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Courses taught 2010/2011:
EDU324 Education in the Developing World
EDU410
Teaching Practicum |
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2006), University of Western Ontario
Dissertation: "Experiences with language retention: Case studies of Mennonites from Mexico."
M.Ed. (2000), Education, Brock University\
Thesis: " Beyond Woodstock: Language Attrition, Maintenance, and Retrieval Amongst Students Who Attended Woodstock School (India)."
B.Ed. (1992), Education, University of Western Ontario
B.A. Hons (1990), Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Special education, specifically regarding English language learners
- Comparative education, specifically with Haiti, India
- Language and identity-formation
- My research interests focus on the educational experiences of children who move to Canada. Particularly, this includes how we assess if one of these children has a learning disability (as opposed to a difficulty in developing English language competenices) and how a child negotiates his/her identity in the new environment. I am actively involved in educational training in diverse, global settings such as India, Haiti, and Thailand.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Sider, S. (2009). Piti piti, ti pay pay, zwazo fe nich (Little by little, straw by straw, a bird makes her nest): A School Leadership Anthology for Haiti. St. Jacobs, ON: Profider Publications.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Courtland, M., G. LaFleur, K. McLelland, J. Novak, J. Shaw, and S. Sider (2005). Interpreting lived experience through writing online in a graduate seminar. Language and Literacy, 7.
Sider, S. (2004). Growing up overseas: Perceptions of second language attrition and retrieval amongst expatriate children in India. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7, 117-137.
Sider, S. (2004). The experience of ESL teachers with the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test: Implications for foreign students studying in Canada. Contact, 30, 18-24.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to coming to Redeemer, I was a Christian school administrator for ten years. I have also been an elementary and secondary teacher in public and Christian schools. I have a Specialist certificate in Special Education and have served as a Resource Teacher.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS
Executive Committee, Comparative and International Education Society of Canada
CROSS APPOINTMENTS
Adjunct Faculty, Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
Adjunct Faculty, Education, Universidad FLET