CURRICULUM VITAE
MICHAEL J. CORBETT
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Michael J. CorbettProfessor, School of Education
302 Emmerson HallAcadia UniversityUniversity Avenue
Wolfville, NSCanadaB4P2R6
Phone: 1-902-585-1190Email: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D. (Educational Sociology), University of British Columbia, 2001 M.Ed. (Literacy Education), Mt. St. Vincent University, 1994 M.A. (Sociology), Acadia University, 1990 BEd (Secondary Social Studies), Acadia University, 1983 BA (Hons. Sociology), Acadia University, 1981
Academic Record
Present position:
Professor, School of Education, Acadia University, 2018-
Previous positions
Professor of Rural and Regional Education, University of Tasmania, 2015-2017 Professor, School of Education, Acadia University, 2011-2015 Graduate Coordinator, School of Education, Acadia University, 2011-14 Tenure awarded, 2007
Associate Professor, School of Education, Acadia University, 2006-2011 Assistant Professor, School of Education, Acadia University, 2002-2006 Lecturer (part-time), Mount Saint Vincent University, 2000-2002 Lecturer (part-time), Acadia University, 1991-2002 Teacher, Tri-county Regional School Board, Nova Scotia, 1987-2002 Acting Principal, Southwest Regional School Board, 1996-1997 Teacher, Frontier School Division, Manitoba, 1983-87 Consultant, Municipality of the County of Cumberland (part-time), 2006 Consultant to the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (part-time), 1996 Consultant to the Digby District School Board Stay in School Initiative, 1991
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Visiting Scholar
Flinders University, Adelaide Australia, January-February, 2013 University of Western Australia, Perth, February-March, 2013 Monash University, Gippsland Campus, March 2013. University of Oulu (Finland), Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher
Education, May 2009 Charles Sturt University (Australia), Bathurst Campus, March-April, 2009 University of South Australia, Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning
Cultures, Adelaide, Jan.-March, 2009 Buffalo State College, Center for Excellence in Rural and Urban Education,
November, 2008 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Ed. Leadership Unit, Mar.-April, 2008
Adjunct Professorship
University of South Australia, Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures, 2010-
Awards and graduate fellowships
Faculty of Professional Studies. Research Excellence Award, Acadia University, 2011
Learning to Leave, Honourable Mention, Founder’s Prize, Canadian History of Education Association, 2008
Learning to Leave, long list for Evelyn Richardson Memorial Prize for Non-fiction, 2008
Learning to Leave nominated for the Founder’s Prize, Canadian History of Education Association, 2008
Faculty of Professional Studies, Best Research Project, Acadia University, 2006 President’s Award for Innovation, Acadia University, 2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral
Fellowship, 1998-2001 University Graduate Fellowship, UBC (declined), 1998-99 University Graduate Fellowship, UBC, 1997-98 University and Departmental Fellowships, McMaster University, 1981-1982
Teaching
University of Tasmania (Faculty of Education) ESH 714 Understanding Educational Inquiry (Masters level)
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EPA 960 Understanding Educational Inquiry (Doctoral level) ESH 374 Rural Education (Undergraduate level)
Acadia University (School of Education) Education 8013 Foundations of Educational Inquiry (Doctoral level) Education 8053 Focus on Research Methods (Doctoral level) Education 5333 Counselling in Rural Communities (Masters level) Education 5673 Rural Education (Masters level) Education 5113 Qualitative Research in Education (Masters level) Education 5643 Theoretical Developments in Curriculum Studies (Masters) Education 5773 Community Perspectives on School and Society (Masters) Education 5043 The Sociology of Education (Masters level) Education 4233 Elementary Language Arts (Undergraduate level) Education 41F3 Foundations and Contexts of Education (Undergraduate) Education 4803 Videography in Classroom & Community (Undergraduate) Education 4923 Student Teaching Practicum (Undergraduate level) Education 4113 Teaching Secondary Social Studies (Undergraduate level)
Acadia University (Department of Sociology) Introductory Sociology (taught by teleconference 1991-2004) Department of
Sociology.
Mount Saint Vincent University (School of Graduate Education) Post-folk art: Artistic curriculum production in rural schools, Summer 2002 Literacy studies in the community, Summer 2001 Community, schooling and literacy, Spring 2001 Issues in schooling and community, Winter 2000
Research
Areas of Scholarly Interest
Social theory, educational sociology, curriculum theory, literacies, Canadian
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educational history, qualitative research methods, rural schooling, community and curriculum, space and place, Canadian educational policy, educational accountability, early school leaving and resistance, school to work transitions, youth studies, mental health and education
Membership in Scholarly Organizations
Canadian Society for the Study of Education American Educational Research Association Australian Association for Research in Education European Rural Sociological Association International Rural Network International Sociological Association World Educational Research Association Society for the Promotion of Education in Rural Australia Acadia Centre for Ethnocultural Diversity The Rural Centre (Nova Scotia) Affiliate, Atlantic Metropolis Project Affiliate, Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment
Funded Research
Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada and other national granting councils
1. Baeck, U., Paulgaard, G., Bertelsen, H. Corbett, M., & Villanen, H (2016-2021). RURED: Spatial inequalities and spatial justice in education. Norwegian
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Research Council Grant. $1 900 000 (Role: Co-investigator)2. Corbett, M. (2013-2017). Small schools in a big world: Toward policy that works.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant. $233 785 (Role: Principal Investigator)
3. Baeck, U., Paulgaard, G. & Corbett, M. (2012-14). Rural futures and the institutions of higher education. Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU), $52 150 (Role: Co-investigator)
4. Corbett, M. & Green, B. (2010). Rural education and literacies research network (REAL). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council International Opportunities Fund. $25 000 (Role: Principal Investigator)
5. Corbett, M. & Vibert, A. (2008-2011). A lens on community: Video ensemble practice in a rural school. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant. $143 000 (Role: Principal Investigator)
6. Corbett, M. (2006). Funding for the publication of Learning to Leave, Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities, Aid to Scholarly Publication Program. $7 000 (Role: Principal Investigator)
7. Corbett, M. (2004-2007). Where I belong: Schooling and socio-spatial identity in a coastal community. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant. $69 700 (Role: Principal Investigator)
8. Corbett M, & Tardif, M. (2002-05) Support from SSHRC MCRI project: L’evolution actuelle du personnel de l’enseignment prescholaire, primaire et secondaire (The evolution of the teaching profession in Canada). $5 000 (Role: Co-investigator)
9. Corbett, M. (1998-2001). Learning to leave: The irony of schooling in a coastal community. SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship $48 000
Other research funding
10. Beswick, K., Fraser, S. and Corbett, M. (2017-19). Evaluation of Social-emotional learning curriculum. Social Ventures Australia, $10 000.
11. Corbett, M. (2012). Acadia University 25.55 Research Fund, $2364.12. Corbett, M. (2015-16). Mapping Tasmania’s School Farms. University of
Tasmania Community Engagement Fund, $12 000.13. Williamson, J., Gardner, C. and Corbett, M. (2015-2018). Study of the Year 11-12
Expansion Project. Department of Education, Tasmania, $90 00014. Corbett, M., Fraser, S. and Beswick, K. (2015-17). CREATE: Improving
Educational Culture in Northwestern Tasmania. $350 000 15. Corbett, M. (2014). Acadia University Faculty Association Negotiator’s Stipend,
$1 20016. Corbett, M. (2013). Visiting professor fellowship, University of Western Australia,
$1 000.17. Corbett, M. (2012). Harrison McCain Fellowship, Acadia University, $5 500.18. Corbett, M. (2012). Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Professional Studies,
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Acadia University, $1 000.19. Corbett, M. (2012). Acadia University 25.55 Research Fund, $3 175.20. Corbett, M. (2011). Support for research and film production. Appalachian
Collaborative Centre for Learning, Assessment and Instruction, Ohio University, $3 500 (Role: Principal Investigator)
21. Corbett, M. (2011). Research funding from CESA Wisconsin, $2 000 (Role: Principal Investigator)
22. Corbett, M. (2008). Acadia University Faculty of Professional Studies Fund for Research Support, $2 500
23. Corbett, M. (2008). Acadia University 25.55 Research Fund, $2 30024. Corbett, M. (2007). Acadia University Faculty Association Stipend, $1 20025. Corbett, M. (2007). Faculty of Professional Studies Fund for Research Support.
