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Lisa Glithero
My pathway to an academic career has been directly informed by my early informal teaching experiences as a wilderness canoe guide, summer camp director, and classroom teacher in the Himalayan village in Chhomrong, Nepal. Upon pursuing my Bachelor of Education within Queen’s University’s Outdoor and Experiential Teacher Education Cohort, I became a practitioner of experiential, place, inquiry, and community action project-based learning. My practice strengthened through several privileged and unique experiences as a young educator. I was a classroom teacher working with elementary-aged First Nations children in Bella Bella, British Columbia. As a secondary school teacher I worked with a diverse body of high school youth within the Limestone District School Board in Kingston, Ontario. I co-taught Limestone’s interdisciplinary, 4-credit environmental leadership program. My praxis was further informed by my five years of work as Education Director for Students on Ice– an internationally recognized organization that leads learning expeditions with high school students to the Arctic and Antarctica. Through more than a dozen polar expeditions and the opportunity of working with thousands of culturally, socio-economically, and academically diverse youth, I became a fervent advocate for the need to make learning locally relevant, culturally appropriate, and experiential. In this way youth are enabled to position themselves, their lived experiences, and their paths of interest and inquiry at the centre of their learning. I am committed to supporting teachers and co-creating with youth learning experiences that challenge us all to question our relationship(s) with the more-than-human world and the critical intersectionalities between sustainability and citizenship.
As a full time, long-term appointed professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, I currently serve as co-lead of the Global Education cohort in the new two-year Teacher Education Program (for more information see www.developingaglobalperspective.ca) and am a member of the Global Education Research Network (GERN). I sit on the Teacher Education Advisory Committee as the representative for Community Outreach, Relations and Partners. Through a strong educational partnership with local public school board, I serve as a consultant on teacher professional development, research, and policy initiatives related to environmental education. I am also an active team member of a multi-year, collaborative research project on civics education between the Faculty of Education, Elections Canada and Encounters with Canada. Most recently, I am beginning to develop a research framework embedded within the new Teacher Education Program that builds on my 10 years of experience with Students on Ice (www.studentsonice.com), recognizing the importance of intercultural engagement and relations among Inuit and non-Indigenous youth, as well as educators. As a community-oriented scholar, I also serve as Co-Chair of Youth Ottawa’s Board of Directors, a Special Advisor to the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Teacher Advisory Board, a founding board member of Forest School Canada, co-founder of Youth Up, as well as a national judge for the Toyota Earth Day Scholarship program.
Address: Faculty of Education, Lamoureux Building Office 327
145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6N5
As a full time, long-term appointed professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, I currently serve as co-lead of the Global Education cohort in the new two-year Teacher Education Program (for more information see www.developingaglobalperspective.ca) and am a member of the Global Education Research Network (GERN). I sit on the Teacher Education Advisory Committee as the representative for Community Outreach, Relations and Partners. Through a strong educational partnership with local public school board, I serve as a consultant on teacher professional development, research, and policy initiatives related to environmental education. I am also an active team member of a multi-year, collaborative research project on civics education between the Faculty of Education, Elections Canada and Encounters with Canada. Most recently, I am beginning to develop a research framework embedded within the new Teacher Education Program that builds on my 10 years of experience with Students on Ice (www.studentsonice.com), recognizing the importance of intercultural engagement and relations among Inuit and non-Indigenous youth, as well as educators. As a community-oriented scholar, I also serve as Co-Chair of Youth Ottawa’s Board of Directors, a Special Advisor to the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Teacher Advisory Board, a founding board member of Forest School Canada, co-founder of Youth Up, as well as a national judge for the Toyota Earth Day Scholarship program.
Address: Faculty of Education, Lamoureux Building Office 327
145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6N5
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