 | Kathy Bickmore Professor Director, Comparative, International and Development Education phone: (416) 978-0237 email: k.bickmore@utoronto.ca Department: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning | |
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Research Overview Kathy Bickmore (Ph.D. Stanford University 1991) is Professor in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development and Director of the Comparative International and Development Education Centre at OISE, University of Toronto. She teaches comparative democratic citizenship and conflict/peacebuilding education, and critical curriculum and pedagogy studies. Current funded research (2013-2020), Peace-Building Citizenship Learning in Contexts affected by Violence: School Connections with Life Experience in International Perspective, examines how teaching and learning activities in schools may contribute to tangible peace-building citizenship consequences in the lives of students - gaps and intersections between young people's lived experiences of citizenship and what/how they were taught in public schools in violent neighborhoods, in Canada, Mexico, Bangladesh and Colombia. She was guest editor of Curriculum Inquiry theme issue (44:4 September 2014) on Peace-building (in) Education: Democratic Approaches to Conflict in Schools and Classrooms, and co-editor of Comparative and International Education: Issues for Teachers (2nd edition 2017). She received the 2010 OISE Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, and the 2012 William Kreidler Award for Distinguished Service to the Field of Conflict Resolution Education. Previous research includes PeaceBuilding Dialogue in Schools (2009-2013): case studies of eleven teachers' classroom work demonstrating the feasibility and principles of dialogic pedagogies addressing divergent views on contentious questions in public classrooms, thereby engaging diverse students in peacebuilding-relevant learning opportunities. An earlier study, Safe and Inclusive Schools, examined what selected Canadian urban public school districts did to address challenges of violence and constructive conflict learning, including efforts for 'peacekeeping' (surveillance and restriction to establish security control) and 'peacebuilding' (systemic changes to overcome injustice tensions, educate, and empower constructive conflict handling), in public schools serving diverse student populations. Earlier work included the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica, a rural Jamaican high school, anti-bullying in Japan, and civic education in Tula, Russia. Curriculum Vitae http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Kathy_Bickmore_CV.pdf Academic History Ph.D. Stanford University Education (Comparative/International) 1991 M.A. University of Iowa (Social Studies Education) 1987 B.A. Oberlin College (Sociology & Peace Education) 1979 Teaching Overview Dr. Bickmore teaches the following courses: CTL 1312 Democratic Citizenship Education CTL 1318 Teaching Conflict & Conflict Resolution: Theory & Practice CTL 1000 Foundations of Curriculum Studies CTL 1330 Education and Peacebuilding in Conflict Zones VIC 262 Communication and Conflict Resolution (Victoria College) Representative Publications BOOKS Kathy Bickmore, Ruth Hayhoe, Caroline Manion, Karen Mundy & Robyn Read (Editors, 2017). Comparative and International Education: Issues for Teachers, 2nd revised & expanded edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. Includes Bickmore Chapter 10: Conflict, Peace-building, and Education: Rethinking Pedagogies in Divided Societies, Latin America, and around the World. CHAPTERS Bickmore, Kathy & Ahmed Salehin Kaderi (Forthcoming 2020). Teachers’ Citizenship Curricula in México, Bangladesh and Canada: Comprehensive vs. Narrow Values Education for Peace. In Carter, C. (Ed.) Teaching and Learning for Comprehensive Citizenship: Global Perspectives on Peace Education Bickmore, Kathy (2018). Education for Democratic Peacebuilding amid Gendered Violence: Youth Experience and Schooling in Mexico, Bangladesh and Canada. Chapter 13 in Drinkwater, M., Rizvi, F., & Edge, K. (Eds.), Transnational perspectives on Democracy, Citizenship, Human Rights and Peace Education (261-284). Bloomsbury, UK. Bickmore, Kathy (2015). Incorporating Peace-Building Citizenship Dialogue in Classroom Curricula: Contrasting Cases of Canadian Teacher Development. In Régis Malet & Suzanne Majhanovich (Eds.), Building Democracy in Education on Diversity. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers, 17-39. Bickmore, Kathy (2015). Keeping, making, and building peace in school. In Walter Parker (Editor), Social Studies Today: Research and Practice, 2nd Edition. NY: Routledge, 238-245. Ast, David & Bickmore, Kathy (2014). Critical Global Citizenship Education: Cultivating Teacher Efficacy Through Professional Collaboration. In (D.Montemurro, M.Gambhir, M.Evans, & K.Broad, Editors) Inquiry Into Practice: Teaching Global Matters in Local Classrooms (ISBN 978-1-928167-01-3; available online via www.oise.utoronto.ca). Toronto: OISE, 41-49. Bickmore, Kathy (2013). Circle Dialogue Processes in Elementary Classrooms: Locations for Restorative and Educative Work. Restorative Approaches to Conflict in Schools, edited by Hilary Cremin, Edward Sellman, & Gillian McCluskey (Routledge), 175-191. Bickmore, Kathy (2011). Education for ‘peace’ in urban Canadian schools: Gender, culture, conflict, and opportunities to learn. In Peter Pericles Trifonas & Bryan Wright (Editors), Critical Issues in Peace and Education (Routledge), 88-103. ARTICLES Parker, Christina & Kathy Bickmore (2020). Classroom peace circles: Teachers’ professional learning and implementation of restorative dialogue. Teaching and Teacher Education 95. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X19315148 Bickmore, Kathy (2017). Listening to Children in Dialogue. A Response to ‘‘State Your Defense!’ Children Negotiate Analytic Frames in the Context of Deliberative Dialogue.’ Democracy and Education 25(2). http://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol25/iss1/1 Bickmore, Kathy, Ahmed Salehin Kaderi & Ángela Guerra-Sua (2017). Creating Capacities for Peace-Building Citizenship: History and Social Studies Curricula in Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, and México. Journal of Peace Education 14(3), 282-309. http://www.tandfonline.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/17400201.2017.1365698 Bickmore, Kathy, Yomna Awad & Angelica Radjenovic. (2017). Voices of Canadian and Mexican Youth Surrounded by Violence: Learning experiences for peace-building citizenship. Research in Comparative and International Education (Theme issue: Revisiting Peace Education: Bridging Theory and Practice). March, 26-45. http://journals.sagepub.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/10.1177/1745499917699046 Nieto, Diego, & Bickmore, Kathy. (2017). Immigration and emigration: Canadian and Mexican youth making sense of a globalized conflict. Curriculum Inquiry, 47(1), 36-49. http://www.tandfonline.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2016.1255934 Nieto, Diego, & Bickmore, Kathy. (2016). Citizenship and Convivencia Education in Contexts of Violence: Transnational challenges to peacebuilding education in Mexican schools (Educación Ciudadana y Convivencia En Contextos De Violencia: Desafíos transnacionales a la construcción de paz en escuelas de México). Revista Española de Educación Comparada(28), 109-134. doi:10.5944/reec.28.2016.17087 http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/REEC/article/view/17087 Bickmore, Kathy & Parker, Christina (2014). Constructive Conflict Talk in Classrooms: Divergent Approaches to Addressing Divergent Perspectives. Theory and Research in Social Education 42(4), 291-335. doi: 10.1080/00933104.2014.901199 Bickmore, Kathy (2014). Peacebuilding Dialogue Pedagogies in Canadian Classrooms. Curriculum Inquiry 44(4, September), 553-582. doi: 10.1111/curi.12056 Bickmore, Kathy (2014). Citizenship Education in Canada: ‘Democratic’ Engagement with Differences, Conflicts, and Equity Issues? Citizenship Teaching and Learning 9(3), 257-278. Bickmore, Kathy (2013). Políticas y programas para escuelas más seguras: ¿Las medidas ‘contra el bullying’ obstruyen a la educación para la construcción de paz? [In Spanish] Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación Educativa, 6(2), 37-71. ISSN: 1989-0397 www.rinace.net/riee . Parker, Christina & Bickmore, Kathy (2012). Conflict Management and Dialogue with Diverse Students: Novice Teachers’ Approaches and Concerns. Journal of Teaching and Learning 8(2), 47-63. Bickmore, Kathy (2011). Policies and programming for safer schools: Are ‘anti-bullying’ approaches impeding education for peacebuilding? Educational Policy 25(4, July), 648 - 687. Bickmore, Kathy & Angela MacDonald (2010). Student leadership opportunities for making ‘peace’ in Canada’s urban schools: Contradictions in practice. Interamerican Journal of Education for Democracy/ Revista Interamericana de Educación para la Democracia 3(2), 125-152. Research Grants and ContractsYear: 2013 Individual Principal Investigator Grantor: SSHRC (IG) Purpose: Research grant: Peace-building Citizenship Learning in Canada and Mexico: School Connections with Life Experience Amount: $417 901 Year: 2012 Co-Investigator with David Ast Grantor: Inquiry Into Practice (OISE/University of Toronto) Purpose: Research grant: Critical global citizenship: Teaching for student engagement and action Amount: $5000 Year: 2009 Individual Principal Investigator Grantor: SSHRC (GRG) Purpose: Research grant: Peacebuilding Dialogue in Schools: Circle Processes for Restorative Problem-Solving and Democratic Learning Amount: $124 110 Year: 2008 Co-Investigator with Bi-national group Grantor: International Council for Canadian Studies International Research Linkage Programme Purpose: International research linkage, proposal developmt with U. Birmingham CIER Amount: $ 9 850 Honours and Awards William Kreidler Award for Distinguished Service to the Field of Conflict Resolution Education, Association for Conflict Resolution 2012 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, OISE 2010 Exemplary Dissertation Award, National Council for the Social Studies; 1993 Professional Activities Director, Comparative International and Development Education Centre and Collaborative Specialization, 2008-2009 and 2018-2021 University of Toronto Faculty Association Council, 2011-2021 Canadian representative, Peace Education Commission of International Peace Research Association, 2000-2006 & 2008-present President, Peace Education Special Interest Group of American Educational Research Association, 4/2013-2014 and 4/2005-2006 President and Steering Committee, Citizenship Education Research Network of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, 5/2005-2007 Association for Conflict Resolution: ACR Board of Directors founding member 2000-2003, Education Section Co-Chair and Steering Committee 2003-2007 Editorial Consultant, Curriculum Inquiry, 2006-present Editorial Board, Canadian and International Education, 2012-present Editorial Board, Journal of Peace Education, 2007-present Editorial Board, Theory and Research in Social Education, 1995 - 2003 & 2007-present |
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