Acadia University, $2 49626. Corbett, M. & MacKinnon, D. (2007). School of Education Program Development
Fund Grant in support of development an MCRI proposal. $3 000 (Role: Principal Investigator)
27. Corbett, M. (2006). Faculty of Professional Studies Fund for Research Support. Acadia University. $2 200
28. Corbett, M. & Mulcahy, D. (2006). Education on a human scale: Small rural schools in a modern context. Municipality of the County of Cumberland. $20 000 (Role: Principal Investigator)
29. Corbett, M. (2005). Faculty of Professional Studies Fund for Research Support. Acadia University. $1 500.
30. Corbett, M. & MacKinnon, D. (2004-05). One-day conference grant. Acadia University, internal SSHRC Aid to Small Universities Grant. $5 800 (Role: Co-applicant)
31. Corbett, M. (2004). Acadia University McConnell Project funding for Foundations Web: Ideas in Place. Summer. $5 000 (Role: Principal Investigator)
32. Corbett, M. (2004). Acadia University Faculty of Professional Studies, Professional Development Grant. $965
33. 2003-06. Teaching in the age of technology. McConnell Foundation Grant under the direction of Dr. Heather Hemming & Dr. Gregg MacKinnon, School of Education, Acadia University. $350 000 (Role: Co-applicant)
34. Corbett, M. & MacKinnon D. (2003). The Acadia Centre for Rural Education and Sustainability: A on- day exploratory conference. Acadia University, internal SSHRC Aid to Small Universities Grant. 2003. $1500 (Role: Co-applicant)
35. Corbett, M. (1995-96). Outcome-based education. NSTU Report. $3 800 (Role: Principal Investigator)
36. Corbett, M. (1993-94). Manufacturing standards. NSTU Monograph. $1 10037. Corbett, M. (1990). Dropping out in Digby: A study of early school leaving in a
coastal community. Digby Regional School Board, Digby NS. $10 000 (Role: Principal Investigator)
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Funded Research Collaborations
1. 2004-2007. Resilience and local capacity development in BC’s coastal communities. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada CURA project under the direction of Dr. Ralph Matthews, UBC. $1 000 000 (Role – Expert Collaborator)
2. 2002-2007. L’evolution actuelle du personnel de l’enseignment prescholaire, primaire et secondaire (The evolution of the teaching profession in Canada). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada MCRI project under the direction of Dr. Maurice Tardif, Université de Montreal. $2 500 000 (Role - Collaborator)
Summary of Research Funding
Research funding since 2003 as PI/CI - $3 305 506External research funding since 2003 as PI/CI - $3 179 835Total research funding including collaborations $6 689 534
Refereed Scholarly Publications
Articles
1. Corbett, M. (2018). Mathematical moments: Autoethnographic excursions between school and life, The Mathematics Enthusiast, 15(1-2), 54-77.
2. Corbett, M. and Corbett, N. (2018). Giftedness: A sociological critique from a
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rural perspective, Critical Education, 9(1), 1-15.3. Corbett, M. and Roberts P. (2017). A Small place: Editorial introduction to the
AIJRE Special Issue on education in rural Tasmania, Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(3), 1-7.
4. Smith, C., Fraser, S. and Corbett, M. (2017). Liquid modernity, emplacement and education for the Anthropocene: Challenges for rural education in Tasmania, Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(3), 196-212.
5. Reaburn, R., Fraser, S. Smith, H., Roberts, J. Wells, J. and Corbett, M. (2017). Aspire High: Impacting student aspirations in a regional community, Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(3), 73-89
6. Corbett, M., Roberts, J., Fraser, S., Smith, H. and Reaburn, R. (2017). Building A New Generation: Community Expectations On Raising Aspirations In Rural Tasmania. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(3), 8-24.
7. Sutton, G., MacLeod, C., Fraser, S., and Corbett, M. (2017). Disrupting perception: Mapping an understanding of educational attainment Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(3), 174-195.
8. Corbett, M., Hawkins, C., and Brett, P. (2017). What we’re about out here: The resilience and relevance of school farms in rural Tasmania, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 34(12), 1-12.
9. Corbett, M. and Donehower, K. (2017). Rural literacies: Toward social cartography, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 32(5), 1-13.
10. Corbett, M. and Forsey, M. (2017). Rural youth out-Migration and education: Challenges to aspirations discourse in mobile modernity, Discourse, 38(3), 429-444.
11. Corbett, M. and Helmer, L. (2017). Contested geographies: Competing constructions of community and efficiency in small school debates, Geographical Research, 55(1), 47-57.
12. Corbett, M. (2016). Music education and/in rural social space: Making space for musical diversity beyond the city, Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, 15(4), 12-29.
13. Corbett, M. (2016). Rural futures: Development, aspirations, mobilities, place and education, Peabody Journal of Education, 91(2), 270-282.
14. Corbett, M. (2015). Sociological provocations for the field of rural education, Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 25(3), 9-25.
15. Corbett, M. (2015). Toward a rural sociological imagination: Ethnography and schooling in mobile modernity, Ethnography and Education, 10(3), 263-277.
16. Corbett, M. (2015). America’s Country School Legacy: Response to Theobald, Country School Journal, 3, 16-22.
17. Corbett, M. (2014). From Shinjuku to River John: The neoliberal juggernaut, efficiency, and small rural schools, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 60(4), 619-628.
18. Corbett, M. and Tinkham, J. (2014). Small Schools in a Big World: Thinking About a Wicked Problem, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 60(4), 691-
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707.19. Corbett, M. (2014). We have never been urban: Modernization, small schools, and
resilient rurality in Atlantic Canada, Journal of Rural and Community Development, 9(3), 186-202.
20. Corbett, M. (2014). Toward a geography of rural education in Canada, Canadian Journal of Education, 37(3), 1-22.
21. Corbett, M. (2014). The ambivalence of community: A critical analysis of rural education’s oldest trope, Peabody Journal of Education, 89(5), 603-618.
22. Corbett, M. (2013). En descenso de lo global a lo local: Una perspectiva desde la región atlántica de Canadá, Revista Peruana de Investigación Educativa, 5, 5-24.
23. Corbett, M. (2013). I’m going to make sure I’m ready before I leave: The complexity of educational and mobility decision-making in a Canadian coastal community, Journal of Rural Studies, (32), 275-282.
24. Corbett, M. (2013). Imagining education for a rural creative class: Improvisation as a curricular metaphor, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 28(10), 1-11. Retrieved from http://jrre.psu.edu/articles/28-10.pdf.
25. Corbett, M. (2013). What we know and don’t know about small schools: A view from Canada, The Country School Journal, 1, 38-52.
26. Eppley, K. & Corbett, M. (2012). I'll see that when I believe it: A dialogue on epistemological difference and rural literacies, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 27(1), http://www.jrre.psu.edu/articles/27-1.pdf
27. Lanas, M. & Corbett, M. (2011). Disaggregating student resistance, Young: The Scandinavian Journal of Youth Studies, 19(4), 415-432.
28. Corbett, M. & Vibert, A. (2010). Places of safety and risk in curriculum: Hierarchies of text and improvisation in a middle school video project, Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 114,
29. Corbett, M. (2010) Answering my sister’s question: The critical importance of education for diversity in those spaces where we think we are all the same, The Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 3(3).
30. Corbett, M. (2010) Standardized individuality: Cosmopolitanism and educational decision-making in an Atlantic Canadian rural community, Compare: A Journal of International and Comparative Education. 40(2), 193-207.
31. Corbett, M. (2010) Backing the right horse: Survival and literacy education in rural education, Teaching and Teacher Education. 26, 82-86.
32. Corbett, M. (2009). No time to fool around with education: Socialization frames, timing and stakes in youth educational decision making, Rural Society, 19(2), 163-177.
33. Corbett, M. (2009). Rural schooling in mobile modernity: The places I’ve been. Journal of Research in Rural Education, 24(7), 1-12. http://www.jrre.psu.edu/articles.html
34. Corbett, M. (2009). Response to Faircloth, Greenwood, Kelly and Woodrum, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 24(12), 1-7. http://www.jrre.psu.edu/articles.html
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35. Corbett, M. (2008). Educational resistance in a runaway world: Poetic meditations on power and surveillance. McGill Journal. of Education, 43(3), 225-242.
36. Corbett, M. (2008). Captain Beefheart’s piano: Confessions of an unrepentant illiterate. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 1(2), 148-159.
37. Corbett, M. (2008) The edumometer: The commodification of learning from Galton to the PISA, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 6(1). http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=125
38. Corbett, M. (2007) Learning and dreaming in space and place: Identity and rural schooling, Canadian Journal of Education, 30(3), 771-792.
39. Corbett, M. (2007) So much potential: Women and outmigration in an Atlantic Canadian coastal community, The Journal of Rural Studies, 23(4), 430-442.
40. Corbett, M. (2006) Educating the country out of the child and educating the child out of the country, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 52(4), 286-298.
41. Corbett, M. (2005) Rural education and out-migration: The case of a coastal community, Canadian Journal of Education, 28(1&2), 52-72.
42. Corbett, M. (2004). It was fine, if you wanted to leave: Narratives of educational ambivalence from a Nova Scotian coastal community 1963-1998, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 35, 4, 451-471.
43. Corbett, M. (2004). I dreamed I saw Hilda Neatby last night: So little for the mind after fifty years, McGill Journal of Education, 39(2), 159-182.
44. Corbett, M. (2002). Against the tide of modernity: Poststructuralism, rural schooling, place and resistance, trans/forms, 6, 24-59.
45. Corbett, M. (2001). A protracted struggle: Rural resistance and normalization in Canadian educational history, Historical Studies in Educ., 13(1), Spring, 19-48.
Books
1. Kember, D. & Corbett, M. (Eds.). (2018 forthcoming). Structuring the Doctoral Thesis. Singapore: Springer
2. Corbett, M., Vibert, A., & Green, M. (2016). Improvising the Curriculum: Alternatives to Scripted Schooling. New York: Routledge.
3. White, S. & Corbett, M. (Eds.) (2014). Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings: Methodological Issues, International Perspectives and Practical Solutions. (New York: Routledge).
