Connie Morrison Author

The Author: Connie Morrison is a doctoral candidate at Memorial University’s Faculty of Education where she teaches courses in teaching and reading popular culture, curriculum teaching and learning, adolescent literature, and intermediate and high school English methods. Her background in media education, English as cultural studies, and social justice pedagogy informs her research in avatar design and the online identity and representation of teenaged girls. She contributed a chapter, «Critical Autobiography for Transformative Learning: Gaining a Perspective on Perspective», to Narrating Transformative Learning in Education (2008), and an article, «The Everyday Practice of Avatar Creation», to The Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education.