Dr. Douglas D. Karrow

Associate Professor (PhD, MEd, BEd, BSc), Department of Educational Studies

Available for Graduate Advisement

Doug Karrow

905 547 3555 x3614
doug.karrow@brocku.ca

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Douglas D. Karrow has been active in the field of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) throughout his career. He teaches in the undergraduate, graduate, and teacher education programs. Research interests include ESE, i.e., teacher education, curriculum, pedagogy, and policy, the applied philosophy of continental philosophers to education, e.g., Martin Heidegger, and alternative philosophies of education and education theory. He is a member of the EECOM Standing Committee on ESE-Teacher Education and the guest-editor for the Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS).

Research Interests and Activities

  • Environmental and sustainability education (ESE) in Teacher Education and K-12 Education: curriculum, pedagogy, policy: local, national and international perspectives
    • analyzing and publishing findings of a national survey on the status of ESE in Teacher Education in Canadian Faculties of Education
    • analyzing and publishing findings of an international literature review on ESE in Teacher Education
    • Self-study integrating ESE with other disciplines, e.g., mathematics education
  • The applied philosophy of Martin Heidegger to Teacher Education
    • author of the upcoming book, An Ethos of Mystery for Education Theory and Practice, Routledge. An examination of ‘mystery’ as a foundation to philosophy of education and implications for education theory.

Professional Affiliations

  • General member of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)
  • General member of the Canadian Network of Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM)
  • Member of the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication, Standing Committee of Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education
  • General member of the Canadian Association for Teacher Education (CATE) of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE)
  • General member of the Environmental Education Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Highlighted Recent Publications

(P) = Primary Authorship (S) = Secondary Authorship

(a). Books

(P) Karrow, D., DiGiuseppe, M. (Eds.). (2019). Environmental and sustainability education: Canadian perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG.  (327pages). ISBN: 978-3-030-25015-7.

(b). Chapters in Books (Selected)

 (P) Karrow, D., Fazio, X., & Zandvliet, D. (2022). Environmental education nomenclature and discourse. In M. Peters (Ed.), Springer: Singapore: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_460-1

(S) Khan, S., Karrow, D. Tran, H. T. T., & La France, S. (2022). Plantation logics and STEM economics: Making kin as education for multispecies flourishing after man. In S. Farrell, C. Skyhar & M. Lam (Eds.), Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the face of environmental crisis. Canadian Scholars. ISBN: 9781773382821

(P) Karrow, D., DiGiuseppe, M., & Inwood, H. (2019). Environmental and sustainability education in teacher education. In D. Karrow & M. DiGiuseppe (Eds.), Environmental and sustainability education in teacher education: Canadian perspectives, (pp. 1-20). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. ISBN: 978-3-030-25015-7

(P) Karrow, D., DiGiuseppe, M. (2019). Connecting Canadian preservice teacher environmental and sustainability education with international practices. In D. Karrow & M. DiGiuseppe (Eds.), Environmental and sustainability education in teacher education: Canadian perspectives, (pp. 305-320). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. ISBN: 978-3-030-25015-7

(S) Sperling, E., Hoeg, D., & Karrow, D. (2019). A syllabus for outdoor and environmental education: Assessing capacities for preservice teachers. In D. Karrow & M. DiGiuseppe (Eds.), Environmental and sustainability education in teacher education: Canadian perspectives, (pp. 237-252). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. ISBN: 978-3-030-25015-7

(P) Karrow, D. DiGiuseppe, M., Elliott, P., Inwood, H., & Fazio, X. (2019). What should Canadian teachers know? Teacher capacities: knowledge, skills, and dispositions. In D. Karrow & M. DiGiuseppe (Eds.), Environmental and sustainability education in teacher education: Canadian perspectives, (pp. 89-110). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. ISBN: 978-3-030-25015-7.

(P) Karrow, D., Harvey, S., & Yu, J. (2019). Critical theory’s nod to Heidegger: Contributions of phenomenological ontology to teacher education research. In K. Nolan & J. Tupper (Eds.), Beyond the technical rational: Drawing on social theory for teacher education research, (pp. 243-262). New York, NY: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9784-1-3500-8639-5

(c) Journal Articles (Selected)

(P) Karrow, D., Fazio, X., & Zandvliet, D. (2022). What’s in a name? The signifiers and empty-signifiers of environmental and sustainability education: Implications for teacher education. Brock Education Journal, 31(2), 109-130.

(P) Karrow, D., & Howard, P. (2020). Research activities of the Canadian standing committee on environmental and sustainability education in teacher education. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 23(1), 102-120.

(S) Docherty-Skippen, S. M., Karrow, D., & Ahmed, G. (2020). Doing science: Pre-service teachers’ attitudes and confidence teaching elementary science and technology. Brock Education Journal, 29(1), 24-34.

(P) Karrow, D., Khan, S., & Fleener, Y. (2017). Mathematics education’s ethical relation with and response to climate change. Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal. 32(Special Issues on Mathematics Education and the Living World: Responses to Ecological Crisis). ISBN:1465-2978.

Research and Project Funding

(a) internal grants

2022

Research Assistantship Grant: $750.00

  • Research and Development Committee, Faculty of Education
  • Karrow, D.
  • Editing assistance with book publication

GRAD Grant: $1700.00

  • Research and Development Committee, Faculty of Education
  • Karrow, D.
  • Data visualization and analysis of scoping literature review data.

2021

GRAD Grant: 1700.00

  • Research and Development Committee, Faculty of Education
  • Karrow, D.
  • Data visualization and analysis of scoping literature review data.

2020

Research Assistantship Grant: $1000.00

  • Research and Development Committee, Faculty of Education
  • Karrow, D.
  • Assistance with international environmental and sustainability in teacher education literature review and conference planning.

2019

Brock Research Initiative Award (RIA): $2000.00

  • Brock Office Research Services
  • Karrow, D. et al.
  • Assistance with SSHRC-PDG application re-submission

2018

Research Assistantship Grant: $1000.00

  • Research and Development Committee, Faculty of Education
  • Assistance with book publication

2017

Research Assistantship Grant: $1700.00

  • Research and Development Committee, Faculty of Education
  • Assistance with book prospectus

(b) external grants

2017

Developing Environmental Education in Canadian Faculties of Education: $10,000.00

  • Toronto Dominion Bank Friend of the Environment Fund.

Courses Taught

  • Teacher Education Program: Elementary Science Primary/Junior EDBE 8P37; Elementary Science Junior/Intermediate EDBE 8P27, Teacher as Inquirer EDBE 8Y43; Outdoor/Environmental Education EDBE 8N15
  • Graduate Education Program:
    • M.Ed.: Introduction to Educational Research EDUC 5P92, Curriculum Design,     Implementation and Evaluation EDUC 5P44; Curriculum Design to Develop Thinking Abilities EDUC 5P54; Culminating Seminar EDUC 5Q97, Independent Study EDUC    5P98; Major Research Paper EDUC 5D91; Thesis EDUC 5K95
    • Ph.D.: Research Colloquium EDUC 7P69, Specialization Elective EDUC 7P51;    Comprehensive Portfolio EDUC 7D80; PhD Dissertation EDUC 7Z90