The Whitworth Award

2019 Winners – Dr. Shirley R. Steinberg and Dr. André P. Grace

 

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Dr. Shirley R. Steinberg recognized for empowering educators and students to challenge media bias and misrepresentation

The EdCan Network is pleased to honour Dr. Shirley R. Steinberg – Professor of Critical Youth Studies at the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education – as co-winner of the 2019 Whitworth Award for Career Education Research Excellence. This prestigious award recognizes Dr. Steinberg’s influential career as one of Canada’s leading scholars who have expanded media literacy into the field of critical pedagogy. Her work supports teachers and students to use and explore a wide variety of art forms, culture, and media – including hip-hop, commercial broadcasting, and new digital technologies – as a way to understand and question biases in the media and everyday life. (Read Press Release)

BOOKS (Past 7 Years, selected)

2019

The Sage International Handbook of Critical Pedagogies. (in production) Steinberg, S.R. and Down, B., (Eds.). London:  Sage Publishing UK Release date:  04/2020.

2018

Activists Under 30:  Global Youth, Social Justice & Good Work.  Steinberg, S.R. (Ed). Leiden, NL:  Brill/Sense Publishing.

Classroom Teaching:  An Introduction 2nd Edition.  Kincheloe, J.L. & Steinberg, S.R. (Eds.) New York:  Peter Lang Publishing.

2016

Critically Researching Youth.  Steinberg, S. R. and Ibrahim, A. (Eds.) NY:  Peter Lang Publishing.

Curriculum:  Decanonizing the Field.  Paraskeva, J. and Steinberg, S.R.  (Eds.)  NY:  Peter Lang Publishing.

2015

Doing Educational Research. Tobin, K. and Steinberg, S. R. (Eds.) Rotterdam:  Sense Publishing.

The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning:  Beyond the Binaries…Researching Critically in the EFL Classroom.  Vicars, M., Steinberg, S.R., and McKenna, T.  (Eds.) Rotterdam:  Sense Publishing.

2014

Critical Youth Studies Reader. Steinberg, S.R. & Ibrahim, A. (Eds.) New York:  Peter Lang Publishing. (Award:  Critics Choice, American Educational Studies Association, 2014)

2012

Critical Qualitative Research. Steinberg, S.R. & Cannella, G. (Eds.) New York:  Peter Lang Publishing.     (Award:  Critics Choice, American Educational Studies Association, 2012)

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS (Past 7 Years, selected)

2019

Steinberg, S.R. (2019). “Knowing Henry Giroux.”  In Sandlin, J. (Ed), The New Henry Giroux Reader:  The Role of the Public Intellectual in a Time of Tyranny.  Portland, ME:  Myers Educational Press.

2018

Steinberg, S.R, (2018).  “Politics and the Bricolage:  How Do We Make Sense of Recent Events?”  Zeitschrift Fur Qualitatie Forschung.  January 1, 2018:  pp 61-69.

Steinberg, S. R., (2018). “Worth More than 1000 Words:  Re-Constructing Images from Refugee to Newcomer.”  In Tochon, F., Harrison, & Sadiku), (Eds.), Displacement Planet Earth:   Plurilingual Education and Identity for 21st Century Schools.  Madison, Wi:  Deep University Press.

Steinberg, S.R.  “It’s a Post-Truth World After All.”  In Democracy 2.0:  Media, Political Literacy and Critical Engagement.  Carr, P., Hoechsmann, M. & Theséé, (Eds.).  Netherlands: Brill/Sense Publishers.

Steinberg, S.R.  “On Being a Warrior.”  In Fisher, M. (Ed.), Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows:  The True Story of an Indigenous-Based Social Transformer.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing.  

Steinberg, S.R. “Introduction:  Effecting Change, Making a Difference:  Celebrating Youth Activism”. In Steinberg, S.R. (Ed.), Activists Under 30:  Global Youth, Social Justice & Good Work. Netherlands:  Brill/Sense Publishers.

Steinberg, S.R. “Creating a Pedagogy of Ambulatory Reflection.”  In Guzzetti, B., Bean, T. & Dunkerly-Bean, J., (Eds.), Literacies, Sexualities, and Gender:  Understanding Identities from Preschool to Adulthood.  New York: Routledge.

Steinberg, S.R. “Contextualizing the Possible for Transformative Youth Leadership.”  In Kincheloe, J.L. & Steinberg, S.R. (Eds.), Classroom Teaching:  An Introduction.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing.