4. Green, B. & Corbett, M. (Eds.) (2013). Rural Literacies: Transnational Perspectives. (New York: Palgrave).
5. Corbett M. (2007). Learning to leave: The irony of schooling in a coastal community. Black Point NS: Fernwood Press.
Reviews of monograph, Learning to Leave
1. Parnaby, A. (2010). Historical Studies in Education, http://historicalstudiesineducation.ca/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/viewFile/
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2353/25722. Hoben, J. (2008). The Morning Watch, 36(1-2),
http://www.mun.ca/educ/faculty/mwatch/John%20Hoben3.pdf. Date Accessed: 29/12/08.
3. Roberts, A. (2008). International Journal of Educational Development, 28(6), 766-767.
4. Zann, H. (2008). Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 3(1), 58-61.5. Stapel, C. (2008). Teachers College Record, Date Published: June 04, 2008,
http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 15267, Date Accessed: 6/22/20086. Schafft, K. (2008). Rural Sociology, 73(2), 300-303.7. Varpalotai, A. (2008). Our Schools/Ourselves, 17, 2, 157-162. 8. English, L. (2007). Canadian Journal of Education, 30, 3, 959-961.9. Theobald, P. (2007). Journal of Research in Rural Education, 22(4). Retrieved 29
May, 2007 from http://www.umaine.edu/jrre/22-4.pdf
Book Chapters
1. Kember, D. and Corbett, M. (2018 in press). The collective voyage of discovery: How the book was developed and produced. In Structuring the Doctoral Thesis: Voyages of Discovery. Kember, D. and Corbett M. (Eds). Singapore: Springer.
2. Corbett, M. and Hill A. (2018 in press). Action research and criticality: Working out the stone in your shoe. In Structuring the Doctoral Thesis: Voyages of Discovery. Kember, D. and Corbett M. (Eds). Singapore: Springer.
3. Hicks, D., O’Dowd, M. and Corbett, M. (2018 in press). Researching in the ‘cultural interface’: working between non-Indigenous and Indigenous research paradigms. In Structuring the Doctoral Thesis: Voyages of Discovery. Kember, D. and Corbett M. (Eds). Singapore: Springer.
4. Thomas, A. and Corbett, M. (2018 in press). Ways of working in the interpretive tradition. In Structuring the Doctoral Thesis: Voyages of Discovery. Kember, D. and Corbett M. (Eds). Singapore: Springer.
5. Corbett, M. and Green, B. (2081 in press). Emergent theory and/as doctoral research. In Structuring the Doctoral Thesis: Voyages of Discovery. Kember, D. and Corbett M. (Eds). Singapore: Springer.
6. Corbett, M. and Kember, D. (2018 in press). Reflections on methodological issues. In Structuring the Doctoral Thesis: Voyages of Discovery. Kember, D. and Corbett M. (Eds). Singapore: Springer.
7. Cuervo, H., Corbett, M. and White, S. (2018 forthcoming). Disrupting rural futures and teachers’ work: Problematising aspirations and belonging in young people’s lives. In Unsettling Space and Place. Pinto, S, Walker-Gibbs, B., Hannigan, S. and Charlton, E. (Eds). Springer.
8. Corbett, M. and Horner F. (2018 forthcoming). I Never Had a Childhood: Narratives of Work and Play in Postwar Rural Atlantic Canada, In Mitchell, C. and Madrone, A. (Eds.), Our Rural Selves. Springer.
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9. Corbett, M. and Baeck, U-D. (2016). Emerging Educational Subjectivities in the Global Periphery: New Worker Identities for New Times, In Shucksmith, M and Brown, D. (Eds). The Blackwell Handbook of Rural Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 544-555.
10. Corbett, M. (2016). Reading Lefebvre from here: Toward a translocal rural education. In Schulte, A. and Walker, B. (Ed). Self studies in Rural Education, Springer, 141-156.
11. Corbett, M. (2015). Rural Literacies: Text and Context Beyond the Metropolis. In Rowsell, J. & Pahl, K. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 124-139.
12. Corbett, M. (2014). Social class, the commodification of education, and space through a rural lens. In Howley, C. and Howley, A. (Eds.). Social class dynamics in rural schools. New York: Information Age, 19-38.
13. Bartholomaeus, P., Halsey, J. & Corbett, M. (2014). A trialogue about method in rural education: Experiential perspectives. In White, S. & Corbett, M. (Eds). Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings: Methodological Issues, International Perspectives and Practical Solutions. (New York: Routledge), 58-71.
14. Corbett, M. & White, S. (2014). Why put the rural in research? In White, S. & Corbett, M. (Eds.) Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings: Methodological Issues, International Perspectives and Practical Solutions. (New York: Routledge). 1-5.
15. Corbett, M. (2013). Remembering French in English: Reflections of an assimilated Acadian. In Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Allnutt, S., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (Eds.). Productive remembering and social agency. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 169-182.
16. Corbett, M. (2013). Where is the sociology of education in Canada? Boundary questions, relevance, emerging transdisciplinary spaces and the sociological imagination. In Christou, T. & Bullock, S. (Eds.). Foundations in Teacher Education: A Canadian Perspective, 124-134.
17. Green, B. & Corbett, M. (2013). Introduction. In Green B. & Corbett, M. (Eds.) (2013). Rethinking Rural Literacies: Transnational Perspectives.. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 1-13.
18. Corbett, M. & Vibert, A. (2013). Mediating plastic literacies and placeless governmentalities: Returning to corporeal reality in a rural school. In Green B. & Corbett, M. (Eds). Rethinking Rural Literacies: Transnational Perspectives.. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 257-274.
19. Corbett, M. (2012). Standardized individuality: Cosmopolitan and educational decision-making in an Atlantic Canadian rural community. In Rao, N. (Ed.). Migration, Education and Socio-economic Mobility. New York and London: Routledge,
20. Corbett, M. (2010). Wharf talk, home talk and school talk: The politics of language in a coastal community. In Rural education in the 21st Century, Jackson,
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A. & Schafft, K. (Eds.). College Park PA: Penn State University Press, 115-131.21. Corbett, M. (2010) Challenges for educational leadership in new times: Managing
a runaway world. In Anderson K., (Ed.). The Leadership Compendium: Emerging Scholars of Canadian Educational Leadership. Fredericton NB: The Atlantic Centre for Educational Administration and Leadership (ACEAL), 156-169.
22. Corbett, M. (2009). The road to school leads out of town: Rurality and schooling in Atlantic Canada. In Levine-Rasky, C. (Ed.). The sociology of education in Canada, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 133-151.
23. Corbett, M., Copp, D., Wright, A. & Monette, M. (2007). Policy narrative for Nova Scotia. In Chan, A., Fisher, D., & Rubenson, K. (Eds.). The evolution of professionalism: Educational policy in the provinces and territories of Canada. Vancouver: Centre for Higher Education and Training, p.p. 149-169.
24. Corbett, M. (1999). From here to uncertainty: A preoccupation with code. In Nielsen, A. (Ed.), Daily Meaning: Counternarratives of teachers’ work. Victoria: Bendall Books, 165-182.
Review Essays and Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals
1. Corbett, M. (2018 forthcoming). Review of Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education. William M. Reyonlds (Ed). Journal of Research in Rural Education.
2. Corbett, M. (2018). Review of the Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology. by John Smyth, Pedagogy, Culture and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2017.1421514
3. Corbett, M. (2017). Review of Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education by Hernan Cuervo, Journal of Research in Rural Education,
4. Corbett, M. (2015). A review of Why Rural Schools Matter by Mara Tieken, Clemson University Innovation Center Newsletter.
5. Corbett, M. (2012). A review of Paul Orlowski’s Teaching About Hegemony, Teaching Education,
6. Corbett, M (2010). Of lambs and lions, a review of Social Justice, Peace and Environmental Education: Transformative Standards, Teaching Education, 21(2), 211-214.
7. Corbett, M. (2009). Opportunity in Crisis: A Review Essay on Paul Theobald’s, Education Now: How Rethinking America’s Past Can Change its Future, Education Review, 12(6), 1-9. http://edrev.asu.edu/essays/v12n6index.html
8. Corbett, M. (2008). Review of Rosemary E. Ommer with the Coasts Under Stress Research Project Team, Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-Economic Health. Canadian Journal of Education, 31(2), 503-507.
9. Corbett, M. (2007). Review of David Olsen and Michael Cole, Technology, literacy and the evolution of society: Implications of the work of Jack Goody. Teachers College Record, Date Published: April 09, (http://www.tcrecord.org ID
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Number: 1416).10. Corbett, M. (2000). Review essay: Tom Popkewitz’ Struggling For the Soul,
Journal of Research in Rural Education, 16(2), 141-145.11. Corbett, M. (1994). No easy answers, McGill Journal of Education, 29(2), 239-
241.12. Corbett, M. (1993). Notes on the apprenticeship model of reading, McGill Journal
of Education, 28(2), 261-266.
Refereed Conference Papers
1. Eppley, K. and Corbett, M. (2018). School Choice and Fragmentation in Two Communities: The Ideal School. Paper presented to AERA, New York, 14 April.
2. Corbett, M., Williamson, J. & Gardner, C. (2017). Retooling rural education in Tasmania: Tensions and challenges in systemic educational change. Paper presented to the European Conference for Educational Research. Copenhagen, August 2017
3. Corbett, M. (2017). Too small to fail: Neoliberalism and rural school governance. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. Toronto, May.
