Graduate Student Supervision
Senior Supervisor
Carmen Almarza (PhD, 2017), The clinical practice of embodied care: a phenomenological examniation of physician-family interactions in oncological treatment
Marco Espinoza (PhD, 2016), Language 'as' element: the sentient registers of communicative practice
Matthew Kruger-Ross (PhD, 2016), An inquiry into the question or being in teaching: world, attunement, and the danger of enframement
Paula Rosehart (PhD, 2013), Learning to Move-Moving to Learn: Metaphorical Expressions in Teacher EducationMarco Espinoza (PhD, 2016), Language 'as' element: the sentient registers of communicative practice
Brian Storey (PhD, 2011), Public sphere thinking and the role of curriculum maps: Maps, metaphors and agency
Lori Bowrie (MA, 2011), It’s a healthy social thing: Recreation managers’ perceptions of community heath promotion
Carmen Almarza (MA, 2008), When a parent has cancer: An examination of the lived experience of adult children living at home
Wendy Woloshyn (MA, 2007), ’More perfect’: Towards a phenomenology of perfectionism
Jana Milloy (PhD, 2007), Persuasions of the wild: Writing the moment: A phenomenology
Jana Milloy (MA, 2004), Incarnate words: Phenomenology of writing the self
Rebecca J. Lloyd (PhD, 2004), Interactive flow in exercise pedagogy
Darlene Vissers (MA, 2003), Administrators manifesting an ethic of care: A phenomenological perspective
Lori Driussi (MA, 2002), Cultivating risk: A teacher-gardener’s journey
Ursula Velonis (PhD, 2002), Toward a Spiritual Pedagogy: A Conceptual and Operational Proposal based on Five School of Yoga
L. Desiree Blume (MA, 2001), Choosing Risk: Embracing Possibility in Teaching and Learning
Lorna Millard (MA, 1999), Our Secret Selves: A Phenomenological Study of the Impact of Secrecy and Search on Adoptees in Closed Adoptions
Brenda M. McNeill (MA, 1999), Searching for a Place of One's Own: Coming of Age in High School
Maureen J. Smith (MA, 1998), An Examination of Population Health Strategies and Their Use in Community Dental Health Programming in B.C.
Kimiko N. Bechta (MA, 1998), Mother Earth, Brother Bear: Discerning Metaphors to Live By in Environmental Education
Celeste Snowber Schroeder (PhD, 1998), A Poetics of Embodiment: Cultivating an Erotics of the Everyday
Michael R. Maser (MA, 1997), Virtual High: Toward and Ecology of Being
Dana R. Ulveland (PhD, 1995), Technological Attendere
Joyce Bodell (MA, 1994), A Call to Action: Mapping the Terrain of Emancipatory Pedagogy
Carollyne Sinclaire (MA, 1992), Looking for Home: A Phenomenological Study of Home in the Classroom
* Awarded the Dean's Convocation Medal for the Faculty of Education, June 4, 1993.
** Her thesis was published as Looking for Home, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Josephine Sahli (MA, 1993), Making a Meaningful Connection: The Integration of Physical Education and Writing
Jo-Ann E. Nicol (MA, 1993), Keeping Alive the Curiosity: A Phenomenological Study of the Pedagogical Practices of a Non-Sectarian Homeschooling Support Group
Pamela Third (MA, 1991), Intuition and Education: From Apple Blossoms and Valves to Dick Tracy Finds Da Woims in Dem Apples
Patricia K. Grainge (MA, 1991), 'Journey to the Well': Exploring Personal Meaning Through Drama
Jane A. Preston (MA, 1991), Health-Based Physical Education: A Cultural Critique
Second Committee Member
Awneet Sivia (PhD, 2017), Discord and Dissonance: Living Through and Learning from a Teacher Educator's Memories
Petra Mikulan (PhD, 2017), Pedagogy without bodies
Laura Dilley (MA, 2016), Individual, Inter-professional, and Institutional Influences on the Knowledge Translation Process
Peter Koci (PhD, 2013), Factors Influencing Learning Environments in an Integrated Experiential Program
Lorraine White-Wilkinson (MA, 2013), Dancing into Voice: Articulating and Engaging Embodied Knowledge
Christine Savage (EdD, 2012), Advancing the educational mission of international education: A provincial government case study
Larry Green (PhD, 2012), The Relationship between the Prereflective Self and the Reflective Mind: Keeping the Head and Heart Together
Marzieh Saghafian (MA, 2011), One Word, Two Meanings: Examining the Lived Experience of Teamwork in Virtual and Face-to-Face Student Teams
Susan Montabello (PhD, 2008), Journeying into the heart of schools: Dwelling in time, place and intimacy
Karen Reilly-Clark (PhD, 2003), The process of disengagement and reintegration to school: A narrative inquiry
Hwai-Hsuan (Eric), Wu (PhD, 2003), The art of I am: A performative approach towards art education
Craig Worthing (PhD, 2002), Re/constituting educational administration: Hermeneutic dispositions(s), of the interpretive gesture and situations-at-hand in daily school life
Susan G. Gerofsky (PhD, 1999), The Word Problem as Genre in Mathematics Education
David Partridge (PhD, 1998), The construction of practical knowledge by physical education preservice teachers during the practicum experience (University of British Columbia),
Kathleen S. Cornell (M.Ed., 1998), Changing Lenses: A Teacher's Story of Professional Growth
Lynda Milham (MA 1998),
Maureen Smith (MA, 1998),
Margie Savigny (MA, 1998), Finding My Place: A Reflective Practice Study of School Administration
Mary W. Ashford (PhD, 1996), Boredom as a neglected issue in violence prevention programs in schools
