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CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Rosamund (Roz) Stooke
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education
University of Western Ontario
rstooke@uwo.ca
Education
2004 PhD (Educational Studies) Western Ontario
1999 Master of Education (Educational Studies) Western Ontario
1992 Master of Library and Information Science Western Ontario
1982 Bachelor of General Studies
Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Simon Fraser
Minors in English Literature and Learning Disabilities
1982 BC Professional (level 5) Teaching Certificate
Employment
2007-present Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario
2004-2006 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
1999-2004 Limited Duties Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario
Awards
2010 UWO Student Council Teaching Honor Roll
2007 UWO Student Council Teaching Honor Roll
2004 Simon Fraser University Endowed Fellowship ($5,000)
2003 Graduate Student Award of Merit, Senior Women Academic Administrators of
Canada (SWAAC)
2003 - 2004 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2001 - 2003 Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC
Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Western Ontario
2001 - 2002 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
2000 - 2001 President’s Scholarship for Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario
Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($12,000)
Scholarly and Professional Activities:
(1) External to university
Fall 2011
Co-Editor Language & Literacy, 13(2). Special Issue: Language and Literacy
Research for Social Justice
2009 – 2012 Editor, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Institutional
Ethnography Division Newsletter (4 issues per year)
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2009 – 2010 Co-Chair PreCSSE Conference, Language and Literacy Researchers of
Canada (LLRC)
2007 – 2009 2 nd Vice-President, Language and Literacy Researchers ofCanada (LLRC).
CSSE-LLRC Program Chair, 2009 (63 proposals)
CSSE-LLRC Program Chair, 2008 (90 proposals)
2004-2006 Director, Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG)
2004-2006 Chair, Masters Research Award Committee, Language and Literacy
Researchers of Canada (LLRC)
(2) University
2012-2013 Education Representative to the UWOFA Board
UWOFA Steward (Education)
2010 – 2013 Member FIMS Faculty Council
2007 – 2008 Member, UWO Subcommittee on Undergraduate Program Review
(SUUPR)
June 2006
May 2005
Faculty of Education Representative, SFU Search Committee for a
Director of the Writing Intensive Learning Office (WILO).
Member, SFU Advisory Committee for the Foundations of
Academic Writing (FAL) initiative, Simon Fraser University.
2004-2005 Member, SFU University Librarian Search Committee.
2004-2005 Member, SFU Academic Program Steering Committee, Language,
Culture and Interpretation.
(3) Faculty
2012 – 2013 Research Committee
(Coordinator Faculty Seminar Series)
Graduate Programs Committee
UWOFA Board Rep. & Steward for EDUC
2011 - 2012 Chair - Publications Committee
Graduate Programs Committee
Research Committee
Professional Programs Task Force.
2007 – 2012 Publications Committee
2009 – 2010 Curriculum Rep., Faculty of Education Graduate Programs Committee
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(GPC)
Master’s program Admissions Advisory Committee
Member, Awards subcommittee (includes reviewing and ranking OGS &
SSHRC applications)
2008 – 2009 Curriculum Rep., Faculty of Education Graduate Studies Subcommittee
(GSS)
Member, Awards subcommittee (includes reviewing and ranking OGS &
SSHRC applications)
2008 -- 2009 Chair, UWO Faculty of Education Publications Committee
2007 – 2008 Curriculum Rep., Faculty of Education Graduate Studies Subcommittee
(GSS)
Mar – Jun 2008
Jan – Feb 2008
Jul – Oct 2007
Apr 2007
Member, Dean’s Academic Plan Advisory Committee
Advisory member (with voting privileges), UWO Faculty of Education
Appointments Committee - Adolescent Literacy position
Member of the UWO Faculty of Education Workload Policy Review
Committee
Member of the Master of Education (Curriculum Studies) Admissions Review
Committee (completed)
2000- 2001 Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty of Education
Appointments Committee, UWO.
f) Graduate Supervisions: (Career Totals)
Number
Successfully
completed
Doctoral Thesis 4
Master’s Thesis 10 3
Post-Doctoral Fellows 1
Total number of PhD
Committees served on
3 6
Total number of Master’s
Advisory Committees served 5 2
on
Number In
progress
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List Titles and Topics of Theses and Projects Supervised and Completed: (from 2000 to
present)
M.A:
Doyle-Jones, C. (2006). Story- dialogue: Creating community through storytelling with a grade
seven class. Unpublished Masters thesis. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British
Columbia.
