About me
Dr. Edmondson is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research and teaching are informed by her nearly 20-year long career as a practicing high school social studies teacher in Alberta, as well as her love for curriculum theories that open space for practitioners, teacher-educators, and educational researchers to consider how curriculum encounters beyond-the-classroom shape how we understand our social worlds.
Inspired by her experiences growing up near Jasper National Park, learning of experiences and land stories from the descendants of those evicted from their homelands that are now Jasper National Park, and her career as a high school social studies educator, Dr. Edmondson’s research centres on teachers’ relationships with national parks in Canada, and how those relationships may generate an orientation toward more anti-colonial social studies education. Her PhD research revealed that because national parks are generative sites to recognize, disrupt, and ultimately dismantle settler colonial logics in the context of teaching and learning. Her research fits within a broader theme of dismantling systemic oppression with/in social studies education that she has cultivated throughout her emerging academic career. She has approached this theme through scholarly explorations in both social studies education and research and interdisciplinary curriculum theory.
