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Christine Connelly

phone: (416) 978-1989
email: christine.connelly@utoronto.ca  
website: http://crefo.oise.utoronto.ca/MEMBRES_DU_CREFO/christineconnelly.html

Academic History

Ph.D. OISE/UT SESE 2006
M.Ed. Queen’s University Faculty of Education 1998
B.Ed. University of Ottawa Faculty of Education 1996
B.A. (Hon). University of Ottawa Faculty of Arts 1995

Research Overview

Articulated to critical pedagogy, cultural studies and sociology of education, my research addresses the intersections of health, knowledge production and power in asymmetrical social relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, nationality, language and other points of dis/identifiation. Beyond my previous classroom-based research with children, educators, parents and administrators, I have become involved in recent years in ‘patient-centered education’ in minority contexts. I am interested in how official discourses of ‘healthy subjects’ in contexts marked by sociopolitical asymmetries come to be represented through a language of accountability (e.g., social determinants of health, benchmarks, student/patient-centered intervention, knowledge translation, preventative health/health promotion, inclusive education, personalized medicine, etc.) as an apparatus entering the subject into institutional practices of managing health. I am also interested in how these particular regimes of truth, power and possibility are articulated by their social actors (clinicians, ‘patients’, subjects…). I am interested in how school-aged youth remark a tension between competing or contradictory ideological positions in terms of the means and ends of ‘health education’, and whether such relations to ‘health’ are open to are “Signifyin(g)” (Gates, 2009). I am interested in working out a theory appropriate to the interdisciplinary work of health/education in minority sociopolitical contexts to see how critical social theory in education might be conjugated with the framings of social difference, especially race, taken up in medical research; this work involves unpacking the fundamental understandings about truth, validity, knowledge and reason privileged by one discipline relative to another (Lather, 1986).

En milieu scolaire francophone en Ontario, je m’intéresse à comment les jeunes articulent leur rapport à la vitalité institutionnelle et la santé des jeunes francophones par rapport au(x) sens donné(s) au ‘double mandat des écoles francophones’ dans un contexte de pluralisme minoritaire.

Teaching Overview

AEC1405: Introduction to Qualitative Research in Education (Fall 2007)
CTL1000: Fondements de l’étude des programmes scolaires (fall 2009, on line; spring 2012, hybrid delivery)
CTL1000: Foundations of Curriculum Studies (fall 2009 on line; winter 2011, on line)
CTL1011: L’éducation pour l’anti-oppression en milieu scolaire (TBA 2014?)
CTL1304: Cultural studies et éducation (winter 2010, hybrid delivery; winter 2012, hybrid delivery)
CTL1798: L'étude de la santé francophone des jeunes d'âge scolaire en milieu minoritaire en Ontario (IRR, spring/summer 2009, hybrid delivery (on site and on line))
CTL1798: Exploring the relationship between L2 learners' interlanguage and the language errors they make (IRR, spring/summer 2010, on line)
CTL1798: Leadership et éducation en milieu francophone (winter 2012, on line and via videoconference)
CTL1798: Pédagogie critique et pédagogie culturelle en éducation francophone (summer 2012, on line and via videoconference)
CTL1798: Bilinguisme, classe sociale et perspectives sur l’équité et l’anti-discrimination (winter 2013, on site)
CTL1998: L’apprentissage des langues secondes chez les garçons (IRR, summer 2009, hybrid delivery)
CTL3008: Critical pedagogy, language and culture (spring 2011, on site; fall 2012, on site)
CTL3011: Bilinguisme et éducation (spring 2007, winter 2009, fall 2011, on line)
CTL3011: Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (winter 2013, on site)
CTL3018: Language Policy and Planning (spring 2009, 2010, on site; winter 2013, on site)
CTL3018: Politique et aménagement linguistique (fall 2006, on line; fall 2008, on site, fall 2010, hybrid delivery)
SES1911: Sociologie de l’éducation spécialisée (winter 2007, on line)
Enseignement en milieu minoritaire (AQ course development overseen as Program Coordinator)

Professional Activities

Coordinator: French-language programming at OISE (CREFO)
Interim Centre Head, CREFO: July 1-31, 2012, Nov. 21-Dec 17, 2012; Dec 12-20, 2011.

