Casey Burkholder

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

Participatory visual research methodologies; qualitative and ethnographic research methodologies; cellphilms (cellphone video production); gender; identity; belonging; intersectional civic engagement; youth activism; critical social studies education.

Teaching

• ED 5621 – Introduction to Social Studies in Elementary Education (Winter 2018)
• ED 5050 – Practicum Supervision (Fall/Winter 2017-2018)
• ED 6904 – Introduction to Critical Studies (Fall 2017)

Selected writing

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. 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., Crump, A., & Godfrey-Smith, L. (2017). Unofficial multilingualism in an intercultural province: Micro-level case studies of policy as lived experience. Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity (J-BILD), 1(1), 5-24.

Burkholder, C. (2017). “Before Occupy Central, I wasn’t concerned”: Examining participatory visual research for social change with Hong Kong based Filipina youth activists. Language and Literacy, 19(2), 56-73.

Burkholder, C. & Watt, D. (2017). Editorial: Literacies of civic engagement: Negotiating digital, political and linguistic tensions. Language and Literacy, 19(2), 1-3.

Burkholder, C. (2017). Who’s 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.

Burkholder, C. (2016). On keeping public visual fieldnotes as reflexive ethnographic practice. McGill Journal of Education, 51(2), 907-916.

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.

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

Burkholder, C. (2016). We are HK too!: Disseminating cellphilms in a participatory archive. In K. MacEntee, C. Burkholder, and J. Schwab-Cartas (Eds.). What’s a cellphilm?: Integrating mobile phone technology into participatory visual research and activism. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Schwab-Cartas, J., MacEntee, K., & Burkholder, C. (2016). Where do we go from here? A conclusion. In K. MacEntee, C. Burkholder, and J. Schwab-Cartas (Eds.). What’s a cellphilm?: Integrating mobile phone technology into participatory visual research and activism. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Burkholder, C. (2016). Editorial: Negotiating settler colonialism, activism and emerging scholarly identities. Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 7(2), 1-3.

Burkholder, C. (2016). Editorial: From the personal to the institutional: Exploring language and identity across spaces. Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 7(1), 1-3.

Burkholder, C., Makremalla, M., Abdou, E., Khan, F., & Khoja, N. (2015). Why study power in digital spaces anyway? Considering power and participatory visual methods. Perspectives in Education, 33(4), 6-22.

Filion, M. & Burkholder, C. (2015). Intercultural education for all? A comparative analysis of intercultural educational policies in Quebec and Hong Kong. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 17(2), 21-35.

Mitchell, C. & Burkholder, C. (2015). Chapter 43: Literacies and research as social change. In J. Rowsell and K. Pahl (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies, (pp. 649-662). New York, NY and London, UK: Routledge.

Burkholder, C. & Filion, M. (2014). Educating adults for citizenship: Critiquing adequate language practices and Canada’s Citizenship Test. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. 26(4), 1-14.

Burkholder, C. (2014). [Review of the book Complex classroom encounters: A South African perspective]. Journal of Language Teaching, 48(1), 215-217.

Burkholder, C. (2013). ‘Just the school makes us non-Chinese’: Contrasting the discourses of Hong Kong’s Education Bureau with the lived experiences of its Non-Chinese Speaking secondary school population. Journal of Educational Research for Social Change, 2(2), 43-58.

Burkholder, C. (2012). [Review of the book Undoing whiteness in the classroom: Critical educultural teaching approaches for social justice activism]. McGill Journal of Education, 47(2), 251-253.

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.

Organizing and institutional service

Fredericton Feminist Film Collective, Co-Founder, October 2017–present

Administrative Support Committee – Faculty of Education (UNB), Committee Member, September 2017–present

Field Services Committee – Faculty of Education (UNB), Committee Member, September 2017–present

WIPS – Works in Progress Sessions Organizing Committee (UNB), Committee Member/Co-organizer, August 2017–present

Pre-Service Teacher Professional Development – Faculty of Education (UNB), Preparing to Teach in International Contexts. February 2018

Pre-Service Teacher Professional Development – Faculty of Education (UNB), Arts-based Approaches to Sexuality Education, January 2018

Pre-Service Teacher Professional Development – Faculty of Education (UNB), DIY Media-making for the Classroom, January 2018

Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada, CSSE Conference Co-Organizer, June 2017–June 2018

Creative Connections Conference - Atlantic Centre for Creativity (UNB), Committee Member/ Volunteer Coordinator, September–December 2017

International Cellphilm Festival, Organizer, December 2013–present