Positions
| Associate Professor, 2003 to present |
Simon Fraser University |
| Assistant Professor, 1996 to 2003 |
Simon Fraser University |
Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships
Canadian Counselling Association Professional Article Award with Avraham Cohen. (2008) Suffering loves and needs company: Daoist and Zen perspectives on the Counsellor as Companion. Canadian Journal of Counselling, Vol. 42:1, pp. 45-56.
Canadian Committee for Graduate Students in Education Mentorship Award (2008)
Awarded at the Canadian Society for Studies of Education Annual Meeting, UBC.
Fellowship in Contemplative Pedagogy at Naropa University (2007)
Simon Fraser University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003.
Roger Hammill Award for Environmental Education: Outstanding Formal Educator Category (2003).
Selected by Environmental Educators Provincial Specialists Association of the B.C.T.F.
Fellowship in Salzburg Seminar Session “The Cultural, Civic and Economic Purposes of Higher Education” (2003).
Nominated by the Presidents of UNBC and SFU; Awarded by the Salzburg Seminar, Austria.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (1994 – 1996)
University of British Columbia Graduate Fellowship (1993 -1994)
MacEachran Gold Medal in Philosophy (1979)
Received for graduating with the highest marks in Philosophy.
MacEachran Humanities Prize (1978).
Received for outstanding academic performance.
Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship (1978).
Funded Research and Development Projects
UNIVERSITY PUBLICATION FUND: Serial Publication Grant for Paideusis, $4,200, 2008
SSHRC TRAVEL GRANT: International Network for Philosophy of Education, Kyoto, $1,500, 2008.
UNIVERSITY PUBLICATION FUND: Serial Publication Grant for Paideusis,
$10,000, 2006
UNIVERSITY PUBLICATION FUND: Single Publication Grant for Fields of Green: Re-storying Education, $6,800, 2006
SSHRC STANDARD RESEARCH GRANT, 2002– 2005 (Principal Investigator), "Enacting the Ethics of Care: Theory and Practice," $103,883, 2002-2007.
SSHRC STANDARD RESEARCH GRANT (Co-investigator: part of the National Metropolis Project on Immigration), 2003 – 2003 (Co-investigator), "Pedagogical Models for Inclusion and Equity in Diverse School Communities,” $30,000, 2003-2003.
PRESIDENT'S RESEARCH GRANT, 1999 – 2001 (Principal Investigator), "Encountering Individualism: Studies in Moral Agency and Ethics of Care," $10,002, 1999-2001
SFU/SSHRC INSTITUTIONAL GRANT, 1999 – 2001 (Principal Investigator), "In Quest of Moral Perception: Theory and Praxis," $8,500, 1999-2001
Selected Publications
Referred Journal Articles (2001 – 2008)
Bai, H. & Scutt, G. (accepted). Touching the earth with the heart of enlightened mind: A Buddhist contribution to ecology as educational practice. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education.
Bigdeli, S. & Bai, H. (accepted). Triunal model of anxiety and its application to anxiety reduction in learning and teaching environments. TESL Canada Journal.
Cohen, A. & Bai, H. & Green, L. (in press). When diverse worlds collide: An experiment in deep democracy. Radical Pedagogy.
Cohen, A. & Bai, H. (2008). Dao and Zen of Teaching: Classroom as Enlightenment
Field. Educational Insights, 11(3). [Available:
http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v11n03/articles/bai.html]
Cohen, A. & Bai, H. (2008). Suffering loves and needs company: Daoist and Zen perspectives on the counselor as companion. Canadian Journal of Counselling. (Special Issue, “Accompanying the suffering person in counseling and psychotherapy.”)
Bai, H. & Banack, H. (2006). “To see a World in a Grain of Sand”: Complexity and Moral Education, An International Journal of Complexity and Education. http://www.complexityandeducation.ualberta.ca/journal.htm
Bai, H. (2006). “Philosophy for Education: Cultivating Human Agency,” Paideusis, Vol. 15 (1): 7-19 http://journals.sfu.ca/paideusis/index.php/paideusis/issue/current/showToc
Bai, H. (2004). “The three I’s for ethics as an everyday activity: Integration, intrinsic valuing, and intersubjectivity,” Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 9. (2004): 51 – 64.
Cohen, A. & H. Bai (2004). Educating the Heart: Invoking the Zeitgeist of our Times. The Canadian Association of Principals (CAP) Journal, 12 (3):18 – 21.
