Patrick Howard

Research Contributions


  1. BOOKS, CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, EXPOSITORY AND REVIEW ARTICLES

  • Phillips, C. & Howard, P. (2024). Utilizing collaborative self-study to explore pedagogies for sustainability. In Wals, A., Bjoness, B., Sinnes, A. & Eikeland, I. (Eds). Whole School Approaches to Sustainability: Education Renewal in Times of Distress. (pp. 261-273) Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56172-6

  • Howard, P. & Phillips, C. (2024). Whole school approaches to sustainable communities across a continuum of culture, time, and place: A post-qualitative case study of Cape Breton University, Canada. In Drinkwater, M., Waghid, Y. (Eds.). The Bloomsbury Book of Ethics and Care in Transformative Higher Education Leadership. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/bloomsbury-handbook-of-ethics-of-care-in-transformative-leadership-in-higher-education-9781350414549/

  • Howard, P. (2023). Living schools – Reframing education for future possibility. In Tierney, R., Rizvi, F. Erikan, K. (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Education, 7, Elsevier. pp. 350-356. https://shop.elsevier.com/books/international-encyclopedia-of-education/tierney/978-0-12-818629-9

  • Howard, P. (2022). Education as innovation. In B. Hatt (Ed.) Crushing ICE: Short-on-theory, Long-on-Practice Approaches to Imagination Creativity Education. (pp. 131-147) Friesen Press.

  • Howard, P., Corbett, M. Burke-Saulnier, A. & Young, D. (2020). Education futures: Conservation and change. UNESCO: Background paper for Futures of Education initiative. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374087?posInSet=1&queryId=8e12a274-8d25-46cc-a643-3bc79b91ff81 

  • Howard, P., Saevi, T., Foran, A. & Biesta, G.(Eds.). (2020). Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation: Back to Education Itself. Routledge. 

  • Howard, P. (2020). Between having and being: Phenomenological reflections on having been educated. In P. Howard, T. Saevi, A. Foran, G. Biesta (2020). . Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation: Back to Education Itself. (pp. 252 – 263) Routledge. https://bit.ly/BacktoEducationItself

  • Howard, P. (2020). Part 4: To have been educated. In P. Howard, Saevi, T., Foran, A., Biesta, G., (2020). Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation: Back to Education Itself. (pp. 211-21)) Routledge. https://bit.ly/BacktoEducationItself

  • O'Brien, C., & Howard, P., (2020) Living Schools: Transforming Education. EWSB Press. https://www.eswb-press.org/publications.html

  • Howard, P. (2020). Living Schools and 21st Century Education: Connecting What and How with Why. In O'Brien, C. & Howard, P. (Eds.). Living Schools: Transforming Education. (pp. 13-24). EWSB Press. https://www.eswb-press.org/publications.html

  • Howard, P. (2020). Living School Attributes and Practices. In O'Brien, C. & Howard, P. (Eds.). Living Schools: Transforming Education. (pp. 13-24). EWSB Press. https://www.eswb-press.org/publications.html

  • O'Brien, C & Howard, P. (2020). Values and Vision: Realizing a Living Schools Vision through Connection and Relationship.  In O'Brien, C. & Howard, P. (Eds.). Living Schools: Transforming Education. (pp. 141-150). EWSB Press. https://www.eswb-press.org/publications.html

  • Howard, P. (2020). Teaching and Learning: Teaching and Learning for Experiential Renewal and Human Becoming.  In O'Brien, C. & Howard, P. (Eds.). Living Schools: Transforming Education. (pp. 161-167). EWSB Press. https://www.eswb-press.org/publications.htm

  • Howard, P. (2020). Re-visioning Teacher Education for Sustainability in Atlantic Canada. Karrow, D. & DiGuiseppe, M. (Eds.). Canadian perspectives on initial teacher education in environmental education. Springer.

