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Lawrence Bencze

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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  • Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita
    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
  • 647-298-6182 (Mobile)
  • University of Toronto, Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1V6, Canada

BIO

I am an Associate Professor Emeritus, still active with research and publication - along with some university service activities. My research revolves around the STEPWISE curriculum and pedagogical framework developed in 2006. This focuses on actively educating students to critique relationships among fields of science & technology and societies & environments (STSE), particularly in terms of influences of powerful people (e.g., financiers) and groups (e.g., corporations, governments, think tanks, transnational groups [e.g., World Trade Organization]) on fields of science and technology/engineering and most else in societies. Such interactions can be thought of as a dispositif (https://foucaultblog.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/what-is-the-dispositif/) and it appears that pro-capitalist dispositifs are largely responsible for most harms - such as the climate emergency - to individuals, societies and environments. After students have been educated about potentially-harmful STSE relationships, we prepare them to design and implement research-informed and socially-negotiated sociopolitical actions to overcome harms of their concern. You can learn more about STEPWISE and gain open access to numerous related teaching and learning resources at: www.stepwiser.ca.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 1998 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1 Sep 1992 - 26 Jan 1995
  • MSc
    Queen's University, Kingston, Canada1 Sep 1974 - 26 Jan 1977
  • BEd
    Queen's University, Kingston, Canada1 Sep 1976 - 30 Jun 1977
  • BSc
    Queen's University, Kingston, Canada1 Sep 1970 - 30 Apr 1974

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

AVAILABILITY

  • Collaborative projects
  • Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker

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