Sarah Todd
Biographic Data
| ID | 116176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Todd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Todd |
| SIGNATURE | TODD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8134-9260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Resonant Research in Uncertain Times: Reflections on Relational Research Practices During a Pandemic
This paper reflects on how one interdisciplinary research team restructured a simulation-based study involving actor-portrayed counselling sessions with social work students and practitioners in response to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the needs of participants and team members to repair fractured connections to themselves and others. We read our experiences alongside Harmut Rosa’s work on Resonance and the concept of Slow Schola…
Preparing for, and organizationally supporting, social work advocacy practice: A mixed methods study of mental health hospital social workers in Ontario, Canada
An essential component of social work practice, advocacy encompasses activities to influence systems and attitudes. Drawing on a larger sequential mixed-methods study of frontline social workers’ experiences, this paper uses descriptive statistics and reflexive thematic analysis of an online survey (n = 43) and in-depth interviews (n = 12) to highlight factors facilitating social workers’ advocacy practices as they support client, family, and com…
Doing Research Differently: Fostering Relational Ethics in Research Teams
Feminist research methods have been historically collaborative and team-based, using the expertise of multiple researchers to analyze complex social problems. However, while feminist research teams often aim to be non-hierarchal and push against pre-existing power structures, they still exist within the neoliberal university which mediates how this resistance shows up. In this paper, we reflect on how a relational ethics of care can act as a disr…
Feeling professional: Emotions, uncertainty, and contradictions in social work practice
Informed by affect theory, this article explores the inherent tensions embedded in the ideals of the “professional” in social work practice through an empirical study of how feelings are negotiated in two simulated social work encounters. Drawing on a simulation-based research project with 34 participants on navigating uncertainty in clinical social work practice and informed by reflexive thematic analysis, findings highlight two central contradi…
Ecología de encuentros: La lógica del compostaje como respuesta educativa al colapso ambiental
Este artículo analiza la interconexión de las relaciones humanas, no humanas y ambientales dentro del discurso poshumanista en mitad de la crisis ecológica. Rememora el despertar ambiental de los años setenta debido a la crisis energética, la contaminación química y el incipiente campo de los estudios ambientales, creando un telón de fondo para explorar cómo la educación actual puede abordar los retos ecológicos, ambientales y climáticos. Se comp…
Guidelines for Using Simulations in Qualitative Research on Social Work Practice Competencies
The use of simulation (i.e., trained actors) has gained much attention in social work as a method of teaching, learning, and student assessment. Simulation has also been used in medicine as a research method in studying practice competencies. The use of simulation as a part of research design is relatively new in social work. Particularly, little is known about how simulations can be combined with well-established qualitative research methods. We…
Teaching Note—Adapting to Online Live Streamed OSCEs
This teaching note describes how a school of social work adapted Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) during the COVID-19 pandemic to an online live-streamed format, providing students the opportunity to engage in this experiential learning activity despite pandemic-related limitations. A step-by-step process for developing online OSCEs is described, highlighting three key areas—planning, training, and implementation—and the signific…
Simulation in social work education: A qualitative study of standardized clients’ experiences
This explorative study provides insight into the experiences of standardized clients (SC) involved in simulation for social work education and research. The purpose was to contribute to scholarly conversations regarding SCs and to provide an empirical foundation to inform our simulation program by attending to the perspectives of SC participants who are key to simulation-based learning (SBL). A qualitative, cross-sectional survey was employed to …
Reflecting on Reflection in Clinical Social Work: Unsettling a Key Social Work Strategy
This study calls into question some of assumptions within social work education and practice regarding the transformational potential of reflection-on-practice. Participants (n = 34) in this simulation-based study each engaged in two clinically focused simulations, each followed by an interview which included observing segments of their video-recorded simulations. The objectives of this study are to make some sense of the misalignments between pa…
The Feasibility and Acceptability of a Diabetes Survival Skills Intervention for Persons Transitioning from Prison to the Community
Educational relational networks: Indigenous and feminist worlding. A response to Troy Richardson
