Gabrielle Minnes Brandes

Department of Curriculum studies
Faculty of Education
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
E-mail: gaby@interchange.ubc.ca

The focus of Dr. Brandes' work is teaching for social justice, teacher inquiry, teacher education, and investigating school/university partnership.

Recent publications:

Brandes, G. M., & Kelly D. M., (2000). Placing social justice at the heart of teacher education, Exceptionality Education Canada,10(1&2) pp. 75-94.

Brandes, G. M. & Seixas, P. C., (2000). " ...So that the two can mix in this crucible." Teachers in an interdisciplinary school-university collaboration in the Humanities. In S. Wineburg & P. Grossman (Eds.), Interdisciplinary curriculum: Challenges to implementation. New York: Teachers College Press.

Recent presentations:

Brandes, G. M., & Kelly, D. M., Shifting out of neutral: Beginning teachers' struggles with teaching for social justice. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Toronto, May, 2002.

Brandes, G. M., & Wagner, D., The pitfalls of a pedagogical genre: Adapting the case study in teacher education. Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Toronto, May, 2002.

Brandes, G. M., & Kelly, D. M., The case of the Humanities and Social Justice Teacher Education Program: Student teachers' responses' to curricular and classroom inequities in the practicum. WestCAST, The Promise of Responsive/Responsible Teacher Education, Vancouver, February, 2002