![]() | Bonnie Burstow phone: (416) 978-0887 email: bburstow@oise.utoronto.ca email: bonnie.burstow@utoronto.ca website: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/aecdcp/faculty/burstow.html Department: Leadership, Higher and Adult Education | |
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Research Overview Dr. Burstow's research interests include popular education, qualitative research, working with psychiatric survivors, global feminism, feminist therapy; violence against women, working with trauma survivors, transgenerational trauma, Holocaust studies, anti-racism education, fascism and anti-fascism, social movements, use of the arts in adult education and social movements. She is also interested in the psychology of disenfranchised populations (people who are homeless, people who have been imprisoned, psychiatric survivors, people who use illicit drugs. Teaching Overview Dr. Burstow has taught the following courses at OISE: AEC1101H: Program Planning in Adult Education LHA1105H Introduction to Qualitative Research Part I [RM] LHA1106HS-0101 Introduction to Qualitative Research Part II [RM] LHA1111HF-0101 Working with Survivors of Trauma LHA1109HS-0101 Creative Empowerment Work with the Disenfranchised Professional Activities Member of the Institute of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Member of the Transformative Learning Centre Core member of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies Antipsychiatry activism (demonstrations, deputations, antipsychiatry addresses, making of antipsychiatry video (When Women End Up in These Horrible Places), antipsychiatry theatre) Antifascism and anti-racism activism (speeches, demonstrations, deputations) Supervision and training of counsellors and therapists Organizational as well as clinical consultation for a number of counselling organizations Feminist therapy Writing Novels Representative Publications (2010). Proceedings of the Psychout Conference (Burstow, first editor, Diamond second editor)
(2008). Invisible Theatre, Ethics, and the Adult Educator,” International Journal of Lifelong Education, 27(3), 273-288. (2006). Electroshock as a Form of Violence Against Women. Violence Against Women, 12(4), 372-392. (2005). Radikalna Feministicka Terapija (translation of Radical Feminist Therapy, G. Popovic, trans.). Zagreb: Centre for Women War Victims in Zagreb. (2005). Feminist Antipsychiatry Praxis: Women and the Movement(s). In W. Chan, D. Chunn, & R. Menzies (Eds.), Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader (pp. 245-258). London: Glasshouse Press. (2005). A Critique of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the DSM. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 45(4), 429-445. Honours and AwardsDavid E. Hunt Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (2011) Friendly Spike Award for Lifetime Activism (2005) Constance E. Hamilton Award on the Status of Women, City of Toronto (2003) Rebel with a Cause Award, Elizabeth Frye Society (2000) Other Information Visit the website for her novel, The House on Lippincott: http://aecp.oise.utoronto.ca/main/faculty/burstow_novel/newhome.html Transformative Learning Centre OISE/UT: http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca |
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