Scholarships to Education Students

Posted January 09, 1997


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
97-01-02-ED

Education students receive scholarships

Saskatoon, SK, January 7, 1996 -- Six students in the College of
Education Ph.D programs were recently awarded Lownsbrough
Scholarships for their academic performance and promise in research.

This award has been established from the Lownsbrough bequest in
memory of Ms. Dorothy Gray Lownsbrough.

The recipients of the award are:

Lee Brodie, comes to the Department of Curriculum Studies on leave
from her position as Education and Public Programs Coordinator at the
Diefenbaker. She will study the relationship between schools and
resource sites by examining the nature of interactions among teachers,
students, and resource site personnel.

Dr. Pyeong-Gook Kim, who joins the Department of Curriculum Studies
with impressive credentials, including a Ph.D. in instruction from Seoul
National University. His research will concentrate on the political process
of curriculum decision making and implementation in the Republic of
Korea.

Heather Punshon comes to the Department of Educational
Administration with extensive experience in rural school administration.
She will conduct an investigation of contrasting patterns of school system
amalgamation in Western Canada.

Xin Li, a second year Ph.D student in Educational Administration, will
collect data in China in the fall of 1997 for his study of university
autonomy under contrasting patterns of governance.

Colin Butler, a previous distinguished graduate of the B.Ed. program, will
be examining value deconstruction as an aid to moral pedagogy. He is in
his first year in the Department of Educational Administration.

Eugene Kowch comes to the Department of Educational Administration
from his studies in Communications and technology. An avid computer
expert, he will be pursuing research which involves the development of a
strategic plan for the allocation of school system technology.


For more information, please contact:

Dr. Ken Jacknicke
Dean, College of Education
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-7647