Bai, H. (2003). “Learning from Zen Arts: A lesson in Intrinsic Valuation,” Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (2003): 1 - 14. http://www.csse.ca/CACS/JCACS/V1N2/essays.html
Bai, H. (2003). “The Stop: The Practice of Reanimating the Universe Within and Without,” Educational Insights, Vol. 8(2). http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v08n01/contextualexplorations/bai/bai.html
Bai, H. (2002). “Zen and the Art of Intrinsic Perception: A Case of Haiku,” Canadian Review of Art Education 28 (1): 1 – 24.
Bai, H. (2001). “Challenge for education: Learning to value the world intrinsically,” Encounter 14 (1): 4 – 16.
Invited Journal Articles
Bai, H. (in press). Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing. ... Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education.
Bai, H. (2004). “Choosing our Cosmology for the Sacred Earth: Plato’s Two Worlds Revisited,” in Philosophy of Education 2004, ed. S. Fletcher (Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society), 139 - 141.
Bai, H., E. Csuka & G. Morissette (2004). “Further thoughts on ethics as recovery of the integrative, the intrinsic, and the intersubjective,” Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 9, (2004): 65 – 70.
Falkenberg, T., K. Yamamoto, & H. Bai (2004). Care versus Justice in Education: Dilemmas, Difficulties, and Resolutions, Proceedings from the Annual Conference of the Western Canadian Association for Student Teaching, 234 - 238.
Cohen, A., & Bai, H. (2004). Educating the heart: Invoking the zeitgeist of our times. The Canadian Association of Principals Journal, 12 (3), 18 – 21.
Bai, H. (2002). “Taking One's Place in a Moral Universe” in Philosophy of Education 2002, ed. S. Fletcher (Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society), 19 - 22.
Books
McKenzie, M., Bai, H. Jickling, B. & Hart, P. (in press). Fields of Green: Re-imagining Education (New Jersey: Hampton Press)
Textbooks
Bai, H. Scott, C., Kovacs, P. & Gova, A. (2006). Entering the Debate: Towards Transformation (Coursebook and Reader for EDUC 230, Introduction to Philosophy of Education, 2nd edition). Simon Fraser University.
Bai, H. & Rabehl-Gewer, G. (2002). Entering the Debate: Towards Transformation (Coursebook and Reader for EDUC 230, Introduction to Philosophy of Education, 1st edition). Simon Fraser University.
Book Chapters
Bai, H. (in press). Re-animating the universe: Environmental education and philosophical animism. In M. McKenzie, H. Bai, P. Hart, & B. Jickling (Eds.), Fields of green: Re-imaginging Education. New Jersey: Hampton Press.
Bai, H. (2008). Foreword. In E. J. Hyslop-Margison & M. A. Naseem, Scientism and Education: Empirical Resarch as Neo-Liberal Ideology. New York: Springer.
Chinnery, A. & Bai, H. (2008). Levinas and responsibility. In D. Egea-Kuehne (Ed.), Levinas and education. London: Routledge.
Bai, H. & A. Cohen (2007). Breathing Qi, Following Tao: Transforming this Violence-ridden World. in Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum: Eastern Thought and Educational Insights. eds. C. Eppert & H. Wang (Mahweh, N. J.: Lawrence Earlbaum)
Bai, H. (2005). What is inquiry? In W. Hare & J. Portelli (Eds.), Key questions for educators. Halifax: EdPhil Books.
Bai, H. (2001). “Cultivating Democratic Citizenship: Towards Intersubjectivity,” in Philosophy of Education: Introductory Readings, 3rd Edition, ed. W. Hare and J. P. Portelli (Calgary, AB: Detselig Enterprises Ltd.), 307 – 320.
Bai, H. (2001). Beyond Educated Mind: Towards a Pedagogy of Mindfulness,” in Unfolding Bodymind: Exploring Possibilities Through Education, eds. B. Hockings, J. Haskell, & W. Linds (Brandon, VT: The Foundation for Educational Renewal), 86 - 99.
Chinnery, A. & Bai, H. (2000). “Altering Conceptions of Subjectivity: A Prelude to the More Generous Effluence of Empathy,” in Values and Education in a Pluralist Society. ed. M. Leicester (London: Falmer Press), 86 – 94.
