2005-2006 McCalla Research Professorship, University of Alberta

2004 Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Award for the Most    Outstanding Publication in Canadian Curriculum Studies in 2003. Awarded for the paper “On enfraudening the public sphere: The futility of empire and the future of knowledge after ‘America’”.

2002 Excellence in Educational Research Award. Alberta Teachers Association.

2002 The Nomination Prize of the National Library of China, in the series Contemporary World Leading Education Theory and Practice. This was for my book Globalization and Postmodern Pedagogy (Beijing: Educational Sciences Press).

1999 Noted Scholar. University of British Columbia Noted Scholars Program.

1996 Shortlisted for Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Lethbridge

1979-1981 University of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship

1971 J.R. Watts Graduating Prize in Practical Theology, Queen’s University, The Theological College.

Globalization and Education. University of Alberta, Winter 1999-
                     University of British Columbia, Summer 1999.

Teaching as the practice of Wisdom. University of Alberta, Winter 2004-
              
Religious Education and Cultural Pluralism. University of Alberta, Fall 1999.
                                
Advanced Studies in Curriculum Research. University of Alberta, Fall/Spring   1999-

Pedagogy and Global Culture.  University of  Alberta, Summer 1995,  University of Lethbridge, (1992 - 1998).

Curriculum Studies.  A seminar exploring theory and practice issues in curriculum.  University of Lethbridge (1986-97).
                
Interpretive Inquiry in Educational Research.  A survey of ethnographic, ethnomethodological, phenomenological, hermeneutic, semiotic, postmodern and postcolonial understandings of  inquiry in education.  University of Lethbridge (1988-1996); University of Victoria (Summer, 1990).

Paradigms and Possibilities in Teacher Education.  University of Lethbridge (Spring 1992). 

The Conceptualization of Curriculum Problems.  The core doctoral seminar of the Curriculum Department, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.  Toronto, Ontario (Fall, 1989/Spring, 1990).

Critical Pedagogy.  A seminar which explores the everyday  classroom practices from the perspective of the critical themes of empowerment, emancipation, agency, and authentication.  University of Lethbridge (Spring, 1989).

Curriculum Hermeneutics.    Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta (Summer, 1985, 1986, 1988).

Seminar in Phenomenological Research in Curriculum and Pedagogy.  Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta (Co-Teach 1979).                        

Curriculum and Instruction in Religious Education. University of Alberta. Fall 1999-

Curriculum and Instruction Module.  The generic skills of teaching.  Professional Semester I.  University of Lethbridge (1985 - 1996).

Introduction to Teaching.  A seminar with practicum for Arts and Science students considering teaching as a career.  University of Lethbridge (1988 - 1997).

Religious Education and Cultural Pluralism. University of Lethbridge (1991 - 1993).
              
Interaction Laboratory.  Communication and the practice of teaching.  Professional Semester I.  University of Lethbridge (Fall, 1986; Spring, 1987; Fall, 1988).
              
Language and Reading Module.  Theory and practice in Language Arts.  Professional Semester I.  University of Lethbridge (Spring, 1986).

Curriculum in the Elementary School.  St. Thomas University (1981 - 1985).

Education and Social Change.  St. Thomas University (1981 - 1982).

Religious and Moral Education--Curriculum and Instruction.  Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta (Summer 1981).

Social Studies Education--Curriculum and Instruction.  Department of Elementary Education, University of Alberta (1978 - 1979).

Counselling and Supervision of Student Teachers.  Faculty of Education, University British Columbia (1976 - 1977); St. Thomas University 1981 - 1985); University of Lethbridge (1985- 1997).

Classroom Teacher.  Glenlyon School, Victoria, B.C.; Grades 3-7 (1972-1976).

Substitute Teacher.  Vancouver School Board; All grade levels  (1976-1978).

Masters theses examining committees:  12
Masters theses supervised:  7
Masters theses external examiner:  6
Doctoral theses supervisory committee: 17
Doctoral theses examining committee: 16
Doctoral theses external examiner:  5
Doctoral theses supervision in progress: 7
Doctoral theses supervised: 8

(2006)  Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth: Globalization, Empire and the Crises of Pedagogy. SensePublishers, Rotterdam NL.

(2003)  Teaching in Global Times. Edmonton AB: Pedagon Press.
              
(2002)  Globalization, Postmodernism and Education. Beijing: Educational
                         Sciences Press. Reprinted twice (2003, 2004).
           
