Strategic Innovation Fund
SIF Enhancement of Learning Project Officer
Eloise Tan is the SIF Enhancement of Learning Project Officer at Dublin City University. Eloise is responsible for supporting, promoting, and developing the work done under the Enhancement of Learning strand in the Dublin Region Higher Education Alliance. She currently sits on the committees for Teaching for Engagement and Retention and for the Dublin Centre for Academic Development. Within DCU, she also works closely with the Learning Innovation Unit.
She completed her doctorate in Culture and Education at McGill University in Montreal and has an Honours Bachelor Degree (H.B.A.) in International Development Studies from York University in Toronto.
Eloise was a lecturer at McGill University, with a focus on multicultural issues. She was a research assistant at McGill for multiple projects, including a study of multilingualism in Montreal and Toronto. In 2008 she was selected (along with co-applicant Ms. Haidee Smith Lefebvre) as Best New Scholar in Qualitative Research by the Canadian Educational Research Association for her research on multicultural education courses at McGill University. Eloise also held lecturing duties at the University of Toronto in the areas of popular culture, social media, and education. Outside of the university sector she was Program Officer for the NGO Harmony Movement where she designed and delivered anti-racism, media literacy, and LGBTQ workshops for youth and educators. As Program Officer she participated in consultations with the Ontario Ministry of Education on an initiative for the creation of a Teaching Qualification in LGBTQ studies.
Her current research areas are: community based research; community engagement; multicultural education; social media and education. She regularly reviews for the peer-review journals Intercultural Education and the International Journal of Multicultural Education. She is a member of the working editorial board for the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy. Outside of DCU, Eloise is an active volunteer for Show Racism the Red Card Ireland.
Selected Publications and Presentations
Tan, E. (2011). Teaching and learning diversity. International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Low, B., Tan, E., & Celemencki, J. (2010). "Keepin’ it Real” in the classroom: The discourse of authenticity and challenges for critical Hip-Hop pedagogies. In Marc Lamont Hill & Emery Petchauer (Eds.), Schooling Hip-Hop: New approaches to Hip-Hop based education. Teachers College Press.
Tan, E. (2010). ‘Hip hop culture: a way to be black’. Journal of Black Masculinity,1(1).
Tan, E. (2010) “Model minority boys: those Asian kids are so smart!” In S. Steinberg & M. Kehler (Eds.) Boy culture: An encyclopedia. Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing.
Tan, E. (2009) “Taking the Critical for Granted in Community Arts-based Learning”. Presented at Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, University of Ottawa.
Tan, E., Indongo, N., Piensa, L. Sarkar, M., Winer, L. & Low, B. (2009) “Performing “Realness” in Montreal and Toronto Hip-Hop through Caribbean Creoles: Code-Switching, Appropriation, and the Authenticity Debates. New Orleans, National Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Conference.
Tan, E. (2008) “Facing the Challenges of Multicultural Education in a Distinct Society: A Qualitative Based Inquiry in Times of Reasonable Accommodation”. Presented at Canadian Educational Research Association Conference at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of British Columbia.
Contact Details
Contact: 01 700 5429
Eloise.tan@dcu.ie
