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Dean of the Faculty of Education, Community, and Human Development and Professor

Allyson Jule is the new Dean of the Faculty of Education, Community, and Human Development. She was most recently the Dean of Education at TWU. She has been an educator for over 35 years, teaching English in high schools and colleges in Alberta, Ontario and BC before entering academia. She studied and worked in the UK for ten years. She is a Full Professor.

Her contributions to gender equity and education were nationally recognized in 2012 by the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education’s Award. Over the years, Dr. Jule has received several teaching awards, including Canada’s prestigious 3M 2016 Teaching Fellowship, the national fellowship honouring excellence in teaching in Higher Education. She is a teacher’s teacher and cares deeply about equity, diversity and inclusion - and community access to education. She has been a popular conference presenter over the years.

She has written most widely on the topic of silence and language use in classrooms, including ten books and many peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Her most recent book is The Compassionate Educator, published last year by Canadian Scholars Press.

She is excited about this position at UFV because she deeply appreciates UFV’s commitments to EDI and its mission to engage learners, transform lives, and build community.

B.Ed. (Alberta); M.A. (SFU); PhD (Roehampton, London, UK)

Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Association of the BC Deans of Education (ABCDE), and the Association of Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE)

I am a teacher of teachers. For many years, I have enjoyed the privilege of teaching in teacher Education programs -- teaching future teachers how to teach, how to influence tomorrow, and why they should bother.  Three key thinkers have influenced my teaching philosophy: Jacques Lacan, Simone Weil, and Paulo Freire. Each has offered ways of understanding “otherness” and, ultimately, ways of engaging with otherness for the sake of teaching and learning. Understanding otherness is central to learning to teach. How a teacher relates to people is at the core of the vocational calling. Views on ‘the other’ and ‘the self’ predict and propel teacher-student relations in each and every context. 

Teacher education, Gender Studies, Feminism

Gender and education, language/silence, critical discourse analysis, gender and religion, and compassion in education.

1. SSHRC Exchange Grant. for The Compassionate Educators Network project, 2020, $5,835.00
2. SSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Connection Grant, Shifting Visions: Gender, Sexuality, Discourse and Language, IGALA 8 Conference, with Lia Litoselliti (City University London) and Mary Bucholtz (University of California Santa Barbara), 2014, $25,000

1. Jule, A. (2022). Presenter at the International Faculty Development Program, Session 1. Chandigarh University, Mumbai, India. “Understanding gender through silence in classrooms.” (July 4 – 7).
2. Jule, A. (2021). Panelist at the Iowa State University’s Speaker Series: Linguistic Justice In and Beyond the Classroom. (November 4).
3. Jule, A. (2021). Panelist at the BC Teachers Network Conference: Pushing Boundaries and Crossing Borders. “What is the role of the educator?” (March 17).
4. Jule, A. (2019). Panelist at the “Faith, Family and SOGI” session. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. My story (November 20).
5. Jule, A. (2019). Keynote at “Women and Leadership”, Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Title: Framing gender in the workplace: Is there (still) a gendered language of leadership? (October 25).
6. Jule A. (2018). Panelist at OSCLG (Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender) in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Title: Nevertheless We Persisted: Stories of Struggle and Strategies for Survival in Academia, organized by Deborah A. Macey and Anita Taylor (October 3, 2018).

Books

1. Jule, A. (2018).  Speaking Up: Understanding language and gender. [Trade edition.] Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
2. Jule, A. (2017). A beginner’s guide to language and gender, 2nd edition. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
3. Jule, A. (2008). A beginner’s guide to gender and language. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
4. Jule, A. (2004). Gender, silence, and participation in language education: Sh-shushing the girls. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Edited Collections

1. Jule, A. (Ed.) (2019). The compassionate educator: Understanding social issues in Canadian schools. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press.
2. Jule, A. (Ed.) (2015). Shifting visions: Gender and discourse. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholarly Press.     
3. Jule, A. (2022). Look who’s talking: gender, teacher authority and the use of linguistic space. In Badley, K. & Patrick, M. (Eds). The complexities of authority in the classroom: fostering democracy for student learning. Routledge.
4. Jule, A. and B. Pederson (Eds.) (2015). Facing challenges: Feminism in Christian higher education and Other Places. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholarly Press.
5. Jule, A. (Ed.) (2007). Language and religious identity: Women in discourse. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
6. Jule, A. and B. Peterson (Eds.) (2006). Being feminist; being Christian: Essays from academia.  New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
7. Jule, A. (Ed.) (2005). Gender and the language of religion. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer-Reviewed

1. Jule, A. (2022/2021/2020/2019/2017). Gender and language. Encyclopedia Entry. International Encyclopedia of Anthropology – 1st and 2nd editions. 4000 words. Entry #2125.
2. Jule, A. (2015). Facing the challenges of teaching Gender and Education in a Christian Teacher Education Program. In Facing challenges: Feminism in Christian Higher Education and Other Places, edited by Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholarly Press.
3. Jule, A. (2015) Introduction. In Shifting Visions: Gender and Discourses, edited by Allyson Jule. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge Scholars Press. 1 – 4.
4. Jule, A. (2015). Language of Sexuality in Religion. In The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, edited by Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin. Malden, Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
5. Herrero, S. & Jule, A. (2021). Some room for us: Women in academia as seen through the lives of Canada’s Eliza Ritchie (1873 – 1933) and Spain’s Maria Goyri (1873 – 1954). Historia Y Comunicacion Social, 26 (1). 215 – 224.
6. Jule, A. (2018). All together now: Choral responses, gender and linguistic space in a Cameroonian primary classroom. African Journal of Teacher Education Volume 7(1). 1-18
7. Jule, A. (2017 February 21). A room of one’s own entry in “The book that changed my life: From cherished childhood stories to highbrow literature to weighty non-fiction, academics weigh in….” compiled by Anqi Shen in UA: University Affairs.
8. Reimer-Kirkham, S. & Jule, A. (2014). Crosstalk: Public cafes as places of knowledge translation concerning health care research. Health Communication. Volume 29, Issue 10. 1 – 8.
9. Jule, A. (2011). Princesses in the classroom. Canadian Children. Volume 36, Number 2 (Fall Issue, 2011).
10. Jule, A. (2009). Using The Mary Tyler Moore Show as feminist teaching tool. In Gender and Education, 20. 1 – 8.
11. Jule, A. (2005). A fair share: Gender and linguistic space in a language classroom. Multilingua, Journal of Cross-Cultural Interlanguage Communication, 24 (1/2). 25 – 27.
12. Jule, A. (2003). Lecturing at college: Masculine morality and feminine forbearance. BERA on-line. http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/brs_engine
13. Jule, A. (2002) Speaking their sex: A study of gender and linguistic space in an ESL classroom. TESL Canada Journal, 19 (2). 37 – 51.

Book Reviews

1. Jule, A. (2018) Review of the book Gender and Sexuality in English Language Education: Focus on Poland by l. Pakula, J. Pawelczyk & J. Sunderland, 2015. Gender and Language, 12 (2).
2. Jule, A. (2015) Review of the book Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence by G. Jardim.  Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31 (1), 135 – 136.
3. Jule, A. (2015) Review of the book Doing Feminist Interpersonal Communication Research: A Call for Action, Two Methodological Approaches and Theoretical Potentials by Manning & K. Denker, 2015. Women and Language, 38, 131 – 132.