Deaf education bimodal bilingual education dual language education sign language deaf studies applied linguistics
Joanne Weber, PhD (2018) is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include language and literacy education, arts-based literacy interventions, arts-based research, arts education, posthumanism, applied, sign language studies. She was awarded the Governor General Academic Gold Medal at the University of Regina Convocation in June 2019. Joanne is also a published author. Her books, The Pear Orchard (poetry) and The Deaf House (creative non-fiction) were finalists in the Saskatchewan Book Awards (2007, 2013). Joanne is also a leader in the deaf community at provincial and national levels. Her lifelong passion is to improve the quality of education for deaf students. She is the artistic director of Deaf Crows Collective which aims to provide opportunities for theatre performance by deaf actors of all ages to celebrate Deaf culture, encourage self-expression, and foster relationships between hearing and Deaf communities.
Books
Snoddon, Kristin, Weber, Joanne eds. (2021). Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education. Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK
Chapters in Books
Weber, J. (2021) The Deaf way out of no way: Adaptation of a culturally relevant arts education (CRAE) model in a Deaf community devastated by cultural linguicide. Deaf Empowerment: Toward Decolonization of Sign Language Peoples, ed. Grushkin, D.; Monaghan, L. Elm Academic Press.
Weber, J. (2020). Interrogating local sign language ideologies in the Saskatchewan deaf community. Sign Language Ideologies in Practice, ed. Green, M.; Kusters, A.; Erin Moriarty Harrelson, E.; Snoddon, K., Mouton DeGruyter / Ishara Press, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Weber, J. (2018). Captive Songs of Resistance: A Posthumanist Cartography of a Deaf Diaspora. Handbook of Cultural Studies in Education, ed.Trifonas, P.; Jagger, S., Routledge Cultural Studies. New York, NY: Routledge
Weber, J (2021). Plurilingualism and Policy in Deaf Education, In K. Snoddon and J.Weber (Eds), Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters
Snoddon, K. & Weber, J. (2021). Introduction: Plurilingualism and (in)competence in deaf education. In K. Snoddon & J. Weber (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters
Papers in Refereed Journals
Weber, J. (2022). Disrupting Binarized Diversity Discourses in ASL/English Bimodal Bilingual Deaf Education through Examining Affects within Apple Time, a Theatre Play, Volume 78 Issue 1, February / février 2022, pp. 17-33, https://doi.org/10.3138/cmlr-2020-0078
Weber, J. (2021). Cyborgs and Fox Wives: Interrogating Sign Language Ideologies and Moving Toward Survival, Resistance and Resilience. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 10(1), 54–83. Retrieved from https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/729
Culbert, K., Temple Jones, C., Foster, T., Loeppky, J., Weber, J. (2020) “We Make Art, Too”: A Panel Discussion on Disability Art and Activism on the Canadian Prairies. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(4), 138-145.
Weber, J. & Snoddon, K. (2020) Intelligibility as a methodological problem in the rehearsal spaces of “Apple Time”. Sign Language Studies, 20(4), 595-618. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/763670
Snoddon, K. & Weber, J. (2020). Commentary: Shapes and sites of deaf people’s transinstitutionalization. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Weber, J. (2017). Reinterpreting arts based data through a posthumanist lens. Synnyt/Origin. 1, Special Issue: Rethinking arts-based & artistic research, pp. 61-73
Weber, J. (2015). Negotiating Deaf Identity in an Audist Educational Environment: An Arts-Based Inquiry. Ubiquity: The Journal of Literacy, Literature and the Arts. Research Strand, 2(2), pp. 80-113.
Papers submitted to refereed journals
Weber, J. (2021, submitted) Making multiple deaf worlds intelligible through the theatre performance of Apple Time: A posthumanist arts-based cartography of deaf youth performers, Studies in Social Justice.
Weber, J., Skyer, M.E. (2022, submitted). The Aesthetics of OER, Deaf Pedagogy, and Curriculum Design Contra the “Wicked” Policy Problems of Deaf Education. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia.
Presentations and Papers at Refereed Conferences
EDPY 301 Introduction to Inclusive Education
EDPY 474 Introduction to American Sign Language
EDPY 458/555 Assessment and Programming for Children with Reading Disability
I have a limited number of graduate student openings. I only supervise students who are using a social science or humanities lens - not a scientific or medical one. If you are interested in working with me, please specify in your email how much training/experience you have had in deaf education that does not view deaf persons through a deficit lens or in need of a "cure". Your work in linguistics, sign language, deaf studies, sociology, political theory, philosophy, critical disability studies or related sociocultural fields will be a valuable asset to my research program.