Amélie Lemieux

Amélie Lemieux
Université de Montréal | UdeM · Faculty of Education

PhD (McGill)
Associate Professor - University of Montreal

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Introduction
Amélie Lemieux est professeure agrégée à la faculté des sciences de l'éducation de l'Université de Montréal. Amélie Lemieux is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Montreal.
Additional affiliations
May 2018 - June 2021
Mount Saint Vincent University
Position
  • Assistant Professor
Education
September 2013 - May 2018
McGill University
Field of study
  • Literature teaching; multimodality

Publications

Publications (72)
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Dans cet article, nous explorons les enjeux et fondements de trois approches en didactique de la lecture : 1) l’approche transactionnelle, 2) l’approche subjective, et 3) l’approche phénoménologique. Nous passons d’abord en revue plus de vingt ans d’études sur la subjectivité en lecture pour mieux envisager la portée de ces études aujourd’hui. Notr...
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This paper examines what new materialist and posthumanist frameworks can offer learning science research in diverse maker learning environments. We explore what is gained by grappling with the entanglements between humans, non‐humans and more‐than‐humans. To do this, we draw on Karen Barad's ethico‐onto‐epistemology and agential realism where she r...
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This article addresses key components of posthumanism and maker literacies by reporting on empirical data from two makerspace research sites. Using posthuman methodologies, we suggest practical considerations of the relational autonomy of materials through entangle-ments between humans, non-humans and more-than-humans in makerspace classroom settin...
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Policy-makers and provincial governments have a responsibility to prioritise equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility (EDIA) with approaches that leverage both intersectionality and transdisciplinarity, especially when looking at literacies research. Supported by a federally funded knowledge synthesis grant that surveyed the scope of EDIA in...
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This article delves into moments of affect, puncturing the exchanges between an early career 2SLGBTQ+ researcher and a group of Canadian adolescents , mostly composed of girls, who developed a ClayMation video to take the pulse of emerging vibrancies in maker literacies. Among these dynamisms came the matter of gender in the research project. Adopt...
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This introduction to this special issue was designed and thought about in response to the Language and Literacy Researchers' of Canada's research statement on literacy. This volume presents seven articles from authors who conducted literacy research projects in Canada during the post-pandemic period. It specifically addresses the complexities of te...
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Young people engage daily with various social media platforms to communicate with one another across the globe. Adolescents not only share text, but also use images and sound to express themselves on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to provide access to user-created content. The recent emergence of InstaPoetry-poetry with images on Instagram-...
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Read It & Roast is back for season 2! Join us as Université de Montréal professor Amélie Lemieux takes us on a guided meditation of Rupi Kaur's home body (2020). Are you over IG poetry or are you a Rupi groupie? Listen to our newest episode to find out what we thought!
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A range of studies in the area of reading, reception theory and literacy have focused on integrating interpretive stances in situations where readers are discovering a text. There are often cohabiting instances of negotiation, malaise, surprise, desire, imagination that are triggered by the semiotic, cultural, experiential, personal, metacognitive,...
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Museum education is tightly related to arts-based education, an area typically associated with the intersections of such disciplinary domains as the arts, literacy studies, museum research, literature learning, and digital humanities. A closer look at these intersections paves the way for emergent research investigating what the concept of the muse...
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Amélie Lemieux, professeure adjointe au département de didactique de l'Université de Montréal, a récemment participé à l'émission Classroom Caffeine. Dans cet épisode, elle partage son avis par rapport à l'équilibre à atteindre pour l'adoption d'une posture authentique et transparente en recherche en sciences de l'éducation et, en particulier, en e...
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L'engagement en lecture fait l'objet de nombreux débats parmi les didacticiens de la lecture. Au coeur de ces débats coexistent plusieurs définitions complexes de cette notion qui entrent parfois en contradiction, tout dépendant des épistémologies qui les orientent. En effet, issue de la psychopédagogie, la notion d'engagement envers la lecture a p...
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L’engagement en lecture fait l’objet de nombreux débats parmi les didacticiens de la lecture. Au cœur de ces débats coexistent plusieurs définitions complexes de cette notion qui entrent parfois en contradiction tout dépendant des épistémologies qui les orientent. En effet, issue de la psychopédagogie, la notion d’engagement envers la lecture a pro...
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Ce chapitre aborde la notion de force transmédiale au moyen de l’analyse de phénomènes péritextuels entourant l’hypertexte X-Men : Dark Phoenix. L’autrice s’intéresse au personnage du Phénix, à titre d’élément traversant l’analyse péritextuelle, épitextuelle, et paratextuelle des forces transmédiales liées aux personnages et aux événements des film...
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Les travaux en didactique de la poésie ont fait l’objet de transformations importantes, tant dans l’exploration des genres que dans les utilisations didactiques (Brillant Rannou, Boutevin et Plissoneau, 2018 ; Émery-Bruneau, 2018). Plusieurs s’entendent sur la pertinence de la mobilisation des expériences esthétiques des élèves à cet effet. Pour ce...
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Appel à contributions pour le volume 17 de la collection « Recherches en didactique du français » L'enseignement de la lecture et de l'écriture en contexte multimodal : état des lieux et interrogations disciplinaires Numéro dirigé par Vincent Capt, Amélie Lemieux, Kathy Similowski et Rachid Souidi Depuis bientôt trente ans, conjointement à la numér...