This paper is a response to Troy Richardson’s Terence McLaughlin’s Lecture. In it, I discuss how Richardson provides a unique reading of relationality, drawing together technology studies, Indigenous Education and feminist philosophy of education. Seeking to walk with key ideas he develops, this response also points to a possible limitation in seeing Noddings ethic of care as part of a feminist relational ontology that can help inform new ways of…
Reframing Education Beyond the Bounds of Strong instrumentalism: Educational Practices, Sensory Experience, and Relational Aesthetics
In this contribution, Sharon Todd moves beyond the bounds of what she calls “strong” instrumentalism (one that posits education in a mechanistic fashion and operates politically through a marrying of national educational policies with economic interests) and explores the intrinsic purpose of educational practice specifically through an aesthetic lens. Todd considers how two art projects by the feminist art collective Sisters Hope offer a way of t…
Guoping Zhao’s Subjectivity and Infinity: Questions for Education in Times of Climate Emergency
Teaching as bodily enactment: Relational Formations of Touch and Movement
This paper explores a common representational form of teaching that has reappeared in current educational theory: the figure of the teacher as one who points. Informed by Nicolas Bourriaud’s notion of relational aesthetics I outline how the form of pointing is actually a relational formation that invites students into certain relationships with objects of study as well as with teachers themselves. Focusing on relational encounters as central to t…
Landing on Earth: ’ An educational project for the present. A response to Vanessa Andreotti
This paper responds to Vanessa Andreotti’s keynote address. In it, I draw out some educational implications of facing the everyday denials of the climate emergency. In particular, I mobilise Bruno Latour’s phrase ‘landing on Earth’ to indicate that the very terms through which we understand education, particularly as it relates to the future, require a profound shift
Towards Greater Transparency Regarding Partnerships for Technology Development
This article explores the problems and potential of funded short-term cross-sector partnerships to address technological deficits in the nonprofit sector by engaging with the partners of a concluded project. The partnership case study that forms the backbone of this article was a three-year nationally funded nonprofit-industry-academic partnership. The ob- jective of the partnership was to increase the data collection capacity of a national nonpr…
Educating the Senses: Explorations in Aesthetics, Embodiment and Sensory Pedagogy
Education, Contact and the Vitality of Touch: Membranes, Morphologies, Movements
Patient and public involvement facilitators: Could they be the key to the NHS quality improvement agenda
OBJECTIVE: Research into patient and public involvement (PPI) has not examined in detail patient and public involvement facilitators' (PPIFs) roles and activities. This study analysed PPIFs' roles using qualitative data gathered from three different UK health-care organizations. DESIGN: Thematic analysis was used to examine cross-sectional data collected using a mixed-methods approach from three organizations: a mental health trust, a community h…
A Call to Action on Artificial Intelligence and Social Work Education: Lessons Learned from A Simulation Project Using Natural Language Processing
In discussing a university-industry partnership on the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based simulation platform, this conceptual paper explores the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a pedagogical innovation in social work. Critically reflecting upon this ongoing project, we discuss the current promises and limitations of NLP for social work education. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework theoretically informs “lesson…
Creating Aesthetic Encounters of the World, or Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow
Susie Orbach has termed 'climate sorrow ' and asks: what 'relations to the world' are we imagining might help youth stay with difficult feelings about the future by enabling them to develop a living relationship to the more-than-human world in the present? By way of response, the paper offers a conceptual shift from 'relations to the world' to 'encounters of the world'. I draw on the work of David Abram to reframe our relations as sensory encount…
Kids and Kilowatts: Socialisation, energy efficiency, and electricity consumption in New Zealand
Strengthening the Signature Pedagogy of Social Work: Conceptualizing Field Coordination as a Negotiated Social Work Pedagogy
Although field education is considered the signature pedagogy of social work, the work of field coordinators appear to remain peripheral to other aspects of social work education, such as coursework and research. In this article, we suggest that field coordination requires a far more complex set of knowledge and skills than merely matching students with placements based on availability and interest. Using critical and relational theories, this ar…
Culturally reimagining education: Publicity, aesthetics and socially engaged art practice
This paper sets out to reimagine education through a cultural perspective and explores education as a performative practice that establishes certain borders of ‘public’ belonging. Wide-spread debates about the public dimension of schools and universities have focused on how economic rationales need to be replaced with alternative visions of education. This paper seeks to contribute to this revisioning of the public in education by reclaiming educ…
