Darren E. Lund

Dr. Lund was a high school teacher in Red Deer, Alberta for 16 years, and in his rookie year, formed an award-winning student activist program, Students and Teachers Opposing Prejudice (STOP). He joined the faculty in 2002, and his research focuses on social justice education and activism. Darren is currently the “Welcoming Communities” Domain Leader with the Prairie Metropolis Centre. He has published numerous articles, books, and book chapters, and has been recognized with a number of honours, including being named a Reader’s Digest National Leader in Education, and one of Red Deer’s Top Educators of the Century.

Dr. Lund's current research on social justice education includes a new SSHRC-funded national study on student activists, two Metropolis-funded regional studies (one on youth activism, and one on what factors make communities welcoming), and a community-sponsored (ISCC & CCEL) local study on integrating service-learning into a pre-service social justice teacher education course.

Current Projects:

Engaging Student Leaders in Research on Social Justice Activism, SSHRC

Measuring the Welcoming Capacities of Host Urban and Rural Communities, Metropolis

Service-Learning Program for Pre-Service Teachers, ISCC/CARE Strategy for Youth & Centre for Community-Engaged Learning

PhD
University of British Columbia

Rotary Graduate Scholar
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

MA
University of Victoria

Professional Diploma (Curriculum)
University of Calgary

BEd (With Distinction)
University of Calgary

Dr. Lund has served as Chair of the Faculty of Education Ethics Review Committee, for 10 years as Board Member on the university’s Stop Racism Committee, and is currently on the President's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women. Dr. Lund was a 16-year Director of the Alberta Association for Multicultural Education, and Vice-President of the Dignity Foundation. He is on the Publications Committee of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and on the Planning Committee, International Centre for Intercultural Dialogue and Communication, Gothenburg, Sweden.

• 2011-present, Member, General Promotions Committee, Office of the Provost, University of Calgary
• 2011-present, Founding Member, International NAME Educators for Social Justice, Washington, DC
• 2009-present, Member, Advisory Committee on Equity Policy, Canada Research Chairs Program, Ottawa, ON

Lund, D. E., & Carr, P. R. (in press). Disrupting white privilege in teacher education. In P. C. Gorski, N. Osei-Kofi, J. Sapp, & K. Zenkov (Eds.), Overcoming social justice bottlenecks: Strategies for teaching critical and difficult concepts in teacher education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Lund, D. E. (in press). Examining shades of grey with students: Social justice education in action. The Journal of Praxis on Multicultural Education.

Nabavi, M., & Lund, D. E. (2012). The tensions and contradictions of living in a multicultural nation in an era of bounded identities. In J. Norris, R. Sawyer, & D. E. Lund (Eds.), Duoethnography: Dialogic methods for social, health, and educational research (pp. 177-197). Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Lund, D. E., & Paul, J. (2011). Off-loading self/other/world responsibilities: Confronting questionable ethics in youth engagement in critical pedagogy. In B. J. Porfilio & C. Mallot (Eds.), Critical pedagogy in the 21st century: A new generation of scholars (pp. 251-283). Charlotte, NC: Information Age.

Lund, D. E., & Carr, P. R. (2010). Exposing privilege and racism in the great white north: Tackling whiteness and identity issues in Canadian education. Multicultural Perspectives: The Official Journal of the National Association for Multicultural Education, 12(4), 229-234.

• 2011, Teaching Innovation Award in Service-Learning and Student Engagement, Centre for Community-Engaged Learning, University of Calgary
• 2009, Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary
• 2009, Publications Award, Canadian Association of Foundations in Education
• 2008, Award of Distinction, Canadian Race Relations Foundation
• 2005, Killam Resident Fellowship, Killam Trusts

• Embracing discomfort. Equity Matters, Canadian Federation for the Humanities & Social Sciences
• Being white in an increasingly diverse Calgary [interview], CBC Radio Calgary Eye Opener, October 2010
• Daycare policies violate provincial human rights code. Global TV News, November 2010

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