Sarah Twomey, PhD
Dean of Education, Teaching and Learning
As the Dean of Education and Professional Learning, I am passionate about how teaching and learning can contribute to the larger purpose of belonging, sustainability, and healing through educational experiences and research.
I have been an educator for over 30 years. Throughout this time, I would define my approach to teaching and learning as innovative and transformative. From using theatre as a tool for social change while a high school teacher, to developing educational leadership programs that enhanced learning for teachers and community partners through collaborative research, I thrive when others can actualize their gifts and talents.
The co-edited book, Living Teacher Education in Hawaii (Twomey & Johnson, 2018), reflects my development as an academic in Hawaii from 2007-2018. I became interested in understanding the structural origins of interracial relations in the local cultures I saw around me. I began to ask how a deeper understanding of race relations might help us move forward on what Peggy Phelan (2003) calls the “rackety bridge” between self and other in order to understand the role of social justice pedagogies in our classrooms. My research strives to conceptualize the connection between post-colonial theory and current curricular practices as a useful analytic lens to deepen understanding of the how we might move towards a more ethical framework for human relations within a colonial history of language and literacy education. I am excited about how I might extend this work to my new home in Peterborough, here at Trent.
sarahtwomey@trentu.ca
705-748-1011 ext 7376
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