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- About Me:
- My current appointment is Research Coordinator in the Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto. I was Assistant Professor of Literacy in the Social Science Department at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. I began my early dance education at The University of Cape Town Ballet School in South Africa. During apartheid my late mother Alma Rustin, a nurse practioner moved her family to Canada where I continued my studies in dance and graduated from Canada's National Ballet School. I am also an elementary teacher who has taught in a First Nations community in Canada's Far North. My passion is writing. I am a lifelong volunteer who now conducts research on the Voluntary sector. Being an ardent and passionate admirer of John Dewey's philosophy of education, I have been involved in scholarly activities related to writing and thinking about his work in the 21st century.
- What particular Deweyan ideas are you most interested in?
- Dewey's ideas on Art and Democracy, and particularly the link to Community are most interesting and very powerful to me. I continue to be inspired by his writing on imagination and thinking.
- What arenas of practice are you interested in working in?
- arts, curriculum issues
- Say more about issues of practice that interest you.
- Curriculum issues as these pertain to university instructors, also teacher development / teacher education as these relate to elementary classroom teachers and teacher candidates in faculties of education.
- What specific activites do you hope the John Dewey Society can undertake?
- I would like to see more activity around the ideas of imagination, art, democracy and community. My interest would be to explore Dewey's concept of community in the context of nonprofit organizations in the voluntary sector. Drawing inspiration from Dewey I would also like to see youth activities arising out of this inquiry into building communities. Arts activities related to the dance are of particular interest to me. Many schools and communities can no longer afford to provide arts activities, specifically dance. Through nonprofit organizations the John Dewey Society might consider connecting schools with arts foundations to provide arts programming to youth.
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