![]() | Larry Bencze Associate Professor Emeritus phone: (416) 978-0079 email: larry.bencze@utoronto.ca website: http://www.lbencze.ca/ Departments: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Centre for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education | |
Research Overview RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: CASE (Critical & Activist Science Education), a research programme through which we learn about educators' efforts to promote students' projects to actively address harms (e.g., human diseases, privacy invasion & climate change) in relationships among fields of science and technology and societies and environments (STSE). To learn more about CASE, visit: www.stse-actions.ca Curriculum Vitae http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Larry_Bencze_CV.pdf Academic History Ph.D., Education University of Toronto Curriculum, Teaching & Learning (CTL) 1995 B.Ed., Biology-Chemistry Queen's University Faculty of Education 1977 M.Sc., Biology Queen's University Faculty of Arts & Science 1977 B.Sc., Biology Queen's University Faculty of Arts & Science 1974 Teaching Overview CTL 1209: Current Issues in Science and Technology Education CTL 1211: Action Research in Science & Technology Education CTL 1212: Curriculum Making in Science: Some Considerations in the History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science CTL 1223: Activist Science & Technology Education Representative Publications EDITED BOOKS
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Research Grants and Contracts Year: 2010 Individual or Group: Bencze Grantor: Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Purpose: Research and dissemination relating to collaborative action research involving teachers, student-teachers and graduate students (teachers). (http://www.stepwiser.ca) Amount: $115,698 Year: 2004 Individual or Group: Bencze Grantor: Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Purpose: Research and dissemination relating to collaborative action research involving teachers' efforts to promote realistic science education. Amount: $102,434 Honours and Awards 2003 - 2004 OISE/UT Student Teachers' Union Instructor Excellence Award (Most Resourceful Biology Instructor) Professional Activities Co-Editor of an Online Community-reviewed Journal Journal for Activist Science and Technology Education (online at http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/jaste/index); Co-Editors: Steve Alsop (York University) and Jesse Bazzul (U. Regina). Guest Editor of a Refereed Journal Carter, L., Weinstein, M., & Bencze, L. (2017). Biopolitics and science education. Cultural Studies of Science Education, xx(xx). Alsop, S., & Bencze, J. L. (2010). Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 10(3). Editorial Board Membership Research in Science Education Cultural Studies of Science Education Invited Talks at Universities Bencze, L., Carter, L., & Krstovic, M. (2014). Students' actor-network-informed motivation for tackling socioscientific problems. A presentation at the symposium, 'At the crossroads of environmental and science education: Towards an international collaborative research agenda,' University of Ottawa Faculty of Education, Oct. 9, 2014. Bencze, L., Carter, L., & Krstovic, M. (2014). Science education undermining consumerism. An invited presentation for the Citizenship, Consumerism & Education Symposium, Institute of Education, University of Lisbon, June 26, 2014. Bencze, J. L. (2009). Spending your cultural capital on projects for the common good. A seminar for faculty and students, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia, May 1, 2009. Bencze, J. L. (2009). Science & technology education for the people & the planet. A lecture to pre-service Primary teachers, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia, April 29, 2009. Keynote Addresses Bencze, L. (2014). Application-based inquiry learning. A keynote presentation at the Inquiry conference of the Peel District School Board, Mississauga, ON, Oct. 18, 2014. Bencze, L., Carter, L., & Krstovic, M. (2013). Science education subverting societal consumerism. An invited panel presentation at the biannual conference of the Brazilian Science Education Research Association (ENPEC 2013), So Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 11, 2013. Bencze, J. L. (2010). Students' inquiry-based actions for personal, social & environmental wellbeing. A Keynote Address at the annual conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association, Sydney, Australia, July 4-7, 2010. |