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Dr. Marc Spooner’s current interests include: creativity/deviance, creative potential, “at risk” youth, social justice & activism, homelessness, critical pedagogy/literacy, qualitative research methods, interdisciplinarity, and teaching and learning and technology.  I have been a University of Regina Teaching and Learning Scholar (2006-2008) and have worked on contracts for federal and municipal governments as well as various agencies.

-Ph.D (Education) University of Ottawa
Exploring the processes that lead young adults to channel their creativity in various fields and degrees of social acceptance: An interactionist grounded theory study
External Examiner: Dr. Mark A. Runco, Editor, Creativity Research Journal

-M.A. (Education), Psychopedagogy [Educational Psychology]

-B. Ed  [Primary/Junior/Intermediate/Senior (English)]
 
-B.A. (Hon.) Psychology Carleton University

In the Bachelor of Education Program:
•    Teaching as a Helping Profession (EPSY 390AA)
•    Assessing Student Learning in the Early Years (EPSY 225)

In the Graduate Program:
•    Introduction to Research (ED 800)
•    Creativity and the Learning Process (ED 870AO)
•    Social Justice and Globalisation from an Educational Perspective (ED 870AN)

See an example of my work
"listening to the homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless in Regina"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvTZ3kklAAw

- 2007- on-going
Participatory action research project with the University of Regina students to create a Regina Public Interest Research Group (RPIRG) that generates funds for student-led research and action research projects in the public interest. [$100 000/yr]    

- 2007-2009
“HIFIS” Funded by: Homelessness Partnership Initiative (HPI) [HRSDC] in partnership with Dr. Twyla Salm (Education) and Hirsch Greenberg (Justice Studies)  [$153 280]

- 2006-2008
“Inter-institutional Collaborations and Learning-enhanced Re-presentations of Lectures” Funded by: University of Regina Teaching and Learning Scholars TDC/CAT [$8 000]

- 2007-2008
“Digital Internship Project” SaskLearning in partnership with Dr. Vi Maaers, Dr. Alec Couros, Dr. David Friesen and Ashley Quark [$85 000]

- 2006-2007
“Community Voices” Funded by: The City of Regina (through funding from the National Homelessness Initiative, now (HPS) [HRSDC] [$12 000]    

-2006-2007
Faculty Start-up fund/President’s fund.  Used to defray costs to participate in several conferences as well as to begin exploratory research examining the links between conditions in Central America and North Central Regina  [$5 500]

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

-Spooner, M. T. (2008). Commentary on malevolent creativity.  Creativity Research Journal, 20, 128-129.

-Spooner, M. (2004). Generating integration and complex understanding: Exploring the use of creative thinking tools within interdisciplinary studies.  Issues in Integrative Studies, 22, 85-111.

- *Spooner, M. (2003). Without value: Without validity.  (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED466772).  * proposal was peer reviewed, final article accepted by the editor 

-Spooner, M. (2002). Creative teenage students: What are they telling us about their experiences in (and around) our high schools.  Alberta Journal of Educational Research, XLVIII, Winter, 314-326.

Book Chapters

Spooner, M. & Shaw, T.  (2004). Trouble with the commercialisation of university research.  In D.     Doherty-Delorme & E. Shaker & (Ed.), Missing pieces V: An alternative guide to post-secondary education (pp. 100- 107).  Ottawa, Canada: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Spooner, M. (2001). Report of the symposium on creativity and innovation in the Arts and
Sciences.  In R.I. Doyle (Ed.), Renaissance II: Canadian creativity and innovation in the new millennium (pp. 94-115).  Ottawa, Canada: National Research Council of Canada.
 

Government Reports

-Couros, A., Spooner, M., Maeers, V., & Quark, A. (2008).Digital internship final report. Regina, SK: Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit [SIDRU] for Ministry of Education, 30 pp.

-Spooner, M. (2007a). Community Voices. Talking with the experts: The homeless and the at-risk-to-be-homeless. Regina, SK: Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit [SIDRU]. 18pp. (Principal investigator: M. Spooner; co-investigators: M. Kennedy, L. Pelletier, E. Thornton.)