4. Corbett, M. (2017). School Farms: Anachronism or crucial community bridge. Paper presented to the AERA, San Antonio, April.
5. Corbett, M. (2017). You were consulted: Small school closure politics and networks of decision. Paper presented to the AERA, San Antonio, April.
6. Corbett, M. (2016). Social class and improvisation: Students’ perspectives on learning and boredom. Paper presented to the AERA, Washington.
7. Corbett, M., Helmer, L. and Tinkham, J. (2015). You’re being emotional: The discursive construction of parents in school closure policy debates. European Network for Research on Parents in Education Conference, Tromsø, Norway, 26 August.
8. Corbett, M and Baeck, U.D. (2015). Emerging educational subjectivities in the global periphery: new worker identities for new times. Paper presented to the European Society for Rural Sociology Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, 19 August.
9. Tinkham J. and Corbett, M. (2015). "It feels like a game": Democracy and consultation in rural school closures. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Ottawa, 2 June.
10. Corbett, M. and Tinkham, J. (2015). Small Rural Schools in a Big Urban World: A Wicked Problem. Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, 19 April.
11. Corbett, M. (2014). The ambivalence of community: A critical analysis of rural education's oldest trope, 18th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama Japan, 19 July.
12. Corbett, M. (2014). Small rural schools in a big metrocentric world: Contours of a wicked problem, Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, 25 May.
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13. Corbett, M. (2014). Methodological challenges in rural education research, Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, 26 May.
14. Corbett, M. and Barrett, T. (2014). Who conducts rural education research: Toward and ethics of positionality, Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, 4 April.
15. Corbett, M., Vibert, A., Green, M. (2013). The improvised curriculum: Filmmaking as literacy in a small town school. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Victoria BC, 5 June.
16. Corbett, M. (2012). Social class and the commodification of education and space through a rural lens. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Kitchener ON, 30 May.
17. Corbett, M. (2012). Where is the sociology of education in Canada?: Boundary questions, relevance, and emerging transdisciplinary spaces, Invited symposium, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Kitchener ON, 29 May.
18. Corbett, M. (2012). Small schools, rurality and the PISA: Is it possible that Atlantic Canadian rural schools are over-performing? Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver BC, 14 April.
19. Corbett, M. (2012). Welfare, Place, Standards, Identity and Mobility in Canadian Rural Education, Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC, 14 April.
20. Corbett, M. (2011). Making rurality visible on the educational policy landscape: A view from Canada, Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, 10 April.
21. Corbett, M. and Vibert, A. (2011). Mediating plastic literacies and placeless governmentalities: Space making in rural schools. Paper presented to the Australian Association for Research in Education, Hobart, Australia, 1 December.
22. Corbett, M. (2010). Teaching on the shores of politics: Literacy and life in a rural school, Rural Sociological Society, Atlanta, 14 August.
23. Corbett, M. (2010). An improvised curriculum: Literacies and hierarchies of text in an age of accountability. 17th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 13.
24. Corbett, M. (2010). Migration, Communities and Economic Crisis. 17th ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 14.
25. Corbett, M., Vibert, A. & Shields, R. (2010). From literacy to literacies in a rural middle school: An improvised curriculum. CSSE, Montreal, 1 June.
26. Corbett, M., Green, B., Reid, J., White, S., Cooper, M., & Elshof, L. (2010). Educational Practice and Rural Social Space: A Symposium, American Educational Research Association, Denver, 1 May.
27. Corbett, M. (2009). How will this make me a better teacher? Paper presented at the International Symposium for Innovation in Rural Education, University of New England, Armadale, Australia, February 11.
28. Corbett, M. & Campbell, C. (2009). Questioning Resistance: Personal Narratives as Dialogical Process Starters. Paper presented to the 5th International Congress
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of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, 20 May.29. Corbett, M. & Vibert, A. (2009). A lens on school: Improvising new definitions of
literacy in a rural school. Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, Calif., 15 April.
30. Corbett, M. (2008). Roots and wings: Conceptions of place and mobility in educational decision-making in a rural community. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Vancouver BC, June 1.
31. Corbett, M. (2008). Changing places, changing spaces: Globalization, rural transformations, mobility and ambivalence in youth educational decision making. Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association annual conference, New York, 24 March.
32. Corbett, M. (2008). Are small rural schools viable in a modern context? Paper presented to the Thirteenth Annual Rural Education Congress, Saskatoon, SK, March 30. Proceedings of the Ninth National Congress on Rural Education.
33. Corbett, M., Vibert A., & Oldershaw A. (2007). Gender, identity and schooling: Experiences from Atlantic Canada. Paper presented to the Gender and Education Association Conference, Dublin Ireland, 28 March.
34. Corbett, M. (2006). Beyond antipsychiatry and antipsychotics: Phenomenological reflections on family and schizophrenia. 16th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July 28.
35. Corbett, M. (2006). Shall I stay or shall I go: Socio-spatial identity in rural Canada. 16th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July 26.
36. Corbett, M. (2005). We’re practical people: Schooling and identity in a Canadian coastal community. Paper presented to the Australian Association for Research in Education, Sydney, Australia, November 28.
37. Corbett, M. (2005). Identity, place and schooling. Paper presented to the International Rural Network Conference, Abingdon Va., June 29. http://www.international-rural-network.org/documents.asp?intent=showresults
38. Corbett, M. (2004). Are rural schools better than urban ones?: A closer look at one education “report card.” Paper presented to the Ninth Annual Rural Education Congress, Saskatoon, SK, March 30. Proceedings of the Ninth National Congress on Rural Education.
39. Corbett, M. (2003). It was fine, if you wanted to leave: Narratives of educational ambivalence from a Nova Scotian coastal community 1963-1998. Paper presented to the Congress on Rural Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, April 4. Proceedings of the Eighth National Congress on Rural Education.
40. Corbett, M. (2001). Conference presentation published in J. C. Montgomery and A. D. Kitchenham (Eds.). Issues affecting rural Communities (II): Proceedings of Conference on rural communities and identities in the global millennium. Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, 237-244.
Symposia and Other Refereed Conference Presentations
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1. Corbett, M., Eppley, K., Azano, A., Brenner, D. and Freie, C. (2018). “All of a Sudden, Rural is on Everyone’s Mind”: Rural Education After Trump. Symposium, AERA Rural Education SIG, 17 April.
2. Corbett, M., Williamson, J., Gardner, C. (2016). Access, Aspirations and Achievement: Normalizing Year 12 in Rural Tasmania. Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, 30 November.
3. Corbett, M. (2016). Researching the Effectiveness of the Dream Big Program in Burnie. Presentation to Aspirations Matters, Hobart Tasmania, 19 October.
4. Corbett, M., MacLeod, C., Sutton, G., and Smith C. (2016). CREATE: Social Cartography, Rural Futures. Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia, Mackay, Australia, 28 September.
5. Corbett, M., Gardner, C., Nickerson, L., and Williamson, J. (2016). Structural and cultural issues affecting educational access in rural Tasmania. European Educational Research Association, Dublin, 29 August
6. Corbett, M. (2016). Rural Literacies Seven Years On. A symposium. AERA, Washington.
7. Corbett, M. and Forsey, M. (2015). Mobile imaginaries and the boom and bust cycles of rural capitalism: Challenges to meritocratic assumptions. Australian Association for Research in Education, Perth, 2 December.
8. Corbett, M., Gardner, C. and Williamson, J. (2015). The Years 11 and 12 Project: Educational Access and Quality in Rural Tasmania, Australian Association for Research in Education, Perth, 30 November.
9. Corbett, M. (symposium convener). (2015). Rural Futures: Aspirational Landscapes Beyond the Metropolis. Australian Association for Research in Education, Perth, 30 November.
10. Corbett, M. (2015). Using social theory in educational research. AARE Theory Workshop, Tawoomba, 5 October.
11. Milley, P., Harris, C., Westheimer, J., and Corbett, M. (2015). Neoliberal Ideologies and their Impact: Socially Critical Perspectives on Educational Discourses, Policies and Practices. Symposium panel, Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference, Ottawa, 3 June.
12. Corbett, M. and Tinkham, J. (2015). A report on current research. Nova Scotia Small Schools Initiative Summit. River John, NS, 30 May.
13. Corbett, M. (2015). Convenor of research workshop on rural education possibilities in Australia, Flinders University, Adelaide, 24 January.
14. Bartholomaeus, P., and Corbett, M. (2014). A trialogue on research method. Symposium on Doing Research in Rural Communities, AARE, Brisbane, 2 June.
15. Corbett, M. (2014). International issues and trends in rural education. Presentation to the Rural SIG preconference symposium, Brisbane, 30 November.
16. Corbett, M., Reid, J., & Green, B. (2013). Rural social space. School of Teacher Education and Research Seminar presented at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia, 27 March.
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17. Corbett, M., Halsey, J. & Bartholomaeus, P. (2013). A Small Schools Tryptche: Canada and Australia times two! Symposium, ISFIRE 3, Perth Australia, 13 February.
18. White, S., Anderson, M., Kvalsund, R., Gristy, C., Corbett, M., &Hargreaves, L. (2012). Examining the research footprint in rural contexts: An international discussion on methodological issues and possibilities. European Conference on Educational Research, Cadiz, Spain, 19 September.
19. Corbett, M. (2012). Questions of social justice and place in Canadian teacher education. Invited panellist, World Educational Research Association Symposium, 3rd Research Seminar of the Peruvian Association for Educational Research [SIEP], Lima Peru, 15 September.
