Brandon University join the BU Faculty of Education and BU CARES in welcoming Dr. Jessica Gannaway, this year’s Stanley Knowles Distinguished Visiting Professor.
The Stanley Knowles Distinguished Visiting Professor is an opportunity for Brandon University to have visiting scholars with an international reputation for excellence in research/scholarship in their discipline or interdisciplinary area, related to comparative public policy with Canadian content. The Professorship benefits the University as a whole and the surrounding community.
Dr. Gannaway is a Lecturer and researcher in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. After beginning her career as a secondary school literacy teacher in remote NT, Jessica has worked in both public and private sector schools in the Northern Territory and Victoria. Additionally, she has worked with teachers, school leaders and Departments of Education to codesign professional development and improve classroom relationships through teacher reflexivity practices. She coordinates the First Nations in Education (Secondary) subject within the Master of Teaching.
Her areas of research, scholarship and publications include: relationality and identity in education, and teacher dispositions in relation to cultural responsiveness, truth-telling and anti-racist pedagogies. Her work emphasizes the significance of teachers cultivating a thorough understanding of their own worldview, ontology, and epistemology, underscoring how this fosters enriched relationships within the school community.
Dr. Gannaway will be on campus from Aug. 1, 2025 to Sept. 30, 2025. She will be located in the BU CARES offices of the Education Building, room 110-2 from Monday to Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Stop by to visit with Dr. Gannaway! Her topics of interest include culturally responsive literacy practices, discomfort and difficult knowledges, truth-telling pedagogies, and relational and reparative pedagogy. She looks forward to meeting you.
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