M.Ed
Burm, S. (2012). Working toward transformation and change: Exploring non-Aboriginal teachers’
experiences in facilitating and strengthening students’ awareness of indigenous
knowledge and Aboriginal perspectives Unpublished Masters Thesis. London, ON:
Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
Charrette, D. (2008). Using the home literacy experiences of children to inform teaching
practices. Unpublished Masters Thesis. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of
Western Ontario.
Esteves, A. (2010). What helps Understanding English language learners’ writing
practices.Unpublished Masters Thesis. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of
Western Ontario.
Gichuru, J. (2008). The lived school experiences of Sudanese refugees. Unpublished Masters
Thesis. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
Lamb, S. (2011). The Operationalization of the Language curriculum in half-day and full-day
kindergarten. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
Nagle, J. (2009). Multimodal literacy: Interest and identity for meaning-making in the
intermediate classroom. Unpublished Masters Thesis. London, ON: Faculty of Education,
University of Western Ontario
Nichols, L. (2009). Early years’ educators perspectives on family literacy programs and
readiness for school. Unpublished Masters Thesis. London, ON: Faculty of Education,
University of Western Ontario
Parkinson, H. (2009). Other duties as assigned: An institutional ethnography of teachers’ work in
grade one. Unpublished Masters Thesis. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of
Western Ontario.
Wilson, S. (2008).Critical Awareness Expectations in the Revised Ontario Kindergarten
Program: Teachers’ Interpretation of New Educational Programming. Unpublished
Masters Thesis. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
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Master’s Research Projects:
Addageethala, N. (2007). Literacy, identity and third space negotiations: A literature review.
Unpublished Masters Directed Research Project. London, ON: Faculty of Education,
University of Western Ontario.
Gashi, S. (2009). English language learners and the Ontario curriculum (2006) grades 1-8
revised language arts document: A critical language study. Unpublished Masters
Directed Research Project. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of Western
Ontario.
McColl, D. (2009). Literacy development of primary aged hearing-impaired children. Unpublished
Masters Directed Research Project. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of
Western Ontario.
Scobie, L. (2009). A literature review on emergent writing. Unpublished Masters Directed
Research Project. London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
Teskey, K. (2008). Literacy Coaches in Ontario: Who are they and what do they do
Unpublished Masters Directed Research Project. London, ON: Faculty of Education,
University of Western Ontario.
Watson, J. (2009). A textual analysis of the potential learning opportunities embedded within
different types of children’s literature. Unpublished Masters Directed Research Project.
London, ON: Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
Graduate Courses Taught: (from 2000 to present)
2005-2012 19 Independent Reading and Research Courses
Fall 2012
Grad Ed 9580 Introduction to Curriculum (36 hours 19 students)
Fall 2012
Grad Ed 9586 The Development of Literacy in Young Children (36 hours
17 students)
Fall 2010
Grad. Ed 9586 The Development of Literacy (36 hours - 8 students)
Grad. Ed. 9580 Introduction to Curriculum (36 hours – 18 students)
Fall 2009
Grad. Ed 9586 The Development of Literacy (36 hours - 12 students)
Grad. Ed. 9580 Introduction to Curriculum (36 hours – 16 students)
Winter 2009 Grad. Ed. 9586 The Development of Literacy (1 section, 6 students)
Fall 2008
Grad. Ed. 9580 Introduction to Curriculum (1 section of 14 students)
Winter 2008 Grad. Ed. 586 The Development of Literacy in Young Children (5
students)
Fall 2007
Grad. Ed. 580 Introduction to Curriculum (1 section of 13 students)
Winter 2007 Grad. Ed. 586 The Development of Literacy in Young Children (15
students)
2006 Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University,
Grad. Ed 714, Equity Issues in Langage and Literacy Education. (12
students)
Grad Ed 714. Equity Issues in Language and Literacy Education. Intl.