Conference Proceedings
Bai, H. (2003). “On the Edge of Chaos: Complexity and Ethics,” in the Conference Proceedings for Complexity Science and Educational Research, ed. B. Davis, http://www.complexityandeducation.ca
Selected Presentations and Conferences (2005-2008)
Keynote Presentations
Bai, H. (2008). “One world, ready or not”: Challenges and promises of cosmopolitanism. Korean Philosophy of Education Society, Seoul, Korea.
Bai, H. (2008). Teaching as Re-searching and Researching as Social Responsibility. Professional Development Days at Langara Community College, Vancouver, BC.
Bai, H. (2007). Just a minute. . . whose justice are we socializing?: Justice in a community of strangers. The Professional Development Program Annual Symposium, 2007. Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, BC.
Bai, H. (2004, February). Aspiring to Diversity: Lessons in Learning Love. Diversity Focus Day at Vancouver School Board, Vancouver, February 27, 2004.
Montabello, S., & Bai., H. (2003). Social Responsibility through the Lens of Ethics of Care. Focus Day at Burnaby School District 41, Burnaby, BC.
Bai, H. (1996). Philosophy of education as education for philosophy. Northwest Philosophy of Education Society, Vancouver, BC.
Peer Reviewed Presentations (2005 – 2008)
Cohen, A., Bai, H., Clarke, T., Leggo, C., Meyer, K., & Porath, M. (2008). Living pedagogy: Six noteworthy educators reflect on their pedagogical practices. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of British Columbia, BC.
Bai, H. & Cohen, A. (2008). What are the Eastern Wisdom Traditions good for? AERA 2008 Annual Meeting. Confucianism & Daoism SIG., New York, NY.
Bai, H. & Cohen, A. (2007). Towards better balance in the ecology of consciousness. AERA 2008 Annual Meeting. Holistic Education SIG., Chicago, IL.
Rushmere, A. & Bai, H. (2007). Placing caring relationships in Education, Canadian R Association for the Study of Education, Saskatoon, U. of SASK.
Elza, D., Manery, R., Cohen, A. & Bai, H. (2007). “So much truth, so much being”: Poetic provocations to philosophical musings. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Saskatoon, U. of SASK.
Beck, K., Cohen, A., Falkenberg, T. & Bai, H. (2007). Bridging the divide between being and knowing, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Saskatoon, U. of SASK.
Broom, K., Nelson, D. & Bai, H. (2007). Making public knowledge, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Saskatoon, U. of SASK.
Provençal, J. & Bai, H. (2007). The rhetoric of scholarship: Questions of genre and method, Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Saskatoon, U. of SASK.
Eppert, C., Bai, H., Cohen, A., & Vokey, D. (2007). (Re)turning to the breath: Ethical turns and Eastern philosophy, Philosophy of Education Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Shira, K., Anderson, H., Ford, M., Bai, H., Glass, R. & Portelli, J. (2007). Meta-narratives of humility. Philosophy of Education Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Bai, H. & Cohen, A. (2007). Towards a better balance of the ecology of consciousness. American Educational Research Association, Chicago, MI.
Bai, H., Banack, H., Gova, A., Provençal, J., Caulkins, M., Scott, C. & Cohen, A. (2006). Mapping the Boundaries of Philosophical Methodology: Towards Multiplicity, Deep Democracy and Being Present. Panel presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Toronto, Ontario (York U.).
Cooke, M. H. Bai & S. Blenkinsop (2006). Experiencing the interconnectedness of theory and practice. Presentation at Annual Conference of the Western Canadian Association for Student Teaching, Vancouver, BC.
Cohen, A. & H. Bai (2006). Dao and Zen in the classroom, or now and then the alchemical vessel gets hot. Presentation at Annual Conference of the Western Canadian Association for Student Teaching, Vancouver, BC
Banack, H., Provençal, J. Caulkins, M. Gova, A., Cohen, A. & Bai, H. (2005). Learning to learn together. Panel presented at Comparative and International Education Society’s Annual Conference (West), Vancouver, Sept 29- Oct. 1, 2005.
Bai, H. (2005). Re-animating the Universe: Towards Philosophical Animism. Paper presented in a Panel for the Environmental Education SIG at AERA, Montreal.
Bai, H. & A. Cohen (2005). Ch’i Philosophy’s Relevance to Today’s Violence-Ridden World. Paper presented in a Panel for the Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG at AERA, Montreal.
