Equity, Diversity & Social Justice
 | Tara Goldstein phone: (416) 978-0035 email: tgoldstein@oise.utoronto.ca website: http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/~tgoldstein/Tara_Goldstein/ | |
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Academic History MFA in Playwriting, Spalding University, Louisville, KY, 2006 Ph.D OISE, University of Toronto, Department of Curriculum, Modern Language Centre, Toronto, ON, 1991 MA in Teaching English as a Second Language, St. Michael's College, Winooski, VT, Faculty of Education, 1981 BA in English Literature (major) and Women's Studies (minor), Concordia University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1980 Research Overview Tara Goldstein is a Full Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at OISE. In the last ten years, Tara has been developing a research program in “performed ethnography” in which she turns ethnographic research into play scripts that can be read aloud and performed by a variety of different readers and performers for a variety of different audiences. A bibliography of her performed ethnographies and research-informed plays is included in the curriculm vitae section. Tara current line of research has to do with the use of performed ethnography and research-informed theatre to raise critical consciousness about equity and social justice issues both inside and outside of schools. Teaching Overview In the fall of 2012, Tara will be teaching the following Graduate Education courses: • Performed Ethnography and Research-Informed Theatre • CSTD PhD Seminar or CTL 1000 The following Bachelor of Education course: • Sexualities and Schooling: Approaches to Anti-Homophobia Education And the following Undergraduate course for New College at the University of Toronto: • Equity, Activism and Education Professional Activities Prof. Goldstein has given several keynote addresses at education conferences: • Teachers’ Work, Master of Teaching Research Conference, OISE, University of Toronto, April 7, 2010 • Respectfully Involving Youth in Research, Advancing Respectful Research, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Thunderbay, Ontario, February 28, 2008 • No Pain, No Gain: Involving Youth in Research to Promote Language Learning, Landscape: Exploring Ways of Teaching Language and Literature, English Language and Literature Department at the National Institute of Education (NIE) and the Regional English Language Centre (RELC), Singapore, April 28, 2006 Membership on Journal Editorial Boards: • Pedagogies: An International Journal, National Institute of Education, Singapore, 2004-2008 • Teaching Education Journal, School of Education, University of Queensland, 2001-2008 • Educational Insights, University of British Columbia, 2001-2008 Representative Publications BOOKS Goldstein, T. (2012) Staging Harriet’s House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre. NY: Peter Lang. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Goldstein, T. (2012) Harriet’s House: Mothering Other People’s Children. In: Springgay, Stephanie (Ed.), M/othering a bodied curriculum: Goldstein, T. with Wickett, J. (2009). Zero Tolerance: A stage adaptation of an investigative report on school safety. Qualitative Inquiry 15 (10): 1552-1568. Research Grants and Contracts2011-2014 SSHRCC: $113,000 Teaching Other People’s Children: A Trilogy of Performed Ethnographies for Teacher Education The funding from this grant supports ethnographic research on transnational/transnational adoption in same-sex families, which will be used to complete a trilogy of performed ethnographies for teacher education. Year: 2002-2005 Type: 3-year SSHRCC Standard Research Grant Role: Principal Investigator Source: SSHRCC Amount: $43,500 Title: Performed Ethnography for Anti-Homophobic Teacher Education. Purpose: The objective of this study is to examine whether, and in what ways the pedagogical approach of “performed ethnography” can disrupt and challenge homophobia and heterosexism in two teacher education contexts: Canada and Australia. Honours and Awards •Carol Crealock Award, For feminist scholarship and academic mentorship, 2009 •Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition, For the play Lost Daughter, Professional reading of the play in Spring 2007, 2005 •AERA Queer SIG Activist Scholarship Award, 2005 •English Education Council Best Book for English Teacher Development Nomination, For the book Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School, 2005 •University of Toronto Northrop Frye Faculty Member Award Nomination, 2005 •University of Toronto Northrop Frye Faculty Member Award Nomination, 2004 •Spalding University: MFA Scholarship of Merit, 2004 •OISE/UT Teacher of the Year Award, 2003-04 Curriculum Vitae http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Tara_Goldstein_CV.pdf Arts & Media |
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