(1999)  Pedagon: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Human Sciences, Pedagogy and Culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.              

(In press).   ‘…the farthest West is but the farthest East’: The long Way of Oriental/Occidental engagement.  In Eppert, C. and Wang H. (Eds.) Eastern Thought, Educational Insights: New Horizons in Curriculum. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates. (Forthcoming).
              
(In press). Postcolonialism and globalization: Thoughts towards a new hermeneutic pedagogy. In Y. Kanu (Ed.), Curriculum as Cultural Practice: Postcolonial Imaginations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

(2006).  On Enfraudening the Public Sphere: The Futility of Empire and the Future of Knowledge after ‘America’. In Michael Peters and John Freeman-Moir (Eds.). Edutopias: New Utopian Thinking in Education. Rotterdam NL: SensePublishers. Pages 65-78.

(2006). “Troubles with the sacred canopy: Global citizenship in a season of great untruth.” In Richardson G. and Blades, D. (Eds.). Troubling the Canon of of citizenship education. New York: Peter Lang. Pages 124-135.

(2006). “Not rocket science: On the limits of conservative pedagogy.” In K. Cooper and R. White (Eds.) The Critical Practical Educator. Dordrecht: Springer. Pages 121-131.

(2003). “Curriculum and Teaching Face Globalization.” In The New International Handbook of Curriculum Studies W. Pinar (Ed.)Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Pages 35-51.

(2003). “The Specific Challenges of Globalization for Teaching and Vice Versa.” In. The Internationalization of Curriculum Studies. D. Trueit, W. Doll, H. Wang and W. Pinar (Eds.). New York NY: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. Pages 293-318.
              
(2003). “The Mission of the Hermeneutic Scholar.” In The Mission of the Scholar. M. Wolfe and C. Pryor (Eds.). New York NY: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. Pages 75-87.

(2001). “Foreword”. In C. Pritscher, Quantum Learning: Beyond duality. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Editions Rodopi B.V. Pages vii-ix.
              
(2000).  “Preface” to David W. Jardine, Under the Tough Old Stars: Ecopedagogical Essays. Branden VT: Foundation for Educational Renewal. Pages v-x.
              
(2000). "Identity, Self and Other in the Conduct of Pedagogical Action: An East/West Inquiry." In  Wm. Pinar (Ed.)JCT: The Best of Twenty Years. NY: Laurence Erlbaum. Pages 124-136. Also in (1997). D. Sumara and T. Carson, (Eds.) Action Research as Living Practice, Peter Lang Publishers, New York. Pages 91-102.

(1997). "Interpreting Educational Reality." In H. Danner, (Ed.). Hermeneutics in Educational Discourse, Durban, SA:  Butterworths. Pages 187-209.

(1993). "Gandhi's Vision of World Order."  In The Relevance of Gandhi for the 1990's, Edmonton, Alberta:  The Canadian Gandhi Foundation. Pages 40-51.

(1991). "Modernism, Hyperliteracy and the Colonization of the Word." In Laurence Walker, editor, Canadian Literacy Today, Lethbridge AB: University of Lethbridge. Pages 15-23.

(1991). "The Hermeneutic Imagination and the Pedagogic Text." In Forms of Curriculum Inquiry, E. Short (Ed.).  New York:  SUNY Press. Pages 62-74.
              
(1990). "What is Given in Giftedness?"  In J. Ellis and J. Willinsky, (Eds.). Girls, Women and Giftedness.  Monroe, NY:  Trillium Press. Pages 19-26.

(1988)."Experimental Eidetics as a Way of Entering Curriculum Language from the Ground Up."  In William F. Pinar (Ed.). Contemporary Curriculum Discourses. Scottsdale, AZ.:  Gorsuch, Scarisbrick. Pages 71-83.              

(1988). "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns:  Pedagogy in the Nuclear Shadow."  In Terrance R. Carson, (Ed.). Toward A Renaissance of Humanity: Rethinking and Reorienting Curriculum and Instruction,.  Edmonton, AB.:  University of Alberta. Pages 82-94.
              
(1978). "Halfbreed:  A Canadian Existential View with Implications for Curriculum Development and Evaluation." In T. Aoki, J. Dahlie, W. Werner (Eds).  Canadian Ethnicity:  The Politics of Meaning.  Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia Pages 39-44             

(2003) On Enfraudening the Public Sphere, the Futility of Empire and the future of  Knowledge After ‘America’.  Policy Futures in Education. 1 (3), 498-504.
          
