Simon Fraser University
Dr. Suzanne de Castell
decastell Dean, Pro Tem

Professor

Faculty of Education

Email: decaste@sfu.ca

1980 Ph. D. (Philosophy) Senate House, University of London
1973 M.A. (Philosophy of Education, Honours, With Distinction) Institute of Education, University of London
1971 B.A. (Literature and Philosophy, Joint Honours) Sir George

Williams University (Concordia)

Employment

1989 – present Professor Simon Fraser University
1983 – 1989 Associate Professor Simon Fraser University
1980 – 1983 Assistant Professor Simon Fraser University
1978 – 1980 Lecturer Simon Fraser University
1977 – 1978 Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy Dawson College
1974 – 1976 PGCE Tutor (part time) London Institute of Education
1976 – 1977 M.A. Philosophy of Education Tutor (part time) London Institute of Education
1976 – 1977 Teacher of English(full time) Heathcote Junior High School, London

Courses Taught

  • Critical Theory: Habermas (Special Topics 808)
  • Social Issues in Education (240)
  • Contemporary Educational Theory (902)
  • Educational Theory and Theory Criticism (435)
  • Professional Development: Media Studies (402)
  • Literacy: Theory, Policy & Practice (807)
  • Women and Education (W.S. 300-5)
  • Social Theory and Criticism (837)
  • Doctoral Colloquium in Curriculum Theory (911)
  • History of Educational Theory (901)
  • Literacy, Education, Culture (341)
  • Voice/Text/Image: Education for a Post-Literate Culture (437)
  • Text, Lies and Videotape: from Critical Theory to Postmodernism (907)
  • Identity/Diversity/Equity in Education (907)
  • Socio-Cultural Theories of ‘Mind’ (837/905)
  • Gender, Equity and New Information Technologies in Education (710)
  • Teaching and Learning in an Information Technology Environment (TLITE)
  • Foundations of Educational Technology (358)
  • Re-Tooling the Learning Game: Educational Gaming and Play (720)
  • Educational Media as Foundations of Curriculum (890)
  • Qualitative Methods in Educational Research (867)

Publications

Books

de Castell, S. & Jenson, J.  (Eds.) 2007. Worlds in Play: International Perspectives on Digital Games Research. Peter Lang.

de Castell, S., & Bryson, M. 1997. Radical  in<ter>ventions: Identity, politics and difference in educational praxis, SUNY Press.

de Castell, S., Luke, A. and Luke, C. 1988.  Language, authority and criticism:  Readings on the school textbook.  (edited and authored two chapters and introduction).  Falmer Press.

de Castell, S., Luke, A., Egan, K. 1986. Literacy, society and schooling.  A reader, (edited and authored introduction and two chapters).  Cambridge University Press.

Textbooks

de Castell S. Coursebook and Reader:  Social issues in education.  Simon Fraser

University, 1986.

de Castell S. Coursebook and Reader:  Literacy/education/culture. Simon Fraser

University, 1993.

Roderiguez, C. and de Castell, S. Coursebook:  Contemporary approaches to

literacy instruction, Simon Fraser University, 1992

Articles/Chapters

de Castell, S. & Jenson, J. (2007) “Digital games for education: When meanings play. Intermedialities No. 9, Spring, pp. 113-132

de Castell, S. & Jenson, J. (2007) ) “No place like home” revised and reprinted in Mollie Blackburn and Carolyn Clark (Eds.) pp. 132-154 Literacy research for political action and social change, Peter Lang Press

de Castell, S. & Jenson, J. (2006) “No place like home: Sexuality, community and Identity among street-involved “queer and questioning” youth. McGill Journal of Education, Vol. 41, No. 3 pp.226-247.

de Castell, S. and Jenson, J. (2006) “Education, Gaming and Serious Play: New Attentional Economies”. pp. 999-1018 in Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan and Peter Trifonas (eds) International Handbook on Virtual Learning Environments. Kluwer Academic Press.

de Castell, S. & Jenson, J. (2005) Seeing things: Queer streets, mobile homes and moving targets. Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education. http://www.urbanedjournal.org/commentaries/comment0010.htm

de Castell, S. & Jenson, J. (in press) Educational Games Studies: Ordering the field Orbit (OISE/UT Press).

de Castell, S. & Jenson, J. (in press).Youth, homeless , in Sears, J.T (Ed.) Sexualities, Education and Youth: An Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Press

de Castell, S. and Jenson, J. (in press) “Education, Gaming and Serious Play: New Attentional Economies”. Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan and Peter Trifonas (eds) International Handbook on Virtual Learning Environments. Kluwer Academic Press.

de Castell, S. & Jenson, J. (2004). Paying attention to attention: New economies for learning. Educational Theory, 54, 4, p. 381-97.