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Éminente philosophe de la pensée ethnocritique, bell hooks a milité en faveur de l’émancipation des personnes historiquement marginalisées, dont les femmes noires. Apprendre à transgresser (Teaching to transgress, traduit chez M Éditeur) a suscité un regain d’intérêt à la suite de la mort de l’auteure en décembre 2021. Nous revenons d’abord sur ce...
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In 2020–2021, most of us in academia experienced abrupt changes in teaching and learning—higher workloads and new working conditions bound by remote and spatial settings that affected learning in complex ways. In particular, this disposition viscerally impacted how teachers conveyed content knowledge and attended to students’ perceived needs. This...
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Dans cet article, nous présentons une analyse réflexive et théorique de l’utilisation d’Instagram comme catalyseur à la production de textes poétiques au secondaire, à l’issue d’un projet de recherche subventionné par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. Nous nous penchons sur l’utilisation de la plateforme Instagram, en particu...
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This article considers how documentation enrichesliteracieslearninginhighereducation, specifically in a graduate course designed for language teachers.Building on a one-year research study with graduate studentsata university inthe Atlantic regionof Canada, the authors demonstrate how participant-generated documentation, including cartography,prese...
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This article considers how documentation enriches literacies learning in higher education, specifically in a graduate course designed for language teachers. Building on a one-year research study with graduate students at a university in the Atlantic region of Canada, the authors demonstrate how participant-generated documentation, including cartogr...
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COVID-19 is reshaping working arrangements in traditionally office-based professions. For scholars, these disruptions emphasise the need to examine how literacies travel other-wise (Lemieux et al., forthcoming) through Zoom meetings, shelfie tweets, and bookshelf photographs. Here, we evoke the altered paths that bodies, objects, and ideas are trav...
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In processing the impact of the pandemic amidst other global crises, we found reread-ing Brandt and Clinton's "The Limits of the Local" article, published 20 years ago next year, to offer much, both theoretically and practically. Written within its own tumultuous time, according to its editors, it argues for transcontextualizing accounts of literac...
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In times of global emergencies and shifting social priorities worldwide, literacy researchers must recognize how ethnographic methods―foregrounded by New Literacy Studies researchers―may be rendered temporarily and persistently inaccessible. These conditions force us to work other-wise, employing new materialism to contemplate methodologies of the...
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Cet article théorique s'intéresse à l'usage responsable et aux applications potentielles des questions d'équité, de diversité, d'inclusion et d'accessibilité (EDIA) à l'enseignement de la littérature avec le numérique. À cette fin, l'auteure énonce la problématique et les raisons dialectiques liées à l'utilisation de ce cadre, à la lumière des poli...
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Dans cet article, nous présentons une analyse réflexive et théorique de l’utilisation d’Instagram comme catalyseur à la production de textes poétiques au secondaire, à l’issue d’un projet de recherche subventionné par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. Nous nous penchons sur l’utilisation de la plateforme Instagram, en particu...
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Kristine Blair. 2019. Technofeminist Storiographies: Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation.
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Inspired by posthumanist and new materialist perspectives, this article offers multi-perspective post-qualitative findings highlighting adults’ entanglements with environmentally oriented makerspace activities in higher education. The article draws on adult education studies and maker research to generate neomaterialist understandings of arts-based...
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This report presents an overview of program evaluations of Community arts programs across Canada and specifically the Maritimes to provide specialized insights into the state of online accessibility, availability, and outreach during the 2020-2021 year. These findings were produced during the COVID-19 pandemic year, from June 2020 to May 2021. The...
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This article returns to the centrality of craft-making as a push to consider ontological antidualisms and further considerations for materials, humans, nonhuman, and more-than-human bodies. The research seeks answers to the question: (where) is theory enacted when human actors craft? Part of the answer to this question resides, as exemplified in th...
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This article contributes methodological insights into the role of posthumanism in documenting process in maker education for teachers. This research draws on two case studies of women teachers from Nigeria and Jamaica who engaged in makerspace activities in a graduate university course on maker literacies. The study upholds the necessity to conside...
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This paper offers a multifaceted and dialogical engagement with my book, Curriculum in International Contexts: Understanding Colonial, Ideological, and Neoliberal Influences (Kumar, 2019). The book emerged from two decades of my academic work on education in international contexts, as well as from my ongoing dialogues and conversations with scholar...
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In this chapter we invite reader reflections on walking as a private, yet relational artful practice that may foster public educational change and growth. Although we teach and practice our walking routines in different cities (Amélie Lemieux in Halifax and Boyd White in Montreal) we take mutual inspiration from land artist Richard Long. Long’s art...
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In this article, the authors explore mapping as a pedagogical approach. Drawn from two literacy classrooms, the authors report on five empirical examples of mapping, elucidating the ways in which mapping activities were sites of dynamic meaning-making through processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987). In...
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This symposium is concerned with understanding the forces that shape and influence curriculum in international contexts. The study of curriculum in international contexts reveals the insidious impacts of colonial, ideological and neoliberal influences on contemporary curriculum development in a variety of geo-cultural, political and economic contex...
