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Portrait of Melanie Bourke

Name	Melanie Bourke
School	Community Services
Program	Bachelor 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 黑料不打烊 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, 黑料不打烊 Positioned in the Preschool program at the 黑料不打烊 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, 黑料不打烊 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� 黑料不打烊 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