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Dr Samia Costandi, Assoc. Dean of Research

Ahlia University

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

The Drake Lecture for 2012 (Keynote Address): Journal of Philosophy & History of Education, 2013, vol. 63, no. 1, 2013. pp. xxv-xxxix. Keynote address presented at the Society of Philosophy & History of Education Conference (September 27-September 29, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Chase Park Plaza) Title of presentation: In the Footsteps of Socrates, Walking the Talk Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-0p573EzQk
Article entitled: Meandering through My Epistemological Patchwork Quilt: A Narrative Inquiry of my Landscapes of Learning. Journal of Philosophy & History of Education Vol. 60, 2010, pp. 86-100. Available at: http://www.journalofphilosophyandhistoryofeducation.com/BB4F3C9C-3D39-4AD0-B06B-0236F5F0FD85/FinalDownload/DownloadId-C1A6F46C6569EF40734283E98C1A4048/BB4F3C9C-3D39-4AD0-B06B-0236F5F0FD85/jophe60.pdf
Article: First Author of article entitled: Justice Across Cultures: Personal Narratives from the Near East and the South East Journal of Interdisciplinary Education (Journal of the World Council for Curriculum & Instruction) Available at: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuYWN3Y2NpfGd4OjZmMTQwMTczOTc4YWM1MTI Vol. IX, 2010, pp. 29-47. Second author: Mrs. Kamala Louvelle.
(Invited) Article entitled: The Poetics of Conflict & Reconciliation: A Narrative of Palestinian Dispossession. Dulia et Latria Journal Volume II, 2009. Available at: http://www.duliaetlatria.com/volume%202%20(2009),%20toc.htm
In Press: Concurrently: Article in the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies (MJES – Special Issue) as well as a chapter in Andres Elias Mezzawi and Ronald Sultana’s forthcoming edited book on Academic Governance in the Arab World – post Cambridge Conference – to be published by https://www.sensepublishers.com
Proceedings of an International Conference organized by Ahlia University, Kingdom of Bahrain, 3 – 4 June 2007: Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Issues & Challenges. Editors: Abdulla Y. Al-Hawaj, Wajeeh Ali, & E.H. Twizell. London, UK: CRC Press: Taylor & Francis Group. 2008.
Invited contributing author in the edited book entitled: Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation; co-editors Dr. Ronit Lentin, Professor of Ethnic and Racial Studies (University of Dublin) and Dr. Nahla Abdo, Professor of Sociology (Carleton University, Ottawa) Berghahn Press, Oxford & New York; Spring 2002.
Book Review in the McGill Journal of Education, Spring/Summer 2002. Author Grace Feuerverger, ToutledgeFalmer, 2001, ISBN 0-4159-2938-3: Oasis of Dreams: Teaching & Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel.
Inkshed: Newsletter of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning, Spring 2001, title of my front page article: Multicultural Hues: Using Writing to Discover Self and Other.
Inkshed, summer 1999. Title of article: Cultural Bridges & Student Testimonies.
 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Keynote Address as Drake Lecturer for 2012 by Dr S. Costandi at the Society of Philosophy & History of Education Conference (September 27-September 29, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Chase Park Plaza) Title of presentation: In the Footsteps of Socrates, Walking the Talk
Presentation at the International Society for Educational Biography, Twenty Eighth Conference (April 26-28, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri, USA) Title of Presentation: Transgressing the Traditional: A Biographical Record of Student Responses to Non-Traditional Teaching Methodology in Two Courses
Society of Philosophy and History of Education Conference (September 29-October 1st, 2011) San Antonio, Texas, USA. Title of Presentation: Transformational Education in the Arab World in Light of the Arab Spring.
July 7-10, 2010: Gulf Research Meeting at Cambridge University in England; Title of Presentation: At the Intersection of Academia & Higher Education Governance in the GCC: An Inside View from Bahrain. Co-Conveners of session: Professor Andre Elias Mezzawi and Professor Ronald Sultana.
April 22-24, 2010: 27th Annual Conference of the International Society for Educational Biography, St. Louis, Missouri. Title of Presentation: Olive branches in Sunlit Patios: Inroads to the Life & Work of Bayan Nuwayhed Al-Hout, A Palestinian Academic.
July 14th-July 16th 2009: Co-Presented at the Interdisciplinary Education Conference (2009) of World Council for Curriculum & Instruction – North American Chapter. Presentation title: Defining Justice Within & Across Cultures.
April 30th – May 2nd, 2009: Presented at 26th Annual Conference of the International Society for Educational Biography, Menger Hotel, San- Antonio, Texas, USA. Presentation Title: My Educational Journey: Epistemological Issues within Decolonization from Grand Narratives.
October 16-18: 2008: Presented at Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA. Conference Theme: The Poetics of Conflict & Reconciliation. Presentation title: Some Ethical Dilemmas of Reconciliation: the Problem of Palestinian Acknowledgement.
March 6-9, 2008: Presented at ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Conference at Christ Church University in Canterbury, England. Theme of Conference: The Emotional Dimensions of Learning and Researching Lives: A Neglected Species? Presentation title: Emotional Aspects of Learning and Doing Research as an Academic and Activist.
23-25 November, 2007: Presented at Think Tank of American University of Kuwait Conference in Kuwait city on Gender & Liberal Arts Education – Hollings Center Grant.
June 3rd and 4, 2007: Presented at AHLIA Conference on Educational priorities for the twenty first century: Presentation Title: Multicultural challenging strategies for the amelioration of higher education in Bahrain.
March 1- 5, 2007: Presented a paper at ESREA Conference in Roskilde University, Denmark (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults). Paper entitled: Between Arab Middle East and West: Exploring the life & work of a Palestinian Canadian teacher through Narrative Inquiry.
May 13/96: ACFAS Conference, McGill University: Part of Dr. Ratna Ghosh’s group. I presented paper on the Philosophical Underpinnings of Multicultural Education.

BOOKS

A Palestinian Canadian Educator’s Narrative Inquiry. (2013). Saarbrucken: Germany: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-659-39592-5. Available at:
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CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Invited contributing author in the edited book entitled: Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation; Co-editors Dr. Ronit Lentin, Professor of Ethnic and Racial Studies (University of Dublin) and Dr. Nahla Abdo, Professor of Sociology (Carleton University, Ottawa) Berghahn Press, Oxford & New York; Spring 2002.
 

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