Dr. Xia Ji has agreed to serve a three year term as Director of the Professional Development and Field Experiences Office . Dr. Ji is described by colleagues as thoughtful, insightful and open-minded. She is seen as dedicated to teacher education and as a forward thinking. In her seven years as a member of the Faculty of Education, Dr. Ji has demonstrated commitment to field experience. She has regularly served as a faculty advisor to interns, served on the Joint Field Experience Committee, participated in an internship pilot and research project, was involved in the re-writing of the elementary and secondary Internship Placement Profiles, and has served as a member of the Faculty Aboriginal Advisory Circle, among many other things. Dr. Ji brings vision, dedication and determination to this role and will be an excellent member of the Faculty leadership team.

Dear members of the University community,

It is a pleasure to inform you that Dr. Jennifer Tupper, currently Acting Dean of the Faculty of Education, has accepted President Timmons’ offer of appointment as Dean of Education. The appointment is effective 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2018.

A graduate of the Universities of Alberta and British Columbia, Dr. Tupper joined the faculty of the University of Regina in 2004. Her research in citizenship education and treaty education has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and she has won the Outstanding Publication Award of the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies. Further information about Dr. Tupper can be found at http://www.uregina.ca/president/searches-reviews/appointments-renewals.html

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Tupper on her appointment as Dean. We very much look forward to continuing to work with her as a senior leader on this campus.

Sincerely,

Thomas Chase
Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

Michael Cappello, Ph.D Candidate, is a lecturer in Core Studies/Social Studies. A University of Regina graduate from the secondary education programme (B.Ed, 1998), Michael brings an M.Ed in Adult Education and Community Development from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (2002). His work is in anti-racism and anti-oppressive education, and educational foundations, especially in the history of teacher education. He taught for 5 years in high schools in Ontario and Saskatchewan, working in both private and public settings. Michael’s current interests involve exploring/critiquing the constitutive relationship between teacher education and white racialization. He is also involved in a research project investigating the potential for anti-oppressive teaching in the university setting.

Fadila Boutouchent is currently a Lecturer for the Programme du Bac and pursuing her PhD in education within Francophone minority contexts with the Faculté des sciences de l’éducation of the Université de Moncton (NB). Her doctoral research explores motivations behind learning and associated relationships with maintaining French as a second language in Canada, studying Anglophone students’ intentions in majority language contexts. She holds a BSc in Agronomy from the Institut National Agronomique D’Alger (INA- Algeria) and a Master’s degree in Biology from the Université Rennes I (France).

Since 2003, Fadila has had many experiences in educational and research contexts, notably at Université Laval (QC), at Campus Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta (AB), and at the Université de Moncton (NB). She was a professor of Biology at the Université Mouloud Mammeri (Algeria) from 1993-2003, having started her professional career as a research assistant at the Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA- Algeria) from 1989-1993

Dr. Ron Martin is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. He completed his Masters’ degrees at the University of Victoria and his doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at West Virginia University. After completing a 1-year clinical internship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, he embarked upon a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychology at the U of R. He began his career as a faculty member in the Psychology Department at the      U of R, then accepted his current tenure-track position in the Faculty of Education.

Ron is currently a Board member of the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan. Recently, he became a Registered Doctoral Psychologist through the Saskatchewan College of Psychologists. He has maintained an emphasis on health research throughout his career. He was  awarded  a New Investigator Establishment grant through the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation. The purpose of this research is to investigate the sources of negative stress and work engagement among teachers (K-12) in Regina and Saskatoon, and the relations between these factors and subsequent health problems, intentions to retire early, and work-related commitment. He has published numerous health-related research articles and book chapters (mostly pertaining to seniors) and  presented his research at national and international conferences.

 

Dr. Marc Spooner is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina.  Previous to his current appointment,  Marc was a part-time professor (2000-2006) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa where he also received his doctorate.  His degrees include a MA (Education), a BA (Honours) Psychology, and a BEd with basic qualifications in primary, junior, intermediate, and senior levels.

His research interests involve interdisciplinarity, creativity, deviance, “at-risk” youth, social justice, advancing teaching and learning, and qualitative research methods.  His past and present research focuses on fostering creativity in educational environments, bringing constructivism into the 21^st century, homelessness and other “at-risk” or otherwise marginalised populations, and public interest participatory action research (most notably our campus’s newly created Saskatchewan Public Interest Research Group—SPIRG).  He has published and/or made scholarly presentations both nationally and internationally on each of the aforementioned topics.

Marc’s interests extend into the community.  He is currently involved in a homelessness and those at risk to be homeless study for Regina  and for Service Canada.  Also,  Marc is involved with SPIRG, a student-community participatory action research project aimed at instilling agency and empowerment and community responsibility in our students.

In conclusion, it should be widely known that Marc is very curious, likes to smile, and tries to comb his hair only once a day.