20. Corbett, M. (2011 convenor). Symposium on the state of the sociology of education in Canada, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Fredericton, NB, 1 June.
21. Corbett, M. (2011 convenor). Symposium on the future of the sociology of education in Canada, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Fredericton, NB, 1 June.
22. Corbett, M. & Green, B. (2011). Rurality and post rurality. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Fredericton, NB, 28 May.
23. Corbett, M. (2011). Rural education policy in Canada. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Fredericton, 29 May.
24. Corbett, M. (2011). Education, rurality, place and social justice, Paper presented to AERA pre-conference workshop of the Rural Education and Literacies Network, New Orleans, 7 April.
25. Corbett, M. (2008). Remembering French in English: Notes Toward a Screenplay. Paper presented to a conference entitled: Back to the Future: Productive Remembering in Changing Times, McGill University, October 23.
26. Corbett, M. (2007). Breaking with tradition: Rural families and post-secondary education. Paper presented to the CSSE, Saskatoon SK, 27 May.
27. Anderson, K., Corbett, M. (2007). Emerging scholars in Canadian educational leadership: An educational leadership compendium. Saskatoon SK, 28 May.
28. Ross, G., Comeau, J. & Corbett, M. (2007). Learning from Lindsay: A video narrative of homophobia in school. Presentation to the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education. Saskatoon, SK, 26 May.
29. Corbett, M. (2006). All kinds of potential: Women and outmigration in a coastal community. Paper presented to the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education, York University, Toronto, ON, 28 May.
30. Corbett, M. (2006). Where the girls aren’t: Education and outmigration in a rural community. Paper presented to the Eleventh National Congress on Rural Education, Saskatoon SK, 29 March.
31. Corbett, M., MacKinnon, D., Wallin, D., Varpolotai, Brown, W. & Kitchenham. A. (2006). A Pan-Canadian study of rural education. A symposium at the Eleventh National Congress on Rural Education, Saskatoon SK, 28 March.
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32. Corbett, M. (2005). The poetics of power. The Conference of Atlantic Educators, St. Francis Xavier University, 18 November.
33. Corbett, M. (2005). Foundations Web: A digital archive in educational thought. Paper presented to the conference of the Society for Information Technology in Education, Phoenix AZ, March 3.
34. Vibert, A., Ross, G., MacKinnon, D., Corbett, M., Baskwill, J. and Church, S. (2004). Where data drove us. Panel discussion, Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference, Winnipeg, 29 May.
35. Corbett, M. (2004). The Acadia Centre for Rural Education and Sustainability. Paper presented to the Ninth Rural Education Congress, Saskatoon, SK March 29.
36. Fisher, D, Chan, A., Robinson, S., Anderson, S., Tardif, M. Riopel, M. C. and Corbett, M. (2003). The evolution of the teaching profession in Canada. MCRI Panel, Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference, Halifax, May, 29.
37. Corbett, M. (2002). I dreamed I saw Hilda Neatby Last Night: So little for the mind after fifty years. Paper presented to the Conference of Atlantic Educators, University of Moncton, November 1.
38. Corbett, M. (2002). Learning to leave, learning to stay. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. University of Toronto, May 28.
39. Corbett, M. (1999). Tech BC: New kid on the academic block. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Sherbrooke, PQ, May.
Non-refereed Scholarly Publications
Articles
1. Corbett, M. (2014). Is a socialist education possible today? Our schools/ Ourselves, 24(1), 55- 70.
2. Corbett, M. (2012). What we know and don’t know about small schools: A view from Atlantic Canada, Our schools/Ourselves,
3. Corbett, M. (2009). Pedagogy and case study. In the Sage Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 315-318.
4. Corbett, M. (2009). Docile bodies. In the Sage Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 665-669.
5. Corbett, M. (2009). Efficiency, democratic inclusion and education: From scientific management to the Matrix, Our schools/Ourselves, 18(4), 115-122.
6. Corbett, M. (2008). Schooling and migration in Atlantic Canada, Our schools/Ourselves, 17(3), 85-92.
7. Corbett, M. (2008). Democracy, Neoliberalism and the dismissal of the Halifax Regional School Board, Our schools/Ourselves, 17(2), 33-42.
8. Corbett, M. (2006). What I might have said: Rural education and globalization. Our schools/Ourselves, 15(5), 109-119.
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9. Corbett, M. (2006). Are we prepared? Assessing today’s Bachelor of Education Programs. Aviso, 21(3), 12-14.
10. Corbett, M. (2006). Riding the tiger in Nova Scotia: Educational accountability on the edge of a runaway world. Our Schools/Ourselves, 15(3), 57-74.
Excerpt reprinted by the Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers Federation (2006). Off the Wall, 5, 4, (April), 2-3.
11. Corbett, M. (2004). Knowing a duck from a goose in an age of smoke and mirrors: Education in the real world, Our Schools/Ourselves, 13(2), 95-122.
12. Corbett, M. (1997). Fish stories: Why unanticipated outcomes are OK, Aviso, Spring, 16-18.
Research Reports
1. Williamson, J., Gardner, C., & Corbett, M. (2018). Final Report on the Years 11-12 High School Expansion Project in Tasmania. Report submitted to the Tasmanian Department of Education, April.
2. Corbett, M., Fraser, S., MacLeod, C., Sutton, G., and Smith, C. (2017). CREATE: Final Report. Report for the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, University of Tasmania. March.
3. Corbett, M., Fraser, S., Reyburn, R., Smith, H., MacLeod, C. Sutton, G., and Smith, C. (2017). Evaluation Report of Dream Big. Report for the Burnie City Council. January.
4. Williamson, J., Gardner, C., & Corbett, M. (2016). Second Interim Report on the Years 11-12 High School Expansion Project in Tasmania. December.
5. Corbett, M. & Hawkins, C. L. (2016). Mapping Tasmania’s School Farms. Report for the Tasmanian State Department of Education. September.
6. Williamson, J., Gardner, C., & Corbett, M. (2015). First Interim Report on the Years 11-12 High School Expansion Project in Tasmania. December.
7. Corbett, M. & Tinkham, J. (2014). Submission to the Fowler Commission on School Review Process. January.
8. Corbett, M. & Zimmer, E. (2013). Report to the Nova Scotia School Review Process Committee. July.
9. Corbett, M. (Ed.). (2011). A rural education manifesto. Wolfville: Acadia Centre for Rural Education.
10. Corbett, M. (2011). A companion to the film, Putting mathematics education in its place, ACCLAIM, April.
11. Corbett, M. (2008). An analysis of: How Educated are Nova Scotians? Education Indicators for the Nova Scotia Genuine Progress Index. A response to GPI Atlantic’s education indicators, 13 Feb.
12. Corbett, M. (2007). Learning to stay: Demographics, social change and outmigration on Digby Neck. Submission to the Canadian Environmental
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Assessment Agency Environmental Assessment Panel, Whites Point Quarry and Marine Terminal Project, Digby, NS, 27 June.
13. Corbett, M. & Kelly T. (2006). Response to the Bilcon environmental impact statement (Whites Point Quarry and Marine Terminal Project): Social research methodology and findings. Report presented to the Little River Citizens Group and The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.
14. Corbett, M. & Mulcahy, D. (2006). Education on a human scale: Small rural schools in a modern context. Report prepared for the Municipality of the County of Cumberland. (160 pages)
15. Corbett, M. (2005). Presentation to the White’s Point Quarry and Marine Terminal Project Joint Review Panel. Horton District High School, 8 January.
16. Corbett, M. (2004). Edumometrics. A discussion paper on educational evaluation and assessment for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
17. Corbett, M., Wright, A., & Monette, M. J. (2003). Visions and Learnings: Policy narrative for Nova Scotia 1990-2002. Paper prepared for the Multi-university Collaborative Research Initiative – L’évolution actuelle du personnel de l’enseignement préscolaire, primaire et secondaire. January.
18. Wright, A., Monette, M. J. Corbett, M. (2003). Newfoundland and Labrador Policy Narrative. Paper prepared for the Multi-university Collaborative Research Initiative – L’évolution actuelle du personnel de l’enseignement préscolaire, primaire et secondaire. January.
19. Wright, A., Monette, M. J. & Corbett, M. (2003). Prince Edward Island Policy Narrative. Paper prepared for the Multi-university Collaborative Research Initiative – L’évolution actuelle du personnel de l’enseignement préscolaire, primaire et secondaire. January.
20. Corbett, M. (1996). Research Report on Outcome Based Education. Halifax, NS: Nova Scotia Teachers Union Curriculum Committee.
21. Corbett, M. (1992). Dropping Out in Digby: An analysis of early school leaving in a coastal community. Digby NS: Digby District School Board.
Invited Addresses
1. Corbett, M. (2018). Attracting good people to good places and other wicked rural education problems. Keynote Address, Alberta Rural Education Symposium, Edmonton, 5-6 March.
2. Corbett, M. (2018). Rural education: From politics to ecolitics. Faculty seminar. Werklund School of Education, Calgary, 7 March.
3. Corbett, M. (2018). The challenge of reflexivity in social research. Keynote at the Acadia University Students’ Research and Innovation Conference, Wolfville, 3 March.
4. Corbett, M. (2018). Reading the Glaze Report. Presentation to the Halifax Local of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union 20 February.