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China cohort (21 students)
2003 Winter Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario,
Master of Library and Information Science course 598 - Library Services
for Children and Young Adults, 1 section (16 students)
2002 Fall Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario,
Master of Library and Information Science course 503 - Information
Sources and Services, 1 section (37 students)
Undergraduate Courses
Fall – Winter 2012-2013
Coordinator for Early Years specialization cohort in Preservice Education
5438 Using Children’s Literature in PJ (2 18-hour sections, 105 students)
Fall – Winter 2011 – 2012
EDUC 5118 Curriculum in the Early Years (Course Development and Coordination)
Fall – Winter 2011 – 2012
EDUC 5438 Using Children’s Literature in the Primary Junior Classroom (3 sections, 105
students)
Fall – Winter 2009 – 2010
EDUC 5415 Using Literature in the Primary Junior Classroom (2 sections, 70 students)
Fall – Winter 2008 - 2009
EDUC 5499 Literature for Children & Young Adults (18 hours - 37 students)
Coordinator PJ /JI Lang. Arts (4 limited duties instructors, approx 400
students)
Fall – Winter 2007 - 2008
EDUC 5499 Literature for Children & Young Adults (18 hours – 23 students)
EDUC 71-72
EDUC 71-72
EDUC 61Q
EDUC 09S
2 sections of PJ Language Arts (27 hours – 55 students)
PJ & JI Language Arts Coordinator
Literature for Children and Young Adults (18 hours – 23 students)
Developmental Reading in the Junior Grades (18 hours – 15 students)
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Research Funding: (from 2000 to present)
If there are co-grants or group grants, list the total amount of the grant and, in brackets,
the amount that is your component.
Start
Date
Sept
2011
May
2011
May
2010
May
2010
Jan.
2010
End
Date
Mar
2012
Dec
2011
April
2011
Mar
2011
Mar
2010
Principal
Investigator
Rosamund
Stooke
Rosamund
Stooke
Rosamund
Stooke
Rosamund
Stooke
Rosamund
Stooke
Co-
Investigato
rs
Kathryn
Hibbert
Kathryn
Hibbert
Granting
Agency
Preservice
Education.
Faculty of Ed.
Faculty of Ed.
UWO
Teaching
Support
Centre
City of
London
Grant Title
Field Research:
Community
Service Learning
Learning Stories
in a Ready-for-
School program
Supporting
Graduate
Students’ Writing
Supporting
Graduate
Students’ Writing
Literature
Review: Early
Literacy
Total
Amount
$2,800
$2,350
$2,350
$2,850
$1600
2008
May
2009
April
Rosamund
Stooke
Pamela
McKenzie
Faculty of
Education
Internal
Research and
Development
Grant
Virtual
Parenting: How
Websites
Created for and
by Parents of
Young Children
Afford
Opportunities for
Learning, Social
Networking and
Recipriocity
$2,446
2007 2008
Rosamund
Stooke
Faculty of
Education
Internal
Research and
Development
Grant
A sociocultural
study of a library
summer reading
program
$2,487
2006 2008
Rachel
Heydon
Kathryn
Hibbert
Rosamund
Stooke
Foundation
Western
Teacher
development for
primary literacy
in an aboriginal
community
$8,500
($2,
800)
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2006 2009
Kelleen
Toohey
Paul
Neufeld
Rosamund
Stooke
SSHRC
Standard
Grant
A Sociocultural
investigation of
literacy
instruction and
children’s
learning of
English as a
second language
(SILICLE)
$98,000
(funds
remain
at SFU)
2005 2008
Lynne
McKechnie
Pamela
McKenzie
Rosamund
Stooke
SSHRC
Standard
Grant
Doing early
learning: An
observation
study of
programs for
very young
children and
their caregivers
$168,00
0
($50,00
0)approx
..
2004 2006
Rosamund
Stooke
SFU
President’s
Research
Grant
A Case Study of
Multimodal
Literacy in one
Kindergarten
Classroom
$10,000
2004 2006
Peter
Grimmett
Paul Shaker
Rosamund
Stooke (lead
faculty
researcher)
BC Ministry of
Education –
Partnership
Grant
Read/Write: A
University-
Ministry-School
District
Partnership to
Support
Intermediate
Grade Students
Struggling with
Literacy
$25,000
(signing
authority
for total
amount)
Publications
Books
Stooke, R. K., McKenzie, P. J., & Smythe, S. K. (in progress). Producing childhoods: Parents’
educational work in the years before school. Detselig Press.
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Chapters in Books:
Stooke, R. (2010). Investigating the textually-mediated work of institutions: Dorothy E.
Smith’sociology for people In G. Leckie, J. Buschman, & L. Given (Eds.), Critical theory for
Library and Information Science: Exploring the social from across the disciplines (pp. 283-
294). Westport CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Stooke, R. (2009). Taking Turtle Out of the Box: Multimodal Storytelling in an Urban Kindergarten.