Steinberg, S.R. “Creating a Third Wave Islamophobia:  Formulating Prejudices Through Media.  In Kincheloe, J.L. & Steinberg, S.R. (Eds.), Classroom Teaching:  An Introduction.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing.

2017

Steinberg, S.R (2017).  “Onward Urban Soldiers.”  In Sirrakos, G. & Emdin, C., Eds.  Between the World and the Urban Classroom.  Rotterdam:  Sense Publishing.

Kincheloe, J.L., McLaren, P., Steinberg, S.R., & Munza, L. (2017).  “Critical Pedagogy and Qualitative Research:  Advancing the Bricolage.”  In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y., Eds. The Sage Handbook of Qualtitative Research, 5th Edition.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage Publishing.

Steinberg, S.R. (2017).  “A Friend, A Scholar, A Mentor.  In Schippling, A. Grunert, C. & Pfaff, N., Eds.  Kritishe Bildungforshung.  Germany:  Verlag.

Steinberg, S.R. (2017).  “Rural Tourist.”  In Reynolds, W., Ed. Forgotten Places:  Critical Studies in Rural Education.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing.

Steinberg, S.R. (2017).  “Advancing the Dialogue:  Naming White Supremacy and Patriarchy as Power Blocs in Education,” in Advancing Multicultural Dialogues in Education.  Race, R., Ed.  London:  Palgrave Macmillan.  In press:  release December 2017.

Steinberg, S.R. (2017).  “We Must Kill Our Darlings.”  In Bryan, L. & Tobin, K., Eds. 13 Questions:  Reframing Education’s Conversation:  Science.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing.  In press:  Release December 2017.

2016

Steinberg, S.R. (2016). “Undressing Disney: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, Disney, Culture, and Curriculum.”  In Teaching with Disney. Jennifer Sandlin and Julie Maudlin, Eds.  New York, NY:  Routledge Press.

Steinberg, S. R. (2016).  “The Essential Nature of Cigarette Stubs.”  In The International Journal of Illich Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2016 April.  22-24 pp.  https://journals.psu.edu/illichstudies/issue/view/2976

2015

Steinberg, S. R. (2015).  “Pesquisa com Bricolagem e Pedagogia Cultural, Estudos Culturais & Educação.” InContingências, Articulações, Aventuras, Dispersões Canoas: Editora da ULBRA, .KIRCHOF, Edgar R.; WORTMANN, Maria Lúcia; COSTA, Marisa V. , Brasil, Eds.

Steinberg, S. R. (2015).  “Postmodern Fire Hoses: Media Recollections From Southern California.” In The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities of Race-Based Violence.  Kenneth Fasching-Varner and Nicolas Daniel Hartlep, Eds. Rowman and Littlefield.

Steinberg, S. R. (2015).  “Employing the Bricolage as Critical Research in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.” In Beyond the Binaries: Researching Critically in EFL Classrooms. Vicars, M., Steinberg, S.R., McKenna, T. & Cacciattolo, M., Eds.  Rotterdam:  Sense Publishing.

Steinberg, S. R (2015).  “Foreword: Words, Words, Words: Discourse Theft in the Twenty-First Century.”  In Appropriating the Discourse of Social Justice in Teacher Education, Baltodono, M.  London, UK:  Rowman & Littlefield.

Steinberg, S. R., (2015).  “Proposing a Multiplicity of Meanings: Research Bricolage and Cultural Pedagogy.” In Doing Educational Research. Tobin, K. and Steinberg, S. R., Eds. Rotterdam:  Sense Publishing, pp. 111-132.

Philipps, J., Maguire, K., Steinberg, S.R., & Wasty, S. (2015).  “Restoring Eyesight: Leveraging Tech to Empower People. In Philanthropy News Digest.  June 30, 2015.

2014

Steinberg, S.R. (2014). “Contextualizing Corporate Kids: Kinderculture as Cultural Pedagogy.” Communication & Social Change, 2(1), 31-57. doi: 10.4471/csc.2014.07

Steinberg, S.R. (2014). “Critical Constructivist Action Research.”  In Encyclopedia of Action Research. Coghlan, D. & Brydon-Miller, Eds.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publishing.

Steinberg, S.R. (2014). “Treasures and Ghosts:  In the South, Nothing is Just Black and White.”  In W. Reynolds, Ed. Studies of Southern Place.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing.

