Casey Burkholder

Associate Professor

PhD

Education, Faculty of

Marshall d'Avray Hall 351

Fredericton

casey.burkholder@unb.ca



Education

  • PhD: Educational Studies – McGill University (2018)
  • M.A.: Educational Studies – Concordia University (2013)
  • B.Ed: Secondary (English, Social Studies) – Acadia University (2008)
  • B.A. (Hons.): History – University of Manitoba (2006)

Areas of interest

Dr. Casey Burkholder is interested in critical teacher-education and participatory visual research. In choosing a research path at the intersection of queer joy, resistance, and activism, gender, sexuality, DIY media-making, art production and participatory archiving, Dr. Burkholder engages in research for social change through participatory visual approaches to local issues with youth and pre-service teachers.

Graduate teaching

  • ED 6102 – Introduction to Research Methodologies
  • ED 6131 – Educators as Researchers
  • ED 6904 – Introduction to Critical Studies
  • ED 6118 – Participatory Visual Research Methodologies for Teaching, Research and Social Change
  • ED 6119 – Theories, Research-Informed Pedagogies and Ethical Issues in Sex Education

Undergraduate teaching

  • ED 5067 – Sex Education Methods
  • ED 5213 – Issues in Visual Education
  • ED 5621 – Introduction to Social Studies in Elementary Education
  • ED 5625 – Introduction to Teaching Secondary Social Studies
  • ED 5050 – Practicum Supervision
  • ED 3641 – Geography in Education

Selected writing

Edited books

Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. & Aladejebi, F. (2023). Facilitating visual socialities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research facilitation. Palgrave MacMillan.

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2022). Facilitating community research for social change: Case studies in qualitative, arts-based and visual research. Routledge.

Burkholder, C. & Thompson, J. (2020). Fieldnotes in qualitative education and social science research: Approaches, practices, and ethical considerations. New York, NY: Routledge.

MacEntee, K., Burkholder, C., & Schwab-Cartas, J. (Eds.). (2016). What’s a cellphilm?: Integrating mobile phone technology into participatory visual research and activism. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Special issues

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (Eds.). (2022). Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation. Visual Studies. 37(1-2).

Peer review articles

Alderson, C., Brooke, A., Burkholder, C., Gerbrandt, M., Hartnet, K., Heer, A., Karma, P., Keehn, M., Palmer-Carroll, L. (2023). What meaning can we make together? On learning to code qualitative research data with graduate students in education. Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 14(1), 12-22.

Lebel, S, Cruickshank, L. & Burkholder, C. (2022). Pivoting feminist praxis: From a writing collective to pandemic pedagogies. Feminist Pedagogy. 2(1), 1-6.

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2022). Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation: Opportunities, tensions & ethical considerations. Visual Studies, 37(1-2), 7-10.

Burkholder, C. & Thorpe, A. (2022). Facilitating gender-affirming participatory visual research in embodied and online spaces. Visual Studies, 37(1-2), 37-46.

Rogers, M. & Burkholder, C. (2022). “I feel like there should have been an opportunity for consultation”: Navigating pandemic education reforms with New Brunswick teachers. Our Schools/ Our Selves: Education in crisis. 9-13.

Burkholder, C. & Chase, A. (2021). Exploring the creative geographies of work with pre-service social studies teachers: Exposing intersections of time and labour in New Brunswick, Canada. McGill Journal of Education, 55(3), 1-20.

Burkholder, C. (2021). Cellphilming and building solidarity with queer youth to speak back to historical erasures in New Brunswick Social Studies classrooms. The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies. 0(1), 113-132.

Burkholder, C., MacEntee, K., Mandrona, A., & Thorpe, A. (2021). Co-producing digital archives with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth amidst COVID-19. Qualitative Research Journal. Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.

Burkholder, C., Hamill, K. & Thorpe, A. (2021). Zine production with queer youth and pre-service teachers in New Brunswick, Canada: Exploring connection, divergences and visual practices. Canadian Journal of Education. 44(1), 89-115.

Burkholder, C., Ramos Pakit, A., & Soriano, J. (2021). Examining gender and resistance with Filipina young women in post-Umbrella Revolution Hong Kong through cellphilm method and collaborative writing. Studies in Social Justice, 15(1), 25-42.

