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The University of British Columbia
- a place of mind
- Faculty of Education
- Department of Educational Studies
My teaching and research are in the areas of social justice and educational policy and leadership. I am particularly interested in the following areas: (1) media and educational leadership, (2) the role of media in policymaking, (3) academic-media engagement and (4) lifelong critical media education. Prior to coming to UBC in 2003 I served as the Communications Director for the BC Children’s Commission. I was also a political advisor to former Minister of Education, Art Charbonneau. I have worked with children, youth, journalists and educators to understand how to strategically engage with media and policymakers on critical issues of education. I am also interested in how children and youth could be included more in how they are represented in the media and in ensuring equitable resources for young people to create their own media. One of the courses I teach involves graduate students and high school students creating media collaboratively. Issues of social justice and equity are central to my work.
IN PRINT, REFEREED: Stack, M. (2010) 'Spin as symbolic capital: The fields of journalism and education policy- making: A Bourdieuan reading'. International Journal of Leadership in Education. 13.2 (2010): 107 - 119.
IN PRINT, REFEREED: 'Stack, M. (2010). “In movies, someone always has to play the bad guy”: Mediatized subjectivities and youth media production'. Nordic Journal of English Studies. 9.3 (2010): 197 - 217.
IN PRINT, REFEREED: Stack, Michelle. 'Video production and youth-adult collaboration: Openings and dilemmas'. McGill Journal of Education. 44.2 (2009): 299 - 318.
IN PRINT, REFEREED: Stack, Michelle and Andre Mazawi. 'New administrative frontiers” as “technologies of governance:The discursive construction of educational leadership in British Columbia'. Management in Education. 23.4 (2009): 71 - 77.
REPORTS
Stack, Michelle, A. Mazawi, D. Coulter, G. Grosjean , G. Smith and . Fostering educational leadership in British Columbia. British Columbia Educational Leadership Center. 2006.
IN PRINT, REFEREED: Stack, Michelle. 'Spectacle and symbolic subversion: Canadian youth-adult collaboration on war and commodification'. Journal of Children and Media. 2.2 (2007): 114 - 128.
IN PRINT, REFEREED: Stack, Michelle. 'Constructing "common-sense" policies for schools: The role of journalists in the construction of "mainstream" stories about education'. International Journal of Leadership in Education. 10.3 (2007): 247 - 264.
IN PRINT, REFEREED: Stack, Michelle. 'Testing, testing read all about it: Canadian coverage of international tests results. Canadian Journal of Education. 29.1 (2006): 49 - 69.
IN PRINT, REFEREED: Stack, Michelle. 'Made for TV: Selling kids’ suffering and creating angels to save them.'Taboo:The Journal of Culture and Education. 8.1 (2005): 7 - 22.
BOOK CHAPTERS
IN PRESS, REFEREED: Kelly, Deirdre and Michelle Stack. 'Bridging journalistic-academic divides to promote democratic dialogue and debate'. Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research: Politics, Languages and Responsibilitie. Routledge Books, 2011.
IN PRINT: Reprint of: Stack, Michelle. 'Made for TV: Selling kids’ suffering and creating angels to save them. '. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. 8.1 (2005): 7 - 22. Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education. Ed. Shirley Steinberg and Cornish Lindsay. Peter Lang, 2010. 179 - 196.
UNREFEREED PUBLICATIONS
IN PRINT: Stack, Michelle and Deirdre Kelly. 'Introduction to the Special Issue.'. Canadian Journal of Education. 29.1 (2006): 1 - 4.
IN PRINT: Stack, Michelle and D. Kelly. 'Popular media, education, and resistance'. Canadian Journal of Education. 29.1 (2006): 5 - 26.
IN PRINT: Stack, Michelle. Report card on women and children.
<http://www.wmst.ubc.ca/pdf_files/fwcbcRep/FWCBCMar04.pdf>.
IN PRINT: Boler, Megan. 'Review of Digital media and democracy: Tactics in hard times'. Review of: Digital media and democracy: Tactics in hard times. 2008. Paideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Societ. 17.2: pp. 99 - 102.
N PRINT, REFEREED: Stack, Michelle. 'Representing school success and failure: Media coverage of international tests'. Policy Futures in Education. 5.1 (2007): 100 - 110.
REFERENCE MATERIALS
IN PRESS: 'Spectacles'. Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture . Southerton, Dale. Routledge Books. 2011.
IN PRINT: ' Media as pedagogue and policy actor: Claiming space for alternative frames '. Battleground schools: An encyclopedia of conflict and controversy.. Mathison, Sandra and Wayne Ross. 400 - 406. Greenwood Publishing. 2008.
IN PRINT: 'Endorsing an angel: Peggy Claude-Pierre, the media and psychology. '. The Praeger handbook of education and psychology . Ed. J.L. Kincheloe , R.A. Horn and . Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007. 400 - 409.
Project title: Bridging the Divide between Academe and Journalism: Design Research into Student Journalists’ Engagement with Academic Sources (2009-2011) Role: Principal Investigator, Co-investigators - Deirdre Kelly, Dave Beers, Mary-Lynn Young, Granting agency: UBC Hampton Fund
Project title: Developing Literacies: Youth-Adult Collaborative Media Education (2004-2009). Role:Principal Investigator, Granting agency: SSHRC
Project Title: Journalists, Policymakers and What Happens in Schools: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Journalists and Educational Policymakers. (2004-2007) Role: Principal Investigator Granting Agency: Hampton
Current Students
John Vellacott (Ed.D) Co-supervising with Kjell Rubenson
Amea Wilbur (Ed.D)
Junie Brayley (Ed.D)
Chris Gratham (Ed.D)
Mishca Greenwood (M.A.) Co-supervising with Andre Mazawi
Masayuki Iwase (Ph.D)
Alana Felix (M.Ed)
Students Completed
May Wong (M.Ed)
Vivian Luk (M.A Journalism)
Sarah Anne Mills, (M.A)
Kveta Safarik, (M.A.)
Jingchan Liu (M.Ed)
Yee, Favian (M.Ed)
Janet Huang (M.Ed)
Huafen, Cai (M.Ed)
EADM 425: Anthropology of Education
EADM 565: Special Topics, 1) Media, Education Policy and Leadership, 2) Collaborative Media Production with Youth
EDST 503A: Ethnography and Education
EDST 577: The Social Context of Educational Policy
EADM 554: Education Leadership and Policy
EADM 553: Educational Leadership Group Inquiry (Capstone)
EDST 508: Research Methods
Article and video about teaching
Highlighted for a special issue of Tapestry.
Upcoming Course Development
Received University Investment Fund (2009) grant to develop a new hybrid online/face-to-face course on media education and leadership.
Guest lectures for Humanities 101
Speaker at the BCTF summer conference
Workshops on media and education
American Education Research Association
Canadian Society for Studies in Education
International Communication Association
Indigenous Education Institute of Canada, Adjunct Member
British Columbia Association of Media Educators
Center for Leadership and Diversity, Affiliated Member
