethnography in school-based, performance research. In P. Thompson and J. Sefton-Greene Researching Creative Learning: methods and approaches. London: Routledge. Opening the Story to Rival Musings. (submitted). In Joanne Dillabough (Ed.) Bridging Social and Cultural Theor(ies) and Educational Research: Concepts, Dilemmas, and Critical Investigations. London and New York: Routledge (Contract Pending) Gallagher, K (2008). Introduction. The Methodological Dilemma: Creative, Collaborative and Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research. pp. 1-8. London and New York: Routledge. Gallagher, K. (2008). The art of methodology. The Methodological Dilemma: Creative, Collaborative and Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research. pp. 67-81. London and New York: Routledge. Gallagher, K. and I. Kim (2008) Moving Towards Postcolonial Methods in Qualitative Research: Contexts, Cameras, and Relationships. The Methodological Dilemma: Creative, Collaborative and Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research. pp. 103-120. K. Gallagher (ed.) London and New York: Routledge. Research Grants and ContractsIn 2004, Dr. Gallagher was awarded a Canada Research Chair which was renewed for a second 5 year term in 2010. Her chair is titled: Theatre, Youth, and Research in Urban Schools. She is the recipient of the 2010 CRC lecture award for the Canadian Association for Women's Studies. She is also the recipient of the Initial Teacher Education Program Teaching Award, OISE/UT, 1999 and 2004; the Salzburg Seminar Fellowship, Kellogg Fellowship: Leadership Across Cultural Boundaries and Geographic Borders, convened at Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria, 2003; the Outstanding Books In Curriculum Studies Award, Division B of the American Education Research Association, presented in Seattle, Washington, 2001 for her book Drama Education in the Lives of Girls: Imagining Possibilities, and her book The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times was a finalist in the Outstanding Book competition in 2007; The Barbara McIntyre Distinguished Research Award, awarded at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2000; the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Most Distinguished Dissertation Research Award, 1999. Dr. Gallagher's current SSHRC-funded research is a multi-site hypermedia ethnographic study examining both the cultural and everyday performances (of student/school life) and the artistic performances created by youth in the particular context of the urban drama classroom. Its digital media methods are supported by a Canada Fund for Innovation infrastructure grant. Qualitatively, the research is addressing questions of subjectivity, space, pedagogy, theatre, and achievement in diverse urban contexts. This work builds on a previous study of schools in Toronto and New York city, published in the book The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times (University of Toronto Press, 2007) in which school safety and security issues came to the fore in post 9/11 school cultures. The current study is titled, Urban School Performances: The interplay, through live and digital drama, of local-global knowledge about student engagement, and is an international research project that examines how the relationships among culture, identity, multicultural/equity policies, and student engagement have an impact on the lives of youth in schools and communities traditionally labeled “disadvantaged” in the cities of Toronto, (Canada), Taipei (Taiwan), Lucknow (India), and New York City (USA). This Canadian-led project brings together diverse cities to examine student engagement, pedagogical practices, and success at school from a local-global perspective and to illustrate how such a mult-site ethnography is changed by arts-based, participatory, and digital/performative research methods. Because the insights of youth about questions of engagement with school remains the central concern, this project seeks new ways to engage diverse youth in the research process in the context of four communities equally concerned with “raising the bar” for those students most disengaged from traditional practices of schooling. Dr. Gallagher was also under contract with the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario and has recently completed a 2 year project titled, Using Applied Theatre to Change School Culture: An Impact Evaluation and Sustainability Study of ETFO’s Poverty and Education Project. This research evaluated a program implemented by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario that was designed to: generate awareness among teachers about the effects of poverty in students’ academic outcomes; facilitate dialogue among teachers and students about these issues; and encourage teachers to get involved in specific programmatic and pedagogical strategies that might mitigate the effects of poverty on their students’ well-being and school performance. Unique about this project is that the Federation chose a theatre-based approach to provide professional development to its members. Honours and Awards •2010 CRC lecture award for the Canadian Association for Women's Studies •2009 Winner of the Canadian Association of Women in Education (CASWE) CRC Lecture Award, Gender, Race and Security in Schools. •2008 Outstanding Books in Curriculum Studies Finalist for The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times. (University of Toronto Press, 2007). Division B. American Education Research Association. Presented in New York City, New York, USA. •April 2004 Nominated for Professor of the Year in the Initial Teacher Education Program. Other Information Under her leadership at the Centre for Urban Schooling, a team of 7 researchers have also examined, through a multi-case study approach, the Model Schools for Inner Cities TDSB initiative. This study, titled Putting Inner City Students First: A university-school-community partnership, funded by the Council of Ontario Directors of Education, has produced digital outputs for teacher education candidates who aim to better understand the unique challenges of teaching in underserved urban schools. A report of this study has been published in Rolheiser, C., Evans, M. & Gambhir, M. (2011), pp. 108 – 123. Curriculum Vitae http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Kathleen_Marie_Gallagher_CV.pdf |
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