  • Howard, P. (2019). “Deeper than even the grain goes...” Attending to sound as pedagogical practice in Alphonso Lingis’ The Murmur of the World. Wąsik, L.,Wąsik, E.,  Zaprucki, J. (Eds.) The Semiotics of Lifeworld Existentials: Between Necessity and Choice. Jelenia Góra: Karkonoska Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa w Jeleniej Górze.  

  • Howard, P. (2016). Phenomenology, education and the more-than-human-world. M. Peters (Ed). Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Singapore: Springer. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-981-287-532-7_91-1

  • Howard, P. (2012). How literature works: Poetry and the phenomenology of reader response. N. Friesen, T. Saevi, C. Henriksson (Eds.). Hermeneutic phenomenology in education: Method and practice. Sense Publishers. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6091-834-6_11

  • Howard, P. (2012). Re-orienting teacher education for the values of sustainability. In K. Bartels and K. Parker (Eds.). Teaching sustainability and teaching sustainably. Stylus Publishing. https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781579227395/Teaching-Sustainability-Teaching-Sustainably

  • Howard, P. (2006). In Search of a living literacy: Language, literature and ecological sensibility. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Alberta.

2. PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  • Howard, P., Blenkinsop, S. & Piersol, L. (2026). Re-listening to the literal: Voice and consent in an eco-phenomenology of pedagogy – Toward a polyvocal Earth. Phenomenology & Practice, 21 , 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/pandpr29625

  • Karsgaard, C., Jin, Q., Howard, P., & Kreber, C. (2025). An ethical imperative for higher education: cultivating community partnerships in climate change teacher education. Environmental Education Research, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2588691

  • Karsgaard, C., & Howard, P. (2025). Editorial: Bridging Social and Ecological Justice in Canadian Education. Canadian Journal of Education Revue Canadienne De l’éducation, 48(1), i-viii. https://doi.org/10.53967/cje-rce.7289

  • Howard, P. (2023). The promise of phenomenology. Editorial. Phenomenology and Practice 18, 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/pandpr29553

  • Howard, P. (2021). Language-ing the Earth: Experiential Renewal for a Relationally Sensitive Environmentalism. Phenomenology & Practice, 16, 1, 40-56. https://doi.org/10.29173/pandpr29500

  • Carter, M., Howard, P., Wiebe, S., & St-Amand, J. (2021). Volume 55 Issue 3: Editorial. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 55(3). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/10106

  • Howard, P., Ryan, C., & Fogarty, I. (2021). “What’s the Big Idea?” A Case Study of Whole-School Project-Based Instruction in Secondary Education. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 55(3). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/9798

  • Karrow, D. & Howard, P. (2020). Taking stock of Canadian environmental and sustainability education in teacher education research: Chronicling our past and charting our future. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education: Special Issue. https://cjee.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/1642 

  • Howard, P. (2019). Collaboration as a new creative Imaginary: Teachers’ lived experience of co-creation. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology 19, (2).http://www.ipjp.org/online-issues/category/70-edition-2-november-2019

  • Howard, P., O’Brien. C. Kay, B., O’Rourke, K. (2019). Leading Educational Change in the 21st Century: Creating Living Schools through Shared Vision and Transformative Governance. Sustainability.  11(15), 4109; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11154109

  • Saevi, T. & Howard, P. (2018). On Storytelling, teaching, chance, and gratitude: In conversation with Alphonso Lingis. Phenomenology & Practice: Special Issue- Alphonso Lingis, 12, 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/pandpr29367

  • Howard, P. (2003): Looking back together: Phenomenology and the nurturing of the reflective lens in student writing. (Electronic version).  Language and Literacy:  A Canadian Educational e-journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20360/G2XG6Z

  • Howard, P. (1998).  Assessing assessment: Reflections on assessing student response. Alberta English, 36(1), 57-63.

