Kristina R. Llewellyn
Associate Professor, Department of Social Development Studies Renison University College, University of Waterloo
Media
Social
Biography
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Partnership Development Grant, SSHRCC, Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation: The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children History Education Initiative
2016 - 2019
Bob Harding and Lois Claxton Humanities and Social Sciences Endowment Fund Fellowship, University of Waterloo
2016 - 2017
Short-Term Scholarly Events Grant, Canadian Society for the Study of Education
2016
UBC Education’s 100, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia
2015
Marion Dewar Award, National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation & Dissemination of Women's History
2015
Connection Grant, SSHRCC, Oral History and Education: International Workshop
2015
Small Projects Grant, The History Education Network (THEN/HiER)
2014
Renison Research Grant, Renison University College, University of Waterloo
2013 and 2014
Sanford Riley Fellow in Canadian History, University of Winnipeg
2012
Outstanding Publication in Curriculum Studies, Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies
2012
Aid to Scholarly Publications Program Grant, SSHRCC
2011
Standard Research Grant, SSHRCC
2010 - 2013, extended to 2016
Education
University of Ottawa
Post-Doctorate, Faculty of Education
2008
University of British Columbia
Ph.D.
Educational Studies
2006
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
M.A.
Theory and Policy Studies in Education
2002
Queen’s University
B.Ed.
Concurrent Education
2000
Queen’s University
B.A.
1999
Affiliations
- Associate Member : Department of Sociology, University of Waterloo
- Associate Member : Women’s Studies Program, University of Waterloo
- Past President : Canadian History of Education Association (CHEA)
- Editorial Board : Oral History Forum/d’histoire orale
- Research Associate : Making History: Narrative and Collective Memory in Education, University of Ottawa
- Director : Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation (DOHR): The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children History Education Initiative
- Member : The Games Institute, University of Waterloo
Links
- University of Waterloo Faculty Profile
- Canadian History of Education / Association canadienne d'histoire de l'éducation
- Oral History Forum/d’histoire orale
- Making History: Narrative and Collective Memory in Education, University of Ottawa
- Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation (DOHR): The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children History Education Initiative
Media Appearances
Virtual reality a 'teacher's dream' but high cost keeps it largely out of schools
CBC News
2017-06-19
And Kristina Llewellyn, a professor at the University of Waterloo and faculty member at The Games Institute is working on a $500,000 dollar VR project for Nova Scotia high school students — dubbed the Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation (DOHR) project.
"There's great criticism about VR and technology generally for education, that it is about disconnection and a lack of communication skills for young people," she said. "This is meant to do the opposite."...
Some Truth and Reconciliation Recommendations More Easily Enacted Than Others
Yahoo! News
2015-12-18
“They cover everything from child welfare and education to a national centre of reconciliation, which has already been established, and work in the justice system,” Kristina Llewellyn, an associate professor of social development studies at University of Waterloo, tells Yahoo Canada News...
Reconciliation: Healing the Nation
BBC News
2015-11-22
With the recent election of a new, Liberal government, the issue of reconciliation between Canada's indigenous peoples and the rest of the population is again high on the agenda. So what is the best way to atone for the wrongdoings of the past? The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Kristina Llewellyn, professor of Social Development studies at the University of Waterloo; and Torsten Klengel, a German psychiatrist and geneticist now based at Harvard Medical School in the USA offer their views to Bridget Kendall and the Spur Festival audience at the National Gallery in Ottawa...
Education Must Follow Reconciliation Commission, UW Prof Says
The Record
2015-06-05
It's now time to educate our children, says University of Waterloo associate professor and oral history expert Kristina Llewellyn.
That's one important way she believes aboriginals and non-aboriginals can go forward in the wake of the commission's findings and recommendations regarding "cultural genocide" spanning 130 years.
"We're trying to figure out a way in which this historical legacy of trauma can be addressed with our youngest generation," said Llewellyn, the president of the Canadian History of Education Association, who attended a few commission events in Ottawa...
