Melanie Bourke

Name Melanie Bourke
School Community Services
ProgramBachelor of Early Learning Program Development (Honours)
Academic and professional designations
 Degrees:
  • PhD, Language, Culture and Teaching (York University)
  • MA, Humanities: Interpretations and Values (Laurentian University)
  • BEd, Primary-Junior Divisions (Nipissing University)
  • BBA, Human Resources Stream (Nipissing University)

Certifications:

  • Ontario Qualified Teacher, Primary and Junior Divisions (Ontario College of Teachers)
Title
Professor
Courses taught
  • EDUC72010 - History and Philosophy in Learning and Education
  • EDUC72020 - Contemporary Perspectives in Early Learning Community Practice
  • SOSC71020 - Child, Family, and Community Literacy
  • ECE73010 - Designing and Evaluating Responsive Programs
  • SOCS73000 - Social Action and Program Leadership
  • SOCS74010 - Social Policy and Engaged Citizenship
  • ECE73005 - Professional Engagement V
  • ECE73025 - Professional Engagement VI
Areas of expertise & interest Educational Theory/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis
Industry experience, professional currency activities

2021 - present

Research Ethics Board Member 糖心vlog精品

The REB is a volunteer committee of experienced researchers and subject matter experts that reviews all research protocols involving human participants.

2015-2020

Preschool Engagement
Lab School, 糖心vlog精品

  • Positioned in the Preschool program at the 糖心vlog精品 Lab School.
  • Experience/engagement focus on developing relationships with Lab School Educators and preschool children in ways that can be linked to theoretical/practical learning with Early Childhood Educator Candidates.

2016-2017

Early Learning Community-Based Research: Ideas Connect SSHRC Project

School of Health and Life Sciences and Community Services, 糖心vlog精品

  • Worked with Project Leads: Salima Alam-Hafeez and Goranka Vukelich
  • The aim of the project/research was to work alongside community partners to determine, and provide support, to areas of need in the early learning sector in response to recent government/regulatory changes鈥擬unicipally and Provincially.
  • Was the lead on the community/committee-focused 鈥淭erms of Reference鈥 language initiative examining local committee work, purpose, and overlap.
  • Produced research findings report on the 鈥淭erms of Reference鈥 work in Spring 2017.
  • Participated in local committee presentations.
  • Engaged in numerous networking events/activities as part of the research process.

2017

Workshop (Developed): 鈥淭he Informed Professional鈥 糖心vlog精品

  • Developed in partnership with Harmony Simard, an Early Childhood Education Consultant for the Kitchener-Waterloo Region.
  • Workshop focuses on fostering professional identity of Early Childhood Educators through the concept of the 鈥淓ducator as Researcher鈥 with an emphasis on keeping informed to Municipal, Provincial, and Federal governance activities
Major research projects, scholarly activities, and/or publications

Conference presentations

2018

鈥淎nxiously Supporting Minds: Examining Ontario鈥檚 Mental Health Guide for K-12 Educators鈥 Accepted for CSSE Annual Conference 2018 University of Regina, Regina, May 30


2017

鈥淓motional Generosity: Questions from Early Learning to Higher Education鈥 Presented at CSSE Annual Conference 2017 Ryerson University, Toronto, May 31


2015

鈥淲hat is Lost or Gained in a Shift to Online Learning?鈥 Accepted at CSSE Annual Conference 2015 University of Ottawa, Ottawa


2013

鈥淧hantasies in Education, Education in Phantasies: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Monsieur Lazhar鈥 Presented at CSSE Annual Conference 2013 University of Victoria, Victoria, June 4


2012

鈥淭he Art of Speaking through 鈥業ntermediate Narrations:鈥 Christian Boltanski and the (Im)Possibilities of Education鈥 Presented at CSSE Annual Conference 2012 Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, May 28 鈥淎n Uncanny Insurrection: Debating Negativity in the Work of Kara Walker鈥 Presented at CACS Pre-Conference: Art in Times of Conflict: Curricular Explorations Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, May 26


2011

鈥淜ara Walker鈥檚 Negative Education鈥 Presented at the 10th Annual Graduate Students in Education Conference 2011: The Experience of Learning York University, Toronto, March 11


2009

鈥淧hotos and Frames: Canadian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Relations鈥 Presented at the 8th Annual Graduate Conference in Education: New Directions: People, Passion and Pedagogy York University, Toronto, May 8


2007

鈥淒iscursivity and Trauma: Sharing in Residential School Trauma between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians鈥 Presented at the 4th Annual Trent-Carleton Graduate Student Conference: Canada: Who? Why? How? Trent University, Peterborough, November 10 鈥淪ex Education in Special Needs: Normalizing the Impaired or Impairing Normalization鈥 Presented at Humanities MA Practicum Colloquium Laurentian University, Sudbury, April 19


Publications

  • Bourke, M. (2012). An Uncanny Insurrection: Debating Negativity in the Work of Kara Walker. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 10(2), 120-134.
Additional Information
Theory Thinker, Preschool Player, Professing Professor
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