Jo-Anne Dillabough
A ssociate Professor
Office: Ponderosa G 13
Phone: 604-822-4504
Fax: 604-822-4244
Email: jdillabo@interchange.ubc.ca

Areas of Interest
Research Activities
Awards
Publications

Areas of Interest

Social Exclusion and Education
Youth Culture
Teenage
Youth Homelessness
Race, gender, class
Critical legal studies and feminist theory
Policy studies
Sociology of education
social and cultural theory
Gender
Culture and international human rights issues

Research Activities

1. To assess and critique education policies which have been designed to address the educational and social needs of economically disadvantaged male and female youth attending diverse secondary school programs in BC and Ontario, Canada;

2. Comparatively to assess the cultural experiences of schooling, school exclusions and broader socio-cultural experiences of three distinctive group of economically disadvantaged male and female youth (homeless youth, youth living in public housing, and immigrant and refugee youth), together with their parents and teachers;

3. To assess the part played by school culture, by social change and by teachers, in the social reproduction of youth culture(s) in relation to issues of identity, culture and change;

4. To explore the ways in which diverse female and male youth are represented in history and contemporary aspects of society through media ('street homelessness'), education and public source documentation (e.g., legal documents) across diverse social and geographical spaces in Canadian cities.

5. To illuminate, through the key concept of difference/social positioning, the expressed educational and social needs of Canadian youth and the associated implications for future policy development. The research project is intended to build on our current knowledge of the relationship between youth cultures), economic disadvantage and social/cultural exclusion.

Awards

SSHRC Research Grant: Social Exclusion and Economically, Disadvantaged Youth in Canadian Schools

Spencer Foundation Grant: The Representation of Social Justice and Citizenship in Teacher Education

Recently Published Work

Halsey, A.E., Lauder, H., Brown, P., & Dillabough, J. (forthcoming). Education, Culture and Society (eds). Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK

Dillabough, J. (in press). Class, Culture and the 'Predicaments of Masculine Domination': Pierre Bourdieu's Encounter with Contemporary feminist Sociology. Special Issue of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Dillabough, J. & Van Der Meulen, A. (forthcoming). Representing Female Teenage Youth Homelessness in Urban Canada. In A. Datta (Ed), Poverty and Architectural Space.

Dillabough, J. & Acker, S. (in press). Gender in Operation in Teacher Education: History, society and Global Reform. Critical Studies in Teacher Education.

Dillabough, J. (2003). Gender, Education, andd Society: The Limits and Possibilities of Feminist Reproduction Theory. Sociology of Education, 76 (4), 376-379.

Dillabough, J. (2002). The Hidden Injuries of Critical Pedagogy. Curriculum Inquiry. 32(2), 203-214.

Dillabough, J. (2002). Gender Equity in Education: modernist Traditions and Emerging Contemporary Themes. In B. Francis & C. Skeleton (eds.), Investigating Gender: Perspectives in Education, Open University Press: Milton Keynes.

Dillabough, J. & Arnot, M. (2002), Recasting Educational Debates about Female Citizenship, Agency and Identity. SchoolField Journal, 13(3.4), 61-90.

Dillabough, J. & Acker, S. (2002). Globalization, Women's Work and Teacher Education: A Cross-National analysis. International Studies in the Sociology of Education, 12(3), 227-260.

Dillabough, J. & Arnot, M. (2002). Feminist perspectives in sociology of education: Continuity and transformation in the field. In D. Levinson, R. Sadovnik and P. Cookson (eds.), Sociology of Education: An Encyclopedia. New York: Taylor and Francis.

Dillabough, J. & Arnot, M. (2001). Feminist Sociology of Education: Dynamics, debates, directions. In J. Demaine's (ed.), Sociology of Education today. London: MacMillan.

Arnot, J. & Dillabough, J. (2000). Eds. Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship. London: RoutledgeFalmer.

Arnot, M. & Dillabough, J. (2000). Feminist politics and democratic values in education [reprinted from Curriculum Inquiry, 1999, 29:2, 159-189]. In S. Ball's (Ed.) Major Writings in the Sociology of Education. London: RoutledgeFalmer.

Dillabough, J. (1999). Gender Politics and Conceptions of the Modern Teacher: Women, Identity and Professionalism. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20(3), 373-394.

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