In L.
Iannacci & P. Whitty (Eds.), Early childhood curricula reconceptualist perspective.
Calgary, AB:
Detsilig.
Stooke, R. (2005). Institutional Ethnography. In K. E. Fisher, Erdelez, S. & McKechnie. E. F.
(Eds.)
Theories of information behavior: A researcher's guide. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Editorial work for refereed journals
Co-editor for Fall 2011 Special Issue Language and Literacy, 13(2)
Editorial work for professional publications
2009 – 2011 Editor. I Editor: Society for the Study of Social Problems Institutional Ethnography
Newsletter 4 issues per year. Available at http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/1236/m/464
Papers in refereed journals:
Submitted
Stooke, R. & Hibbert, K. (in progress). Writing goes back to school: Maintaining institutional
practices of mystery in a graduate education program. Contribution 70% approx.
Submitted to Written Communication April 2012, but not accepted. Will be revised and
submitted to Writing and Pedagogies Winter 2013).
Ng, S., Stooke, R., Reagan, S., Hibbert, K., Scryer, C., Lingard, L. An institutional ethnography
inquiry of health care work in special education: A research protocol. Subnitted to
International Journal for Integrated Care (IJIC).
Published
Stooke, R. (2012). “It’ll all come out in the wash.”: Managing policy change in an informal parentchild
program. Canadian Children, 37(2), 55-60. (Submitted June 2012. Accepted
September 2012. Published October 2012)
McKenzie, P. & Stooke, R. (2012). Making a difference: The importance of purposes in early
learning programs. Children and Libraries,10(2), 47-52. (Contribution 40%)
Parkinson, H. & Stooke, R. (2012). Other duties as assigned:The hidden work of reading and
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writing assessments in two primary classrooms. Language & Literacy, 14(1). (Based on
first author’s Master’s research – My contribution 75%)
Stooke, R. ,& McKenzie, P. (2011). Under our own umbrella: Mobilizing Research Evidence for
Early Literacy Programs in Public Libraries. Progressive Librarian, 36/37, 15-29.
(Contribution 60%)
Heydon, R. & Stooke, R. (2011). Border work: Teachers' expressions of their literacy-related
professional development needs in a First Nations school. Teaching and Teacher
Education http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X11001053 DOI
10.1016/jtate.2011.08.009 (In print 2012, Volume 28, 11-20) (Contribution 35%)
Stooke, R. & McKenzie, P. J. (2010). Attending to the small stud: Notes from an observational
study of neighbourhood programmes for very young children and their caregivers.
Canadian Children, 35(2).
Hibbert, K., Stooke, R., Pollock, K., Faez, F., Namukasa, I., & ’Sullivan, J. (2010) The ‘ten-year
road’: Joys and challenges on the road to tenure. Journal of Educational Thought.
Special Issue: Perspectives – The Road to Tenure.
Stooke, R. & McKenzie, P. (2009). Leisure and work in library and community programs for very
young children. Library Trends, 57(4), 657-676.
McKenzie, P.J. & Stooke, R. K. (2007). Producing storytime: A collectivist analysis of work in a
complex communicative space. The Library Quarterly 77(1), 3-11 .
Stooke, R. (2005). Many hands make light work but too many cooks spoil the broth:
Representing literacy teaching as a “job for experts” undermines efforts to involve
parents. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 37 (1), 3-10.
Stooke, R. (2003). (Re)Visioning the Ontario Early Years Study: Almost a fairy tale - but not
quite. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 19 (2)91-101.
Papers in refereed conference proceedings:
McKenzie, P. J., Stooke, R. K., & McKechnie, E. F. (2007). Learning the library: The work of
public library storytime particpants. In Information sharing in a fragmented world:
Crossing boundaries. Proceedings of the annual conference of the Canadian Association
for Information Science (CAIS), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, May 10-12, 2007.
Available at http://www.cais-acsi.ca/conferences.htm
Stooke, R. (2004). No end in sight: Mothers supporting struggling readers. In the Proceedings of
The Portraits of Literacy: Critical Issues in Family, Community and School Literacy
Conference, University of British Columbia, 8-10 July, 2002.
McKenzie, P. & Stooke, R. (2001) Who is entitled to be a literacy expert Category entitlements
of parents and professionals in the literature of children’s literacy learning, pp. 53-65 in
Beyond the Web: Technologies, Knowledge and People. Proceedings of the 29 th Annual
Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, 27-29 May, 2001.