Steinberg, S.R. (2014). “Once an event, an utterance, a flutter of a bird’s wing happens…. It’s gone.”

Preface in Lingley, A. Interrogating (Hi)stories: Establishing the Educational Relevance of Spiritual Development Through Critical HistoriographyNew York:  Peter Lang Publishing.

2013

Wasty, S., Maguire, K, Steinberg, S., & Phillips, J. (2013). “Ocular Health Interventions:  Alleviating Poverty and Promoting Gender Balance.” Humanities and Social Sciences Review. 2(3):163-168.

2012

Kincheloe, J., McLaren, P. & Steinberg, S.R. (2012). “Critical Pedagogy and Qualitative Research:  Moving to the Bricolage.”  In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y., Eds.  Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage Publishing.


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Dr. André P. Grace recognized for profound impact in improving the lives of sexual and gender minority youth in Canada

The EdCan Network is pleased to honour Dr. André P. Grace—Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Studies at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Education—as co-winner of the 2019 Whitworth Award for Career Education Research Excellence. This prestigious award recognizes Dr. Grace’s pioneering research and lifelong commitment to addressing the educational needs of sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth. (Read Press Release)

sCHOLARLY pUBLICATIONS (BOOKS)

Grace, A. P. (2015). Part II with K. Wells. Growing into resilience: Sexual and gender minority youth in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Grace, A. P. (2013). Lifelong learning as critical action: International perspectives on people, politics, policy, and practice. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Grace, A. P., & Rocco, T. S. (Eds.). (2009). Challenging the professionalization of adult education: John Ohliger and contradictions in modern practice. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint.

Grace, A. P., & Wells, K. (2016). Sexual and gender minorities in Canadian education and society (1969-2013): A national handbook for K-12 educators. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Teachers’ Federation. (Published in English & French.)

Hill, R. J., & Grace, A. P. (Eds.). (2009). Adult and higher education in queer contexts: Power, politics, and pedagogy. Chicago, IL: Discovery Association Publishing House.

Merriam, S. B., & Grace, A. P. (Eds.). (2011). The Jossey-Bass reader on contemporary issues in adult education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS (SElected JOURNAL ArticleS: 2005 – 2018)

Grace, A. P. (2018). Alberta bounded: Comprehensive sexual health education, parentism, and gaps in provincial legislation and educational policy. Canadian Journal of Education, 41(2), 472-497.

Grace, A. P., & English, L. M. (2018). Undergraduate adult education in the contemporary neoliberal university. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 64(2), 188-193.

Grace, A. P. (2017). Two good gay teachers: Pioneering advocate-practitioners confronting homophobia in schooling in British Columbia, Canada. Irish Educational Studies, 36(1), 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2017.1289701.

Grace, A. P. (2016). Counteracting fabricated anti-gay public pedagogy in Uganda with strategic lifelong learning as critical action. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 35(1), 51-73, DOI: 10.1080/02601370.2015.1129366.

Grace, A. P. (2014). A periodization of North American adult education (1919-1970): A critical sociological analysis of trends and perspectives. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 33(2), 183-206. DOI: 10.1080/02601370.2013.831955

Grace, A. P. (2014). It’s about adult education and more: It’s about lifelong learning for all and for all of life. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 26(2), 33-46.

Grace, A. P. (2012). The decline of social education and the rise of instrumentalism in North American adult education (1947–1970). Studies in the Education of Adults, 44(2), 225-244.

Grace, A. P. (2008). The charisma and deception of reparative therapies: When medical science beds religion. Journal of Homosexuality, 55(4), 545-580.

Grace, A. P. (2005). Reparative therapies: A contemporary clear and present danger across minority sex, sexual, and gender differences. Canadian Woman Studies, 24(2, 3), 145-151.

sCHOLARLY pUBLICATIONS (selected BOOK CHAPTERS: 2011 – 2019)

Grace, A. P. (2019). Two good gay teachers: Pioneering advocate-practitioners confronting homophobia in schooling in British Columbia, Canada. In D. Fahie, A. Quilty, & R. DePalma Ungaro (Eds.), Queer teaching – teaching queer (pp. 16-40). [Reprint from Irish Educational Studies]. London: Routledge.

Grace, A. P. (2018). Gay boys do cry: Homophobia and victimization in Canadian school culture. In D. Griffiths & J. Ryan (Eds.), Case studies for inclusive educators & leaders (pp. 231-237). Burlington, ON: Word & Deed Publishing.

