Recent Publications - Prof. Barbara Hunting
Prof. Barbara Hunting
Department of Sociology
Recent Conference Papers:
"Research Fields Surveyed by Gatekeepers" a paper presented at Rooms of Their Own/Des espaces bien à elles - Women and the Knowledge Economy. May 3, 2007, at the University of Edmonton for the Royal Society of Canada - The Academies of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of Canada (Based on my Master's research, I presented a paper about gate keeping within the structure of education and how the laptop research is not being written about due to the agenda of the school board. There are global and business implications that have blended themselves into the structure of education due to constrained budgets in this case creating a politics of technology).
"The Social Challenge of Laptops in the Learning Environment" a paper given at Old Kaleidoscopes, New Visions, ANSO Graduate Conference 2006, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, April 8-9, 2006
Pedagogic Workshop:
Workshop Participant: The Spirit of Inquiry - Developing Critical Thinking, Creativity and Community. Concordia University, May 14-16, 2007. I attended this conference and participated in several workshops concerning pedagogy as a guest of McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