Jenson, J. and de Castell, S. (2004) “Fair play: Gender, digital gaming and educational disadvantage”  pp. 227-234 in K.Morgan, C.A. Brebbia, J. Sanchez and A. Voiskounsky (eds.) Human Perspectives in the internet society: Culture, psychology and gender WIT Press: Southampton, Boston

de Castell, S. (2004).  Introduction: Private Places in Public Spaces.  E. Meiners and F. Ibanez-Carrasco (Eds.) Public Acts: Disruptive Readings on Curriculum and Research (pp. 135-58).  New York:  Routledge

Jenson, J. & de Castell, S. (2004).  “Turn It In”:  Technological Challenges to Academic Ethics.  Education, Communication and Information, 4, 2/3: 245-67.

de Castell, S.  (2004) “No Speech is Free” in Megan Boler, (ed) Troubling Speech, Disturbing  Silences, New York: Peter Lang.

de Castell, S. and Jenson, J. (2003) Serious Play. Journal of Curriculum Studies.Vol. 35 No.6: 649-665

de Castell, S. and Jenson, J. (2003) Curriculum for a Post-Talk Era: Re-Tooling the Learning Game.  Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Vol. 1 No. 1: 41-57

Jenson, J., de Castell, S.,  and Bryson, M.  (2003) “Girl Talk: Discourses of Gender, Equity and Identity in School Based Computer Culture Women’s Studies International Forum. Vol. 26 No. 6 pp.561-73

Faber, S., de Castell, S. and Bryson, M. (2003) “Renal Failure: A Sociocultural Investigation of an Illness”. Mind, Culture and Activity. Vol. 10. No. 2: 143-167

Bryson, M., Petrina, S., Braundy, M. and de Castell, S. (2003) “Conditions for

Success?: Sex-Disaggregated Analysis of Participation and Performance Indicators in Technology-Intensive Courses in British Columbia Secondary Schools” Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Vol. 1, No. 1.:43-52

de Castell, S., Bryson, M. & Jenson, J. (2002) Object lessons: Towards an educational theory of technologyFirst Monday Vol. 7 No 1 (http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_1/castell/index.html)

de Castell, S., Bryson, M. & Jenson, J. (2002).  Object lessons:  Critical visions in

educational technology.  In B. Barrell (Ed). Technology, Teaching and Learning:  Issues in the Integration of Technology.pp. 113-128  Calgary: Detselig.

de Castell, S. and Jenson, J. (2002) No Place Like Home: The Pridehouse Research Project Final Report. 218 pages, Human Resources Development Canada www.sfu.ca/pridehouse (Research report)

Thompson, S., de Castell, S, and Bryson, M. (2001). “Prospects for identity formation for lesbian, gay, or bisexual persons with developmental disabilities”. International Journal of Disability, 48(1), 53-65

de Castell, S. (2000). “Literacies, technologies, and the future of the library in the ‘information age’’’ Journal of Curriculum Studies, 32(3), 359-376

Bryson, M. & de Castell, S. (1998). ” New technologies, gender and the cultural ecology of primary schooling”. Educational Policy 12, (5), 542-567.

de Castell, S.& Bryson, M. (1998).  “Re-Tooling Play: Dystopia, dysphoria and difference”.  In J. Cassells and H. Jenkins, (Eds.), From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Girl games and computers, pp232-261, MIT Press.

Bryson, M. & de Castell, S.  (1998).  “Review of A Digital Ethnographer’s Journey.”  Educational Technology Review, 9, 31-34.

de Castell, S.,& Bryson, (1998) M.  “Identity, ethnography and the geopolitics of text.”  In J. Ristock and C.Taylor (Eds.), Inside the Academy and Out, Toronto, Univ. of Toronto Press, 97-110.

Bryson, M.& de Castell, S. (1998). “Telling tales out of school: Modernist, critical and postmodern ‘true stories’ about educational computing”. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 10(3), 199-221, and reprinted in Apple, M. & Bromley, H. (Eds.) Education/Technology/Power: Educational computing as social practice, New York: SUNY Press: 65-84.

Bryson, M.,& de Castell, S. (1996)  “Learning to make a difference:  Gender, new technologies and in/equity.  Mind, Culture and Activity, 2 (1), 3-21.

de Castell, S. (1996) “The ‘Greening’ of Literacy Studies: David Barton’s Literacy: An Ecological Approach” Mind, Culture and Activity 4(4) 74-81

de Castell, S. (1996).”On finding one’s place in the text: Literacy as a technology of the self”.The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Special Issue on Reading and the Politics of Identity (ed. P. Salvio), 12 (4) pp 56-74. (reprinted 1999 in W.Pinar (ed) 20 Years of JCT)

Bryson, M.& de Castell, S. (1995). “Engendering equity”.  Educational Theory 43 (4), 341–355.

de Castell, S. (1995) Review of “That’s Funny, you don’t look like a teacher: Interrogating images and identity in popular culture” Journal of Curriculum Studies

de Castell, S.,& Walker, T. (1995). “Identity, metamorphosis and ethnographic research:  What kind of a story is Ways With Words?”  Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 22(1), March 1991.(Reprinted in F. Schultz (Ed.), Annual Editions:  Multiculturalism, Dushkin Publishing.

