Faculty & Staff

Bev Mathison, PhD

Academic Title: Associate Professor

Areas of Instruction
Contemporary Issues in Child Studies, Child Development & Brain Plasticity, Early Learning and Childcare

Degrees
PhD, University of Calgary
M.A., University of Calgary
B.Ed., University of Saskatchewan
B.A., University of Saskatchewan

Phone: 403.440.8655
Email: blmathison@mtroyal.ca

 

From early childhood education to elementary music education to special education to post secondary teaching (Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, MRU, Child Studies and Social Work), Beverly Mathison has spent her career immersed in teaching and learning. Although her research interests have shifted over the years, her fundamental pursuit remains unchanged: careful, thoughtful inquiry will lead us into and out of the conundrums shrouding understanding while simultaneously sparking critical consciousness. Her PhD was an expanded, deepened study of humanity’s interrelatedness and the effects of our incursion into the “natural environment” (with both beneficial and deleterious effects). This included an exploration into the potential and actual role of the education system—from early childhood to post-secondary to lifelong learners—as a means to heightening awareness and inspiring a pervasive ‘ecological mindedness.’

Areas of Instruction

  • Child Development and Brain Plasticity
  • Differing Abilities and Inclusion 
  • Practicum III
  • Child & Youth Human Rights 
  • Contemporary Issues in Child Studies

Areas of Scholarship

  • Flourishing in The Academy 
  • Ecological Mindedness 
  • Interpretive Studies in Higher Education
  • Inquiry-based Learning 
  • Contemplative Practice

Selected Publications 

Szabo, J., Mathison, B., Jakubec, S., Flessati, S., Currie, G. (2018). Tilling in the Garden of Joy and Sorrow: A Poetic Inquiry into the Rhizomatic Complexities of Growing into and through Collective Spaces. Art Research International 3(2).

Jakubec, S.L., Flessati, S., Currie, G., Gleeson, J., Szabo Hart, J., Mathison, B., Schow, E., Melrose, J., & Eirikson, A. It was like coming home again: Planting seeds of wellbeing through an inclusive campus community garden project for older adults. Journal of Therapeutic Horticulture.

Mathison, B., and Mathison, M. (2009). Impermanence, Liminality, and Transformation: In Search of Composure, Community, and Clarity. In P. Knowlton Cockett, E. Lohka, and K. Bentley (Eds.), Golden Threads: Women Creating Community. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises.

Mathison, B. (2009, July). Heeding a Call to Ecological Mindedness. (The Sixteenth International Conference on Learning, University of Barcelona, Spain.