-Spooner, M. (2007b). Community Voices. Talking with the experts: The homeless and the at-risk-to-be-homeless. [Companion piece Video-enhanced podcast].Regina, SK: Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit [SIDRU]. 9.5 min. (Principal investigator: M. Spooner; co-investigators: M. Kennedy, L. Pelletier, E. Thornton.)

-Spooner, M. (2006) as member of the Supportive Learning Strategies Group on Homelessness           (SLSGOH). From research-on-homelessness to action-on-the-ground: A conceptual framework bringing together knowledge translation, learning theory, technology and frontline practice. Ottawa, ON: National Research Program of the Housing and Homelessness Branch, Human Resources and Social Development Canada. 212 pp. (Principal investigator: J. Ahola-Sidaway). 

Popularisations

-Spooner, M. (2007, Sept/October).University’s for sale: Sign of the times. Canadian Dimension.

-Spooner, M. & Shaw, T.  (2005, Sept/October). The Business of Universities: A call for transparency in our institutions of higher learning. Canadian Dimension.

Academic Presentations

Technology Week,                                                                             Nov 2007

The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness      

Guest Speaker. “Bringing constructivist learning theories into

the 21st Century with various technologies.”

Saskatoon, SK.

Free Knowledge Day                                                                         Sept. 2007

Guest Speaker. “What’s a university education for anyway?”

Regina, SK.

SIDRU Seminar                                                                                   Sept. 2007

“Homelessness in Regina - Building a Community Plan.”

Spooner, M. & Rice, B.

Regina, Saskatchewan

China – U.S. Conference on Literacy                                                July 2007

“Full-spectrum literacy, for full-spectrum citizenship:

Education as a process towards agency, engagement,

and critical awareness and action.”

Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

Society for Teaching and Learning in                                               June 2007

Higher Education Annual Meeting  

“Using videopodcasts and other new technologies to bring constructivism

into the 21st century.”

Edmonton, AB

Crossing Boundaries: Investigating the nexus                                May 2007

among arts, education, and community  

 “Can Creativity Be Taught? If so, how? A discussion centred on creativity

in the arts and sciences and the cognitive and environmental

conditions that contribute to its flourishing”

Regina, Saskatchewan

Crossing Boundaries: Investigating the nexus                                May 2007

among arts, education, and community  

 “Crossfiring: Site-specific Theatre at the intersection of Communities and Artists”         

Brenda Arnold , Kathleen Irwin, Marc Spooner, Sean Whalley

Regina, Saskatchewan

Faculty Development Committee of                                                 March 2007

Campus Saskatchewan                                   

Invited Panellist. “P3 Pedagogical possibilities of podcasting. A provincial seminar”

Regina, SK.

2nd International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry                            May 2006

“The journey from findings to praxis:

How a fully-engaged academy should judge the quality of research.”

Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Supportive Learning Strategies Group on Homelessness              April 2006

Struggling With Coding and Knowledge Transfer:

Health Research and Homelessness. 

The 12th International Interdisciplinary Conference Qualitative Health Research.

Edmonton, AB.

Supportive Learning Strategies Group on Homelessness              April 2006      

What the Research is Telling Us About Homelessness

from a Qualitative Health Perspective. 

The 12th International Interdisciplinary Conference Qualitative Health Research.

Edmonton, AB.

Invited panellist Jean-Paul Dionne Symposium ‘06                        March 2006       

“The butterfly effect in education – One small step, a world of difference”

Ottawa, Ontario 

American Educational Research Association (AERA)                        April 2002
“Without Value, without validity”
New Orleans, LA

Invited panellist University of Ottawa                                          February 2002

Interdisciplinary Conference ‘02                     

Topic: Interdisciplinarity

“Promoting an innovation culture: Finding insight and creativity in the

rich minds of interdisciplinarity”

Ottawa, Ontario

American Educational Research Association (AERA)                        April 2000            

“Young adults’ perceptions and interactions with creativity

enhancing environments”

New Orleans, LA