(2001). Engaging the Global Struggle between Knowledge and Misrepresentation. Interchange, 32 (3), 253-262.
              
(2001). On the Incompatibility of Market Liberalization and Democracy. The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. 17 (2), 33-37.
              
(2001). Technology, the Cult of Information and the New Gnosticism. The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 17 (1),  51-55.
              
(2000).  The Specific Challenges of Globalization to Teaching and Vice Versa. In The Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 46:1, 7-26.
              
(2000). A Few Modest Prophesies: The WTO, Globalization and the Future of Public Education. In Canadian Social Studies,  21:2 , 22-31.

(2000). Confronting the Commercialization of the Academy. In  TheJournal of Curriculum Theorizing,  16:2 Summer, 71-76.
              
(1999). Globalization and Education: Prospects for Postcolonial Pedagogy in a Hermeneutic Mode. Interchange, Vol. 30/1, 1-10.
              
(1999). Economic Fundamentalism, Globalization and the Public Remains of Education. Interchange, Vol. 30/1, 93-117.

(1999). The Internationalization of  Curriculum Discourse. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 15:1, 60-63.
              
(1997). The Geography of Theory and the Pedagogy of Place. In The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing   13:3, 3-6. This was  a Special Issue of the journal that I was invited to guest edit.

(1996). Identity, Self and Other in the Conduct of Pedagogical Action: A West/East Inquiry.  The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing  12:2 Fall, 46-56
              
(1995). Journeying: A Meditation on Leaving Home and Coming Home. In SALT: A Journal of Religious and Moral Education 6:3 (Summer), 21-33.
              
(1995).  On Discursivity and Neurosis:  Conditions of Possibility for (West) Discourse  with Others. Analytic Teaching 3:2 (Spring), 44-54. Also in (1994) Dianoia:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of
                          the Liberal Arts, 3:/4:1, 35-46.
              
(1993). Teacher Education and Global Culture. In The ATA Magazine, published by the Alberta Teacher's Association, Edmonton, Alberta. 23:5 Summer 40-48. 
              
(1992). "Modernism, Hyperliteracy and the Colonization of the Word.". In Alternatives:  Social Theory for Humane Governance, 17:4. Pages 38-50.
                        Also in The B.C. English Teacher.  Summer 1991.

(1991).  "Teacher Education as a Form of Discourse:  On the Relation of the Public to the Private in Conversations about Teaching."  Analytic Teaching  12:1 (November). Pages 65-75.

(1989). "What is Given in Giftedness?"  Journal of Learning About Learning, 1:2 (Winter). Pages 20-31.

(1988). "On Being Critical About Language: The Critical Theory Tradition and Implications for Language Education." Reading Canada Lecture  6:4, (Winter). Pages 66-75.

(1988). "The Problem for the South is the North but the Problem for the North is the North." Forum:  The Journal of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction  11:2 (December). Pages 96-105.
              
(1988). "Children and the Gods of War."  Published in i Phenomenology and Pedagogy  6:1. Pages 43-52. Also in Elements:  A Journal for Elementary Education  (Fall, 1987);  in the Journal of Educational Thought, 22:2A (October, 1988.
              
(1984). "Living with Children." In Phenomenology and Pedagogy,  2:3.

(1983). "Experimental Eidetics as a Way of Entering Curriculum Language from the Ground Up." In The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 5:3 (Summer).

(1983). "Learning to Live in the Home of Language:  Hearing the Pedagogic Voice as Poetic."  In Phenomenology and Pedagogy, 1:1(March).

(1982). "Burning Out, Yet Keeping the Spark Alive as a Teacher." The 3 R's:  Research, Reform and Reaction.  (Spring).              

(1990). "Modernism, Post-Modernism and the Future of Pedagogy." Institute for East and West Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.   Occasional Paper Series.  No. 9.

(1979). "The International Year of the Child - 1979:  More of Same or Radical Critique?"  Occasional Papers, No. 8, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta,.  Abstract #ED 183 248 Education Research Information Clearinghouse, (ERIC), 1980.

(1999). John L. Hammond’s “Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerilla War in  El Salvador,In Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Fall.