  • Howard, P. (1998). Makers of meaning, constructors of identity: Junior high girls and the young adult novel.  English Quarterly, 30(3,4), 17-27

3. PAPERS IN NONREFEREED JOURNALS

  • Howard, P. (2015). Powerful Transformative Education Initiatives: Education for Sustainability by Other Names. Available. http://www.patrickhoward.ca/blog.php

  • Howard, P. (2015). On Being Radical – Dismantling Education in the Service of Life. Available: http://www.patrickhoward.ca/blog.php

  • Howard, P. (2014). Trapper Boy: A Teacher Resource. Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press.

  • Howard, P. and J. Howard (2013). Fighting the flu - Fighting the fear: Teachers and infection control. CAP Journal: Journal of the Canadian Association of Principals. Summer 2013. 

  • Howard, P. (2008). Honouring youth: Celebrating student success. The Bulletin. Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers Association. 8,(51), 22-23.

  • Howard, P. (2004). Toward a living literacy: Ecological sensibility and environmental education. Taproot: The Academic Journal for the Coalition for Education Outdoors, Winter.

  • Howard, P. (2004). Graduate student involvement enriching on many levels. News & Notes: Newsletter of the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, 27(2), 10-11.

  • Howard, P. (2003). In search of a new story: Environmental education and ecological sensibility. Environmental news. Environmental Research and Studies Centre, University of Alberta.3(1), 1-2.

  • Howard, P. (2001). High school English: The promise and peril of a new curriculum.  The Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers Association. 45, (1), 26-27.

  • Howard, P. (1994). Blending old and new: Creating lasting change. PRISM, 3, 20-22.

  • Howard, P. (1992). Teaching global issues: How we deal with global concerns can affect students’ attitudes. PRISM (1),18-20. 

4. CONTRIBUTED (NON-INVITED) PAPERS/ABSTRACTS IN PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • Howard, P. (2010). In search of a living literacy: Language, literature and ecological sensibility. CSSE Conference, Concordia University. CFHSS/FCSH Conference System. http://ocs.sfu.ca/fedcan/index.php/csse2010/

  • Howard, P. (2004). Finding a place to begin: Pedagogy and the meaning of place-based teaching in the language arts. WestCAST: Annual Conference of the Western Canadian Association for Student Teaching, 215-219

5. BOOK REVIEWS

  • Howard, P. (2024). Book Review: Transformative Sustainability Education: Reimagining Our Future. Canadian Journal of Education Revue Canadienne De l’éducation, 47(2), xxvii-xxx. https://doi.org/10.53967/cje-rce.6729

  • Howard, P. (2021). Hermeneutics in an Age of Alternative Facts, Fake News, and Climate Change Denial. A Review of Clingerman, F., Treanor, B., Drenthen, M., and Utsler, D. (Eds.) (2014). Interpreting Nature: The emerging field of environmental hermeneutics. New York: Fordham University Press. In Phenomenology & Practice, 16 1. 108-117. https://doi.org/10.29173/pandpr29504

  • Howard, P. (2016). A review of A. Lukenchuk (Ed). Paradigms of research in the 21st century: Perspectives and examples from practice. Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education .

  • Howard, P. (2013). A review of M. MacKenzie, P. Hart, H, Bai, B. Jickling. (Eds.)(2009). Fields of green: Restorying culture, environment and education. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.  Journal of Education for Sustainable Development. 6, (2)           

  • Howard, P. (2012). A review of Technofix: Why technology won’t save us or the environment by M. Huesemann and J. Huesemann. New Society Publishers, 2012, in The Goose.

  • Howard, P. (2011). ‘Slip sliding away’: Language and scientific certainty. A review of The Mirage of space between nature and nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller, Duke University Press, 2010, in The Goose, 9,  23-25.

  • Howard, P. (2010). A review of Adrift on the ark: Our connection to the natural world by Margaret Thompson, Brindle and Glass, 2009, in The Goose, (7), 33-34.

