Douglas Fleming's research focuses on ESL, citizenship and critical pedagogy. He teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels that focus on current social and political issues in second language research, ESL methodology and program development, multicultural citizenship education, equity and language policy. He has over 50 publications and invited contributions to date and has worked on numerous professional, curriculum and material development projects for government, school districts, teacher associations and NGO's. Professor Fleming was awarded a New Scholar Fellowship Award by the Canadian Society for Studies in Education in 2010. Prior to graduating from UBC with a PhD in Language and Literacy Education in 2007, he was an administrator and teacher for 20 years in the Toronto (Ontario) and Surrey (British Columbia) School Districts. Learn more about his research.
Douglas Fleming
Profile
Douglas
Fleming
Full Professor
Room
LMX 371
Phone
613-562-5800 ext. 4151
Email
Books
Fleming, D. (2020). Decolonialization in the concrete: Honoring the expertise of local teachers in English as a foreign language contexts
Bangou, F., Waterhouse M. & Fleming, D. (Eds.). (2020).Deterritorializing Language, Teaching, Learning, and Research
Journals & other
Fleming, D. (2015), Second language research, the construction of gendered identity and the Deleuzian concept of becoming woman, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 14 (3), 206-214.
Full list of publications and other scholarly contributions.
Research interests
- Critical and post-structural philosophy
- Applications to ESL teaching and research methodologies
- Second language policy development
- Inductive approaches to teaching
- Critical notions of citizenship
- Equity and anti-racist education