(1993). Carmen Luke's "Pedagogy, Protestantism and Printing."  In  The Journal of Educational Thought.  (Summer). 
              
(1989). Alan Peshkin's "God's Choice:  The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School." In Journal of Educational Policy, 4:2.

(1988). Michael McTear's "Children's Conversation." In  Canadian Journal of Education, 13:3 (Summer).             
              
(1988). David Kennedy's "Young Children's Thinking:  An Interpretation from Phenomenology."  In Phenomenology and Pedagogy,  6:2.
              
(1988). "Machine and Education"  A Response to Prof. M-L. van Herreweghe." In Renaissance of Humanity, T. Carson, editor.  Edmonton, AB:  University of Alberta Press,.

(1985). Max van Manen's paper, "Action Research as Theory of the Unique." In G. Milburn, editor Curriculum Canada VI.  Canadian Association for Studies in Curriculum.  Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia,

(1983). Valerie P. Suransky's "The Erosion of Childhood." In Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 5:2, (Spring).

(1983). Ann Wood's "Phenomenological Study of Children of Divorced Parents." In Phenomenology and Pedagogy,  2:1

“The Commercialized Academy and the Severed Head of Homo Oeconomicus.” Folio (The University of Alberta Alumni Magazine), September 2000.

(2006). Eastern contributions to Western thought.” American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. Berkeley, CA, 8th April.

(2005).  “ ‘…the farthest West is but the farthest East’: The long Way of Oriental/Occidental engagement.” American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April 11th.

(2005).  “Not rocket science: On the limits of conservative pedagogy.” American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April 10th.

(2005). “Forms of knowledge/Forms of life: Four curricular interventions into the reign of Mammon.” American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April 9th.

(2005). ‘Troubles with the sacred canopy: Global citizenship in a season of great untruth.” American Assocation for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. McGill University, Montreal April 8th.

(2005). “Education at the end of the 1492 World system.” Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies: Provoking Curriculum Conference. Victoria BC 23rd February.
              
(2004).  “Cracking the global code as a precondition for global citizenship: On the necessity for deep deconstruction of 1492. National Conference on Shared Dialogue and Learning: Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship. University of Alberta, 13th November.

(2004) “The internationalization of Curriculum Studies: Exploring the conditions of possibility.” Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 29th.

(2004). “Education and empire: From globalization to the new imperialism.” Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 28th.
              
(2004). “The potential contribution of the hermeneutic tradition to the field of counseling.” Master of Pastoral Counselling Program, St. Stephen’s College, University of Alberta, July 16th.

(2003). “On Enfraudening the Public Sphere, the Futility of Empire and the Future of Knowledge after ‘America’. Keynote address, The International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Shanghai, PR China, October 27th.

(2003).  “New Directions in Western Educational Research.” Presentation to Ph.D. students, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, PR China. October 30th.
              
(2003).  “International Developments in Curriculum Theory.” Special Invited Address, to Faculty of Education, Gyeongsang National University, JinJu, S. Korea. November 5th.

(2003).  “Knowledge in the Age of Empire.” Special Invited Address, to the Korean Association for Studies in the Anthropology of Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, S. Korea. November 9th

(2003).  “The Myth of Modernity and the Globalization of Education.”  Presented at the Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Halifax NS, April.
              
(2002) “Health and Politics.”  Keynote address to the Philosophy of Nursing Symposium,  Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, February..

(2001) “The Globalization of Curriculum Discourse: Possibilities and Limits.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle WA, April 16th..

(2000). “ China’s Contribution to the European Enlightenment: Lessons for the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies.” Keynote address, Conference on the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, October 12th.

(2000).  “ Curriculum Theory in the West since 1945.” Presented to faculty and students of Qifu Normal University, Qifu, China, October 16th.

(2000). “Globalization and the Changing Character of University Work.” Invited address to the faculty of Concordia University College, Edmonton, Alberta. August 29. 
              
(2000). “The Classroom as a Place of Citizenship.” Presented at the annual meeting of the National Council for Social Studies, Calgary Alberta, June 30th.

(2000). “The Specific Challenges of Globalization for Teaching and Vice Versa.” Presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Edmonton, Alberta, May 26th

(2000).“The Internationalization of Curriculum in the Context of Globalization.” Presented at the Internationalization of Curriculum conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Louisiana, April 29th.
              