Jil Ashton-Leigh (M.Ed., 1995), A Case Study of Principalship
Wanda Pierson (MA, 1995), The Construction of Caring in Nursing Education
Beverley Kelly (MA, 1994), Parents as Tutors: An Early Intervention Program for At-Risk Beginning Readers
Donald McLeod (MA, 1994), Earthworks: An Analysis and Educational Perspective
Quirien E.A. Mulder-ten-Kate (MA, 1993), A Case Study of 'Reflective Moments' in Conversations: Making Sense of Environmental Education
Susan Montabello (MA, 1993), The Gifts and Graces of an Interrupted Life
Elizabeth Tuck (MA, 1993), Educational Programs that address Violence Against Women
Marianne Yeatman (MA, 1992), Master's Attrition at Simon Fraser University: A Portrait
R. Dale Kelly (MA, 1992), Understanding the Experience of Teacher Development
Neil Huestis (MA 1991), Clinical Metaphor-telling: Counsellors' Intentions, Beliefs, and Experience
Mona M. Barron (MA, 1991), Factors Which Enable Women to Leave Their Abusive Partners
Project Supervisor
Lynne Wilkinson (M.Ed., 2000), Centre Time: A Phenomenological Study of Play Experiences in the Classroom
Tasnim Dharamsi (M.Ed., 1998), Teacher Inquiry: Placing Children at the Center of Decision-Making
Della Meyers (M.Ed., 1998), Collaborative Administration: Fostering Shared Leadership
Fran Graham (M.Ed., 1996), Listening to Children: A Pedagogy of Voice
Naigang Yu (M.Ed., 1996), A cultural Analysis of Sex Education in the Shanghai Province of China
Laurie Lenardon (M.Ed, 1996), Factors that have Lead Women to Become Leaders in Technology Education
David Wills (M.Ed., 1995), Surviving School: A Practical Guide for Student Success
Janice Clark (M.Ed., 1994), 'Pinballs': Accessing Support Services for Special Needs Children
Gail Klaver (M.Ed., 1992), Experiences in, and Perceptions of, Physical Education of Grade 10 and 11 Female Students
Carol M. Coulson (M.Ed., 1992), What Can Be Done in Junior High School Physical Education Classes to Positively Motivate Students
Joseph Paine (M.Ed., 1991), A Tale of Two Curricula: A Case Study of the Implementation of an Instructional Innovation
Deborah Faulds (M.Ed., 1991), Stories of Expectation and Reality: Relinquishing a Baby with Down's Syndrome to Open Adoption
Robert E. Cadman (M.Ed., 1989), French Canadian Studies: A Conceptual Plan for a New French Immerson Program
External Examiner
Nicole Glenn (PhD, 2014), In the queue for bariatric surgery: A phenomenology of waiting (University of Alberta),
Sean Park (PhD, 2014), Embodied inner work: An educator’s journey of body-mind-heart integration
Kathryn Ricketts (PhD, 2011), The suitcase, the map, the compass: An expedition into embodied poetic narrative and its application toward fostering optimal learning spaces
Cheryl Zawaduk (EdD, 2011), It takes a village: Rural nursing preceptorships as cultural mediation
Patricia Hibbetts (EdD, 2009), We Do This For The Next Child: A Mother's Phenomenological Auto Narrative Inquiry Into Experiencing Her Children's Schools
Anne Chodakowski (PhD, 2009), Teaching made wonderful: Redesigning teacher education with imagination in mind
Lorna Ramsay (PhD, 2009), Pedagogy of embodied voice: Reflective arts performance in special needs and teacher education
Carla Glen (PhD, 2009), Spectacle, shock, and surfacing (Considering the practice of installation art to make meaning of everyday life in a technologically driven visual world
Gerda van de Windt (PhD, 2008), Art and aesthetic education: A painter’s philosophy
Ralph Perez (PhD, 2007), A philosophy of film education
Ada Glustein (MA, 2006), Storied Voices: A Phenomenological Study of Identity and Belonging
Andrew Foran (PhD, 2006), Teaching outside the school: A phenomenological inquiry University of Alberta
Linda Findlay (MA, 2005), Murky Waters: Navigating through the myths and rules of art making
Cheryl Kay (MA, 2004), Wild things live in Isaiah’s garage: Dancemaking in education
Gerda Van der Windt (MA, 2004), Artistic creativity: Transforming sorrow into beauty, truth and art
Ann Chinnery (PhD, 2003), Response and responsibility: On Levinas and moral education
John Anderson (PhD, 2002), Different paths to a shared future: A phenomenological journey
Annabella Ildiko Fodor (MA, 1999),
Wendy Austin (PhD, 1997), The lived experience of adolescent love
John Neufeld (PhD, 1996), Teachers' Educational Development: A Textual Study of an Idea
Cindi L. Seddon (MA, 1995), Where Do the Mermaids Stand?: Breaking Through Myths in Curriculum and Research
David L. Coulter (PhD, 1994), Dialogism and Teacher-Research
Violet Hughes (M.Ed., 1993), Addressing the Critical Questions in the Introduction of the Intermediate Program
Patricia R. Komar (MA, 1992), Dramatherapy and Students with Learning Disabilities
Ronald Woo (M.Sc/M.Ed., 1991),, Using Cooperative Learning to Prepare Students for Mathematics Contests
Allan L. Edwards (PhD, 1990), School Based Assessment and Curriculum Change in Queensland Health and Physical Education
External Committee Member
David Partridge (PhD, 1998), The Construction of Practical Knowledge by Physical Education Preservice Teachers During the Practicum Experience (University of British Columbia)
Jo Ann Nicol (PhD), 'A Slushy time': The Transitional Experiences and Changing Images of Adolescents Crossing the Bridge to Adulthood (University of British Columbia)