Grace, A. P. (2018). Full recognition of sexual and gender minority youth in Canadian schooling: Matters of access, adjustment, and accommodation. In W. Smale (Ed.), Perspectives on Canadian educational law and policy (pp. 243-263). Burlington, ON: Word & Deed Publishing.

Grace, A. P. (2017). Difference is: Sexual and gender minority youth and young adults and the challenges to be and belong in Canada. In S. Carpenter & S. Mojab (Eds.), Youth in/as crisis: Young people, public policy, and the politics of learning (pp. 95-106). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Grace, A. P. (2016). Socializing higher education for sexual and gender minorities: Using critically progressive education to enhance recognition and accommodation. In L. Shultz & M. Viczko (Eds.), Assembling and governing the HE institution: Democracy, social justice and leadership in global higher education (pp. 385-402). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Grace, A. P. (2016). Lifelong learning as critical action for sexual and gender minorities as a constituency of the learner fringe. In R. C. Mizzi, T. S. Rocco, & S. Shore (Eds.). Disrupting adult and community education: Teaching, learning, and working in the periphery (pp. 17-34). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Grace, A. P. (2015). GSAs and creating positive school environments to help students to grow into resilience. In Alberta Teachers’ Association & Wells, K. (Eds.), GSAs and QSAs in Alberta Schools: A guide for teachers (pp. 22-23). Edmonton, AB. Alberta Teachers’ Association.

Grace, A. P. (2015). Foreword. In W. T. Smale (Ed.), Twenty-five issues in educational and administrative law (pp. i-v). Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Grace, A. P. (2015). How can educational leaders support sexual and gender minority (SGM) students in our schools? In D. Griffiths & J. P. Portelli (Eds.), Key questions for educational leaders (pp. 73-77). Burlington, ON: Word & Deed Publishing.

Grace, A. P. (2014). 3-H clubs for sexual and gender minority youth: Working at iSMSS to make it better now. In D. Gosse (Ed.), Out proud: Stories of pride, courage, and social justice (pp. 313-315). St. John’s, NL: Breakwater Books & Egale Canada Human Rights Trust.

Grace, A. P. (2013). Researching sexual minority and gender variant youth and their growth into resilience. In W. Midgley, P. A. Danaher, & M. Baguley (Eds.), The role of participants in education research: Ethics, epistemologies, and methods (pp. 15-28). New York: Routledge.

Grace, A. P. (2013). Gay rights as human and civil rights: Matters of degree in culture, society, and adult education. In T. Nesbit, S. Brigham, T. Gibb, & N. Taber (Eds.), Building on critical traditions: Adult education and learning in Canada (pp. 72-81). Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.

Grace, A. P. (2013). Camp fYrefly: Linking research to advocacy in community work with sexual and gender minority youth. In W. Pearce & J. Hillabold (Eds.), OUT SPOKEN: Perspectives on queer identities (pp. 127-142). Regina, SK: University of Regina Press.

Grace, A. P., & Wells, K. (2012). The Marc Hall prom predicament: Queer individual rights v. institutional church rights in Canadian public education. In D. Naugler (Ed.), Canadian perspectives in sexualities studies (pp. 179-192). [Reprint from the Canadian Journal of Education]. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

Grace, A. P. (2011). Building a knowledge base in U.S. academic adult education (1945-1970). In S. B. Merriam & A. P. Grace (Eds.), The Jossey-Bass reader on contemporary issues in adult education (pp. 33-55). [Reprint from Studies in the Education of Adults]. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint.

Grace, A. P., & Wells, K. (2011). Using Freirean pedagogy of just ire to inform critical social learning in arts-informed community education for sexual minorities. In S. B. Merriam & A. P. Grace (Eds.), The Jossey-Bass reader on contemporary issues in adult education (pp. 436-458). [Reprint from the Adult Education Quarterly]. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint.

commissioned and other REPORTs

Grace, A. P., with Bishop, CJ, Hankey, J. R., Pynoo, E., & Wyness, C. (2019). The chew project research report: Recognizing and accommodating street-involved and homeless sexual and gender minority youth and young adults in Edmonton. A report commissioned by the Ministry of Children’s Services, Government of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Grace, A. P., with Hankey, J. (2016). Sexual and gender minority children and youth in care: Matters affecting their full recognition and accommodation. A literature review commissioned by the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate Alberta, Edmonton, AB.