McGill University

Faculty Member, Education

Faculty Lecturer

Dept. of Integrated Studies in Education

About

I teach in the Department of Integrated Studies in the Faculty of Education at McGill University in Montreal.

I am very interested in community based education strategies. My doctoral research explored how to reconcile the pedagogical spaces between the ways sexualities education is taught in schools, the philosophies of community-based educators and the gaps students have identified in their own knowing. These 'complicated conversations' of curriculum (Pinar, 2004) are born of tensions between modernity and postmodernity and the ways we have imagined and theorized the body, and present some real challenges for sexual health educators. My doctoral thesis made recommendations for ways community groups and schools could form pedagogical partnerships and how teacher education programs in universities could help lay the foundations for those dialogues.

My research program is continuing to focus on the ways educational strategies can best serve the needs of communities. In particular, I'm looking at models of progressive school reform (for example, inquiry-based and experiential models such as the Big Picture schools [bigpicture.org]), the small schools movement and urban education strategies, particularly for excluded and marginalized students.

I would love to hear from anyone doing similar research or teaching. You can contact me via email at lisa.trimble@mcgill.ca, or via my web site below.

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