Kristina R. Llewellyn

Associate Professor, Department of Social Development Studies Renison University College, University of Waterloo

  • Waterloo ON

Professor Llewellyn studies the Education, History, and Equity.

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Biography

Dr. Llewellyn has broken new ground internationally in the study of oral history, history education, citizenship education, and the history of education. In 2012, she authored Democracy’s Angels: The Work of Women Teachers. The Canadian Oral History Reader, which she co-edited and published in 2015, is the first primer on oral history scholarship ever produced in Canada. Oral History and Education: Theories Dilemmas and Practices, published in 2017, is the first comprehensive assessment of oral history education within 21st century schooling. She is the author of dozens of award-winning journal articles and book chapters; an impressive volume for an early-career scholar in history and education. Now an Associate Professor of Social Development Studies, she has spoken at more than 20 national and international conferences, including several invited keynotes. She recently served as President of the Canadian History of Education Association and an advisor for the national traveling museum exhibit Trailblazing Women in Canada. Dr. Llewellyn is the Principal Investigator of the SSHRC project Citizens of the World: Youth, Global Citizenship, and the Model United Nations. She is also the Director of the SSHRC project Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation. This project creates virtual reality oral histories with former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children to assess how virtual storytelling may redress historical harms with youth in schools.

Areas of Expertise

Virtual Reality Storytelling
History of Education
History Education
Oral History
Citizenship Education
Women's History

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

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Education

Queen’s University

B.A.

1999

Queen’s University

B.Ed.

Concurrent Education

2000

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

M.A.

Theory and Policy Studies in Education

2002

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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
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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."...

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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...

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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...

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Event Appearances

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

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. (July 2015). Oral History and Peace Education

Program in Education, Duke University  Oral Histories in Education (CULANTH 290S.01)

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Articles

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.]

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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, and A. Molina. (2010). Civic Learning: Moving from the Apolitical to the Socially Just.

Journal of Curriculum Studies 42 (6)

791-812.

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