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Dr. Bronwen Low

Title: 
Associate Professor
Academic title(s): 

Department Chair

Dr. Bronwen Low
Contact Information
Email address: 
bronwen.low [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-398-2255
Address: 

Education Building
3700 rue McTavish
Montr茅al, Quebec H3A 1Y2
Canada

Group: 
Department Chair
Division: 
Educational Leadership Supervisors
Educational Studies (Ph.D.) Supervisors
Education and Society Supervisors
Department: 
Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE)
Professional activities: 
  • Associate Member, Institute for Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW)
  • Board Member of and
Area(s): 
Arts, Languages and Literacy Education
Diversity, Identity and Indigenous Topics
Teacher Education, Pedagogy and Leadership
Areas of expertise: 
  • Literacy studies
  • Cultural studies
  • Curriculum theory
  • Arts integration
  • Community-based research and education
  • Participatory media cultures
  • Youth cultures
Biography: 

Bronwen Low has been leading and participating in research, knowledge dissemination, and program and curriculum development projects with a primary focus on how to best support socially marginalized young people underserved by traditional schooling models and practices. Local partnerships have involved teachers, administrators and artists to develop an "urban arts" focus in a local high-school, and the Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi and EMSB Outreach teachers working to better understand and support youth transitions after leaving school. Current projects include piloting Projet 4/Studio 4 MTL, a new high-school program based in local youth recording studios in Montr茅al-Nord and C么te des Neiges, researching the impact of #Booktok on reading lives, and exploring a community-based game design workshop for youth.

Link(s): 
Institute for Human Development and Well-being
Degree(s): 
  • 1996 - 2001 Ph.D. Education
    Graduate Programme in 鈥淟anguage, Culture, and Teaching,鈥� York University, Toronto, Ontario
  • 1992 -1994 M.A. English
    Department of English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
  • 1989 - 1992 B.A. Hons. English
    Department of English, Queen鈥檚 University, Kingston, Ontario
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

2015 不良研究所 Equity and Community Building Award (Faculty)

Selected publications: 
  • Low, Bronwen, and Jessica Ruglis (Eds.) (Spring, 2024). Special issue: Towards new futures of children and youth development: Critical and sustainable approaches to well-being in complex times. Learning Landscapes.
  • Low, B., Ehret, C., & Hagh, A. (2023). Algorithmic imaginings and critical digital literacy on #BookTok. New Media & Society, 1-18.
  • Lipset, Michael, and Low, Bronwen. (2022). A different energy: Hip-Hop teaching artists as agents of culturally sustaining school change. Urban Education (Online First), 1-29 (co-author)
  • Lipset, Michael, and Low, Bronwen. (2022). A different energy: Hip-Hop teaching artists as agents of culturally sustaining school change. Urban Education (Online First), 1-29 (co-author)
  • Low, B. Brushwood Rose, C., and Salvio, P. (2017). Community media pedagogies: Learning to listen in the commons. NY: Routledge.
  • Low, B. (2011). Slam school: Learning through conflict in the hip-hop and spoken word classroom. Stanford University Press. (Winner of the Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award)
Graduate supervision: 

Taking new students during the upcoming application period.

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