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5. Corbett, M. (2017). What is research and why (I) do it. Presentation to the Honours Ceremony, School of Education, University of Tasmania, Launceston, 8 December.
6. Corbett, M. (2017). Place-based education: A critical appraisal from a rural perspective. Disentangling Rural Education, Think Tank, University of Calgary, 22 September.
7. Corbett, M. (2017). A community learning hub for rural Tasmania. Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, Horizon Series Talk, 6 June.
8. Corbett, M. (2017). Rural education: Myths, challenges and opportunities. Professorial lecture, University of Tasmania, 22 March.
9. Corbett, M. (2015). Improvisations and unanticipated outcomes in the global countryside. Keynote Address for the Summer Institute, School of Education, Acadia University, 9 July.
10. Corbett, M (2015). Complex education policy ecologies beyond the metropolis: Wicked problems in rural social space. Faculty of Education Colloquium, University of Oregon, 9 June.
11. Corbett, M. (2015). Small schools, big problems. Keynote address at the Nova Scotia Small Schools Initiative Summit, River John, NS, 30 May.
12. Corbett, M. (2014). Response to John’s Smyth, Peter McInerney and Barry Down’s, Doing Critical Educational Research, Federation University, Australia, 24 November
13. Corbett, M. (2014). Toward a complex rural education conversation: The polyopticon. Rural Education Seminar, University of Tromsø, Tromsø , Norway, 28 October.
14. Corbett, M. (2014). Wicked problems in rural education: Where do we solve them? Research seminar, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia, 4 June 2014.
15. Corbett, M. (2014). Theorizing rural third space: Toward a translocal rural education. Rural Education Research Seminar, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 7 May.
16. Corbett, M. and Shields R. (2013). Socioeconomic diversity and schools. Presentation to the Respect for Diversity seminar series, Horton High School, Greenwich, NS, 21 November.
17. Corbett, M. (2013). What a socialist education might look like today: From the coal face to facebook. The 15th annual J.B. MacLaughlin Memorial Lecture, Cape Breton University, 30 October.
18. Corbett, M. (2013). Toward sensible policy for small rural schools in Nova Scotia. Presentation to the 2nd annual Small Schools Summit, Truro, NS 8 June.
19. Corbett, M. (2013). Educational achievement and rurality: Not the story you might expect, Flinders University Departmental Faculty Seminar, Adelaide Australia, 2 April.
20. Corbett, M. (2013). Methodological issues for educational research in rural and remote communities, Graduate seminar, Flinders University, Adelaide Australia, 2 April.
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21. Corbett, M. (2013). Toward a rural sociological imagination. Seminar presented at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia, 25 March.
22. Corbett, M. (2013). What is the good news in Learning to Leave? Seminar presented at Monash University Gippsland campus, Australia, 19 March.
23. Corbett, M. (2013). An improvised curriculum: Working in the tensions between standardization and creativity. Keynote address, ISFIRE 3, Perth, Au., 13 February.
24. Corbett, M. (2012). Socioeconomic diversity and schooling. Presentation at Horton High School, 8 October.
25. Corbett, M. (2012). Place, schooling and mobility: The rural Canadian experience. Education Departmental Seminar, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, 12 September.
26. Corbett, M. (2012). Globalization and rural schools. Doctoral Research Symposium, UPEI, 27 March.
27. Corbett, M. (2012). All aboard the magic school bus: Is it possible to reorient the small schools debate? Keynote address at Small Schools Summit, Bridgewater, NS. 19 January.
28. Corbett, M. (2011). Rural Education and the PISA: What the Periphery Might Have to Teach the Metropolis, Keynote address, Challenges and solutions connected to education in rural areas, University of Tromsø, 23 October.
29. Corbett, M. (2011). How Can Theory Make Me a Better Teacher?: Educational Thought and Place-sensitive Education, University of Tromsø , 24 October.
30. Corbett, M. (2011). The small school in a big box world: Why Alberta and Ontario should emulate Nova Scotia. Keynote address, Small Communities Research Workshop, Mount Allison University, 23 September.
31. Corbett, M. (2011). Introduction of Paul Bennett at book launch for Vanishing schools threatened communities, Dartmouth NS, 4 May.
32. Corbett, M. (2011). Can we define what rural is anymore? Mount Allison University, 25 April.
33. Corbett, M. (2011). Yes, they are heading for the cities; but is there anything we can do? Keynote address CESA conference on rural education, Wausau Wisconsin, 16 February.
34. Corbett, M. (2011). The Canadian rural education policy landscape. Keynote address at the International Symposium for Innovation in Rural Education, Guanzhou South Korea, 10 February.
35. Corbett, M. (2011). Putting Mathematics in its Place. Presentation to the Appalachian Collaborative Centre for Learning, Assessment and Instruction, Los Angeles, 26 January.
36. Corbett, M. (2010). Learning to Leave, Learning to Stay, Learning to Return: Enhancing Education Opportunities for Young People in Maritime Communities. Conference at Seven Days Work Institute, Grand Manan, 28-29 August.
37. Corbett, M. (2010). The REAL network: Toward an international rural literacies collective. Seminar at the University of Oulu, Finland, 21 July.
38. Corbett, M. (2010). The battle to save small schools: Some practical advice.
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Address to Concerned Parents Group, Antigonish Nova Scotia, 23 April.39. Corbett, M. (2010). Rural youth migration and education. Youth Research
Symposium: A Dialogue between Stakeholders and Researchers, Moncton NB, 4-5 March.
40. Corbett, M. (2010). On the horns of a dilemma: Two big stories in rural education. Keynote address, rural education conference. Wausau, Wisconsin. 18 February (cancelled due to weather)
41. Corbett, M (2010). Comfort and racism in rural Nova Scotia, Workshop with Community Connections – AVRSB administrators, 26 January.
42. Corbett, M. (2009). What educational policy might look like if rural communities mattered. Address delivered to NSCC staff Middleton Campus, 26 November.
43. Corbett, M. (2009). Thinking about rural space. Address at Mersey-Tobiatic Research Institute. 6 August.
44. Corbett, M. (2009). When school doesn’t work: Resistances and rural space. University of Oulu Finland, May 11.
45. Corbett, M. (2009). What good is theory to me?: Becoming a rural teacher. University of Oulu, Finland, 12 May.
46. Corbett, M. (2009). Rural schooling in an urban world. “Life in Place” research workshop, Raattama, Kittila, Finland, May 7.
47. Corbett, M. (2009). Methodological issues in community ethnography. Online presentation to The Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 21 April.
48. Corbett, M. (2009). Video and literacy: Some lessons from a project in rural Canada. The School of Teacher Education Research and Scholarship Seminar, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst NSW, 30 March.
49. Corbett, M. (2009). A lens on school: Theorizing film-making as a new literacy. Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 23 February.
50. Corbett, M. (2009). Video ensemble Process: What does it look like? University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, 17 February.
51. Corbett, M. (2008). A lens on place: Place based education in a Canadian rural community. Buffalo State College, Buffalo NY, 5 November.
52. Corbett, M. (2008). Answering my sister's question: The critical importance of education for diversity in those spaces where we think we are all the same. Mississippi State College, Jackson MS, 8 May.
53. Corbett, M. (2008) Rural education in Canada: Toward a policy landscape, Presentation to the School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, 1 April.
54. Corbett, M. (2008). If we don’t teach them to leave, what do we teach them? Presentation to the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, 31 March.
55. Corbett, M. (2008). Learning to Leave, a view from the east. University of Saskatchewan, 29 March.
56. Corbett, M. (2008). Mobility in my blood. Mt. Allison University, 14 March.57. Corbett, M. (2007). Changing places, changing spaces: Globalization, rural
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transformations, mobility and ambivalence in youth educational decision making. Address the Workshop on Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 6 November,.
58. Corbett, M. (2007). Some critical reflections on literacy and illiteracy. International Day for Literacy keynote address, Acadia University, 10 September.
59. Corbett, M. (2007). The genesis of Learning to Leave. Book talk, Amherst Regional Library, 12 June.
60. Corbett, M. (2007). Learning to leave and leaving to learn. Community book talk #1, Admiral Digby Museum, 31 May.
61. Corbett, M. (2007). What I think this book is about: The book review I would write. Book launch address, Acadia University, 25 April.
62. Corbett, M. (2007). Efficiency, democracy and inclusive education. Address the the annual policy convention of the Nova Scotia PC Party, Halifax, NS, 12 February.
63. Corbett, M. (2006). Small Schools in Rural Communities. Presentation to the Chignecto Central Regional School Board. Truro NS, 5 April.
64. Corbett, M. (2006). The small rural schools study. Presentation to the Municipal Council of Cumberland County, Amherst NS, 20 March.
65. Corbett, M. (2005). Some policy implications of the Learning to Leave thesis. Presentation Education Alternatives: Prince County Post-Secondary Education Initiative. Summerside PEI, 27 October.
66. Corbett, M. (2005). What kind of an act is teaching? Address to the B.Ed. graduation dinner. 16 February.
67. Corbett, M. (2004). Do high stakes tests contribute to the quality of public education? An address presented to Coming together: Collaboration and quality public education, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, Halifax, NS, 18 November.
68. Corbett, M. (2004). Where I belong: Socio-spatial identity in a coastal community. Presentation to the Tri-County District School Board, 5 May.
