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Bryan Smith, PhD
(Revised April 2015)
Department/School: Education
DEGREES:
Ph.D.
B.Ed.
M.A.
B.A. (Hons.)
Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 2015
Primary/Junior Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 2010
Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, 2009
Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, 2008
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Other
2015
Teaching
201420122013
2010 & 2011
2009
2008
Research
2014
2013
2012
2011
Classroom Animator for Jane’s Walk.
Instructor, Department of Liberal Studies, Humber College.
Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa.
- PED2145: Personal and Social Studies (Primary/Junior).
Teaching Assistant, Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute,
University of Ottawa.
- EIP 500: English Intensive Program ESL (Bridging Program).
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa.
- PED 3102: Schooling and Society.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University.
- SY101: Introduction to Sociology.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University.
- SY382: Social Statistics.
Redesigned “Curriculum Design and Evaluation” course (teacher
education program), grant writing and web development for the
International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies
2015 Conference.
Survey production and professional development sessions.
Organized and managed the Making Digital Oral Histories SSHRC funded
project (principle investigator Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Co-Investigator
Stéphane Lévesque).
Historical and textual analysis for various research projects.
SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
2015
Completed “Online Clinic,” a course to learn about teaching online
(offered through Humber College)
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2014
20142014
2014
2013-2014
2013-2015
2012-2013
2012
Copyedited Provoking Curriculum Studies: Strong Poetry and the Arts of
the Possible book.
Conference program coordinator, 2015 International Association for the
Advancement of Curriculum Studies Conference, Ottawa, ON.
Judge and reviewer for “Canada History Awards,” program sponsored by
Canada’s History Society
Communications Officer, Citizenship Education Research Network
Graduate student representative, Canadian Association for Curriculum
Studies
Reviewer for the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual
Conference
Graduate student representative, Citizenship Education Research
Network
Conference organizer, 2013 Provoking Curriculum Studies Conference,
Ottawa, ON.
SCHOLARSHIP:
Refereed chapters in books
Papers in refereed journal
Papers in refereed conferences
Papers accepted for presentation at refereed conferences
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Refereed chapters in books:
Ng-A-Fook, N. & Smith, B. (accepted). Doing Oral History as a Praxis of Reconciliation:
Curriculum, Teacher Education, Historical Thinking. In N. Ng-A-Fook, N. & Llewellyn, K.
(Eds.), Oral History and Education: Theories, Dilemmas, and Practices.
Smith, B. (in-press). Digital Common Sense: Reddit, Racialized Language and the Occlusion of
Poetry. In N. Ng-A-Fook, A. Ibrahim, & G. Reis (Eds.), Provoking Curriculum Studies:
Strong Poetry and the Arts of the Possible.
Papers in refereed journal:
Smith, B. (in-press). Mobile Applications and Decolonization: Cautionary Notes about the
Curriculum of Code. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
Smith, B., Ng-A-Fook, N., & Corrigan, J. (in-press). Mobile(izing) Educational Research:
Historical Thinking, M-Learning, and Technopolitics. McGill Journal of Education.
Smith, B. (2014). Teaching a “Social Studies without Guarantees”: Disrupting
Essentialism, Ameliorating Exclusions and Planting the Seeds. Critical Literacy: Theories
and Practices, 8(1), 64-79.
Smith, B. (2014). Confronting Race and Colonialism: Experiences and Lessons Learned From
Teaching Social Studies. In Education, 20(1), 25–39.
Smith, B. (2013). Currere and Critical Pedagogy: Thinking Critically about Self-Reflective
Methods. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 10(2), 3-16.
Corrigan, J., Ng-A-Fook, N., Lévesque, S., & Smith, B. (2013). Looking to the Future to
Understand the Past: A Survey of Pre-Service History Teachers’ Experiences with Digital
Technology and Content Knowledge. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 8(1-2). 1–37.
Smith, B., Ng-A-Fook, N., Berry, S., & Spence, K. (2011). Deconstructing a Curriculum of
Dominance: Teacher Education, Colonial Frontier Logics, and Residential Schooling.
Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 8(2), 53–70.
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Papers in refereed conferences:
Smith, B. (2015, April). X Equals Two, Solve for Nation: Exploring the Banal Reproduction of
Nationalism in Mathematics Textbooks. American Educational Research Association
Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.
Smith, B. (2015, February). Living Amidst the Names of a Colonial Geography: The Untold
Stories of Place-Naming. Provoking Curriculum Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC.
Smith, B. (2015, February). The Lambánein Curriculum: Taking Hold and Dis/abledness.
Provoking Curriculum Studies Conference, Vancouver, BC.
Smith, B. (2014, October). Engaging with Decolonization: Mobile Technologies,
Residential Schools and Pedagogy. American Educational Studies Association
Conference, Toronto, ON.
Smith, B. (2014, May). Inclusion Within Limits: Language, Colonialism and the
Making of Canada Through Deixis. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual
Conference, St. Catharines, ON.
Smith, B. (2014, May). (App)roaching Colonialism Through Digital Application
Development: Pedagogical Creation as a Space of Self-Reflective Inquiry. Canadian
Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference, St. Catharines, ON.
Ng-A-Fook, N., Smith, B. & Corrigan, J. (2014, April). Remembering the App/aritions of a
Traumatic Past: Forgetfulness, Mobile Applications, and the Contestation of Colonial
Logics. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA,
USA.
Smith, B. (2014, April). Curricular App/aratus: Decolonization, Mobile Technologies and
Socio-Historical Obligation. The American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum
Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Smith, B. (2014, February). A Cruel Pedagogy: Attending to Historical Brutality in a
Posthuman Context. 1st International Annual Conference on Democratic Citizenship,
Marrakesh, Morocco.
Smith, B., Hebert, C. & Griffith, J. (2013, November). “It’s Our Party We Can Say What
We Want”: Curriculum, Intersectionality and Music Video Pedagogy. Curriculum
& Pedagogy Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Ng-A-Fook, N., Lévesque, S. & Smith, B. (2013, June). Disrupting Historical Narratives:
Curriculum, Difficult Knowledge, and Colonial Frontier Logics. Canadian Society for the
Study of Education Annual Conference, Victoria, BC.
Smith, B. (2013, June). Amidst Contestation and Reproduction: Race, Nation and Everyday
Language Practices. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference,
Victoria, BC.
Smith, B. (2013, June). The Two Letter Citizen: “We,” the Interrogation of Citizenship and
Pedagogy. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference, Victoria, BC.
Ng-A-Fook, N., Lévesque, S. & Smith, B. (2013, April). Making Digital Oral Histories:
Curriculum, Colonial Frontier Logics and Zakhor. American Educational Research
Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Smith, B. (2013, February). Bottomless Pits, Iniquities and Contention: Online
Conversations of Racialized Discourse. Provoking Curriculum Studies, Ottawa, ON.
Giesbrecht, M. K. & Smith, B. (2012, May). "Our" Home and Native Land: Deixis, Exclusion
and Identity in the (Canadian) Nation. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual
Conference, Waterloo, ON.
Smith, B. (2012, May). Racialized Tapestry: Assessing Exclusion and the Need for
Intransigence. Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference, Waterloo,
ON.
Smith, B. (2011, October). The Gentle Indifference of National Identity: Engaging the Absurdity
of “Canadianness.” Provoking Curriculum Studies, Edmonton, AB.
Papers accepted for presentation at refereed conferences:
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