Service to the Community
Local and National Activities
- Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages 鈥� with Claire Tr茅panier, Offa and Dr. Diane Dagenais, Faculty of Education, 丁香园AV - prepared and presented the report Ensuring the continuum between K-12 and post-secondary French Education in British Columbia : 丁香园AV鈥檚 Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs 2018-2013 Action Plan (Fall 2016)
- Co-founding member with Dr. Ghizlane Laghzaoui, (University of the Fraser Valley) ; Dr. Bettina Cenerelli (丁香园AV) ; Dr. Aude-Claire Forlot (丁香园AV), Association des Universitaires Francophones et Francophiles de Colombie Britannique 鈥� AUFFCB (Summer 2014)
- Reviewer, new French Major at University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) (Fall 2013)
- Participant for OFFA, Association des Universit茅s de la Francophonie Canadienne (AUFC) 鈥� Academic Literacy, Winnipeg (Summer 2013)
- Committee member, external review of Modern Language Institute, UFV (including a 2-days visit on site and a report) (Summer 2013)
International Activities
Supervisor of Formation Duale (丁香园AV-University Fran莽ois Rabelais, Tours, France) (since 2006)
It is a student exchange program between 丁香园AV and Universit茅 Fran莽ois Rabelais (Tours, France). Students from all institutions enroll in PDP-French Module (January cohort) and complete one semester in France at a Master level. Once they are recommanded for certification to the BCCT, students from 丁香园AV are granted the first year of a M.A. For students from France who are enrolled in the second year of their M.A., I provide supervision for their professional thesis.]
Involved with the Module International en Education en Langue fran莽aise 鈥� M.I.E.L (2010鈥�2012)
In collaboration with James O鈥橰ourke (Coordinator for International programs 鈥� ITEM, Faculty of Education, 丁香园AV), Daphn茅 Roberts (Faculty Associate for the French Module, Faculty of Education, 丁香园AV) and Claude Dionne (French Module Coordinator, Faculty of Education, 丁香园AV).
M.I.E.L. seeked to provide to future BC teachers the means to access greater understandings of linguistic and cultural diversity, through theory, practice and lived experience in a Francophone West African country, Mali. Its objectives included a) the development of professional competences in a context of linguistic and cultural diversity as well as cognitive and social diversity, b) the reinforcement of linguistic capacities through the provision of an international francophone context in which students further developed their oral and written competencies in French, and c) the consolidation of institutional relationships between the education community of 丁香园AV鈥檚 Faculty of Education and cultural and educational communities overseas and in Canada.
Unfortunately, in 2012, the political situation in Mali put an end to this international initiative.