Areas of Interest

• Teacher effectiveness
• Teacher research
• Gender and language education
• Curriculum development/materials
• Television and media
• Autobiography
• Language, literacy and literature
• Creative writing
• Poetry
• Narrative as research
• Arts-based research
• Sprituality and education
• Curriculum theory

Research Activities

• Discursive practices of students
• Gender and popular culture
• Narrative and educational research
• Narratives of teachers in film and television

Recently Published Work

• Leggo, C. (2008). Astonishing silence: Knowing in poetry. In A. L. Cole & J. G. Knowles (Eds.), Handbook of the arts in qualitative social science research (pp. 165- 174). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Hasebe-Ludt, E., Chambers, C., Leggo, C., Hurren, W., Oberg, A., & Donald, D. (2008). Métissage. In A. L. Cole & J. G. Knowles (Eds.), Handbook of the arts in qualitative social science research (pp. 141-153). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
• Leggo, C. (2008). The ecology of personal and professional experience: A poet's view. In M. Cahnmann & R. Siegesmund (Eds.), Arts-based inquiry in diverse learning communities: Foundations for practice (pp. 89-97). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Leggo, C. (2008). Autobiography: Researching our lives and living our research. In S. Springgay, R. Irwin, C. Leggo, & P. Gouzouasis (Eds.), Being with a/r/tography (pp. 3-23). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Hasebe-Ludt, E., Chambers, C., Oberg, A., & Leggo, C. (2008). Embracing the world, with all our relations: Métissage as an artful braiding. In S. Springgay, R. Irwin, C. Leggo, & P. Gouzouasis (Eds.), Being with a/r/tography (pp. 57-23). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Leggo, C. (2008). Living mathematically: A poet’s response. In E. de Freitas & K. Nolan (Eds.), Opening the research text: Critical insights and in(ter)ventions into mathematics education (pp. 183-188). New York: Springer.
• Springgay, S., Irwin, R., Leggo, C., & Gouzouasis, P. (Eds.). (2008). Being with a/r/tography. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
• Leggo, C. (2007). Tangled lines: The art of researching our lives. The Journal of Educational Thought, 41(2), 191-199.
• Leggo, C. (2007). Learning by heart: A poetics of research. JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 22(4), 73-95.
• Leggo, C. (2007). Living poetically: Pensées on literacy and health. Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training, and Education Journal, 6, 3-12.
• Sinner, A., Leggo, C., Irwin, R., Gouzouasis, P., & Grauer, K. (2007). Arts-based educational research dissertations: Reviewing the practices of new scholars. Canadian Journal of Education, 29(4), 1223-1270.
• Leggo, C. (2007). Writing truth in classrooms: Personal revelation and pedagogy. International Journal of Whole Schooling, 3(1), 27-37.
• Leggo, C. (2007). The syntax of silence. JCACS (Journal of the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies), 5(1), 94-101. Available at: http://www.csse.ca/CACS/JCACS/V5N1/jcacs_V5N1.html.
• Leggo, C. (2007). Autobiographical writing and voice: Five echoes. In I. Blayer and F. Fagundes (Eds.), Oral and written narratives and cultural identity: Interdisciplinary approaches (pp. 119-137). New York: Peter Lang.
• Prendergast, M., & Leggo, C. (2007). Astonishing wonder: Spirituality and poetry in educational research. In L. Bresler (Ed.), International handbook on research in arts education (pp. 1459-1480). New York: Springer.
• Leggo, C. (2006). Come-By-Chance. St. John’s: Breakwater Books.
• Leggo, C. (2006). Attending to winter: A poetics of research. In W. Ashton & D. Denton (Eds.), Spirituality, ethnography, and teaching: Stories from within (pp. 140-155). New York: Peter Lang.
• Leggo, C. (2006). End of the line: A poet’s postmodern musings on writing. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 5(2), pp. 69-92. Available at: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?article=true&id=424&p=1.
• Leggo, C. (2006). Remembering grade 10 literature: A modest proposal. Update, 48(2), 20-24.
• Leggo, C. (2006). The teacher as poet-researcher. BC Educational Leadership Research e-Journal, 4. Available at: http://slc.educ.ubc.ca/eJournal/index.htm.
• Leggo, C. (2005). Autobiography and identity: Six speculations. Vitae Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational Biography, 22(1), 115-133.
• Leggo, C. (2005). Alphabet blocks: Expanding conceptions of language with/in poetry. TESL Canada Journal, 23(1), 91-110.
• Leggo, C. (2005). Pedagogy of the heart: Ruminations on living poetically. The Journal of Educational Thought, 39(2), 175-195.
• Leggo, C. (2005). An archipelago of fragments: Writing other gendered lines of connection. Men and Masculinities, 8, 195-207.
• Leggo, C. (2005). The heart of pedagogy: On poetic knowing and living. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 11(5), 439-455.
• Leggo, C. (2005). Synonyms: Fiction & Knowing. In W. Gershon, T. Kelly, K. Kesson, & W. Walter-Bailey (Eds.), (De)liberating curriculum and pedagogy: Exploring the promise and perils of “scientifically based” approaches (pp. 85-98). Troy, NY: Educator’s International Press.
• Leggo, C. (2005). The letter of the law/the silence of letters. In P. Trifonas (Ed.), Communities of difference. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Leggo, C. (2004). Tangled lines: On autobiography and poetic knowing. In A. L. Cole, L. Neilsen, J. G. Knowles, & T. C. Luciani (Eds.), Provoked by art: Theorizing arts-informed research (pp. 18-35). Halifax: Backalong Books.
• Leggo, C. (2004). Listening to the silence: Honouring the complexity of the narratives we live. Brock Education, 14(1), 97-111.
• Leggo, C. (2004). Living poetry: Five ruminations. Language & Literacy, 6(2), 14 pp. Available at: www.langandlit.ualberta.ca/current.html.
• Leggo, C. (2004). The curriculum of joy: Six poetic ruminations. JCACS (Journal of the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies), 2(2), 27-42.
Available at: http://www.csse.ca/CACS/JCACS/V2N2/PDF%20Content/JCACS_2_2_e_Leggo.pdf.
• Leggo, C. (2004). The poet’s corpus: Nine speculations. JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 20(2), 65-85.
• Leggo, C. (2004). The curriculum of becoming human: A rumination. International Journal of Whole Schooling, 1(1), 28-36.
• “Light and Shadow: Four Reasons for Writing (and Not Writing) Autobiographically.” Vitae Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational Biography, 21.1, 2004, 5-22.

Updated March 2008