John Currie

John Currie

Degrees & Institutions: 
PhD Candidate, Adult Education & Community Development
Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto

Master of Journalism
Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Education - First Class Standing
Lakehead University

Honours Bachelor of Arts - High Distinction, Dean’s List Scholar
University of Toronto Mississauga

Business Administration Diploma - High Honours
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Recent Courses:
WRI 203 Expressive Writing
WRI 375 Writing about Environment and Ecology

Selected Publications:
Currie, J. (Ed.) (in press). Environment and ecology: Stories (2nd ed.). Toronto: Life Rattle Press.

Currie, J. (Ed.) (2011). Environment and ecology: Stories. Toronto: Life Rattle Press.

Currie, J. & Price, R. (2010). Peer Editing Groups at the University Toronto Mississauga: Observations on student-run editorial groups in the writing classroom. In N. Simmons(Ed.), Opportunities and new directions: Canadian SoTL research (pp. 71-78).  Waterloo, ON: University of Waterloo.

Currie, J. (2004). Take me to the scene: Constructing narrative journalism. (Unpublished master’s dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Erindale Writers Group. (2003). Will you still love me if I shave my head?: Sixteen stories from the
Erindale Writers Group. Life Rattle New Writers Series, 14. Toronto: Life Rattle Press.

Research Interests:

My research and teaching centre on adults learning to write. I engage questions about the nature, purpose and effectiveness of teaching and learning contexts and consider learner and pedagogical implications of “writing to learn” as opposed to “learning to write.”

Research Areas: Ecological Rhetoric and Narrative Inquiry
Expressivist/Process Pedagogy
Narrative Journalism Ethics