Sharon Anne Cook is Professor of Education at the University of
Ottawa where she is Co-ordinator of the CIDA-funded educational
project, Developing a Global Perspective for Educators/Développement
d’une perspective globale pour enseignants et enseignantes.
Now in its seventh year of operation, the goal is to facilitate
the inclusion of peace and development curricula
into regular classroom activities. We offer
eight separate initiatives to achieve this goal including
a Fall Institute, a Resource Fair, in-class and extra-curricular
workshops with bilingual teaching materials, Film Festivals and
a project website at www.developingaglobalperspective.ca
Sharon has been a member of the Teacher Education Programme at
the University of Ottawa since 1987. Prior to this, she taught History
and was an administrator in Ottawa-area secondary schools. Currently,
she holds a joint appointment between the Faculties of Education
and Arts, teaching in the Department of History, and in undergraduate
and graduate Education courses. In the Faculty of Education, she
teaches graduate courses in the History of Education, Education
and Moral Regulation, and Techniques of Document Analysis in Educational
Research. In the Department of History, she teaches a fourth-year
honours seminar on moral regulation in late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century Canada. Author or editor of eight books in Education
and History as well as about fifty scholarly and professional articles
and chapters, her research interests extend to issues of pedagogy,
especially related to teaching Peace and Development Education,
History, Civics and Health, equity, and gender; and the intersections
of the history of women, education, and addictions through visual
culture. Her latest book in women’s history, Sharon Anne Cook,
Lorna R. McLean & Kate O'Rourke, eds. Framing Our Past: Canadian
Women's History in the Twentieth Century , Kingston and Montreal:
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, won the Award from the Canadian
Association of Foundations of Education for best book in Educational
Foundations in Canada in 2002. She is currently completing a book
on the history of Canadian women, consumerism and smoking.
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Books Authored
Cook, Sharon Anne (1995). “Through Sunshine and Shadow”:
The Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union, Evangelicalism and Reform in Ontario 1874-1930.
Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 281
pp.
Books edited
Cook, Sharon Anne, O’Rourke, Kate and McLean, Lorna (2001).
Framing Our Past: Canadian Women’s History in the Twentieth
Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University
Press, 495 pp. [reissued by McGill-Queen’s University Press
in soft cover in 2006]
Chapters in books
Cook, Sharon Anne (2007). “Patriotism Eh? A View from Canada,”
in Joel
Westheimer, ed. Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism
in America’s Schools. New York: Teachers’ College Press,
145-153.
Cook, Sharon Anne (2006). “Women in the Anglican Church in
Canada,” in Rosemary Skinner Keller & Rosemary Radford
Ruether, eds. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America.
Indiana University Press, Vol. 1, 279-285.
Epp, Juanita Ross and Cook, Sharon Anne (2004). The (Male) Advantage
of a Feminist Mother. (reprinted) in Andrea O’Reilly, ed.
Mother Outlaws: Theories and Practices of Empowered Mothering. Toronto:
Women’s Press, 75-94.
Cook, Sharon Anne. (2003) ”Smokin’ in the Boys’
Room:”Girls’ Absence in Anti-Smoking Educational Literature.
In Andrea Martinez and Meryn Stuart, Eds. Out of the Ivory Tower:
Feminist Research for Social Change Toronto: Sumach Press, 25-48.
Cook, Sharon Anne. “Ada Gladys Killins” in Cook, Sharon
Anne, O’Rourke, Kate and McLean, Lorna (2001). Framing Our
Past: Constructing Canadian Women’s History in the Twentieth
Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University
Press, 41-44.
Cook, Sharon Anne, O’Rourke, Kate and McLean, Lorna. “Introduction”
in Cook, Sharon Anne, O’Rourke, Kate and McLean, Lorna (2001).
Framing Our Past: Constructing Canadian Women’s History in
the Twentieth Century . Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s
University Press, xxiii-xxix.
Cook, Sharon Anne ( 2001). “Evangelical Moral Reform: Women
and the War against Tobacco, 1874-1900,” In Marguerite Van
Die, (Ed.) Religion and Public Life: Historical and Comparative
Themes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 177-195.
Cook, Sharon Anne (2001). The Canadian Woman’s Christian
Temperance Union. In Chris Hackettt and Bob Hesketh, (Eds.), Canadian
History in Multimedia, 1867 to the Present, Edmonton: Chinook Multimedia
Inc.
Papers in refereed journals
Cook, Sharon Anne (2008, in press), ‘Sisters are Doin’
it for Themselves’: The Price of Ignoring Gender in Modern
Peace Education. Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and
Conflict Studies, 39 (1).
McLean, L.R., Sharon Anne Cook and Tracy Crowe, (in press)“Teaching
Global Citizenship Education in a Teacher Education Program.”
International Journal of Citizenship and Education.
Cook, Sharon Anne (Fall 2007). “Liberation Sticks”
or “Coffin Nails”? Representations of the Working Woman
and Cigarette Smoking in Canada, 1919 - 1939. Canadian Bulletin
of Medical History. Vol 24, no. 2, 367 - 401.
Cook, Sharon Anne (Fall, 2007). From ‘Evil Influence’
to Social Facilitator: Representations of Youth Smoking, Drinking
and Citizenship in English-Language Canadian Health Textbooks, 1890
- 1960. Canada/Journal of Curriculum Studies.
McLean, L. R., Sharon Anne Cook, Tracy Crowe, (Summer 2006). “Educating
the Next Generation of Global Citizens through Teacher Education,
One new teacher at a time,” Canadian Social Studies, 40 (1),
www.quasar.ualberta.ca/css.
Cook, Sharon Anne (Fall 2006). Sharon Anne Cook, ‘Where There’s
Smoke, There’s Fire’: Tobacco Use and the Construction
of the Canadian Citizen, 1890 - 1930.” The Social History
of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 21 (1), 69-95.
Cook, Sharon Anne (Fall, 2004). A Case Study of Teacher Education:
Rethinking Feminist Leadership, Canadian Journal of Education/Revue
canadienne de l’education, 26, (4). 419-435.
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Cook, Sharon Anne and Crowe, Tracy (2005, May). "Developing
a Global Perspective for Educators," Ministry of Education/Faculties
of Education Forum 2005, OISE/UT, Toronto.
Cook, Sharon Anne (2005, May). "Educating for Peace and Global
Awareness in a Teacher Education Program," The National Student
Commonwealth Forum, University of Ottawa.
Cook, Sharon Anne (2001, November). "The Death of Public Education:
Lessons for Principals from Down Under," Presented to the Ontario
Principals' Council Conference, "2001 A Cyberspace Odyssey:
Leadership in a Digital Domain," Sheraton Hotel, Toronto.
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