David Lewkowich, PhD, MA, BEd, BA

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education - Secondary Education Dept

Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education - Secondary Education Dept
Email
lewkowic@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-0543
Address
446 Education Centre - South
11210 - 87 Ave NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2G5

Overview

Research

Research Interests: Reading Experience, Literary Theory, Young Adult Literature, Comics & Graphic Novels, Psychoanalytic Theory, The Emotional Experiences of Education, Memory & Forgetting, Adolescence, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Teacher Education & Teacher Identity.

Courses

EDSE 327 - Introduction to Curriculum and Teaching in Secondary School English Language Arts (Major)

This course examines Alberta's English Language Arts curriculum and integrates theory, research and practice in becoming an English language arts educator in secondary schools. Students will learn through immersive engagement in literacy practices and will demonstrate interpersonal teaching competencies in classroom settings. Prerequisites: 9 units in the Major subject area, EDPY 302, EDFX 200, EDU 210, and EDU 211. Corequisite: Courses in the Introductory Professional Term (IPT) for the Secondary Education Route. Successful completion of the on-campus portion of the IPT is required prior to being granted permission to continue into EDFX 350.


EDSE 328 - Introduction to Curriculum and Teaching in Secondary School English Language Arts (Minor)

This course examines Alberta's English Language Arts curriculum and integrates theory, research and practice in becoming an English language arts educator in secondary schools. Students will learn through immersive engagement in literacy practices and will demonstrate interpersonal teaching competencies in classroom settings. Prerequisite: 9 units in the Minor subject area. Pre/corequisites: EDFX 200, EDU 210, and EDU 211. Note: EDSE 328 is not open to students whose Major is English Language Arts.


EDSE 430 - Teaching Composition, Language and Culture to Adolescents

This senior undergraduate course offers pedagogical strategies and experiences for teaching writing in the context of New Literacies for students from a range of backgrounds in junior and senior high schools. The course focuses on questions of composition, language and culture and encourages participants to see themselves as writers as well as teachers of writing.


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