SUCC ES SFU L D E F E NC E
Dr. Jenn deLugt, Assistant
Professor in Inclusive Education
and Core Studies, successfully
defended her doctoral dissertation
May 13 at Queen’s University.
Jenn’s dissertation explored
how appropriate reading
intervention strategies may be
used to ameliorate emotional and
behavioural disorders in children.
Her doctoral studies were funded in
part by SSHRC Fellowships.
Dr. Gale Russell, Assistant
Professor in Mathematics
Education, successfully defended
her dissertation, “Valued Kinds of
Knowledge and Ways of Knowing
in Mathematics and the Teaching
and Learning of Mathematics: A
Worldview Analysis” on June 23 at
the University of Saskatchewan.
Her external examiner, Dr. Lisa
Lunney Borden of St. Francis
Xavier University, noted Dr.
Russell’s exceptional skill as a
researcher and the contributions
that her dissertation will make to
the national conversation relating
to transforming the experiences
in mathematics education for
Indigenous students.
Photo: A Faculty time-honoured tradition is to award faculty with the Dead
Balloon Award when they successfully defend their dissertation. Photo (L-R)
Dr. Christine Massing, Dr. Jenn de Lugt, and Dr. Gale Russell.
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