Marcia McKenzie

Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Designations

• Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Theory and Implementation, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
• Master of Education in Studies in Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Education, Brock University
• Outdoor Leadership, Capilano College
• Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of British Columbia

Email: marcia.mckenzie@usask.ca
Phone: (306) 966-7551

Areas of Interest

• Place, environment, and sustainability
• Social justice, globalization, critical issues
• Youth culture and activism
• Social and cultural theory
• Educational policy and practice
• Participatory forms of education and research
• Methodologies and politics of research
• Media and technology

Recent Grants/Awards

Grants

• SSHRC Partnership Grant LOI, 2001, Principal Investigator
• SSHRC Standard Grant, 2011 - 2014, Principal Investigator
• USTEP Grant, U of S, 2011
• Technology Enhanced Learning Grant, U of S, 2010
• Global Partners II, IDRC, 2010
• Tri-council Bridge Funding, U of S, 2010
• Research Acceleration Grant, University of Saskatchewan, 2009.
• John Ranton MacIntosh Research Grant, University of Saskatchewan. 2009.
• President's SSHRC Fund, University of Saskatchewan, 2009.
• President's SSHRC Fund, University of Saskatchewan. 2008.
• SSHRC Standard Grant. 2005-2008. Principal Investigator.
• President's SSHRC Fund, University of Saskatchewan. 2007.
• SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2004-2007. Theory and Policy Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto and Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia

Awards

• Supervisor to Winner of the Social Sciences Graduate Thesis Award, David Peacock, 2010
• Nomination, Oustanding New Teacher, University of Saskatchewan, 2010, 2011
• United Nations Universities Award for Excellence in Education for Sustainable Development, for the program 'University of Saskatchewan Social and Ecological Justice Teacher Education Cohort', 2008

Select Publications

Books and Journal Special Issues

• McKenzie, M. & Tuck, E. (accepted). Place in research: Theories, methodologies, methods. London: Routledge.
• McKenzie, M. (accepted). Narration, place, and the social: Practices of socio-ecological education. New York: Peter Lang.
• McCoy, K., Tuck, E., & McKenzie, M. (accepted). Special Issue on “Land-based Education: Indigenous, postcolonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place and environmental education research.” Volume 18, Environmental Education Research.
• McKenzie, M., & Greenwood, D. (2009). Special Issue on “Context, experience, and the socioecological: Inquiries into practice.” Volume 14, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education.
• McKenzie, M., Hart, P., Bai, H., & Jickling, B. (Eds.). 2009. Fields of green: Restorying culture, environment, and education. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• McKenzie, M. (in press). Education for y’all: Global neoliberalism and the case for a politics of scale in sustainability education policy. Policy Futures in Education, 10 (2).
• McKenzie, M. (in press). Time, space, and the social: The giving and taking of accounts in the representation of youth. In A. Reid, P. Hart, C. Russell, & M. Peters (Eds.). SAGE companion handbook on educational research. London: Sage.
• McKenzie, M., Russell, C., Fawcett, L., & Timmerman, N. 2010. Popular media, intersubjective learning, and cultural production. In R. Stevenson & J. Dillon (Eds.), Environmental education: Learning, culture, and agency. Rotterdam: Sense Publications.
• McKenzie, M. 2009. Scholarship as intervention: Critique, collaboration, and the research imagination. Environmental Education Research, 15(2), 217-226.
• Greenwood, D. A., & McKenzie, M. 2009. Context, experience, and the socioecological: Inquiries into practice. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 14, 5-14.
• McKenzie, M. 2008. The places of pedagogy: Or, what we can do with culture through intersubjective experiences. Environmental Education Research, 14(3). Invited response article.
• McKenzie, M., & Timmerman, N. 2008. The relationality of web-based hypermedia research: A working example in teacher education. In S. Springgay, R. Irwin, C. Leggo, & P. Gouzouasis (Eds.), Being with Art/o/graphy (pp. 124-140). Roderdam: Sense Publishers.
• McKenzie, M. 2007. Social learning and resistance: Towards contingent agency. In A. Wals (Ed.), Social learning toward a more sustainable world: Principles, perspectives, and praxis, (pp. 331-349). Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
• McKenzie, M. 2006. Three portraits of resistance: The (un)making of Canadian students. Canadian Journal of Education, 29(1), 199-222.
• McKenzie, M., & Blenkinsop, S. 2006. An ethic of care and educational practice. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 6(2), 91-106.
• McKenzie, M. 2005. The "post-post period" and environmental education research. Environmental Education Research, 11(4), 401-412. Special issue focus article.
• McKenzie, M. 2005. Second thoughts on post-critical inquiry. Environmental Education Research, 11(4), 455-462. Invited response article.
• McKenzie, M. 2004. The "willful contradiction" of poststructural socio-ecological education. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 9, 177-190.
• McKenzie, M. 2003. Beyond "the Outward Bound process:" Rethinking student learning. Journal of Experiential Education, 26(1), 8-23.


Select Presentations

• McKenzie, M. (2011, June). What we can do with culture: Socio-ecological experience towards cultural change. Invited Keynote, Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan.
• McKenzie, M. (2011, May). Politics, policy, and practices of ESD. Invited Keynote, Graduate Program in Education for Sustainable Development Conference. Uppsala, Sweden.
• McKenzie, M. (2011, April). When oil meets water: Anticipating our environmental future through time and space. American Education Research Association Invited Plenary Panel, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• McKenzie, M. (2010, June). Politics of inhabitation: The interscaler contexts of socio-ecological learning. Theorizing Education Conference, The Stirling Institute of Education, Stirling, Scotland.
• McKenzie, M., Kayira, J., & Wals, A. (2009, May). ESD for all?: The paradox of global prescriptions for local development/participation. World Environmental Education Congress, Montreal, Quebec.
• McKenzie, M. (2009, March). Culture as practice and the research imagination, in panel on Participation, Social Justice, and Theory. American Association of Geographers Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• McKenzie, M. (2008, October). Environmental Education research: To what end? Invited Opening Panelist, North American Association for Environmental Education Research Symposium, Wichita, Kansas.
• McKenzie, M. (2008, June). Intersubjectivity, pedagogy, and the socio-ecological. Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory. Cardiff University, UK.

Current Courses

• EFDT 478.3 – Urban Education
• EFDT 479.3 – Land-based Education
• EFDT 335.3 – First Nations and Cross Cultural Education
• EDFT 435.3 - Educational Thought and Values: Critical Perspectives
• EFDT 870.3 – Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Foundations of Education
• EDFT 885.3 - Investigations in Culture and Environment
• ENVS 802.3 – Human Dimensions of Environmental Change
• EDRES 800.3 - Research Methods
• ENVS 898.3 - Qualitative Research Methodologies and Methods