New ethical challenges within environmental and sustainability education: A response
One of the major points to grow out of the four papers presented in this issue is how to think of education in relation to the various challenges facing the biosphere, facing the future of human an
Living in a Dissonant World: Toward an Agonistic Cosmopolitics for Education
The use of conjoint analysis to assess the impact of the cross-cultural exchange between hosts and guests
The Impact of Outdoor Pursuits on College Students' Perceived Sense of Community
A primary purpose of one form of leisure experience—outdoor pursuits programs—is the development of positive interpersonal relationships and group experiences that lead to enhanced sense of community. However, there is a distinct lack of research related to psychological sense of community and involvement with nature. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between college students' participation in outdoor pursuits trips and…
Creating Aesthetic Encounters of the World, or Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow
Susie Orbach has termed 'climate sorrow ' and asks: what 'relations to the world' are we imagining might help youth stay with difficult feelings about the future by enabling them to develop a living relationship to the more-than-human world in the present? By way of response, the paper offers a conceptual shift from 'relations to the world' to 'encounters of the world'. I draw on the work of David Abram to reframe our relations as sensory encount…
Experiencing Change, Encountering the Unknown: An Education in ‘Negative Capability’ in Light of Buddhism and Levinas
Levinas and Theravada Buddhism across and through their differences in order to rethink an education that is committed to 'negative capability' and the sensibility to uncertainty that this entails. In fleshing this out, I first explore Buddhist ideas of impermanence, suffering and non-self (anicca, dukkha, and anatta, respectively), known as the three marks of existence, from the perspective of Theravada Buddhism. I explore in particular vipassan…
Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain 1900-1950
Journal Article Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain 1900–1950 Get access Selina Todd Selina Todd University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 203, Issue 1, May 2009, Pages 181–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtp014 Published: 26 June 2009
Promoting a Just Education: Dilemmas of rights, freedom and justice
This paper identifies and addresses some dilemmas to be faced in promoting educational projects concerned with human rights. Part of the difficulty that human rights education initiatives must cope with is the way in which value has been historically conferred upon particular notions such as freedom and justice. I argue here that a just education must grapple head‐on with the conceptual dilemmas that have been inherited and refuse to shy away fro…
Energy literacy and agency of New Zealand children
The development of energy literacy (knowledge, attitudes, and intended behaviour) and agency of New Zealand children (age 9–10) were investigated through thematic and exploratory statistical analyses of interviews (October 2011–April 2012) with 26 children, their parents and teachers, focus groups and photo elicitation. The children knew that electricity costs money and saw it as a finite resource. Half could name an energy source but few knew of…
Poverty and Aspiration: Young Women's Entry to Employment in Inter-war England
This article examines young women's entry to employment in inter-war England. In doing so, it sheds light on a neglected aspect of their lives—paid work—in a period recently identified by historians as crucial in the emergence of the modern, independent young woman. It is argued that entering employment marked the beginning of a social, cultural, and economic transition from girlhood to womanhood. The relationship between gender, life cycle, and …
Shifting education's philosophical imaginaries: Relations, affects, bodies, materialities
As Michèle Le Doeuff pointed out in her classic feminist work, The Philosophical Imaginary, \nimages function in philosophical writing to enact certain political and theoretical possibilities \nand limitations. She draws our attention to the relationship between images and concepts \nthroughout the history of philosophy, and philosophy’s forgetting and occlusion of \nits own imaginaries. We wonder with Le Doeuff about the image that philosophy gi…
Education Incarnate
For the past 15 years, scholars in education have focused on Levinas’s work largely in terms of his understanding of alterity, of the self-Other relation, of ethics as ‘first philosophy’ and the significance these concepts have on rethinking educational theory and practice. What I do in this paper, by way of method, is to start from a slightly different place, from the assertion that there is indeed something ‘new’ to be explored in Levinas’s phi…
Between Body and Spirit: The Liminality of Pedagogical Relationships
This article explores the pedagogical, transformative aspects of education as a relation, viewing such transformation as occurring in the liminal space between body and spirit. In order to explore this liminal space more thoroughly, the article first outlines a case for why liminality is of educational and not only of pedagogical concern, building on James Conroy's notion of the liminal imagination and his emphasis on the importance of metaphor f…