(1999). “Globalization and the Future of Education.”  Noted Scholars Invited Address. Green College, University of British Columbia, July.

(1999). “Globalization and Curriculum.” Presented at the Internationalizing Curriculum Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA, March.       

(1999). “Globalization and Its Human Effects.” Keynote Address to the Annual Convention of the Grande Prairie Regional College Business Students Association, March..

(1999). “Globalization and Its Curricular Discontents.” Presented to the Curriculum and Pedagogy Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. February,.

(1998).  “Macedonia and Us.” Presented at the Annual Convention of Alberta Social Studies Teachers, Jasper, Alberta. October.

(1998). "Economic Fundamentalism, Monoculture and the Death of the Liberal Ideal of Education." Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego CA, April,. This paper was also presented at the annual meetings of WESTCAST: The Western Canadian Conference on Student Teaching, Victoria BC, February, 1998.
              
(1997). "The Geographical Imaginary and the Pedagogy of Place." Presented at the  meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, St. John's, Newfoundland, June 16th.

(1997). "50 Creative Things Teachers Can Say Calmly to Technobullies." Presented at the annual meeting of WESTCAST, held February 16th  at the University of Lethbridge.

(1996). "Identity, Self and Other in the Conduct of Pedagogical Action." Presented at an interdepartmental symposium on educational research, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, December 13th.
              
(1996). "Science, Empire, Citizenship: Three models of Education in the Western Tradition." Presented at the Research Seminar Series, University of Lethbridge, November 15th.

(1996). "Profiles of Educational Research Since World War II." Presented at Sichuan Teachers College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China, May.
              
(1996). "Issues of Identity in the Postcolonial Era." Presented at the Narrative and Curriculum conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C. May.

(1996). "Learning to Read the Practices of Teaching as Practices of Culture." Presented at the annual Western Canadian Conference on Student Teaching, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, February.

(1995). "Prospects for Postcolonial Pedagogy."  Presented at Conference on the Psychoanalysis of Postcolonialism, George Washington University,Washington, D.C., March 22nd.

(1995). "The Character of Teaching in an Age of Uncertainty ."  Presented at the Public Forum on the Future of Public Education, Lethbridge Public Library.

(1995). "To What Does the 'Anti'  in Anti-Racism Point?." Presented at the Canadian Conference on Anti-Racist Education, University of Alberta, March.
              
(1994). "A Western Academic Travels to Haein-sa in Search of Wisdom." Presented at the Korean Educational Development Institute, Seoul, South Korea, February 20th, and at Yeungnam University, South Korea, 22nd Febrary, 1994.
              
(1994). "Dying From What We Love:  A Meditation on Culture and Addiction." Presented at the annual conference of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Banff, Alberta, October 12th 

(1994). "Problematics in Interpreting the Lives of Children." Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Association for Communities of Inquiry, Austin, Texas.

(1993). "Postmodernism and the Question of Authority in Teaching."  Presented at Pedagon I, an interdisciplinary symposium sponsored by the Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, November 5th.

(1993). "On Discursivity and Neurosis." Presented at the Conference on Fragmentation and the Desire for Unity/Order, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Liberal Arts, Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta, April.
              
(1993). "The Culture of Teaching and the Teaching of Culture." Presented at the Annual Western Canadian Conference on Student Teaching, Vancouver, March

(1992). "Teacher Education and the Concept of Global Culture."  Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, San Antonio.

(1992). "America's Dirty Little Secret: We Hate Kids (So Says Mother Jones)." Presented at the Anual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.
              
(1991). "On the Relation Between the Public and the Private in Conversations about Teacher Education."  Presented at the annual WESTCAST Conference on Student Teaching, Regina, February.

(1990). "Global Education as a Question of Character." An invited address to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs, Lethbridge, Alberta, November 22.
 
(1990). "The Global Context of Global Education." An invited address to the Secondary Social Studies Teachers of Southern Alberta, University of Lethbridge, November 14.

(1990). "Silent Macronarratives in Curriculum and Teaching." Presented at the Annual Conference on Curriculum Theory, Bergamo Centre, Dayton, Ohio, October.

(1990). "Postmodernism and the Discourses of Teaching."  Presented in the Summer Research Series, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, B.C., July.
              
(1990)."Toward a More Homely Pedagogy." Presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE), Victoria, B.C., June.
              
(1990). "Modernism, Hyperliteracy and the Colonization of the Word." Presented at the Conference on Canadian Literacy, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies,  University of Lethbridge, June.