Bryson, M. & de Castell, S. (1995) “A chip on her shoulder? New technologies, gender and in/equity” Women’s Education 11 (3), 15-24

de Castell, S. & Bryson, M. (1998) From the Ridiculous to the sublime: On finding oneself in educational research. In W. Pinar, (ed.) Queer Theory  in Education, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, New Jersey/London. 245-250.

de Castell, S., & Bryson, M.(1997)  “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell.”  In W. Pinar (Ed.), Curriculum:  Toward New Identities. 233-252 New York: Garland Press,

de Castell, S. (1995.) “Art, culture and representation:  Textuality and the designs of theory”.  In W. Kohli (Ed.) New Essays in Philosophy of Education (pp. 241-257) New York: Routledge,

Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (1995) “Sexing the Texts of ‘Educational Technology’.”  In J. Gaskell & J. Willinsky (Eds.), Gender In/Forms Curriculum:  From Enrichment to Transformation (pp. 21-43).  New York: Teachers College Press.

de Castell, S., Haig-Brown, C. & Bryson, M. (1993) “Gender equity/gender treachery” Border/lines (28) 46-55

Bryson, M., & de Castell, S. (1993) “Queer pedagogy: Praxis makes im/perfect” Canadian Journal of Education, (18), 286-306

de Castell, S. (1993) “Against the grain: Narratives of resistance” Editor’s introduction, special issue of the Canadian journal of Education (18)

de Castell, S.(1993) “Media Literacy” Up/Date, 8 (3), 12-19

de Castell, S. & Haig-Brown, C. (1993) Imagining ethnography: A review of Paul Atkinson’s The Ethnographic Imagination.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 24 (1), 3-19

de Castell, S., & Bryson, M. (1993) “Review of “The New Literacy”, Historical Studies in Education, 4 (2), 344-349

de Castell, S.(1992) “Literacy, Definitions of…” Entry in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, R.E. Asher (ed.) Oxford: Pergammon Press

de Castell, S. & Bryson, M. (1991) “En/Gendering equity: Emancipatory programs or repressive “regimes of truth’?” in Henry Alexander (ed.) Philosophy of Education, Yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society, Normal, Illinois.

de Castell, S. (1990) Playing by the book: The problem of textbook knowledge.” Journal of Educational Thought, 24 (3) 110-114.

de Castell, S. (1990) Teaching the textbook:Teacher/text authority and the problem of interpretation” Linguistics and Education 2 (11) 37-55

de Castell, S. (1990) Literacy as Disempowerment: The role of documentary texts,  Philosophy of Education, Yearbook of the Philosophy of Education Society, Normal, Illinois.

de Castell, S. (1990)  “Limits to Literacy.”  In Norris, J., & Phillips, L. (Eds.), Towards a Literacy Policy in Canada.  Calgary: Detselig.

de Castell, S., Cassidy, M., & Manley-Casimir, M. (1990)  “Towards a Definition of a Legally Educated Person.”  In J. Combs, S. Parkinson and R. Case (Eds.), Ends in View:  An Analysis of the Goals of Law Related Education. Vancouver:  UBC Centre for Study of Curriculum and Instruction.

de Castell, S. (1989)  “On Writing of Theory and Practice.”  British Journal of Philosophy of Education, 23(1), 39-50.

de Castell, S. (1988)  “Teachers and Texts in Theory and Practice.”  Educational Studies, 19(3/4), Fall/Winter:338-350.

Manley-Casimir, M., Cassidy, W., & de Castell, S. (1989)  “The Charter of Rights and  Freedoms and Legal Literacy.”  In McLeod, K. (Ed.), Citizenship and Citizenship Education.  Toronto:  Canadian Educational Association.

de Castell, S.  “Metaphors into Models:  The Teacher as Strategist.” (1987)  In Holborn, Wideen, & Andrews (Eds.), Becoming a Teacher.  Kagan & Woo Ltd.

de Castell, S., & Luke A. (1987)  “Literacy Instruction: Technology and Technique”.  American Journal of Education, 95(3), 413-440.

Translated into Spanish and reprinted as “La Alfabetizaçón:  Technologia y Tecnica in Revista De Educacion:  Alfabetizacion Centro de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educación y Ciëncia (1989).