Guilt, Suffering and Responsibility
This paper examines the moral significance of guilt in the \ncontext of how students confront the suffering of another. \nWithin social-justice education, such confrontations are often \nstaged in pedagogical efforts to encourage students to assume \nsocial responsibility. Frequently, however, the guilt that \nstudents claim to endure as a result of these pedagogical \nencounters is not perceived to be of much ethical import. By \nexploring the p…
Culturally reimagining education: Publicity, aesthetics and socially engaged art practice
This paper sets out to reimagine education through a cultural perspective and explores education as a performative practice that establishes certain borders of ‘public’ belonging. Wide-spread debates about the public dimension of schools and universities have focused on how economic rationales need to be replaced with alternative visions of education. This paper seeks to contribute to this revisioning of the public in education by reclaiming educ…
Educating Beyond Cultural Diversity: Redrawing the Boundaries of a Democratic Plurality
Christian Fundamentalism and Anti-Oppressive Social Work Pedagogy
Christian fundamentalist religious beliefs, expressed by social work students, present a challenge to the social work educator. In this paper we explore the tensions between Fundamentalism, diverse sexual orientation and gender expression and social work pedagogy. Particularly, we focus on how an anti-oppressive pedagogical approach, while important to providing educational equality for students with diverse gender expressions and sexual orientat…
A Fine Risk To Be Run? The Ambiguity of Eros and Teacher Responsibility
Kids and Kilowatts: Socialisation, energy efficiency, and electricity consumption in New Zealand
Secrecy and Safety: Health Care Workers in Abortion Clinics
Reflecting on Reflection in Clinical Social Work: Unsettling a Key Social Work Strategy
This study calls into question some of assumptions within social work education and practice regarding the transformational potential of reflection-on-practice. Participants (n = 34) in this simulation-based study each engaged in two clinically focused simulations, each followed by an interview which included observing segments of their video-recorded simulations. The objectives of this study are to make some sense of the misalignments between pa…
Teaching as bodily enactment: Relational Formations of Touch and Movement
This paper explores a common representational form of teaching that has reappeared in current educational theory: the figure of the teacher as one who points. Informed by Nicolas Bourriaud’s notion of relational aesthetics I outline how the form of pointing is actually a relational formation that invites students into certain relationships with objects of study as well as with teachers themselves. Focusing on relational encounters as central to t…
Education, Contact and the Vitality of Touch: Membranes, Morphologies, Movements
Strengthening the Signature Pedagogy of Social Work: Conceptualizing Field Coordination as a Negotiated Social Work Pedagogy
Although field education is considered the signature pedagogy of social work, the work of field coordinators appear to remain peripheral to other aspects of social work education, such as coursework and research. In this article, we suggest that field coordination requires a far more complex set of knowledge and skills than merely matching students with placements based on availability and interest. Using critical and relational theories, this ar…
Going to the Heart of the Matter
Introduction: Levinas and Education: The Question of Implication
Psychoanalytic Questions, Pedagogical Possibilities and Authority
Examining tourism motivation methodologies
Guilt, Suffering and Responsibility
This paper examines the moral significance of guilt in the \ncontext of how students confront the suffering of another. \nWithin social-justice education, such confrontations are often \nstaged in pedagogical efforts to encourage students to assume \nsocial responsibility. Frequently, however, the guilt that \nstudents claim to endure as a result of these pedagogical \nencounters is not perceived to be of much ethical import. By \nexploring the p…
Secrecy and Safety: Health Care Workers in Abortion Clinics
Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education
Introduction: Levinas and Education: The Question of Implication
A Fine Risk To Be Run? The Ambiguity of Eros and Teacher Responsibility
Poverty and Aspiration: Young Women's Entry to Employment in Inter-war England
This article examines young women's entry to employment in inter-war England. In doing so, it sheds light on a neglected aspect of their lives—paid work—in a period recently identified by historians as crucial in the emergence of the modern, independent young woman. It is argued that entering employment marked the beginning of a social, cultural, and economic transition from girlhood to womanhood. The relationship between gender, life cycle, and …
The use of conjoint analysis to assess the impact of the cross-cultural exchange between hosts and guests
Teachers judging without scripts, or thinking cosmopolitan
A cosmopolitan ethic invites both an appreciation of the rich diversity of values, traditions and ways of life and a commitment to broad, universal principles of human rights that can secure the flourishing of that diversity. Despite the tension between universalism and particularism inherent in this outlook, it has received much recent attention in education. I focus here on one of the dilemmas to be faced in taking cosmopolitanism seriously, na…