Burkholder, C. & Rogers, M. (2020). Screening participatory visual research in live-audience and online spaces: Tensions, contradictions, and opportunities. Visual Methodologies, 8(1), 1-15.

Burkholder, C. & Hamill, K. (2020). Pandemic Geography methods: Exploring space, place, humans and the Anthropocene in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Textshop Experiments, 7(5).

Burkholder, C. (2020). Exploring participatory visual research methodologies with queer, trans, and non-binary youth in a research for social change framework. Antistasis, 10(10), 130-142.

Saul, R. & Burkholder, C. (2020). Intellectualizing Whiteness as a Response to Campus Racism: Some Concerns. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 1-18.

Saul, R., & Burkholder, C. (2020). Making waste as a practice of freedom: On temporality and time wasting in the academy. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 19 (3).

Burkholder, C. & Thorpe, A. (2019). Cellphilm production as posthumanist research method to explore injustice with queer youth in New Brunswick, Canada. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology.

Burkholder, C. & Frawley, A. (2019). Revisiting and disrupting uncritical diversity narratives through autoethnography and cellphilming. LEARNing Landscapes, 12(1), 63-76.

Saul, R. & Burkholder, C. (2019). Schooling futures in tension: On competing discourses at a technology education summit. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 1-22.

Burkholder, C. & Gube, J. (2018). ‘When our racial identities are entangled with our scholarly endeavors’: (Re)presenting the identities of ethnic minority students in Hong Kong. Visual Studies, 1-12.

Book chapters

Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. & Aladejebi, F. (2023). Introduction. Facilitating visualities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research. In C. Burkholder, J. Schwab-Cartas & F. Aladejebi (Eds.) Facilitating visual socialities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research facilitation. Palgrave MacMillan.

Burkholder, C., Thorpe, A. & Pride/Swell. (2023). Facilitating gender-affirming participatory visual research in embodied and online spaces. In C. Burkholder, J. Schwab-Cartas & F. Aladejebi (Eds.) Facilitating visual socialities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research facilitation. Palgrave MacMillan.

Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. & Aladejebi, F. (2023). Facilitating ethical visual sociological research: What difference can we make together? In C. Burkholder, J. Schwab-Cartas & F. Aladejebi (Eds.) Facilitating visual socialities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research facilitation. Palgrave MacMillan.

Burkholder, C. & MacEntee, K. (2023). What does a cellphilm (cellphone + film production + intention) sound like? The ethics and aesthetics of sound and silence within cellphilm method. In S. Woodland & W. Vachon (Eds.), Sonic engagement: The ethics and aesthetics of community engaged audio practice. Routledge.

Burkholder, C. (2022). Teaching geography education in the Anthropocene: Focusing on settler colonialism, slow violence, and solidarity-building in New Brunswick through DIY art production. Teaching in the Anthropocene. (pp. Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press.

Noreiga A. & Burkholder, C. (2022). Forging queer solidarities in Trinidad and Tobago and New Brunswick, Canada through cellphilm method. Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021, 42, 119-137.

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2022). What about facilitation? Thinking about ethical considerations in qualitative, community-based, and visual research for social change. Leading and listening to community: Facilitating qualitative, arts-based, and visual research for social change. (pp. 1-14). Routledge.

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2022). What have we learned about facilitation? Concluding thoughts. Leading and listening to community: Facilitating qualitative, arts-based, and visual research for social change. (pp. 277-287). Routledge.

Weaver, B., Thorpe, A., Mandrona, A., MacEntee, K., Burkholder C. & Pride/Swell (2022). Theorizing non-participation in a mail-based participatory visual research project with 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Atlantic Canada. Leading and listening to community: Facilitating qualitative, arts-based, and visual research for social change. (pp. 127-142). Routledge.

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F., & Thompson, J. (2022). Engaging DIY media making to explore existing dystopic conditions with queer youth in New Brunswick, Canada. In C. Lee, C. Burnett & J. Rowesell (Eds.) Literacy in Uncertain Times. (pp. 165-180). Springer.