Luke, A., & de Castell, S. (1985) “Educational ‘Crises’ and the Rhetoric of Reform:  The Huxley/Arnold Debate Reconsidered.” Discourse, 4(2), 22-40.

de Castell, S., & Luke, A.(1983) “Defining ‘Literacy’ in North American Schools: Social and Historical Conditions and Consequences.”  Journal of Curriculum Studies, l5(10 12), 373-397. (Reprinted in P. H. Taylor, ed., Recent Developments in Curriculum Studies.  NFER-Nelson, 1986; in Literacy, Society and Schooling (in a modified version), 1986; in Kintgen, E.R., Kroll, B.M., & Rose, M. (Ed.), Perspectives on Literacy, Southern Illinois University Press, 1988; and, in Literacy:

Language and Power by Diane Vipond and Ronald Strahl, University Press of  California State University, Long Beach, 1993.

Luke, C., de Castell, S., & Luke, A. (1983) “Beyond Criticism: The Authority of the School Text.”  Curriculum Inquiry, 13(2),111-127.

de Castell, S. (1982)  “Authority, Power and Resistance.”  Journal of Educational Thought, December.

de Castell, S., & Luke A. (1982)  “Changing Paradigms of Literacy Instruction in North  America.”  Sociological Abstracts

de Castell, S. & Luke, A. (1982) “Epistemic Authority, Institutional Power and Curricular Knowledge.” The Journal of Educational Thought

de Castell, S., Luke, A., & MacLennan, D.(1981) “On Defining Literacy.”  Canadian Journal of Education, 6(3), 1981.

de Castell, S., and Luke, A. (1981)”Functional Literacy:  Minimum Competence and Student Passivity.”  The Journal. Summer, l981 (title changed by The Journal to “B.C. Politics and Policies”).

de Castell, S., & Freeman, H.(1981)  “Internal Contradictions in Liberal Educational Theory.” Discourse, 2(l), 1981/82.

de Castell, S., & Freeman, H.(1978)  “Education as a Socio-Practical Field:  The Restructuring of Educational Theory.”  Educational Philosophy and Theory

de Castell, S., & Freeman, H. (1978) “Education as a Socio-Practical Field:  The Theory Practice Distinction Reformulated.”  British Journal of Philosophy of Education, l2.

Funded R&D Projects (selected)

$2,900,000.  SSHRC, INE Collaborative Research Grant.  “Simulations and Advanced Gaming for Education”.  2003-2007.  [Co-applicant].  Principal Investigator, David Kaufman, Simon Fraser University.

$199,000. SSHRC Standard Grants. “Paying Attention to Attention” (2004-2007)

Principal Investigator, Suzanne de Castell (Jennifer Jenson, Co-Applicant)

$125,000.  SSHRC, Standard Grants.  “Education, Gender and Gaming”.  2003-2006.  (Co-applicant).  Principal Investigator, Jennifer Jenson, York University.

$458,000.  Canadian Foundation for Innovation.  Play:CES – Play in Computer Environment Studio.  (Collaborator).  Principal Investigator, Jennifer Jenson, York University.

$58,000.  SSHRC, RDI Program.  “Charting Emerging Educational Discourses”. 2002-2004.Principal investigator, Suzanne de Castell (Jennifer Jenson, Co-Applicant)

$74,000.  Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC).  “Pride House Study”. 2002.Principal Investigator, Suzanne de Castell

$150,000 in kind research grant, Banff Center for New Media Research, Design and Development Co-Production Residency from April 18-May 8, 2001 for the development of an interdisciplinary educational gaming environment, Ludus Vitae. Principal Investigator, Suzanne de Castell.

$1,300,000. SSHRC “Health And Home Project”, Collaborator, with Dara Culhane (and 12 others), Sociology, Principal Investigator. 2000-2003

$5,000. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for research on Women, Teaching and New Educational Technologies. 1994

158,000 SSHRC Strategic Grants, Women and Change Program “Learning to Make a Difference: Gender Equity, and New Information Technologies,” 1995-1998(Co-investigator) Mary Bryson, Principal Investigator (www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech or www.shecan.com)

$9,000 SFU Instructional Development Grant for “Computers for Lunch” Software Development 1998  (see www.computersforlunch.com)

$9,000 Ministry of Women’s Equality for expansion of “Computers for Lunch” Program 1999

$25,000  SHRC for “Computers for Lunch” to be used on SHRC website 2000

$10,000  B.C. Ministry of Education “Performance and Participation Indicators in Technology- Intensive Courses in British Columbia Secondary Schools” Co-Investigator, with Steve Petrina UBC and Mary Bryson, UBC. 2000-20001

(see http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/gentech/report.html)

Awards

Wired Woman “Pioneer in Technology and New Media” Award, Women in the Spotlight, Feb. 6, 2000

B.C. Research Partnership Award, May 2000

Y.W.C.A. “Women of Distinction” Award 2004 for Education: “Learning for Life”

Graduate Student Supervision

A list of graduate theses supervised is available on request.

(30+M.A; 6PhD)

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January 6, 2009
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