Edward HoweProfessor | Faculty of Education and Social Work

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Homepage URL: www.tru.ca/edsw/research/k-16-research-development-network.html

Research Interests

Dr. Howe's main research interests are within teacher education and comparative and international education. He received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship to study Japan's teacher acculturation. He has been awarded a number of TRU research awards including an IRF and SSHRC Accelerator Fund, facilitating the study of internationalization of higher education. Since joining TRU in 2014, Dr. Howe has been engaged with community development research projects, funded through the TRU Community Development Research Fund. These projects include partnerships with School District 73 (DigiPen Project Based Learning); Big Little Science Centre and Mitacs (Clean Air Research); and the Kamloops Music Collective (Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music-KISSM). These projects have also involved the mentoring of both domestic and international undergraduate and graduate students in action research. While Dr. Howe uses qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, he prefers to use comparative ethnographic narrative, a blend of narrative inquiry and reflexive ethnography. Recent publications include papers focused on transcultural teacher education, global citizenship education and an award-winning paper on narrative teacher education pedagogies.

Publications

Selected Recent Publications:

• Howe, E. R. (2022). Teacher Acculturation: Stories of pathways to teaching. Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/61351?rskey=02H0u5&result=2
• Howe, E. R. (2022). Music unites us: a teacher educator and teacher candidate comparative ethnographic narrative inquiry into the benefits of music education. Journal of Education for Teaching: International Pedagogy and Practice (JET), 48(1) 115-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2021.1960152
• Howe, E. R., & Cope Watson, G. (2021). Finding Our Way Through a Pandemic: Teaching in Alternate Modes of Delivery. Frontiers in Education, 6:661513. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.661513
• Howe, E. R., Johnson, S., & Te Momo, F. (2021). Effective Indigenization of Curriculum in Canada and New Zealand: Towards culturally responsive pedagogies. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 16(1), 23???39. http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/JCIE.
• Howe, E. R. & Cope Watson, G. (2020). S-STEP in Comparative and International Education: Comparative Ethnographic Narrative. In C. Edge, A. Cameron-Standerford, & B. Bergh (Eds.), Textiles and Tapestries: Self-Study for Envisioning New Ways of Knowing. EdTech Books. https://edtechbooks.org/textiles_tapestries_self_study/chapter_116
• Cope Watson, G. & Howe, E. R. (2020). Narrative Metissage. In C. Edge, A. Cameron-Standerford, & B. Bergh (Eds.), Textiles and Tapestries: Self-Study for Envisioning New Ways of Knowing. EdTech Books. https://edtechbooks.org/textiles_tapestries_self_study/narrative_metissage
• Howe, E. R. & Ruberg, A. (2019). DigiPen: Secondary School Project-Based Learning in Game Design, Digital Arts and Life Skills. Canadian Journal of Action Research, 20(2), 28?????47. https://doi.org/10.33524/cjar.v20i2.462

Refereed Journals

• Howe, E. R. (2014). A Narrative of Teacher Education in Canada: Multiculturalism, Global Citizenship Education and Bridging the Theory/Practice Divide. Special 40th Anniversary Issue of The Journal of Education for Teaching: International Pedagogy and Practice (JET), 2014 Vol. 40(5), 588-599.
• Howe, E. R. (2014). Global Citizenship Education from Across the Pacific: A narrative inquiry of transcultural teacher education in Japan. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 6(1), 25-42.
• Howe, E. R. & Xu, S. J. (2013). Transcultural Teacher Development to Foster Dialogue Among Civilizations: Bridging Gaps between East and West. Teachers and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 36, 43???53.
• Howe, E. R. (2013). Alternatives to a Master's Degree as the new Gold Standard in Teaching: A narrative inquiry of global citizenship teacher education in Japan and Canada. Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 39(1), 60-73.
• Howe, E. R. (2009). Internationalization of Higher Education in East Asia: A comparative ethnographic narrative of Japanese universities. Research in Comparative and International Education, 4(4), 384-392. Available online at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/RCIE/content/pdfs/4/issue4_4.asp
• Howe, E. R. (2008). Teacher induction across the Pacific: a comparative study of Canada and Japan. Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 34(4), 333-346.
• Howe, E. R. (2006). Effective Teacher Induction: An international review. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 38 (3), 287-297.
• Howe, E. R. (2005). Japan's teacher acculturation: A comparative ethnographic narrative of teacher induction (PhD Abstract). Compare, 35(3), 339.
• Howe, E. R. (2005). Japan's teacher acculturation: critical analysis through comparative ethnographic narrative. Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 31(2), 121-131.
• Howe, E. R. (2004). Secondary teachers' conceptions of critical thinking in Canada and Japan: A comparative study. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 10(5), 505-525.
• Howe, E. R. (2003). Curriculum studies within the context of comparative, international and development education. Canadian and International Education Journal, 32(2), 1-14.
• Howe, E. R. (2002/3). Canadian and Japanese secondary teachers' values: A cross-cultural comparative study. Japanese Society, 6, 115-143.

Other Publications

• Howe, E. R. (2014). Alternatives to a Master's Degree as the new Gold Standard in Teaching: A narrative inquiry of global citizenship teacher education in Japan and Canada. In L. la Velle (Ed.), Masterliness in the Teaching Profession (pp. 60-73). London: Routledge.
• Howe, E. R. & Arimoto, M. (2014). Narrative Teacher Education Pedagogies From Across the Pacific. In C. Craig & L. Orland-Barak (Eds.), International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies Advances in Research on Teaching (Part A), Vol. 22, 217-236. New York: Emerald.
• Howe, E. R. (2013) Book Review: Critical Perspectives on International Education, Canadian and International Education/Education canadienne et internationale: Vol. 42: Iss. 2, Article 7. Available at: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cie-eci/vol42/iss2/7
• Howe, E. R. (2010). A Comparative Ethnographic Narrative Approach to Studying Teacher Acculturation. In V. L. Masemann & S. Majhanovich (Eds.), Papers in Memory of David N. Wilson: Clamouring for a Better World (pp. 121-136). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Howe, E. R. (2010). Teacher induction across the Pacific: a comparative study of Canada and Japan. In E. R. Howe & S. Suzuki (Eds.), Asian Perspectives on Teacher Education (pp. 95-108). London: Routledge.
• Howe, E. R. (2005). Japan's teacher acculturation: A comparative ethnographic narrative of teacher induction. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto.

Courses Taught

Dr. Howe has taught in every SoE program other than ECE including the following courses:

• Educational Foundations Courses (History and Philosophy) in the BEd Elementary program at TRU: EDEF3100, EDEF3200, EDTL3100.
• BEd STEM courses: EDAR 4200 Teacher Research, EDTE 4110 Professional Development
• GCES EDUC 5990 Research Colloquium, EDUC 5990 Writing in a Graduate Context
• MEd program courses: EDUC5010 Research Methods, EDUC5610 Comparative and International Education, EDUC5030 Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
• Courses taught previously include Narrative, Teaching Methods, Academic Writing, Applied Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication; and 2 classes of Educational Research (graduate students).