Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education (Home)
Assistant Professor, Medical Imaging, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry (Cross Appointment)
Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Faculty of Social Science (Affiliate Member)
Core Researcher, Centre for Education Research & Innovation (CERI)
Research Fellow, Centre for Education Research & Innovation (CERI) 2011-2012
Core Member, Interdisciplinary Network for Scholarship in Professions' Research in Education (INSPiRE)
Research Interests
My research interests include the 'scholarship of teaching and learning' (Boyer, 1990), the pedagogy of multiliteracies (The New London Group, 2000) communities of professional practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991), and the pedagogical potential of e-learning and mobile technologies. In particular, my interests lie in looking at the policies, decisions and practices surrounding learning environments that stimulate and engage educators' intellectual curiosity. I am keenly interested in what we, as educators, can achieve in participatory encounters with learners. I am interested in sociocultural approaches to literacy that first ask 'What is the nature of literacy in this setting' and then critical and feminist approaches that help us to see and understand whose interests are served, what assumptions are at play and the consequences involved.
Selected Research Projects
A few of the projects I have recently been working on are,
- leading an investigation of scholarship in medical education across Canada with the support of an Academic Development New Research and Scholarly Initiative Award: Major Grant;
- leading a research and development team designing digital interactives to enhance the literacies of Canadian youth in the area of managing their personal finances (funded by the not-for-profit Investor Education Fund);
- leading an investigation into research methodologies that may better capture multiliteracies through web-based social interaction networks (funded by SSHRC);
- participating in a BRIDGES project to develop educational resources for teachers working with women who are abused (PI: Susan Rodger, Collaborators, Rachel Heydon and Kathy Hibbert);
- participating in RURAL EDUCATION AND LITERACIES (REAL) RESEARCH NETWORK (PI Mike Corbett, Acadia).
Past Experiences
Administrative:
Director of Continuing Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
Director, Centre of Education in Medical Imaging, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario.
Consulting:
In addition to my teaching and research, I have worked with students, instructors and faculty in the fields of education, medicine, health sciences, policing and construction technology to develop pedagogical expertise in both the on-site and virtual environments.
Selected Service:
Appointed Member, Editorial Review Board, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
Past President, Language & Literacy Researchers of Canada, 2001-2013
Advisory Panel, Connecting Practice and Research in Literacy, Ministry of Education and Training, Ontario
Teaching:
Prior to entering the University setting in 2000, I worked in a school system for sixteen years. My teaching experience, in addition to teaching in the 'regular' classroom setting spanning all grades, included:
- FSL
- Self-contained Behaviour Class
- Self-contained 'Mixed Exceptionalities'
- Itinerant Learning Resource Teacher (Early Years to Intermediate) Inclusive model
- Central Office Program Staff with profile including "Giftedness"
Contact
Faculty of Education,
University of Western Ontario
1137 Western Rd. London, ON
N6G 1G7
Office: 1030
519 661-2111, x. 88557
email: khibbert@uwo.ca
Twitter: @khibbert, @Salty_Chip
Skype: kathyhibbert
The Salty Chip Blog (http://thesaltychip.edublogs.org/)
The WORDLE has been created from my dissertation: Examining Enunciative Space in an Online Community of Practice