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Technical Reports:
Stooke, R. (2012) Final Report for Summer 2011 Play and Learn Program. London, ON:
Childreach Family Resource Program.
Stooke, R. (2010). Achieving the Best for London’s Children. London, ON: Child Youth Network
of the City of London.
http://www.london.ca/child_youth_network/pdfs/literature_review_report_june28_2010.pdf
Stooke, R. (2008). Book Buddies 2008. Report submitted to London Public Library, London, ON.
October 2008.
Stooke, R. (2005). Read/Write Tutoring Project. Interim Report. Prepared for British Columbia
Ministry of Education, June 15, 2005.
Non-refereed publications
Stooke, R. K. & Smythe, S. (2011). Editorial: Ethical and social justice issues in language and
literacy research. Language & Literacy, 13(2).
Papers read at refereed academic conferences ( in chronological order from present)
Ng, S, Rai, S., Hibbert, K., Stooke, R., Regan, S, Schryer,C, Lingard, L. (2012). Clinicians
beyond clinic: An institutional ethnography of integrated care in a non-healthcare
setting. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Medical
Educators in Europe 2012. August 2012
Stooke, R. (2012). Making sense of the ELECT framework in a family resource program. Paper
presented at International Innovations in ECE. Victoria, BC, July 13-15, 2012.
McKenzie, P. J., Hoffman, C. & Stooke, R. (2012). Librarians and/as teachers. Paper presented
at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science,
Waterloo, Ontario, June, 2012.
Garbati, J, Hibbert, K., Specht, J., Stooke, R. (2012). Mentorship in practice: Ensuring a
collaborative and inspiring partnership. Panel presentation at Canadian Society for the
Study of Education, Waterloo, ON, May 2012.
Parkinson, H. & Stooke, R. (2012). Accountable to whom and for what Literacy assessments as
organizers of teachers’ work. Canadian Society for the Study of Education XL Annual
Conference 2012 – CACS/LLRC
Stooke, R. (2012). Producing school-ready families in an informal parent support program.
Paper included in Iannacci, L., Pacini – Kechabaw, V., Stooke, R., & Whitty, P. Neoliberal
Assemblages in Early Childhood Education: Entanglements of Politics and ethics. Panel
presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education XL Annual Conference
2012 – CACS/CAREC.
Stooke, R. (2012). Promoting democratic professionalism in a multiprofessional space: The role
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of service learning in early years teacher education. Poster presented at Propel
Professional Education Conference. Stirling, UK., May 9-11, 2012.
Heydon, R. & Stooke, R. (2012). Literacy PD as border work: A case study of professional
development in a Canadian First Nations school. Paper presented at Propel Professional
Education Conference. Stirling, UK., May 9 – 11, 2012.
Stooke, R. & Hibbert, K. (2012). Writing goes back to school. Paper presented at 2012 Annual
meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC, April, 12-
16, 2012.
Stooke, R., Hibbert, K., Faden, L., & Parkinson, H. (2011). Supporting Graduate Education
Students’ Writing: A Case Study. Poster presentation at Opportunities and New
Directions conference, University of Waterloo. April 27-28, 2011.
Stooke, R., McKenzie, P. & Smythe, S. (2011). Families at work: A critical examination of
neighborhood-based programs for families with young children. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 8
– 12, 2011.
Heydon, R. & Stooke, R. (2010). Legitimizing border work: Professional development in
language and literacy in a First Nations school. Paper presented at the National Reading
Conference, Fort Worth, TX Dec. 1 – 4, 2010.
Smythe, S. & Stooke, R. (2010). Symposium Session: Mapping local literacy work to global
policy discourses: Critical Policy Analysis, Institutional Ethnography, New Literacy
Studies and tools for literacy policy analysis for social action.
Stooke, R., Mckenzie, P. J., & Smythe, S. (2009). The colonizing reach of schooling: Translocal
relations organizing the educational work of families with young children. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the society for the Study of Social Problems. San
Francisco, CA, August 5 – 7 2009.
Stooke, R., McKenzie, P. & Smythe, S. (2009). Standardizing diversity: “Cookie cutter” programs
for young children in diverse communities. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Carleton University, May 23 – May
26, 2009.