Burkholder, C. (2021). Think/Film/Screen/Change: Negotiating ethics with rural New Brunswick girls and trans and non-binary youth. In. R. Moletsane, A. Mandrona & L. Wiesbesiek (Eds.), Ethical practice in participatory visual research with girls: Transnational approaches, (pp. 43-63). Bergahn.

Burkholder, C., Cruickshank, L., & Lebel, S. (2021). Feminist write club as activist practice: Creating space for collaboration, solidarity, and strategizing within the institution. Sister scholars: Untangling issues of identity as women in the academy. (pp. 31-40). DIO Press.

Burkholder, C. & Cutrara, S. (2020). Pandemic pedagogy. Casey Burkholder in conversation with Dr. Samantha Cutrara. (Imagining a New We video series). Pandemic Pedagogy. Open educational resource.

Burkholder, C. (2020). Chapter 10: Looking within and looking around: On cellphilming with pre-service Social Studies teachers in Prince Edward Island. In K.C. Schmitz, M. Cotnam-Kappel, & N. Grant, (Eds). Infiltrating, interrupting, investigating: Radical youth pedagogy in education, (pp. 167-178). DIO Press.

Burkholder, C. & Rogers, M. (2020). Moving beyond celebration toward action: Screening cellphilms and participatory videos for different audiences. In M. Carter, C. Mitchell & H. Mreiwed (Eds.), Art as an agent for social change, (pp. 10-20). Brill/Sense.

Thompson, J. & Burkholder, C. (2020). What about fieldnotes? An introduction to the collection. In C. Burkholder & J. Thompson (Eds.), (pp. 1-12). Fieldnotes in qualitative education and social science research: Approaches, practices, and ethical considerations. Routledge.

Burkholder, C. (2020). Analysing visual fieldnotes: Looking back on an archive of comic-style fieldnotes. In C. Burkholder & J. Thompson (Eds.), (pp. 234-248). Fieldnotes in qualitative education and social science research: Approaches, practices, and ethical considerations. Routledge.

MacEntee, K., Burkholder, C., & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2019). Cellphilms. In P. Leavy (Ed.) The Oxford handbook of methods for public scholarship, (pp. 419-442). Oxford University Press.

Mitchell, C., Magubane, S., Burkholder, C., & Saloojee, S. (2018). Ethically significant moments in stirring up memories. In C. Mitchell, D. Pillay & K. Pithouse-Morgan (Eds.) Memory mosaics: Researching teacher professional learning through artful memory-work, (pp. 175-192). New York: Springer. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-97106-3

Burkholder, C. (2018). “Democracy! Not just for locals but for us too!”: Exploring multiethnic young people’s calls for social change in Hong Kong through cellphilms. In P. Carr, M. Hoechsmann & G. Thésée (Eds.) Democracy 2.0: Media, political literacy and education in the era of corporate and (potentially) participatory media, (pp. 195-212). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Burkholder, C. (2018). DIY media-making for social change: Hong Kong’s ethnic minority youth speak back to exclusion and call for social action through cellphilms. In S. Bastien & H. Holmarsdottir (Eds.) Youth as architects of change: Global efforts to advance youth-driven innovation for social change, (pp. 155-174). London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Burkholder, C. (2017). Whose Hong Kong? Cellphilming and civic engagement with ethnic minority youth. In S. Malik, C. Chapain & R. Comunian (Eds.). Community filmmaking: Diversity, innovation, policy and practice, (pp. 45-59). New York, NY and London, UK: Routledge.

Research projects

Burkholder, C. (2023). Pride/Swell: An art, activism & archiving project with 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Atlantic Canada.

Burkholder, C. (2023). Supports and barriers to teaching sexuality education in New Brunswick.

Burkholder, C. (2021). Black Lives Matter in New Brunswick education project.

Burkholder, C. (2021). New Brunswick Social Studies methods.

Burkholder, C. (2021). Queer histories matter.

Benoit, K., Burkholder, C., Foreman, K., & Hill, M. (2020). SEQuYN: Sex education queer youth need.

Public lecture

Burkholder, C. (2017, November 23). Mobile Makers: Exploring Community Issues with Youth through Cellphilms (Cellphones + Filmmaking). Faculty of Education Colloquium Series, University of New Brunswick.