Patrick Howard, Cape Breton University

Research

education music arts education music education ethnomusicology EDIA reconciliation decolonization

Latest funding

Informing the Sound Communities Inc. Sustainable Growth Plan
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$24,975
Connecting and Learning with Culture Bearers and Communities: Working Toward EDIA, Indigenization, Reconciliation and Decolonization through Music and Arts
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$88,299
Reconceptualizing teachers' roles for Canada's creative economy
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$275,087

Informing the Sound Communities Inc. Sustainable Growth Plan

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Ostashewski, Marcia

Keywords: music industry; EDI; reconciliation; decolonization; community economic development; Indigenous research; Mi'kmaw; First Nations; non profit

$24,975

Connecting and Learning with Culture Bearers and Communities: Working Toward EDIA, Indigenization, Reconciliation and Decolonization through Music and Arts

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Howard, Patrick

Keywords: education; music; arts education; music education; ethnomusicology; EDIA; reconciliation; decolonization; Indigenous; Black; African; Acadian; Francophone; Muslim; Ukrainian; bilingual; multilingual; community-engaged; learning; culture bearers

$88,299

Reconceptualizing teachers' roles for Canada's creative economy

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wiebe, Sean P.

Keywords: creative economy; a/r/tography; design thinking

$275,087

Understanding the digital composing processes of pre-service language and literacy teachers

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Howard, Patrick

Keywords: digital literacy; teacher education; new literacies; English language arts education; critical literacy; composition theory

$59,462

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: education Dear Professor Howard, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on education connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Connecting and Learning with Culture Bearers and Communities: Working Toward EDIA, Indigenization, Reconciliation and Decolonization through Music and Arts" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]