Stooke, R. (2009). Ethical issues in research with community agencies. Paper presented at the
Language & Literacy Researchers of Canada PreCSSE Conference, Carleton University,
May 22, 2009.
Stooke, R. (2008). Writing ourselves in: Institutional Ethnography as a strategy for
understanding and contesting the marginal positioning of public libraries in community
partnerships. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for
Information Science, (CAIS), Information Beyond Borders: LIS interacting with other
disciplines . The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. June 5 - 7, 2008.
Toohey, K, Smythe, S., Le, E., Stooke, R., d’Amico, L. Neufeld, P. & Parha, N. (2008). Digital
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mediations for bridging home, school and community literacies. Symposium presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) The
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. May 31 – June 3, 2008.
Stooke, R. (2007) Taking Turtle out of the box: Multimodal meaning-making in an early primary
classroom. Roundtable paper presentation at the 2007 National Reading Conference,
Austin, TX November 26-30, 2007.
Stooke, R. K. & McKenzie, P. J. (2007). Parent-child programmes as sites (or not) for maternal
well-being. Paper presented at the 11 th annual conference of the Association for
Research on Mothering: maternal health and well-being. Toronto, ON, October 18-20,
2007.
Stooke, R. K. (2007). Mapping the social relations of public library preschool programs. Paper
presented at the 4 th annual Library Research Seminar, London, ON, October 10 – 12,
2007.
McKenzie, P. J., Stooke, R. K. & McKechnie, E. F. (2007). Learning the library: The work of
public library storytime participants. Paper presented Smith at the 4 th annual Library
Research Seminar, London, ON, October 10 - 12, 2007.
Stooke, R. K. & Smythe, S. (2007). Indeterminate Spaces: Supporting Diverse Forms of
Mothering in Community-based programs. Paper presented at the XXVth Annual
Conference of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE) Saskatoon, SK
May 26-29, 2007.
Stooke, R., McKenzie, P. & McKechnie, E. F. (2007). Uncovering barriers to participation in
community programs for families with very young children. Paper presented at
Qualitatives 2007, the 24 th annual Qualitative Analysis Conference. St Thomas University
and University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, May 16-20, 2007.
Stooke, R. (2007). It’s all about the metacognition: Paper presented at the 4 th annual CSSE
preconference of the Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC),
Saskatoon, SK, May 25, 2007.
Stooke, R. K., Hayashi, H., & Li, A. (2007) Reciprocal inquiries: Learning about and learning from
the other in graduate education Paper presented at the XXVth Annual Conference of the
Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE) Saskatoon, SK May 26-29, 2007.
Stooke, R. K. (2007). Recontextualizing texts: Exploring multimodal storytelling with
kindergarten students. Paper presented at the XXVth Annual Conference of the Canadian
Society for Studies in Education (CSSE) Saskatoon, SK May 26-29, 2007.
Stooke, R., McKenzie, P. & Smythe, S. (2007). Access interrupted: Exploring the social
organization of community-based early learning programs. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago,
April 7-11, 2007.
Stooke, R. (2005). Playing at stories. Paper presented at the 3 rd International Conference on
Imagination in Teaching and Learning, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 13-16, 2005.
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Hibbert, K. & Stooke, R. (2005). Haves and have-nots: How access to material resources
mediates teachers’ understandings of their roles as literacy teachers. Paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, London,
Ontario, May 28-31, 2005.
Stooke, R. (2005). Mapping the social relations of early learning: Canadian librarians “get in
synch” with American educational reforms. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, London, Ontario, May 28-31, 2005.
Stooke, R. (2005). Connecting policies and practices. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montreal, Canada, April 11-15,
2005.
Stooke, R. (2003). The policy context for family literacy programs in Canada. Presented at the
XXXI Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, 28-31 May, 2003.
Stooke, R. (2002). No end in sight: Mothers supporting struggling readers. Presented at The
Portraits of Literacy Conference: Critical Issues in Family, Community and School
Literacy Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 8-10 July, 2002.
Stooke, R. (2002). Supporting equitable access to early education: The social organization of
children’s librarians’ work. Paper presented at the 6 th Annual Institutional Ethnography
Conference “Putting Institutional Ethnography into Practice,” University of Victoria,
Victoria, BC, 28-30 June, 2002.
Stooke, R. (2002). Babes in a tangled wood: The Ontario Early Years Study as a fractured fairy
tale. Paper presented at the XXX Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the
Study of Education, Toronto, Ontario, 25-28 May 2002.