69. Corbett, M. (2004). Data stories for a postmodern world. Presentation to the Annual Conference of the NS Educational Leadership Consortium, 29 April.
70. Corbett, M. (2003). Educating the country out of the child and educating the child out of the country. Address to the N.S. Educational Leadership Consortium, 1 December.
71. Corbett, M. (2003). Knowing a duck from a goose in an age of smoke and mirrors: Education in the real world. Address to the annual conference of the Nova Scotia School Board Association, Smith’s Cove, NS, 6 June.
Newspaper Articles/Op-Ed Pieces
1. Corbett, M. (2018). What crisis?: Nova Scotia students do very well, Halifax Chronicle Herald, 10 February.
2. Corbett, M. (2015). Hub schools sabotaged: Tough luck if you live in rural Nova Scotia. Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald, 16 June.
3. Corbett, M. (2015). Counting things but not things that really count, Hobart
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Mercury, 6 June. 4. Corbett, M. (2015). Background has little impact on university performance: New
study bucks the trend. Op-ed. Launceston Examiner, 11 April.5. Corbett, M. and Helmer, L. (2015). Hub schools: Education brass must join cause,
Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald, 18 March. http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1275191-hub-schools-education-brass-must-join-cause
6. Corbett, M. (2014). Culturally speaking we are still a closed shop, Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald, 19 February.
7. Corbett, M. (2012). Crackpot realism: Is Nova Scotia destined to run out of children. Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald, 25 October.
8. Corbett, M. (2012). Harbingers of spring. Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald, 28 March.
9. Corbett, M. (2012). Fixing the house. Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald, 13 March.
10. Corbett, M. (2011). A scholarly look at Nova Scotia's educational history, Halifax Chronicle Herald. 30 July.
11. Corbett, M. (2008). Educational scoring system flawed; GPI yardstick a far better measure, Halifax Chronicle Herald. 15 March.
12. Corbett, M. (2007). A lesson in arithmetic, Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald. 14 Nov.
13. Corbett, M. (2007). The educational equivalent of the War Measures Act, Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald. 9 January.
14. Corbett, M. (2005). Literacy: Choice not control, key. Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald. 12 May.
15. Corbett, M. (2004). The Learning Tower of PISA. Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald. 4 December.
Republished by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives at http://www.policyalternatives.ca/index.cfm?act=news&call=995&do=article&pA=BB736455)
16. Corbett, M. (2002). Quarry in the wrong place. Op-ed. Halifax Chronicle Herald. 4 August.
Newspaper Interviews
1. Baker-Dowell, J. (2017). Education, agriculture, tourism builds Tasmania’s communities, The Advocate, 18 May. (Reprinted in the Launceston Examiner)
2. Beniuk, D. (2015). Tasmania’s colleges are failing and our children are being left behind. Sunday Tasmanian, 13 December.
3. Bird, I. (2015). 4. Beniuk, D (2015). Experts urge state government to ‘get it right’ on Year 11 and
12 education, Hobart Mercury, 8 February.5. Lambie, C. (2012). Interview on open school boundaries conducted 3 August,
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Halifax Chronicle Herald Magazine, Forthcoming - September.6. Jacobs, A. (2012). University professor touts small schools as centre of
community, South Shore Now, 2 February.7. Hare, B. (2012). Decision of fired school board could affect funding, Halifax
Chronicle Herald, 25 January.8. Beswick, A. (2011). Parents urge Strait Board to keep three small schools, Halifax
Chronicle Herald, 3 March.9. LeBlanc, C. (2010). Small schools beneficial, Antigonish Casket, 25 April 2010.10. Proudfoot, S. (2009). Goodbye small town North America, CanWest News
Services, Vancouver Sun, Regina Leader-Post, Ottawa Citizen, 11 October.11. Lipscombe, K. (2008). School board quitting NS association, Halifax Chronicle
Herald, 21 December. This interview was also quoted in the Cape Breton Post, 5 January.
12. Lipscombe, K. (2007). An all-boys school for Halifax, Halifax Chronicle Herald, 8 December.
13. Kellner, J. (2007). Issues in outmigration from Atlantic Canada. Canadian Press Wire Service, 7 December.
14. Lipscombe, K. (2007). Schools teach children ‘to leave’ their communitiesProf’s book is a case study of education in Digby Neck, Halifax Chronicle Herald, 23 June.
15. Moreira, C. (2007). Rural kids not learning to stay: Author says we’re teaching children ‘road out of town route to success’, Halifax Chronicle Herald, 19 June.
16. Toal, K. (2007). Rural education failing students, Bedford Sackville Daily News, 9 August. http://www.bedfordsackvillenews.ca/index.cfm?sid=52754&sc=218
17. Meek, J. (2007). The battle of Digby Neck: Quarry plan pits neighbour against neighbour, Halifax Chronicle Herald, 15 June.
18. Starratt, K. (2007). ‘Failure’ of rural living, Kentville Advertiser, 10 May.19. Conrad, R. (2007). Halifax’s one-man school board ready for his first test. Halifax
Chronicle Herald, 30 January.20. Conrad, R. (2005). Studying solutions. Halifax Chronicle Herald, 24 April.21. Conrad, R. (2005). The real pluses and minuses of standardized tests. Halifax
Chronicle Herald, 19 April.22. Nicoll, C. (2004). The kids are OK. Halifax Daily News, 9 December.23. Nicoll, C. (2004). Standard tests no real measure, conference told. Halifax Daily
News, 19 November.24. MacDonald, J. (2004). The struggle to stay at home. Digby Courier, 9 June.
Radio Interviews
1. Corbett, M, Yee, J. and Murphy, T. (2018). Interview on Bill 72, The Education Reform Act. CBC Mainstreet, 9 March.
2. Corbett, M. and MacLeod, N. (2018). Interview on the Glaze Report on school
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restructuring. CBC Information Morning, 28 February.3. Corbett, M. and Laroche, J. (2018). School boundaries, school choice and
standardized testing, CBC Radio, 16 January.4. Corbett, M. and Massouh, F. (2017). Community connections and rural education.
ABC Evenings, Hobart, Tasmania, 14 June. https://soundcloud.com/user-706320894/abc-radio-hobart-michael-corbett-rural-education
5. Corbett, M. & Mason, A. (2015). What is behind the teachers’ contract settlement? CBC Mainstreet, Halifax NS.
6. Corbett, M. & Helmer, L. (2015). Small rural school closures interview. The Sheldon MacLeod Show, News 95.7 Talk Radio, Halifax NS, 27 August.
7. Corbett, M., Burrard, R. & Connoly, D. (2014). Interview on teacher certification in Nova Scotia. CBC Information Morning, Halifax NS, 19 March.
8. Corbett, M. & Embree, L. (2013). Why bother with the school review meetings? CFTN, Amherst NS, 17 January.
9. Corbett M. and Lee, T. (2013). Active learning. Giant FM 101.9, Sydney NS, 31 October.
10. Corbett, M. & Bergfeldt, W. (2013). Is a socialist education possible today? CBC Mainstreet, Sydney NS, 29 October.
11. Corbett, M. & Puckett, D. (2012). Why school board elections matter. CBC Information Morning, 19 October.
12. Corbett, M. & others with Connelly D. (2011). Education Panel, CBC Information Morning, Halifax NS.
13. Corbett, M. & Rogers, S. (2007). Learning to Leave. Sounds like Canada, CBC Radio 1 (national broadcast), 26 November.
14. Corbett, M. & Halavresos, C. (2007). Do schools teach rural youth that they must abandon their communities in order to be a success? CBC Maritime Noon, Halifax, NS, 26 April.
15. Corbett, M. & Looker, D. (2007). Teaching teachers to teach with technology. Wolfville Community Radio, Accessed on 14 April: http://ryakuga.mypodcast.com/rss.xml
16. Corbett, M. & Klassen, C. (2005). CBC Mainstreet interview analyzing the provincial budget, Halifax, 26 April.
Poetry
1. Corbett, M. (2006). Your cheese and salami sandwich, The English Journal, 95(6), 100.
2. Corbett, M. (2005). An atheist mourns. The Antigonish Review, (141/142), 194-195.
Film, Music and Visual Art
1. Corbett, M. (2015). Being Human: The Legacy of John Sumarah (film).
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2. Corbett, M. (2014). Places in Time (album – original music)3. Corbett, M. (2013). Across the Nullarbour from Cook. A music video.4. Corbett, M. with Wilson, T. (2011). Putting Mathematics Education it’s Place: In
Conversation with David Reid & Christine Knipping (film).5. Corbett, M. (2004 and 2008). Exhibit of work in the 17th Acadia Art Exhibition.6. Corbett, M. (2005). The Reluctant Millionaire (film).
Editorial/Peer Review Book Series Editor
1. Current Research in Rural and Regional Education, Information Age Press. 2015
Guest Editorship of Academic Journals
1. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, Special issue on education in rural Tasmania, 2017.
2. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Special Issue on small rural schools, 2014.
