Office Hours
Courses Taught
Research Interests
Recent Graduate Supervision
Publications

Office Hours

By Appointment

Courses Taught

EDST 314 -	Analysis of Education
EDST 428 -	Social Foundations of Education: Gender and Education
EDST 429 -	Sociology of Education
EDST 508B	Review of Research in Educational Methods - Introduction to Qualitative REsearch
EDST 565 -	Women in Educational Organizations
EDST 576 -	Feminist Theory, Pedagogy & Curriculum
EDST 577 -	Social Context of Educational Policy
EDST 601 -	EDST 601A: First-Year Doctoral Seminar
CCFI 508A	Teaching for Social Justice: Teacher Inquiry
EDUC 504 -	Seminar in Qualitative Data Analysis

Research Interests

School Dropouts and Pushouts
Feminist Studies
Participatory Research
Sociology of Education
Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood
Educational Reform/Teaching for Social Justice
Critical Policy Studies in Education
Youth and Girlhood Studies

 

Recent Graduate Supervision

Ph.D. Students

Brooks, Mary. (2008). Making Connections: Interpersonal Violence, Women, and Learning in Graduate School.

Pomerantz, Shauna. (2005). Dressing the part: Girls, Style, and School Identities.

Orlowski, Paul. (2004). What’s ideology got to do with it? Race & class discourses in social studies education.

Dow, Martha. (2003). Educating for citizenship: Transformation and activism through reflective accountability.

Taylor, John. (2001). Educational discourses and teaching identities: An ethnography of being taught to teach.

Wang, Athena L. Y. (2001). Boys’ masculinities in play: In dialogue with anti-violence teachers and students.

Martineau, Sheila. (1999). Rewriting resilience: A critical discourse analysis of childhood resilience and the politics of teaching resilience to “kids at risk.”

Ed.D. Students

Fraser, Jean. (2007). Secondary school girls in conversation about school success: Implications for practice and policy.

Johnson, Wendy. (in process). Creating possibilities for democratic citizenship. (working title)

M.A. Students

Higginson, Stephanie. (2006). "We are not just painting our toenails and having pillow fights": Adolescent girls questioning gender and power within a secondary school setting.

Polukoshko, Jody. (2006). "It was about to change!": Articulating and contextualizing the anti-oppressive practices of new elementary educators.

Wener, Abby. (2004). Don't tell me who I am: Narratives of young women who are mothers.

MacIntosh, Lori. (2004). Queering the body['s] politic?: Gay-straight alliances, citizenship, and education.

England, Jacyntha. (2004). Histories of forgetting, geographies of remembering: Exploring processes of witnessing and performing in senior secondary humanities classroom(s).

Shearer, Andrea. (2003). A critical discourse analysis of British Columbia’s sexuality education curriculum.

White, Caroline. (2002). Re/Defining gender and sex: Education for trans, transsexual, and intersex access and inclusion to sexual assault centres and transition houses.

Hudspith, Maria. (2002). Cultures of resistance: Identity, politicization and health promotion among lesbian activists in Vancouver, B.C

Fox, Katherine Anne. (1999). Girl-to-girl bullying in early adolescence: Beyond “bully,” “victim,” “by-stander.”

Orlowski, Paul Michael. (1997). A class act: How East Vancouver working-class youth perceive racism and economic inequality.

M.Ed. Students

Ste-Croix, Christopher. (2004). Men working against sexual assault: Challenges and successes in delivering anti-sexual assault workshops in all-male peer education environments.

Mitchell, Leslie Anne Gourlay. (2002). Reaching out: Reflections on adult education theory in community outreach programs.

Negrea, Julia Ruxandra. (2001). Breaking the mold: Effective anti-sexist work with adolescent boys.

Cho, Su-Yeon Jane. (2001). Looking back: Recollections and realizations of racism in multicultural Canada.

Publications

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Authored

Kelly, Deirdre M.  Pregnant with Meaning: Teen Mothers and the Politics of Inclusive Schooling.  New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2000. 257 pp.

Kelly, Deirdre M. with Diane Purvey, Kamini Jaipal, and David Penberg. Balancing Diversity and Community: A Large, Urban High School Adopts the Mini-School Approach. Exemplary Schools Project, Case Study of Vancouver Technical Secondary School. Ottawa: Canadian Education Association, 1995. 171 pp.

Kelly, Deirdre M. Last Chance High: How Girls and Boys Drop In and Out of Alternative Schools. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. 276 pp.

Kelly, Deirdre. Hard Work, Hard Choices: A Survey of Women in St. Lucia's Export-Oriented Electronics Factories. Barbados: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1986. 127 pp.

Edited

Shamsher, Mohammed, Decker, Elaine, Brandes, Gabriella Minnes, & Kelly, Deirdre M. (Eds.). (2004). Teaching for social justice. Vancouver: British Columbia Teachers' Federation and the University of British Columbia Office of External Programs. <Simultaneously published in the on-line journal Educational Insights under the title Notes from the field: Teaching for social justice.>

Kelly, Deirdre M., and Gaskell, Jane, eds. Debating Dropouts: Critical Policy and Research Perspectives on School Leaving. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996. 222 pp.

