Teaching
Current Courses
Undergraduate Courses
At Simon Fraser University
- EDUC 370 International and Intercultural Education
- EDUC 371 Imaginative Approach to Teaching Literacy for Pres-Service and In-Service Teachers
- EDUC 456 Teaching Children and Youth with Special Needs
- EDUC 464 Early Childhood Education
- EDUC 471 Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice
At other universities (North America)
- Vygotskian Psychology and Pedagogy
- Family and Marriage
- Introduction to Human Resource Management
- Introduction to Public Administration and Public Management
- Cultural-Historical Theory of Human Development
Graduate Courses
At Simon Fraser University
- EDUC 713 Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and Research
- EDUC 816 Developing Educational Programs in Diverse Educational Settings
- EDUC 820 Current Issues in Curriculum and Pedagogy
- EDUC 822 Evaluation of Educational Programs
- EDUC 823 Curriculum and Instructions in an Individual Teaching Speciality
- EDUC 827 Individual Differences in Learning
- EDUC 830 Implementation of Educational Programs
- EDUC 856 Sociocultural Perspectives on Education and Identity
- EDUC 879 Vygotsky’s Theory in Education
At other universities (North America)
- Alternative Approaches to Constructing Curricula and Methods of Instruction
- Educational Objectives and Teaching Strategies
- Culture, Society, Education – Special topics seminar
- Vygotskian Psychology and Pedagogy – Special topics seminar
Program Coordination
2015–present, Sponsor, Curriculum and Instruction: Post-Secondary M.Ed. (18 students)
2012–2014, Sponsor, Curriculum and Instruction: Post-Secondary M.Ed. (15 students)
2010–2011, Sponsor, Masters of Education in Curriculum & Instruction: Vygotskian Education (CHAT), Theory & Practice M.Ed. (12 students)
2005–2006, Sponsor, Masters of Education in Curriculum & Instruction: Imaginative Education (18 students)
Additional Teaching Engagements
Scholarly Teaching at the AERA (the American Education Research Association) Annual Meetings. (Refereed and highly competitive):
- Cultural Historical Activity Theory Methodologies in the 21st Century: The Intersections of Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis. Professional Development Course at AERA conference. (2014, April), Philadelphia, USA.
- Cultural Historical Activity Theory Methodologies in the 21st Century: The Intersections of Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis. Professional Development Course at AERA conference. (2013, April), San Francisco, USA.
- Cultural Historical Activity Theory in the World of Educational Quality. Professional Development Course for CHAT SIG at the AERA annual conference (2007, April). Chicago. USA.
- Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Research on Educational Practices. Cultural-Historical Activity Theory SIG at the AERA annual conference. (2006, April). San Francisco, USA.
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. An international web-based course [MOOC] with 200+ participants from 25 countries (2002 – 2003). Taught with Michael Cole and his colleagues at the University of California, San Diego (USCD)
Developing Educational Programs. The international web-based component on this course was provided jointed by SFU (Canada), Antioch University in Seattle, (USA), and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). (2003)