(1990). "Pedagogy as an International Narrative Practice." Presented at the invitational International Pedagogy Conference, Banff Centre, May. Sponsored by the University of Alberta.
              
(1990). "Postmodernism and Pedagogy's Other Voices."  Presented at the annual conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA), Boston, Mass., April.

(1989). "The Hermeneutic Imagination and the Pedagogic Text." Sponsored by the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the University of Toronto, November 8.      
                   
(1989). "Modernism, Post-Modernism and the Future of Pedagogy." Presented at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, through the Institutes for East and West Studies, Yonsei, May.

(1988). Working Through the Boundary Police to a New Love:  From Logocentrism to Rhisomatics and the New Pedagogy."  Presented at the annual conference of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Bergamo, Ohio, October.

(1988). "The Problem for the South is the North but the Problem for the North is the North."  Presented at the International Institute for Peace Education.  University of Alberta, July.

(1988). "Qualitative Research Means Learning How to Meet the World."  Presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, New Orleans, LA,  April.  

(1987). "Educating for Peace." Presented at the International Institute for Peace Education, Manila, Philippines, November.

(1987) ."Learning to Read Your Own Story in the Context of the Story." Presented at the International Institute for Peace Education, Manila, Philippines, and at Philippines Women's University, Manila, November.

(1987). "Grass Roots Praxis in Oppressed Societies."  Presented at the Asian Social Institute (ASI), Manila, Philippines, December..
              
(1987). "Pedagogies to Peace Built on Cultural Understanding."  Presented at Philippines Normal College, University of the Philippines, December.

(1987). "Hermeneutics and the Re-articulation of Educational Problems."  Presented at the Korean Educational Development Institute, Seoul, Korea, December.

(1987). "The Curricular Agenda for Interpretive Inquiry."  Presented at the Annual Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Conference, Bergamo, Dayton, Ohio, October.

(1987). "Jacques Derrida and the Apocalypse."  Invited seminar on Peace Education, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, July.

(1987)."Cartesian and Hermeneutic Approaches to Language." Presented at the Annual Canadian Association for Studies in Education conference, Hamilton, Ontario, May.

(1987). "Human Science Traditions and the Question of Language."  Presented to Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Calgary, February.

(1987). "Educational Research as a Language Art."  Presented to faculty and graduate students at Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, February.

(1986). "Research as Conversation." Presented at Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Conference, Bergamo, Ohio, October.

(1986). "Brighter than a Thousand Suns:  Pedagogy in the Nuclear Shadow." Presented at the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction, Hiroshima, Japan, July, and at Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Conference, Bergamo, Ohio, October.

(1986). "Researching Hermeneutically."  Presented at the Canadian Society for Studies in Education annual meeting, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June.
              
(1986). "Human Science Traditions and Inquiry into the Language of Education." Presented at a joint symposium of faculty and graduate students of The Universities of Calgary and Lethbridge.  The University of Lethbridge, March.

(1986). "What is Research in Education?"  Presented at the  meeting of the Lethbridge chapter of Phi Delta Kappa. February

(1985) "Phenomenological Perspectives on Classroom Language."  Presented at the 1985 Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November.

(1985). "The Hermeneutic Imagination and the Pedagogic Text." Presented at the Fourth Annual Human Science Research Conference, held in May  at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

(1984)."A Response to Max van Manen's paper, 'Action Research as Theory of the Unique:  From Pedagogic Thoughtfulness to Pedagogic Tactfulness'".  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, University of Western Ontario, May.

(1982). "Learning to Live in the Home of Language:  Hearing the Pedagogic Voice as Poetic." Presented at a symposium in the Special Interest Group on the Creation and Utilization of Curriculum Knowledge, American Educational Research Association (AERA.), New York, March.

(1982). "Hermeneutics:  Possibilities in the Human Sciences."  Presented at the Philosophy Colloquium, St. Thomas University, April.

(1982). "Toward the Deep-Structure of Teacher Burn-Out."  Presented at a workshop on Stress in the Teaching Profession, sponsored by the Special Education Division, Rothesay School District, Rothesay, N.B., January..

(1982). "Education and Underdevelopment in the Third World." Presented at a provincial planning session of the Primate's World Development and Relief Fund, Anglican Diocese of New Brunswick, St. John, N.B., October.