Stooke, R. (2002) Stories of early brain development. In Heydon, R., Iannacci, L., Kinsella, A.
and Stooke, R. Contextualizing text: Uncovering the taken-for-granted in instrumentalist
discourses. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational
Research Association, New Orleans, 1-5 April, 2002.
Stooke, R. (2001). Tales Told Out of School: Parents as Advocates for Children’s Literacy
Development. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for
Research on Mothering, North York, ON, 12-14 October, 2001.
McKenzie, P. & Stooke, R. (2001) Who is entitled to be a literacy expert Category entitlements
of parents and professionals in the literature of children’s literacy learning. Paper
presented at the 29 th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information
Science, Quebec City, 27-29 May, 2001.
Stooke, R. (2001). A balancing act: Images of literacy learning in parent advice texts. Paper
presented at the XXIX Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of
Education, Quebec City, 23-26 May 2001.
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Abstracts accepted to academic conferences
Stooke, R. (2011). Whose best future Nonprofit Organizations Negotiate Ontarios New Early
Learning Framework. Abstract accepted to the annual meeting of the Society for the
Study of Social Problems. Las Vegas, Nevada. August 19 – 21, 2011.
Stooke, R. & McKenzie, P. J. (2010). paper accepted to Mothers and the Economy: The
Economics of Mothering Conference conference, October 21-23, 2010, Toronto,
Canada.
Stooke, R. & McKenzie, P. J. (2010). Making room for a third space: A critical examination of
public library programs for young children. Annual Meeting of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO.
Stooke, R. (2009). Not as simple as it looks: Critical sociocultural research in a public library
support program. Paper accepted to the 2009 National Reading Conference (conference
not attended due to teaching responsibilities)
Presentations at professional meetings/workshops:
2012 Stooke, R. Play and Learn. Professional development workshop Presented May 2012 at
Childreach, London, ON.
2012 Stooke, R. & Hibbert, K. (2012) Supporting Graduate Students’ Writing.
Invited Presentation at the first annual Research on Teaching Symposium, Teaching
Support Centre, Western U., April 19, 2012.
2011 Stooke, R. Empowerment evaluation. Workshop facilitated at Childreach Family
Resource Centre, London, Ontario, October, 3, 2011.
2011 Heydon, R., Stooke, R. & Ludke, L. Aboriginal languages, literacies and literature in
elementary classrooms. Presentation at the Aboriginal Education Day, Faculty of
Education, University of Western Ontario, January 28, 2011.
2011 Heydon, R., Stooke, R. & Ludke, L. Aboriginal languages, literacies and literature in
secondary classrooms. Presentation at the Aboriginal Education Day, Faculty of
Education, University of Western Ontario, January 28, 2011.
2010 Stooke, R. Early Childhood Literacy: Literature review and Recommendations.
Presentation to the Child Youth Network of the City of London Literacy
ImplementationTeam. Kinsmen Arena, March 24, 2010.
2010 Stooke, R. & McKenzie, P. Why it pays to sweat the small stuff. Strategies for supporting
inclusion in community programs for young children and their caregivers. Presentation to
the Ontario Early Years Centres professional community. March, 2010.
2010 Stooke, R. & McKenzie, P. Early Learning Programs: Notes from an observational study.
Presentation to the London Public Library professional community, London, ON.
February, 2010.
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2006 Asselin, M., Stooke, R. & Glover, J. Embracing diversity redressing disparities:
Opportunities and tensions in library work with today’s children and youth. Presentation
at the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Library Association. Ottawa, Ontario,
June 2006.
2005 Stooke, R. Family Literacy: How parents prepare children to read and write at school.
Presentation to the Brentwood Cooperative Nursery School (Burnaby, BC) Parent Group.
2004 Stooke, R. Healthy, wealthy and ready-for-school: Reading the Ontario Early Years Study
as a fractured fairy tale. Workshop presented at Risky Business, Shifting Paradigms:
Teaching-Learning in a Phenomenological Curriculum: the Western-Fanshawe
Collaborative BScN Program Faculty Development Retreat. Ingersoll, Ontario, April 29
- 30, 2004.
2003 Stooke, R. & Goodhue, K. (2003).You can teach an old dog new tricks: Using
flannelboard activities to promote young children’s emergent literacy. Workshop
presented at the Ontario Library Association Superconference, Toronto, Ontario, January
29-February 1, 2003.
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