Christian Fundamentalism and Anti-Oppressive Social Work Pedagogy
Christian fundamentalist religious beliefs, expressed by social work students, present a challenge to the social work educator. In this paper we explore the tensions between Fundamentalism, diverse sexual orientation and gender expression and social work pedagogy. Particularly, we focus on how an anti-oppressive pedagogical approach, while important to providing educational equality for students with diverse gender expressions and sexual orientat…
Promoting a Just Education: Dilemmas of rights, freedom and justice
This paper identifies and addresses some dilemmas to be faced in promoting educational projects concerned with human rights. Part of the difficulty that human rights education initiatives must cope with is the way in which value has been historically conferred upon particular notions such as freedom and justice. I argue here that a just education must grapple head‐on with the conceptual dilemmas that have been inherited and refuse to shy away fro…
Hawk et al'.s Small Tech
Universality and the Daunting Task of Cultural Translation: A Response to Penny Enslin and Mary Tjiattas
I first want to thank Penny Enslin and Mary Tjiattas for offering a richly \ntextured discussion to which the opportunity of crafting a response gives \nme great pleasure—on two counts. First, the paper addresses what I see, \nalong with the authors, to be a pressing problem for philosophy of \neducation and for the political orientation of education more generally, \nnamely the question and status of the universal for addressing injustices. \nTh…
Philosophy of Education and the Gigantic Affront of Universalism
Journal Article Philosophy of Education and the Gigantic Affront of Universalism Get access Penny Enslin, Penny Enslin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mary Tjiattas, Mary Tjiattas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sharon Todd Sharon Todd Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 43, Issue 1, Feb…
Living in a Dissonant World: Toward an Agonistic Cosmopolitics for Education
Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain 1900-1950
Journal Article Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain 1900–1950 Get access Selina Todd Selina Todd University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 203, Issue 1, May 2009, Pages 181–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtp014 Published: 26 June 2009
The Impact of Outdoor Pursuits on College Students' Perceived Sense of Community
A primary purpose of one form of leisure experience—outdoor pursuits programs—is the development of positive interpersonal relationships and group experiences that lead to enhanced sense of community. However, there is a distinct lack of research related to psychological sense of community and involvement with nature. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between college students' participation in outdoor pursuits trips and…
That Power and Privilege Thing”: Securing Whiteness in Community Work
In this article, I draw upon written texts and discussions with white community organizers so as to explore how the discourse of community work secure whiteness not as an act of maintaining privilege but as an accepted, unnoticed, and even helpful way of seeing and acting in the world. This is problematic because it creates a space in which there can be ethical white subjects who are able to understand themselves as outside of relations of racism…
Response to Doris Santoro’s Review of Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism
Educating Beyond Cultural Diversity: Redrawing the Boundaries of a Democratic Plurality
Going to the Heart of the Matter
Introduction to Inpe Special Issue: Passion, Commitment and Justice in Education
Chigger yellum \n. No problem. This Amharic idiom offers a window into this special issue, \nborn as it is out of the International Network of Philosophy of Education’s 13th Biennial \nConference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in August 2012. The expression itself gestures \nto an attitude of calm and generosity that stands in stark contrast to the anxious tensions \nthat often accompany other approaches to difficulties experienced in the western …
A subtle pedagogy: A response to Megan Laverty
Before I begin, I wish to thank Megan Laverty for what I see as a gracious paper, one that \nopens up some difficult questions for education while allowing room for hope to pursue the \ntask in which all of us are engaged in our daily lives. Laverty has undertaken here a kind of \ninstruction of sorts. She states the importance of what she calls instructional scepticism for \nthe field of philosophy of education, and for the practice of education…
Between Body and Spirit: The Liminality of Pedagogical Relationships
This article explores the pedagogical, transformative aspects of education as a relation, viewing such transformation as occurring in the liminal space between body and spirit. In order to explore this liminal space more thoroughly, the article first outlines a case for why liminality is of educational and not only of pedagogical concern, building on James Conroy's notion of the liminal imagination and his emphasis on the importance of metaphor f…
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