(1981). "Experimental Eidetics as a Way of Entering Curriculum Language From the Ground Up." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD.), Special Session of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction, St. Louis, Missouri, March.

Editorial Committee, University of Alberta Press, 2004-

Editorial Board, Policy Futures in Eduction. 2002-
              
Vice-President, International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. 2001-2004
              
Editor, Higher Education Section, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. 1999- 2001 .

Editorial Board, Interchange, 2001-.

Editorial Board, Analytic Teaching. 1994-
              
Noted Scholar, Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 1999.
 
Founding Director, International Forum of Education and Society, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1999-

Founding Director of The Centre for the Study of Pedagogy and Culture, University of Lethbridge, 1994.
              
Visiting Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 1989-90.

Visiting Scholar.  Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India, Spring 1990.

Visiting Scholar.  Institute for East West Studies. Yonsei University,  Seoul, Korea, May 1989.
              
Invitation to be Visiting Scholar at the Asian Social Institute, Manila, Philippines, 1988.

Editorial Board.  Journal of Learning About Learning:  An Interdisciplinary Journal in Education.  1988 -90 ; Analytic Teaching 1993-
              
Dissertation Research Editor.  Phenomenology and Pedagogy.  A Journal of Interpretative and Critical Studies in Education and the Helping Professions, 1982 -1988.
              
Research Collaborator.  "Implementation of a Teacher Supervision Model"  A Study of Medicine Hat School District #21, Alberta".  (One component of a $100,000 study), 1987.

Referee.  Curriculum and Supervision,  Journal of Curriculum Studies; Curriculum Inquiry, International Review of Education; Journal of Educational Thought; Interchange.

Chairperson and Panelist.  The Fourth Annual Human Science Research Conference, held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, May 25 - 28, 1985.

Program Developer.  A program of videotaping student teaching practices, and peer evaluation.  St. Thomas University, 1984 -

Course Developer.  Initiating and teaching a new teaching module in Early Childhood Education, St. Thomas University, 1982 - 85.

Author.  " A Position Paper on the Proposed Interdisciplinary Research Centre for the Learning Disabled".  Submitted to the Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies on behalf of the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, 1979.

Respondent, Symposium:  "Language, Culture, and Curriculum".  Sponsored by the Department of English, and the Centre for the Study of Curriculum  and Instruction, University of British Columbia, 1978.

Co-Editor.  Programs for People.  Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia, 1978.

Seminar Chairperson.  The Western Canadian Conference on Curriculum and Multiculturalism.  Richmond, British Columbia.  1977.

Research Assistant.  British Columbia Social Studies Assessment, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, 1977-78.

Co-Consultant.  "Identifying Community Program Concerns in Pender Harbour, B.C.".  Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia, 1977.

Special invitation to private seminar with Dr. Elize Boulding of Dartmouth College, to examine the issue of "The Family in a Time of Social Transition".  Seminar sponsored by the Vanier Institute of the Family, Ottawa, 1981.

Educator's tour of the People's Republic of China, Summer 1976.

Counsellor for Emotionally Disturbed Children.  Pacific Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, 1967-68.

SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) grant to small universities, University of Lethbridge 1996. $17,000 for the establishment of the Centre for the Study of Pedagogy and Culture. See list of the Centre’s activities below.

HFASSR(Humanities Fine Arts and Social Sciences Research) conference travel grants ($600.00-$800.00) every year 2000-2005.

SAS (Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Alberta) grant 2001. $3400.00 for manuscript preparation of the book Teaching in Global Times.  2005. $1200.00 for manuscript preparation of Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth.

Dean’s Conference Travel Grant, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta ($400.00 - $600.00) every year 1999-2005.

(1995). Organization of a public Advisory Committee to guide the activities of the Centre. The Committee was made up of members representing different public contituencies: Medicine, Public Service, Business (Chamber of Commerce), Youth, and Media.

(1997). Sponsorship of Professor Guo Yangsheng of the People's Republic of China, as Visiting Scholar, Professor Guo is a specialist in the interrelation of language, pedagogy and culture.

(1996). Sponsorship of Dr. M. Kamali of the Volks Pedagogical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, as Visiting Scholar. Dr. Kamali's specialty focusses on the experience of refugee children in multicultural environments.

