Allyson Jule, PhD

Professor of Education; Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute

Department: School of Education

Phone1: 604-513-2121 X3517

Area of Expertise: Feminism; Feminist Pedagogy; Gender and Achievement; Gender, Language and Silence in Classrooms; Language Arts and Literature; and Applied Linguistics in Education.

Research: Linguistic Space in Classrooms; Evangelical Gendered Identity; Feminism and Language Use/Silence

Education: BEd (Alberta); MA (Simon Fraser); PhD(Roehampton: London)

Biography:

Allyson Jule has particular research interests in sociology; in particular, the area of Gender and Language Use in the Classroom. She has written extensively on the topic of gender identity and gendered performances as revealed in speech patterns in varying contexts. She also serves as Co-Director of Trinity Western University's Gender Studies Institute and is on the Advisory Committee for the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA). She is the on-going editor of Media Reviews for Women and Language Journal.

Allyson Jule is the author of Gender, Participation and Silence in the Language Classroom: Sh-shushing the Girls and A Beginner's Guide to Language and Gender. She has written articles on the topic of language use, appearing in Gender and Education and Gender and Language journals. She is also the editor of Gender and the Language of Religion; Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse; and co-editor with Bettina Tate Pedersen of Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia. She is currently at work on an Education textbook, with Ken Pudlas, Learning to Teach Anywhere, with Oxford University Press and is co-editing a follow-up collection of essays with Bettina Tate Pedersen, Balancing Challenges: Feminism in Christian Higher Education and Other Places.

Allyson Jule was also a regular contributor to The Kindlings Podcast. Visit: http://www.thekindlings.ca/

In 2011, Allyson Jule was awarded the Davis Teaching Award for excellence in teaching.

Selected Publications:

(2012). Gender theory: Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. http://refworks.springer.com/mrw/index.php?id=2801

(2011). Princesses in the Classroom. Canadian Children. Volume 36, Number 2 (Fall Issue, 2011).
(2011). Are We Doomed?: Why Christian Colleges and Universities Must Lead on the Issue of Gender Equity and Why They Don't. In S. Joeckel and T. Chesnes (Eds) The Christian College Phenomenon: Inside America's Fastest Growing Institutions of Higher Learning. Abilene Christian University Press. 253 – 270. - with Bettina Tate Pedersen
(2011). Travel 101: The essay. The Globe and Mail newspaper. Facts and Arguments. Thursday, July 14. L8 (Globe Life).
(In press). Learning to teach anywhere: Theory, methods and issues in education. Toronto: Oxford University Press - with Ken Pudlas.
(2010). A case study of Mrs. Smith's and her quiet girls. In R. M. Jimenez Catalan (Ed.) Gender perspectives on vocabulary in second/foreign languages. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 167 - 187.
(2009). Using The Mary Tyler Moore Show as feminist teachingn tool. In Gender and Education, 20. 1 - 8.
(2008). A beginner's guide to gender and language. Multilingual Matters, UK
(2008). Masculinity as Public Performance: Gendered Language Patterns and Religious Identity in a College Classroom. In J. Santaemilia (Ed.) Gender and sexual identities in transitions: International perspectives. 36 - 51
(Ed.) (2007). Language and religious identity: Women in discourse. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Jule, A. and B. Pedersen (Eds.) (2006). Being feminist; being Christian: Essays from academica. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
(2007). Book Review. In Gender and Education. Volume 19 (4), 535 - 548..
(2006). Silence as morality: Lecturing at a theology college. In J. Baxter (Ed.) The female voice in public contexts. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 103 - 119.
(2005). A fair share: Gender and linguistic space in a language classroom. Multilingua, Journal of Cross-Cultural Interlanguage Communication, Vol 24-1/2, 25 - 27.
(Ed.) (2005). Gender and the language of religion. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
(2004). Speaking in silence: A case study of a Canadian Punjabi girl. In Gender and English language learners. In B. Norton and A. Pavlenko (Eds.), Alexandria, Virginia: TESOL Press. 69 - 80.
(2004). Gender, silence, and participation in language education: Sh-shushing the girls. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Academic Associations:

CSSE/CASWE - Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education
Gender and Education Association
IGALA - International Gender and Language Association
OSCLG - Organization for the Study of Communications, Language and Gender
Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference Group
BAAL - British Association of Applied Linguistics

Courses Taught at TWU

EDUC 200, Introduction to the Principles of Teaching
EDUC 302 and EDUC 303, Initial Classroom Experience
EDUC 345, Gender and Education
EDUC 365, Social Issues in Education
EDUC 402 and EDUC 403, Initial Classroom Experience
EDUC 455, Curriculum and Pedagogy: K-8 Language Arts
EDUC 471, Curriculum and Pedagogy: An Introduction to Teaching the Humanities Grades 8-12

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