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In this chapter, we analyze and theorize fifteen high school students’ maker processes through a posthuman lens. The research team explored collaborations between a media artist and a high school English teacher with the aim of offering students a unit of study in which they could express their perspectives on such issues as homelessness, anxiety,...
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This article explores how principles of multimodality can be effectively incorporated into game analysis in the context of social justice. The authors use a multimodal framework to assist developers, researchers, and educators in better understanding representations of class, race, and gender in videogames. Videogames are multimodal in nature: not...
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De/constructing Literacies: Considerations for Engagement reviews and defines the concept of engagement in literacy studies from different epistemologies. Well-suited for literacy researchers and graduate students, it considers the foundations of arts-based research, cognitive psychology, ethnography, phenomenology, posthuman theories, with a final...
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Films and associated activities can be used as effective learning tools in classrooms in relation to compassion and empathy. This chapter describes how the authors have incorporated film in both undergraduate- and graduate-level teaching. Three cases of film-viewing took place as part of teacher education classes. A thematic approach is used in thi...
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In this article published by Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies, Lemieux and Rowsell survey the landscape of digital literacy education in Canadian secondary schools.
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X-Men: Apocalypse stars numerous renowned characters from the X-Men series, including Raven and Wolverine. In this chapter, I adopt a lens that cross-investigates Henry Jenkins’ notion of “digital storytelling” and Paolo Bertetti’s concept of “transmedia character.” The objective to examine the permeable relationships between these two notions, and...
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In this article, we feature a graphic story, comic, and animated film research study that considers how children design and produce narratives within transmedial worlds.
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In this article, we explore the Speech Bubbles, Graphic Stories, Flip Books, Storyboards research study that took place in a combined grade 3/4 classroom in Canada. Moving from story narratives to graphic texts to animated texts, children steadily worked from one text genre to the next, transforming media and similar storylines into multiple modes...
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This article describes a research project that investigated the development of pre-service teacher identity, with an emphasis meaning-making and articulation of personal values. The methodology is primarily arts-based. Data for the research consisted of: (1) participant-created three-dimensional constructions that symbolized their emerging values a...
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This paper explores the relationship between the arts and literacy in schools in three countries: Australia, Canada and France. It begins by sharing research that has investigated how literacy education has impacted on arts education but also relating to the unique literacies present throughout the arts. The authors then present information related...
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Mapping Holistic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams introduces the concept of aesthetigrams. These are participant-produced visual maps of aesthetic engagement. The map-making strategy was originally developed by one of the authors, Boyd White, to assist him in understanding what his university-level students were experiencing as they...
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Library books and printed materials have been decreasing over the past decade, especially in university campuses across North America (Price, 2010). This chapter addresses the impact of establishing a free library on a Canadian university campus, following the “Little Free Library” (LFL) model developed by Bol (2009) with the intention of finding a...
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In the 2016 winter term, I taught a course on French communication for English as a Second Language pre-service teachers (PST) in the Department of Education of a Canadian university. In this narrative autoethnography, I present the perspectives emerging from a university teaching experience of “teaching through film”, with undergraduate students e...
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Research on literature pedagogy still refers to traditional, text-oriented methods in practice (Todorov, 1982; Peirce, 1977), with occasional consideration for students’ subjectivity through reader-response exercises involving reading logs, surveys, or journals. When addressing subjectivities in individual and collective classroom contexts, researc...
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La didactique de la lecture est en constante évolution depuis la réforme de 2005 au Québec et l’intégration progressive des TICs et des compétences multimodales (Lebrun, Lacelle, & Boutin, 2012). D’un point de vue épistémologique, la phénoménologie du lecteur ne s’en trouve pas délaissée, mais bien adaptée en fonction de ces changements. Financée p...
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La fiction historique se situe à la croisée de deux formes d’écriture : l’une provenant de l’invention de l’auteur, l’autre découlant d’archives et de documents historiques. Le lecteur, quant à lui, « vient au devant du texte historique [...] avec des attentes [...] qu’on ne lui “raconte pas des histoires” ». À la différence du texte historique, la...
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Abstract: With the intention of disrupting and re-imagining traditional conference spaces, this article is a poetic compilation developed from a Curriculum Studies conference symposium that took place on a school bus. During the School Bus Symposium, in situ poetry writing and reading, song and storytelling occurred in response to open ended promp...
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French Quebec literature has always served as a cultural reference for the Quebec curriculum, and is still the means through which French language skills are most often taught in secondary 5 (grade 11) Quebec classrooms. In this paper, I suggest an interactive teaching of the Quebec play Incendies in three secondary 5 classrooms. Students’ meaning...

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