Event Appearances
Llewellyn, K. (June 2016). Restorative Approaches to Education: Beyond Discipline
Halifax, Nova Scotia Presented at Exploring Possibilities: A Restorative Approach to Climate and Culture in Education, Workplaces and Professions
Llewellyn, K. (May 2016). Community, Cosmopolitanism, and Creativity: On the Mobility of Shared Time and Curricular Conversation
Presidential Panel for the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies University of Calgary
Llewellyn, K. (May 2016). What is ‘Good’ Feminist Oral History: Truth, Language, and Identity
Centre for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC) Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Llewellyn, K. (April 2016). What is ‘Good’ Feminist Oral History: Truth, Language, and Identity
Department of History, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Llewellyn, K. (May 2016). Back to the Future: The Political Power of Oral History Education
Brazilian Oral History Association Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Llewellyn, K. (April 2016). The Oral History Education Project
Governor General Awards for Excellence in History Teaching Symposium Canada’s History Society, University of Ottawa
Llewellyn, K. (September 2015). Why Young People Should Tell Tales: Oral History Education and Canada’s Political Future
Centre for Oral History and Tradition University of Lethbridge
Llewellyn, K. (October 2015). Oral History in Canada, Past and Present
International Workshop on Oral History Oral History Centre, University of Winnipeg
Llewellyn, K. (September 2015). Oral History as a Feminist Encounter
Faculty Workshop for Centre for Oral History and Tradition University of Lethbridge
Llewellyn, K. (July 2015). Oral History and Peace Education
Program in Education, Duke University Oral Histories in Education (CULANTH 290S.01)
Llewellyn, K. (June 2015). Model United Nations and Global Citizenship: Character, Politics, and Currency
The UN at 70: Canadian Perspectives (Symposium) McMaster University
Llewellyn, K. (October 2012). Schooled for Democracy: The History of Education in Canada
H. Sanford Riley Fellowship in Canadian History Lecture Centre for Canadian History, University of Winnipeg
Articles
Llewellyn, K. (2017). Back to the Future: The Political Power of Oral History Education/ De volta para o Futuro: o poder político de Oral Educação História.
In M. Frotscher, L. Grinberg, e C.S. Rodeghero (Orgs.) História Oral, Práticas Educacionais e Interdisciplinaridade.São Leopoldo/RS: Editora Óikos.
Llewellyn, K. and S. Cook. (2017). Oral History as Peacebuilding Pedagogy.
In K. Llewellyn and N. Ng-A-Fook (eds.) Oral History and Education: Theories, Dilemmas, and Practices.New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Llewellyn, K. and J. Llewellyn. (2015). A Restorative Approach to Learning: Relational Theory as Feminist Pedagogy in Universities.
In T. Penny Light, J. Nicholas and R. Bondy (eds.) Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice.Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, pp.11-31.
Llewellyn, K., A. Freund, and N. Reilly. (2015). Introduction.
In K. Llewellyn, A. Freund, and N. Reilly (eds.) The Canadian Oral History Reader.Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 3-21.
Llewellyn, K. (2015). Productive Tensions: Feminist Readings of Women Teachers’ Oral Histories.
In K. Llewellyn, A. Freund, and N. Reilly (eds.) The Canadian Oral History Reader.Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 141-158.
Llewellyn, K. (2013). Teaching June Cleaver, Being Hazel Chong: An Oral History of Gender, Race, and National ‘Character.’
In C. Carstairs and N. Janovicek (eds.) Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation.Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 178-199.
Llewellyn, K. (2013). ‘Better Teachers, Biologically Speaking’: The Authority of the ‘Marrying-Kind’ of Teacher in Postwar Schools.
In P. Gentile and J. Nicholas (eds.), Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 347-367.
Kennelly, J. and K. Llewellyn. (2011). Educating for Active Compliance: Discursive Constructions in Citizenship Education.
Citizenship Studies 15 (6-7): 897-914.[Awarded the Outstanding Publication in Curriculum Studies from the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies for 2012.]
Llewellyn, K., S. Cook, and A. Molina. (2010). Civic Learning: Moving from the Apolitical to the Socially Just.
Journal of Curriculum Studies 42 (6)791-812.
Llewellyn, K. and J. Westheimer. (2009). Beyond Facts and Acts: The Implications of ‘Ordinary Politics’ for Youth Political Engagement.
Citizenship Teaching and Learning 5 (2): 50-61.[Special issue on Canadian citizenship education, guest edited by A. Sears.]
Llewellyn, K., S. Cook, J. Westheimer, A. Molina and K. Suurtamm. (2007). The State and Potential of Civic Learning in Canada. Ottawa
Canadian Policy Research Networks, pp. 1-54.[Collection of articles produced by CPRN, Lost in Translation: (Mis)Understanding Youth Engagement.]
