Faculty and Staff - College of Education, University of Saskatchewan
Dianne M. Miller

 

Dianne M. Miller
(formerly Dianne Hallman)

Acting Department Head

Professor & Graduate Chair, Educational Foundations
College of Education, University of Saskatchewan,
28 Campus Dr., Saskatoon, SK. S7N 0X1

Office ED 3091
Ph. (306) 966-7724

 

Academic Credentials

B.A. Sociology,  Acadia University, 1972
B.Ed. (Elementary), Acadia University, 1973
B.SW. McGill University, 1980
M.Ed. History and Philosophy of Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1989
Ph.D. Sociology in Education, University of Toronto, (OISE) 1994
Permanent Teaching certificates in Quebec and Ontario

Areas of specialization

History of Women and Education
Feminist Theory
Educational Biography
Poetry

Principal courses taught

EFDT 101.3 Introduction to Education
EFDT 435.3 Critical Perspectives in Educational Thought and Values
EDFDT 482.3 Women and Education
EDFDT 483.3 Women and the Teaching Profession
EDFDT 872.3  The Experience of Women in Canadian Education
EDFDT 873.3  Feminist Thought and its Implications for Canadian Education
EFDT 990 Non –credit seminar

Selected Publications

Books
Noonan, B., Hallman, D. & Scharf, M. (Eds.) (2006).  A history of education in Saskatchewan: Selected readings.  Regina, SK: Canadian Plains Research Centre.

Forman, F., O'Brien, M., Haddad, J., Hallman, D. and Masters, P. (Eds.) (1990).
Feminism and Education: A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: Centre for Women's Studies in Education/ OISE.

Book Chapters
Miller, D. (2009). Finding the time and space to write: Some stories from Canadian teacher educators. In A.M.A. Mattos (Ed). Narratives on teaching and teacher education: An international perspective. (pp.) Palgrave MacMillan.

Hallman, D (2006).  “Woman of Exodus II”: Irene Poelzer, the Women’s Movement, and teacher education.  In P. Stortz and L. Panayotidis (Eds.). Historical identities: The professoriate in Canada.  Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.

Hallman, D. & Lathrop, A. (2006). Sustaining the fire of “scholarly passion”: Mary G. Hamilton (1883-1972) and Irene Poelzer (1926-).  In E. Smyth and P. Bourne (Eds.). Women teaching, women learning: Historical perspectives  (pp.    ) Toronto, ON: Inanna Publications. 

Refereed Articles
Hallman, D. (2004).   Making a window where none was: Ruth Roach Pierson and poetic pedagogy.  Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal.  Special Issue 2. 71-2.

Hallman, D.M. (2003).  Traditions and transitions in teacher education: The case of Saskatchewan.  Tidskrift för lärarutbildning och forskning/Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 10(3-4), 169-185.  (14 pp). 

D. Hallman, 2002.  Rights, Justice, Power: Gendered Perspectives on Prohibition in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada.  History of Intellectual Culture 2(1).  See http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/issue_toc.html

D. Hallman, 2001.  Agnes Maule Machar on the Higher Education of Women.  Historical Studies in Education, 13(2).

Poetry
Miller, D. (2008 Winter). On becoming a poet. Women Writing and Reading Magazine Vol 2 (3) (pp7-10) Available on-line http://www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/wwr_magazine/mags/WWRMag_6.pdf

Miller, D. (2007).  Beginning of Beyond; Genesis, or Gen/Isis; and Ruminations on English Country Gardens. Room of One’s Own.

Miller, D (2007). Cherry Carnival, Bear River. CV2 30/2: 53.

Miller, D. (2006) The visit. The Fieldstone Review, 1 (April 2006). Retrieved from http://www.fieldstonereview.usask.ca/

Hallman, D. 2002.  Cutting Seed. The Antigonish Review, 131, 74. (Poem)

Hallman, D.  2002.  Recollections.  Grain Magazine, 30(1), 89. (Poem)

Hallman, D. 2001.  Panhandler.  The Amethyst Review, 9(1), 24-5. (Poem)

Grants

SSHRC Standard Research Grant “Becoming a teacher: The transition experiences of beginning teachers in Saskatchewan”
Principal investigator: Laurie Hellsten-Bzovey
Co-investigators: Gwen Dueck, Bruce Karlenzig, Janet McVittie, Stephanie Martin, Cecilia Reynolds, Dianne Miller

SSHRC Standard Research Grant  (1999-2003). "Traditions and transitions in teacher education"
Principal investigator: Sandra Acker, OISE/UT
Co-investigators, Jo-Ann Dillabough, OISE/UT; Dianne Hallman, University of Saskatchewan; Therese Hamel, Laval University; Elizabeth Smyth, OISE/UT.