Editorial boards
1. Editorial Board, Journal for Research in Rural Education, 2007-present2. Editorial Board, Open Education Journal, 2007-present3. Consulting Editor, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2009-present4. Contributing Editor, Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2007-
present5. Editorial Advisory Board, Our schools/Ourselves, 2005-present6. Editorial Review Board, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012-
Peer review for scholarly journals
7. Reviewer, Journal of Youth Studies, 2017-present8. Reviewer, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017-present9. Reviewer, European Educational Research Journal, 2017-present 10. Reviewer, Sociologia Ruralis, 2017-present11. Reviewer, Equity and Excellence in Education, 2016-present12. Reviewer, Australian Journal of Education, 2016-present13. Reviewer, South African Journal of Education, 2016-present14. Reviewer, Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2015-present15. Reviewer, Radical Pedagogy, 2015-present
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16. Reviewer, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015-present17. Reviewer, Ethnography and Education, 2015-present18. Reviewer, Northeastern Geographer, 2015-present19. Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, 2014-present20. Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2012-present21. Reviewer, Journal of Peace Studies, 2012-present22. Reviewer, Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2012-present23. Reviewer, Journal of African Studies and Development, 2012-present24. Reviewer, Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2012- 25. Reviewer, Journal of Educational Administration and Foundations, 2011-present26. Reviewer, British Journal of Sociology, 2011- present27. Reviewer, TESL Canada, 2011- present28. Reviewer, Perspectives in Education, 2011- present29. Reviewer, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011-present30. Reviewer, Rural Sociology, 2010- present31. Reviewer, Qualitative Research, 2010-present32. Reviewer, Teaching Education, 2009-present33. Reviewer, Population Studies, 2009- present34. Reviewer, Teaching and Teacher Education, 2009-present35. Reviewer, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 2008-present36. Reviewer, Journal of Rural Studies, 2007-present37. Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2007-
present38. Reviewer, Canadian Review of Sociology, 2007-present39. Reviewer, Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2006-present40. Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Education, 2004-present41. Reviewer, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2004-present
Book reviews for academic publishers
42. Reviewer, Australian Association for Research in Education, 2014.43. Reviewer, Springer, Press, 201144. Reviewer, Routledge Falmer, 2010-1245. Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 201046. Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 200847. Reviewer, Pearson Publishing, 2008
Conference proposal review
48. Program co-chair, Rural Education SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2013-14
49. Proposal reviewer, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, 2007-present50. Proposal reviewer, American Educational Research Association, 2007-present
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51. Proposal reviewer, Australian Association for Research in Education, 200552. Proposal reviewer and Convenor, Network 14, European Educational Research
Association, 2011-present53. Proposal reviewer, Innovations in Rural Education Conference (ISFIRE), 201254. Proposal reviewer, SPERA/ISFIRE, 2016
Research Adjudication with National Granting Bodies
1. SSHRC, Insight Grant Evaluator, 2015-16.2. SSHRC Insight Grant Committee Member (Committee 5), 2013-2014.3. SSHRC Insight Grant Evaluator, 2012-134. SSHRC Standard Research Grant Committee Member, Interdisciplinary, 2011-125. SSHRC Standard Research Grant Member (Committee 17), 2010-116. SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Clusters Program Grant Evaluator, 2007-087. SSHRC Committee 4, Doctoral Fellowships Pre-selection Committee (Member
and Chair), 2006-2007 8. SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships Pre-selection Committee Member, 2005-20069. SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships Pre-selection Committee Member, 2004-200510. SSHRC Standard Research Grant Evaluator, 2004-2008
External Promotion Review
As an external reviewer, I have evaluated tenure and promotion dossiers for ten (10) academics from universities in Canada, the United States and Australia.
Other Peer Review
1. Chair, Dissertation of the Year Committee, Rural Education SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2016-2017.
2. Assessment Team Member, Review of Graduate Programs, Faculty of Education, Brock University, 2014.
3. Selection of Editor. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2014.
4. Proposal Reviewer. United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture Small Business Innovation Research Program, Rural and Community Development, 2013
5. Assessor. Ohio University Baker Fund Research Award, 20136. Assessor. Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, Faculty Teaching Award,
2012.
Hosting of Visiting Scholars
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1. Professor Paul Theobald, Buffalo State College, USA. November 2005.2. Professor Bill Green, Charles Sturt University, Australia. May 2010.3. Dr. Pam Bartholomaeus, Flinders University, Australia. September-October 2011.4. Professor Gry Paulgaard, Dr. Andrew Kristianson, and Professor Unn-Doris
Baeck, University of Tromsø, November 2013.5. Professor Unn-Doris Baeck, University of Tromsø, Norway. March-April, 2014.6. Professor Unn-Doris Baeck, University of Tromsø, Norway. October, 2014.7. Professor Marc Shell, Harvard University, USA. October, 2014.8. Professor Bill Green, Charles Sturt University, February 2015.9. Associate Professor Matt Sanderson, Kansas State University, March 2015.10. Professor Simone White, Monash University, May 2016.11. Professor Unn-Doris Baeck, University of Tromsø, September 2016-July 2017.12. Professor Kim Donehower, University of North Dakota, March-April, 2017.
Service
University and Inter-university Committees1. Selection Committee, Graeme Foster Scholarship in Education, University of
Tasmania, 2017.2. Academic Promotions Committee, University of Tasmania, 2016-20173. Standing Academic Committee, University Senate, University of Tasmania,
2016-174. University Senate, University of Tasmania, 2015-175. University Senate, Acadia University, January- July 2014 (replacement)6. Students With Disabilities That Affect Learning Committee, January- July 2014
(replacement)7. University Review Committee, 2013-148. University Review Committee, 2011-129. Acadia Graduate Awards Committee, 2011-10. Graduate Committee, 2011-11. Interuniversity Committee on Teacher Education, 2011-12. Interuniversity Doctoral Administrative Committee, 2011-13. SSHRC Graduate Scholarship Adjudication Committee, 2011-14. University Planning Committee, 2010-15. Senate Nominating Committee, 2010-2013 (Chair, 2011-12)16. Students With Disabilities That Affect Learning Committee, 2010-12
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17. University Senate, 2009-201218. DRC Cognate, Department of English, 2009-201019. Article 25.55 Committee, 2007-0820. Departmental Review Team (Psychology), 2007 21. Committee on Research Excellence, 2006-200822. Institute for Civic Engagement, Planning Committee, 2005-0623. University Research Plan Special Committee, 200524. Curriculum Committee, 2002-200425. Article 25.55 Committee, 2003-200426. SSHRCC Special Institutional Grant Adjudication Committee, 2003-0427. SSHRCC Aid to Small Universities Grant Adjudication Committee, 2003-04
Departmental and Faculty Committees (Acadia University)1. MEd Admissions, School of Education, 2011-2. Departmental Review Committee, 20123. B. Ed. Admissions Committee (Chair), 2009-20114. Departmental Hiring Committee, 2006-075. Advisor, Education Society, 2005-086. Scholarship Committee, 2004-067. Practicum Review Committee, 2005-068. B.Ed. Program Committee, 2005-069. Field Experience Committee, 2005-0610. Program Planning Committee, 2005-0611. McConnell Foundation Project Team Leader, 2003-2006
Departmental and Faculty Committees (University of Tasmania)1. Faculty Management Team, 2016-172. Faculty Board Chair, Faculty of Education, 2015-17
Acadia University Faculty Association Committees1. Member of the Negotiating Team for the 12th Collective Agreement, 2006-20072. Member of the pre-Negotiation Committee on Working Conditions, 2006-20073. Member of the Negotiating Team for the 14th Collective Agreement, 2013-20144. Member of the pre-Negotiation Committee on Academic Renewal, Tenure and
Promotions, 2013-2014
American Educational Research Association1. President, Rural Education Special Interest Group, 2014-2017.
Canadian Society for the Study of Education1. President, Socinet, Canadian Association for the Foundations of Education, 2010-
2015.
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Community and Professional Liaison Activity1. Tasmanian Agricultural Education Teachers Network, University liaison, 2016-172. Nova Scotia Educational Leadership Consortium, Program Committee, 2013-153. Advisor to the committee on the future of the Lunenburg Academy, 20114. Consultant to the Antigonish County Save our Schools Committee, 20105. Community celebration for Kings County Academy, November 20096. Advisor to the Argyle Community Action Group in Defence of Small Schools,
Argyle Manitoba, 20087. Nova Scotia Department of Education- University Liaison Committee on
Language Arts curriculum, 2006-088. Witness/Expert Presenter, Government of Canada, Environmental Protection
Agency Hearings, White’s Cove Marine Terminal Project, 2006-20079. Consultant, Municipality of the County of Cumberland, Amherst, NS, 2005-0610. Advisor to Education Alternatives: Prince County Post-Secondary Education
Initiative, Summerside PEI, 2005-0611. Co-organizer, One day conference entitled: Education beyond the city: Does
rurality matter? March 23, 200512. Consultant, Little River Citizen’s Group (White’s Cove Marine Terminal Project),
2004-200713. Nova Scotia Department of Education, Consultation for Learning for Life II,
2004-0514. Nova Scotia Department of Education- University Liaison Committee on
Language Arts curriculum, 2002-200415. Bay of Fundy Marine Resource Centre, Fishermen’s Study Group, 2004-200616. Research Associate, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2003- present17. Co-organizer, One-day conference. The Centre for Rural Education and
Sustainability: An exploratory workshop, November, 200318. Nova Scotia Department of Education, Elementary Language Arts Assessment
consultation group, April, 200319. Dean’s Forum, Atlantic Provinces Educational Foundation university liaison
group, February, 2003
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