Member of the OISE Research Standing Committee 2008-2012
Member of the CTL Awards Committee

Referee:
2013 Quality Education Forum, University of the West Indies
2012 Canadian Ethnic Studies, Revue des sciences de l'éducation
2010 Reflets
2009 Language in Society
2008 University of Ottawa conference proceedings, Produire et reproduire la francophonie en la nommant
2007 Canadian Journal of Education

Invited Speaker:
•Course: Special Education AQ: Inclusive Practices for Inner City Schools: Parts 1-2 (Jeff Kugler, course director)
Lecture : Models of Inclusion (February 5, 2008, 4:30-6:00 p.m.)


Research Grants and Contracts

Year: 2011
Individual or Group: Christine Connelly
Grantor: Ministry of Education
Purpose: Research contract: Technologies et enseignement en français aux études supérieures à l'IEPO de l'Université de Toronto
Amount: $21400

Year: 2009
Individual or Group: Christine Connelly
Grantor: Ministry of Education
Purpose: Research contract: Étude sur le programme-cadre d'études sociales (1re-6e année) et d'histoire et géographie
(7e-8e année) [Study on the Curriculum for Social Studies (grades 1-6) and History and Geography (grades 7-8)]
Amount: $15000

Year: 2007
Individual or Group: Centre Francophone de Toronto
Grantor: Hötel de Ville
Purpose: Research contract
Amount: $3500

Year: 2005
Grantor Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario
Purpose: Research contract: Projet douance : Entente Canada-Ontario [Project 'Giftedness': Canada-Ontario Transfer
Grant]
Amount: $10000


Honours and Awards

2003-2004: Ontario Graduate Scholarship


Other Information

Christine would like to recognize Jamal Almuhaish, Cristina Jaimungal and Neerajah Vignarajah, three students with whom Christine is currently working as supervisor on their forthcoming M.A. theses:

Almuhaish, Jamal (MA). (Co-supervision with Julie Kerekes). Title to be determined – theme: linguistic/cultural imperialism, the globalization of English and terms of appropriation in the Qatari educational context. Collaboration beginning September 2012; expected completion 2013.

Jaimungal, Cristina (MA). Understanding race and power: A comparative education approach to language politics. M.A. Thesis. First registered in 2009; expected completion in 2013.

Vignarajah, Neerajah (MA). Title to be determined – theme: language and identity shift in first generation Canadian Tamils. Collaboration beginning February 2013.

Committee Membership

Kipp-Ferguson, Sarah (MA). Attitudes towards native and non-native French speaking teachers in Ontario. Collaboration beginning January 2013.

Ramjattan, Vijay (MA). Title to be determined – theme: the racialization of ESL teachers of colour relative to the native/non-native speaker distinction. Collaboration beginning December 2012.

Curriculum Vitae

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Christine_Connelly_CV.pdf


Anti-Racism Applied Linguistics, Second Language Education & Multilingualism Critical Pedagogy Cultural Studies Equity, Diversity & Social Justice Etudes francophones Feminist Studies Gender & Queer Studies Students (including Student Experience, Student Engagement & Students At Risk) Health Professional Education Human Development Literacy Sociology of Education & Schooling Urban Schooling
  • Ai-Ri Brown
  • Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez
  • Tara Goldstein
  • Deanne Bogdan
  • Hilary Inwood
  • Matthew James Tran-Adams
  • Rob Simon
  • Shahrzad Mojab
  • Christine Connelly
  • Leslie Stewart Rose
  • Mary Drinkwater
  • Disability Studies Leadership, Administration & Educational Change Lifelong & Transformative Learning Online Learning Environments & Computers in Education Policy Program Evaluation Teacher Education & Development (including ITE and Induction)
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