Chinnery, A. & H. Bai (2005). Justice in the Name of the Other: Levinas on Rights and Responsibility Paper presented in a panel at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, San Francisco, California.
Invited Public Lectures and Research Seminars (2005 – 2008)
Bai, H. (2006) Educating ourselves beyond the Epistemic Mind of Beliefs and Values. “Special Guest Lecture” presented to the Curriculum and Pedagogy Institute, University of Alberta. (May 11, 2006)
Bai, H. (2006) Beyond the Epistemic Mind of Beliefs and Values: Implications for Leadership. Invited Guest Seminar presentation at Ontario Institute of Studies in Education of University of Toronto, Ontario. (April 12, 2006)
Bai, H. (2006) Socratic Dialogue and Mindfulness. Invited Guest Seminar presentation at the Dept of Counseling Psychology, UBC.
Bai, H., S. Blenkinsop & T. Falkenberg (2005). Borders between Academic Theory and Professional Practice, Keynote Panel at the Education Graduate Symposium, SFU, "Education with/out Borders, " Coquitlam, BC.
Bai, H., Beck, T. Falkenberg & J. Provençal (2005). Critical reflections in critical times: The state of the world, school reality, and educator’s response on means and ends of education. Panel discussion presented at the Education Graduate Symposium, SFU, "Education with/out Borders, " Coquitlam, BC.
SELECTED SERVICE ACTIVITIES (2005-2008)
Simon Fraser University
- 2008-present: Director of Graduate Programs, Faculty of Education
- 2007-present: Program Coordinator for Philosophy of Education PhD program
- 2005-2007: Director-at-large, Faculty of Education
- 2005-present: Member, Steering Committee: Graduate Liberal Studies Masters Program
- 2003-2005: Member, Senate Appeals Board
- 2002-2003: Member, Field Programs, Faculty of Education
- 2002: Member, Faculty Tenure and Promotion Committee, Faculty of Education
- 2002: Chair, Committee for Teaching Award
- 2001: Member, Committee for Teaching Award
- 1998-2003: Member, Registration Appeals Committee
- 1998-1999: Member, Faculty Appointment Committee, Faculty of Education
- 1998-1999: Member, Graduate Programs Committee, Faculty of Education
- 1998-1999: Member, University Admissions Committee
- 1997-1999: Member, Undergraduate Programs Committee, Faculty of Education
- 1996-2001: Program Coordinator for Curriculum and Instruction MA, MEd programs.
Larger Scholarly Community
- 2006: Member of Conference Program Committee, Philosophy of Education Society
- 2005-present: Editor, Paideusis, International Journal of Canadian Philosophy of Education
- 2006-present: Consulting Editor, Canadian Journal of Education
- 2005-present: Board member, The International Journal of Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education
- 2002: Conference Hospitality Chair, Philosophy of Education Society
- Ongoing: Reviewer: Journal of Thought, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Pedagogies: An International Journal, New Ideas in Psychology, Environmental Education Research, Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Studies in Philosophy of Education; American Educational Research Association; Philosophy of Education Society; Northwest Philosophy of Education Society
- One time: Grant reviewer for Killam Fellowship, SSHRC
- One time: Tenure reviewer
- 1997, 1998, 2001: Conference Organizer for Northwest Philosophy of Education Society
External Examiner
Ph.D. or Ed.D. Oral Examinations
Yu, A. (2008). Relational Structures among Worldview, Self-view, Moral Inclusiveness, and Moral Orientation: A Holistic and Complementary Perspective. Dept. of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, University of British Columbia.
Beeman, C. (2006). Another Way of Knowing and Being: Opening Attentive Receptivity and Meander-knowing through Reading Spinoza and Heidegger in the Company of Elders. Faculty of Education, Queen’s University.
Kim, S. (2006). The Task of Education in Global Times: An Inquiry into the Seventh National Curriculum in Korea. Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta.
Foster, C. R. (2006). The Ethical Teacher: A Case for Dialogical Resistance. Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, OISE, University of Toronto.
Parsonson, J. (2004). Present Moments, Present Lives: Teacher Transformation Through Art-making. Faculty of Education, Queens University.
McArthur-Blair, J. (2004). The Inner Life: A Conversation with Educational Leaders. Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia.
