Ronna Mosher

PhD

Positions

Assistant Professor

Werklund School of Education, Specialization, Curriculum and Learning

Director, Graduate Professional Programs in Education

Werklund School of Education, Graduate Programs in Education

Contact information

rhmosher@ucalgary.ca

For media enquiries, contact

Clayton MacGillivray
Content and Media Specialist

Email: clmacgil@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @UCalgaryEduc

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy , University of Calgary, 2007

M.A. , University of Calgary, 1999

Bach of Education , University of Calgary, 1984

Research

Areas of Research

Interests:

Curriculum studies
Classroom practice
Language Arts and Literacy education
Teacher theorizing
Posthuman studies
Interpretive inquiry

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Human dynamics in a changing world

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
EDUC 435	Literacy, Language and Culture	Fall 2023
EDER 711	Adv Research Methodologies I	Fall 2022, 2023
EDER 693.11	Uncovering the Curriculum	Summer 2021, 2022

Projects

Playful(l) Literacies: Language and Literacy Learning in the Early Elementary Years

A SSHRC Insight Development Grant exploring playful(l) language and literacy learning in Alberta Gr. 1 and 2 classrooms.

Play and Early Literacy Learning in the Community

A collaborative community project with a focus on the ways different understandings of play may contribute to learning before and as children enter school.

Publications

Journal articles

Unsettling childhood literacies: Contamination as collaboration in transmedia encounters. Lenters, K., Mosher, R., & Hanzel, S.. Unsettling childhood literacies: Contamination as collaboration in transmedia encounters. (2022)
Playing the story: Learning with young children’s in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play. Lenters, K., Mosher, R., & MacDonald, J.. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. (2022)
Teaching, learning, and the public: Interpretations of teachers’ classroom images. Interchange. Mosher, R.. Interchange. (2022)
Play and literacy learning in Grades 1 and 2: An exploratory study of teacher perspectives. Mosher, R., Lenters, K., & Boss, H.. Alberta Journal of Educational Research. (2023)