International Research

Publication

Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Professor and Dean is founding co-editor with Gonzalo Jover (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) of Encounters on Education/Encuentros sobre Educacion/Rencontres sur Education, published in three languages jointly by the Department of Theory and History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Faculty of Education, Queen's University. The Board includes distinguished scholars from Canada and Spain. This monograph series attempts to initiate a critical dialogue among educational researchers from Canada, Spain and Latin America in light of the process of internationalization and economic globalization.

Memoranda of Understanding

Queen's has signed an agreement with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in line with the long term cooperation between members of the Department of Theory and History, Faculty of Education and our Faculty, especially Dr. Rosa Bruno-Jofré. The agreement and appendixes will further encourage student and faculty exchanges and joint research. The Faculty has hosted Dr. Gonzalo Jover from Madrid on three visits.

The Faculty of Education has established an agreement with the University of Wollongong, Australia to host biannual visits of key researchers.

Cross-Appointments

The following cross-appointments were made in February 2005:

Research Collaboration

Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Gonzalo Jover have been editing Encounters since 1999 and conducted joint research.

The Teaching of History Research Group (Rosa Bruno-Jofré) is extending to integrate members of CIDE, Centre for Research and Development in Education, a prestigious research centre attached to the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. The Director of the Centre, Dr. Milos is a specialist in the teaching of History.

The Faculty houses Young Foresight and has fostered the relationship with Brunel University in England which is grounded in the research collaboration between Malcolm Welch and David Barlex.

John Freeman is a member of the School Outcomes Focus Group for the World Health Organization - Health Behaviours in School-Aged Children with contributors from many countries. He is presently working with Oddrun Samdal (Norway), Jorn Hetland (Norway), Wolfgang Dur (Austria), Christiane Thomas (Germany), and Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer (Germany) on articles, three of which have been recently submitted. He spent three weeks in Europe during March and April 2004 in Norway, Germany, and Austria to continue these collaborative ventures, supported by an Elliott Travel Fellowship. He continues to collaborate with Jean McPhail from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He spent most of February 2004 in New Zealand. He has been working on an article describing the need to decolonize special education. It has recently been submitted to Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice.

John Kirby does some collaborative work in the area of Visual and Verbal Learning with Wolfgang Schnotz (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) and Richard Lowe, Curtin University, Australia.

Malcolm Welch is working on Learning to design (2004-2007), an SSHRC-funded three-year longitudinal study is investigating the characteristics of tasks and the nature of classroom interactions that enable students to make design decisions. This research is being conducted in collaboration with Dr. David Barlex, Brunel University, UK. He is researching Design portfolios in technology education: The students' views (2004-2005). This Elliott Travel Fellowship in Education funded research project is investigating students' perspectives on the use of design portfolios and the role they play in their technology education. The results of this research will be published in refereed journals, as well as used to inform the production of classroom materials for students and teachers using portfolios as a learning, teaching and assessment tool. This research is being conducted in collaboration with Dr. David Barlex, Brunel University, UK.

Magda Lewis is collaborating with Sheryl Bond on an on-line graduate course Critical Perspectives on Cultural and Policy Studies, with Dr. Judit Kozma from the University of Debrecen, Hungary.

Tom Russell is researching the topic Understanding how we learn to teach: Reading the authority of teacher education experience (2004-2007) and continues his collaboration with Dr. J. Loughran, Monash University, Australia. He has published the two-volume International handbook of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers with Dr. Loughran and others in 2004. He and Dr. Loughran are co-editors of the journal Studying Teacher Education launched in 2005 by Carfax.

Will Boyce (joint appointment with the Faculty of Health Sciences) and the Social Program Evaluation Group (SPEG) have several international projects ongoing.

Liying Cheng has been involved with research and writing projects for a number of major English language tests around the world including the National Matriculation English Test (NMET) and the College English Test (CET) in China; the Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (CAEL) in Canada; the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) in the UK, and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in the USA.

Lesly Wade-Woolley has supervised a Postdoctoral Fellow, Vincent Goetry from Belgium. She is collaborating on Determining the role of prosody in reading development and fluent reading with Dr. Clare P. Wood, University of Coventry, UK and on Language processing in bilingual children with Dr. Goetry at the Laboratoire Psychologique Experimentale, Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

Maria Myers is collaborating with colleagues at Centre International d'Études Pédagogiques, Paris.

The Faculty of Education supports international travel for faculty research through the Elliot Travel Fund which allocates funds each year by application.