Feng, F. (2003). Between Immediacy and Reification: Quotidian Pedagogy, Narrative, and Recovery of Language and Meaning in Nature. Centre for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction, University of British Columbia.
SUPERVISION OF PH.D. & M.A. STUDENTS
Doctoral Thesis Senior Supervisor
Montabello, S. (2008). Journeying into the Heart of Schools: Dwelling in time, Place, and Intimacy.
Falkenberg, T. (2006). Caring and Human Agency: Foundations of an Approach to Teacher Education
Chinnery, A. (2003). Response and Responsibility: On Levinas and Moral Education
Van Heerden, H. (2003). A Circle of Loving and Creating: Journeying Towards Wholeness in the Arts Therapies with Children who Grieve.
Gribov, S. (2000). Minimalistic Virtue Ethics: Theory for Moral Education.
Currently supervising 13 Ph.D. students and 2 Ed.D. students; served as a member on 14 (10 at SFU; 4 at UBC) thesis supervisory committees for completed dissertations; currently serving as a member on around 9 thesis supervisory committees at SFU and 3 at UBC.
Masters Thesis Senior Supervisor
Moran, A. (2004). Philosophy as Pedagogy
Telfer, S. (2004). Sweet Milk Years Embrace us: An Embodied Ethics of care.
Gamini, R. (2004). Uncovering the self: An introspective approach through ethical living, mindfulness, and experiential knowledge.
Miner, K. (2004). Taoist Pedagogy for Education.
Banack, H. (2004). The Question is the Answer: An Interrogative Exploration of Life, Education and Schooling.
Andersen, C. (2003). Teaching Students How to Care: An Analysis of Care Practices Through Activity Theory.
Cameron, D. (2003). The Gentle Art of Mindfulness in Buddhist Psychology and Embodied Psychotherapies.
Frost, L. (2003). The Paradox of Caring Profession.
Aebi, R. (2001). Beyond the Malaise of Postmodernity: The Role of Art to Essential Meaning.
Jaltema, E. S. (2002). Leading Students Towards Caring and Moral Wisdom in an Elementary School Classroom: Theory and Enaction.
Beck, K. (2001). An Ethic of Inclusion for International Education: A Response to Globalization.
Mirisse, D. (2000). Stress Reduction for Youth Through Mindfulness and Loving-kindness Meditation.
Klassen, L. (2000). Education that Nurtures the Soul: Arts as the Nutrients
Rasmussen, D. (1999). "The Queen Wishes Her Red Children to Learn the Cunning of the White Man": The Myth of Educating Inuit Out of "Primitive Childhood" and into Economic Adulthood.
Wereley, R. L. (1998). Agency, Ideology, and Education: An Interpretation.
Currently 1 M.Ed student; served as a member on 3 supervisory committees for completed theses.
Program Coordinator for Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education under Curriculum Theory and Implementation 2006—ongoing
Program Coordinator for M.A., M.Ed Curriculum and Instruction in Inclusion & Diversity 1996 to 2001: Program coordination and graduate student supervision. Graduated approximately 75 students in total.
Supervision of M.Ed students for final Comprehensive Exams: around 30 or more C & I M.Ed students completed their culminating comprehensive exams under my supervision.
Courses Taught
Faculty of Education at SFU:
Graduate Program courses
- "Seminar in the History of Educational Thought" (EDUC 901)
- "Interdisciplinary Seminar in Contemporary Educational Theory" (EDUC 902)
- "Seminar in Moral Philosophy and Education" (EDUC 833)
- "Philosophical Issues in Classroom Practices" (EDUC 821)
- "Seminar in Epistemology and Education" (EDUC 836)
- "Seminar in Philosophy and Educational Theory" (EDUC 831)
- “Socio-cultural Perspective: Identity and Education” (EDUC 856)
- “Research Designs” (EDUC 864)
Undergraduate Program courses
- “Multicultural Education” (EDUC 441)
- “Ethical Issues in Education" (EDUC 437)
- “Introduction to Philosophy of Education" (EDUC 230)
Professional Development Program courses:
- “Introduction to Classroom Teaching” (EDUC 401)
- “Studies of Educational Theory and Practice” (EDUC 402)
Dept of Graduate Liberal Arts at SFU:
- “Worlds and Words” (GLS 810)
University of British Columbia, Dept of Educational Studies:
- "Moral Philosophy and Education" (EDST 593)
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