(1996). Organized a Campus/Community Symposium on the Future of the Liberal Arts in the Age of Consumption. April 12-16, Special guest speaker was Mr. Kalle Lasn, Director of the Media Foundation, Vancouver. Under this sympsium, events were held at the University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Collegiate Institute (High School), and Lethbridge Community College.           

(1995). A Public Forum on the Future of Public Education, held at Lethbridge Public Library, Spring. This involved a series of weekly meetings held over a period of one month. Each evening featured a lecture by a University of Lethbridge Education faculty member, followed by  open discussion

(1994).Organized the first annual Pedagon symposium at the University of Lethbridge, on the theme "Postmodernism and the Character of Discourse Across the Academy", Fall.

(2006).Published doctoral dissertation of Seonghoon Kim,  The Task of Education in Global Times: An Inquiry into the 7th National Curriculum of Korea.
              
(2000-2002). Sponsorship of Dr. Sonia MacPherson as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Dr. MacPherson’s specialty is comparing Asian and Western understandings of Enlightenment.

(1999). Sponsorship of Dr. David Loy, Bunkyo University, Japan, as Visiting Scholar, Fall. Dr. Loy is a preeminent interpreter of Buddhism in relation to ethical issues in contemporary culture, especially economic theory. Dr. Loy gave lectures in the departments of Psychiatry, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Education, and Asian Studies.

International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (I.A.A.C.S)

Canadian Association for Studies in Curriculum (C.A.C.S.)

Canadian Society for Studies in Education (C.S.S.E.)
               
American Educational Research Association (A.E.R.A.)

The Religious Roots of Educational Theory and Practice

Education and Empire
               
Globalization and Education

Curriculum Studies

Religious Education and Cultural Pluralism
               
Teacher Education and Development

2006-          Graduate Academic Affairs Committee.

2004-          Academic Appeals Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
               
2000- 3       General Faculties Council, University of Alberta

1999-            Selection Advisory Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta.                   
               
1998-2005     Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta.
               
1996-               Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.      
           
1994-               University Council on Graduate Studies, University of Lethbridge.

1994-               University General Faculties Council

1994-6             Salary, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Faculty of Education

1993-5             Faculty of Management Salary Tenure and Promotions Committee

1993-5             Faculty of Management Teaching Effectivenes Committee

1993-6             President's University Planning Committee

1993-4             Faculty of Education M.Ed. Review Committee

1993-4             Faculty of Education STP Committee

1992-3             University Library Committee, University of Lethbridge.

1992-4             Faculty Association Grievance Committee, University of Lethbridge.

1991-96           Coordinator of Education 2500, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.

1990-3             Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.

1988-89           Chair, Scholarly Works Evaluation Committee, Master of Education  Program, University of Lethbridge.

1987-89           University Lectures Series, University of Lethbridge.

1987-88           Research Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.

1988-1989       Research Ethics Committee, University of Lethbridge.

1985-87           Chairman, Graduate Studies Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.

1985-87           Research Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.

1985-87           Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.

1985-87           Faculty Program Review Committee, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge.

1984-85           University Senate Committee on Curriculum, St. Thomas University.

1984-85           Guest Lecture Committee, St. Thomas University.

1984                Member of Board of Directors, Fredericton Institute for Christian Studies.

1983-84           Committee on Academic Staff, St. Thomas University.

1983-84           Special Merit Awards Committee, St. Thomas University.

               
1998-              Member of St Margaret’s Anglican Church, Edmonton.
           
1994-1997       Activities noted above under the work of the Centre for the Study of Pedagogy and Culture.

1994-1995       Board member, World Citizen's Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta.

1993                Organize community (Lethbridge) visit of Prof. R. Radhakrishnan, sponsored by the Canadian Gandhi Foundation

1993                Guest speaker at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Lethbridge

1992                 Guest speaker at lSouthern Alberta Council on Public Affairs

1991                 Guest speaker for Phi Delta Kappa, Lethbridge

1988                 Board Member, World Citizen's Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta.

1986-88            Research coordinator Phi Delta Kappa, Lethbridge Chapter.

1983-85            Member of the Bel Canto Singers Chamber Choir, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
          
1983                 Chairman of Fredericton Multicultural Education Society.

1982-85            Member of Anglican Diocese of New Brunswick Committee on the Primates World Relief and Development Fund.
          
1981-83            Member of C.U.S.O. Selection Review Committee, Fredericton Branch.

1981 - 82          Member of Fredericton Choral Society.