Chapters

Currie, Dawn H., & Kelly, Deirdre M. (2008). Meanness. In Claudia A. Mitchell & Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Eds.). Girl culture: An encyclopedia (Vol. 2, pp. 426-431). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Kelly, Deirdre M., Pomerantz, Shauna, & Currie, Dawn H. (2007). “You can break so many more rules”: The identity play and work of becoming skater girls. In Michael D. Giardina & Michele K. Donnelly (Eds.), Youth culture and sport: Identity, power, and politics (113-125). New York: Routledge.

Currie, Dawn H., & Kelly, Deirdre M. (2007). Who am I? In George C. Pavlich and Myra J. Hird (Eds.). Questioning sociology: Canadian perspectives (pp. 34-55). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

Kelly, Deirdre M. (2007). Pregnant and parenting teens. In Barbara J. Bank (Ed.). Gender and education: An encyclopedia (Vol. 2, pp 779-786). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Currie, D. H., & Kelly, D. M. (2006). "I'm going to crush you like a bug": Understanding girls' agency and empowerment. In Y. Jiwani, C. Steenbergen & C. Mitchell (Eds.), Girlhood: Redefining the limits (pp. 155-172). Montréal: Black Rose Books.

Minnes Brandes, Gabriella, & Kelly, Deirdre M. (2004). "Teaching for social justice: Teachers inquire into their practice". In Mohammed Shamshear, Elaine Decker, Gabriella Minnes Brandes & Deirdre M. Kelly (Eds.), Teaching for social justice (pp. 7-20). Vancouver: British Columbia Teachers' Federation and the University of British Columbia Office of External Programs. <Simultaneously published in the on-line journal Educational Insights>

Kelly, Deirdre M. (2003). "Pregnant with meaning: Teen mothers and the politics of inclusive schooling". In Jean Barman & Mona Gleason (Eds.), Children, teachers and schools in the history of British Columbia (2nd ed., pp. 389-409). Calgary: Detselig.

Kelly, Deirdre M. "A Critical Feminist Perspective on Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood." In Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting: Social and Ethical Issues.  James Wong and David Checkland, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, pp. 52-70.

Kelly, Deirdre M. "'Choosing' the Alternative: Conflicting Missions and Constrained Choice in a Dropout Prevention Program." In Debating Dropouts: Critical Policy and Research Perspectives on School Leaving. Deirdre M. Kelly and Jane Gaskell, eds. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996, pp. 101-122.

Kelly, Deirdre M. "School Dropouts." In The International Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd edition. Torsten Husen and T. Neville Postlethwaite, eds. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994, vol. 9, pp. 5224-5228. Reprinted in The International Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education. Lawrence J. Saha, ed. Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd., forthcoming in October 1997.

Kelly, Deirdre M. "Safety Net or Safety Valve: How Choice Is Constructed in an Urban Dropout Program." In Education in Urban Areas: Cross-National Dimensions. Nelly P. Stromquist, ed. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, pp. 63-82.

Refereed Journal Articles

Kelly, Deirdre M., & Brandes, Gabriella Minnes. (2008). Equitable classroom assessment: Promoting self-development and self-determination. Interchange, 39(1). 1-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10780-008-9041-8

Currie, Dawn H., Kelly, Deirdre M., & Pomerantz, Shauna. (2007). Listening to girls: Discursive positioning and the construction of self. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 20(4), 377-400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518390601176366

Currie, Dawn H., Kelly, Deirdre M., & Pomerantz, Shauna. (2007). “The power to squash people”: Understanding girls’ social aggression. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28(1),23-37. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M.  (2007). Young mothers, agency and collective action: Issues and challenges. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 9(1), 9-19. [Download article]

Currie, Dawn H., Kelly, Deirdre M., & Pomerantz, Shauna. (2006). “The geeks shall inherit the earth”: Girls’ agency, subjectivity and empowerment. Journal of Youth Studies, 9(4). 419-437. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M., Pomerantz, Shauna, & Currie, Dawn H. (2006). “No boundaries”? Girls’ interactive, online learning about femininities. Youth & Society, 38(1), 3-28. [Download article]

Stack, Michelle, & Kelly, Deirdre M. (Eds.). (2006). Introduction to the theme issue. Canadian Journal of Education, 29(1), 1-4. [Download article]

Stack, Michelle, & Kelly, Deirdre M. (2006). Popular media, education, and resistance. Canadian Journal of Education, 29(1), 5-26. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M. (2006). Frame work: Helping youth counter their misrepresentation in media. Canadian Journal of Education, special issue on Popular media, education, and resistance, 29(1), 27-48. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M., Pomerantz, Shauna, & Currie, Dawn. (2005, September). Skater girlhood and emphasized femininity: “You can’t land an ollie properly in heels.” Gender and Education, 17(3), 129-148. [Download article]

Pomerantz, Shauna, Currie, Dawn H., & Kelly, Deirdre M. (2004). Sk8er girls: Skateboarders, girlhood and feminism in motion. Women’s Studies International Forum, 27(5/6), 547-557. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M., Brandes, Gabriella Minnes, & Orlowski, Paul. (2003-2004). Teaching for social justice: Veteran high school teachers' perspectives. Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 2(2), 39-57 [Download article]

Minnes Brandes, Gabriella, & Kelly, Deirdre M. (Eds.). (2004, March). Special issue: Notes from the field: Teaching for social justice. Educational Insights, 8(3). [Available: http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights] <Simultaneously issued as the monograph Teaching for social justice, jointly published by the British Columbia Teachers' Federation and the University of British Columbia Office of External Programs>

Minnes Brandes, Gabriella, & Kelly, Deirdre M. (2004, March). Teaching for social justice: Teachers inquire into their practice. Educational Insights, 8(3). [Available: http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v08n03/articles/teaching.html] <Simultaneously issued as the Preface to the monograph Teaching for social justice, jointly published by the British Columbia Teachers' Federation and the University of British Columbia Office of External Programs>

Kelly, Deirdre M. (2003). Practicing democracy in the margins of school: The teen-age parents program as feminist counterpublic. American Educational Research Journal, 40(1), 123-146. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M., & Brandes, Gabriella Minnes. (2001). Shifting out of "neutral": Beginning teachers' struggles with teaching for social justice. Canadian Journal of Education, 26(4), 347-454. [Download article]

Brandes, Gabriella Minnes, & Kelly, Deirdre M. "Placing Social Justice at the Heart of Teacher Education: Reflections on a Project in Process." Exceptionality Education Canada, 10, Nos. 1-2 (2000): 75-94.

Kelly, Deirdre M.  "Teacher Discourses about a Young Parents Program: The Many Meanings of 'Good Choices'." Education and Urban Society, 30, no. 2 (February 1998): 224-241. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M. "Warning Labels: Stigma and the Popularizing of Teenage Mothers' Stories." Curriculum Inquiry, 27, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 165-186. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M. "Dilemmas of Difference: Van Tech's Schools-within-a-School Model." Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 42, no. 3 (September 1996): 293-305.

Kelly, Deirdre M. "Stigma Stories: Four Discourses about Teen Mothers, Welfare, and Poverty." Youth and Society, 27, no. 4 (June 1996): 421-449. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M. "Secondary Power Source: High School Students as Participatory Researchers." The American Sociologist, 24, No. 1 (Spring 1993): 8-26. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M. "St. Lucia's Female Electronics Factory Workers: Key Components in an Export-Oriented Industrialization Strategy." World Development, 14, No. 7 (July 1986): 823-838.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Journals

Allred, Pam, Kelly, Deirdre M., & Reiss, Michael. (2004). Review symposium on Pregnant bodies, fertile minds: Gender, race, and the schooling of pregnant teens, by W. Luttrell. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25(5), 639-653. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre. "Guatemala's Refugees: Victims and Shapers of Government Policies." The Fletcher Forum: A Journal of Studies in International Affairs, 7, No. 2 (Summer 1983): 323-354.

Conference Proceedings

Kelly, Deirdre M. (1998). The emperor's-new-clothes approach to sexuality education: An ethnographic study of one high school's lived curriculum. Centering on the Margins: The Evaded Curriculum (pp. 307-314). Ottawa: Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE) International Institute Proceedings.

Other

Kelly, Deirdre M. (2007, Summer). Toward a more nuanced and reflective social justice discourse. Professional Development Perspectives, 6 (5), 1, 8-12. [Download article]

Kelly, Deirdre M. (2004-2005). Teaching for social justice. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”: Social justice readings for teachers & intermediate & secondary students (pp. 1-4). Burnaby: Burnaby Teachers’ Association.

Kelly, Deirdre M. "Myths about Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood: Implications for Sexuality Education." BC Alliance Concerned with Early Pregnancy and Parenthood Newsletter, Summer 1996, pp. 21-27, & Winter 1996, pp. 17-27.

Kelly, Deirdre. "Ten Myths About Dropouts." Perspectives in Education, Fall 1992, pp. 67-72. Reprinted in UBC Reports, June 18, 1992, p. 8.

Kelly, Deirdre, and David Beers. "Narrowing Educational Access Supercharges Minority Politics; California Highlights Trend." Pacific News Service, April 10, 1987.

Kelly, Deirdre. "Latinos in the Military: Three-Part Series." Pacific News Service, Oct. 30, 1986.

Kelly, Deirdre. "Alaska: End Point on the Latin Migrant Trail." Pacific News Service, July 10, 1986.

Kelly, Deirdre, and David Beers. "St. Lucia's Scramble: A Caribbean Island Hustles for High Tech." The Progressive, Oct. 1985, pp. 26-27.

Kelly, Deirdre. "St. Lucia: Choosing the Puerto Rican Road." NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April 1985, pp. 5-7.

Kelly, Deirdre, and David Beers. "The Politics of Asylum." Cal Today (weekly magazine of the San Jose Mercury News), Oct. 30, 1983, pp. 4-8.