  • Howard, P. (2008). “Leaning into the light:” A review of Living Away from Blessings by Carina Henriksson.  (Electronic version). Phenomenology and practice. http://www.phandpr.org/index.php/pandp

6. CONTRIBUTED (NON-INVITED PAPERS/ABSTRACTS) AT CONFERENCES

  • Radical re-imagining for sustainable action. Howard, P. & Campbell. E. AEROx Worshops. February 12-13, 2021. 

  • Agency, ethos, & pedagogy in Canada’s creative economy.  Shuman, L., McLarnon, M., Carter, M., Howard, P. & Ricketts, K. American Educational Research Association. Toronto, Ontario, Spring 2019. 

  • Assessing the State of Canadian Environmental and Sustainability Education in a Post Truth Era. Di Guiseppe, M., Karrow, D., Howard, P., Sims, L., Elliot, P., American Educational Research Association. Toronto, Ontario, Spring 2019. 

  • Sustainability and Creativity in the Service of Life – (Invited Panelist) A Creative Connections Symposium, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, November 17th, 2018.  

  • Re-visioning Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education in Canadian Faculties of Education. Association of Canadian Deans of Education Panel. CSSE Conference, University of Regina, Reginal SK, May 25th – June 1st, 2018. 

  • Teaching as a Risky Business. CSSE Conference. University of Regina. Regina, SK, May 25th – June 1st, 2018.  

  • Creativity, Innovation and the Experience of Risk-taking in the K12 Classroom. Creative Connections Annual Conference, University of New Brunswick, November 16th – 18th, 2017. 

  • “Deeper than even the grain goes...” Attending to sound as pedagogical practice in Alphonso Lingis’ The Murmur of the World. International Human Science Research Conference. Karkonosze College, Jelenia Gora, Poland, July 11th – 14th, 2017.  

  • Re-imagining Teacher identity for the creative economy: Establishing an ethos of creative teaching in Canada. CSSE Conference. Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, May 27th – June 1st, 2017.  

  • Re-conceptualizing Teachers’ Identity for the creative economy. Panel presentation. Provoking Curriculum Conference. McGill University, Montreal QC, February 8th – 10th, 2017.  

  • The phenomenology of reader response: How literature works- poetry and the development of the moral imagination in children. International Human Sciences Research Conference  (IHRSC 2015), Trondheim, Norway, 11th – 14th of August 2015

  • Affinity spaces and ecologies of practice: Infusing new literacies into teacher education. World Social Science Forum. Montreal, Canada, 13th – 15th of October 2013.

  • “Everywhere you go always take the weather with you”: Phenomenology and the pedagogy of climate change education. International Human Sciences Research Conference (IHSRC 2013), Aalborg, Denmark, 13th – 16th of August 2013.

  • Understanding the digital composing processes of pre-service Language arts and literacy teachers.  7th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2013), Valencia, Spain, 4th – 6th of March 2013.

  • Educating the Imagination: Bioregional literature for the values of sustainability.  Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability: 7th Biennial Meeting of the International Network of Teacher Education Institutions. York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 16th – 20th of May  2012

  • Finding a language for sustainability: Children and bioregional poetry.  Literature and Environmental Conservation Conference: Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 2nd - 4th  of September, 2011.

  • Language, literature and ecological education. Paper presented as part of the panel Curricular responses in a time of mass extinction:  Sustainability strategies from across the curriculum. . CSSE Conference. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick.  May 29th – June 5th, 2011.

  • Frost paints the pane (paints the pain): Children and the promise of bioregional poetry. August 19th -21st, 2010. ALECC Conference. Cape Breton University. Sydney, Nova Scotia.

  • In Search of a Living Literacy- May 28th – June 4th, 2010.  CSSE Conference. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

  • Pedagogy and place based teaching in the rural literacy classroom. March 31 –April 1, 2008, Rural Education Conference.  Saskatoon, SK.

  • Writing takes place: Place relatedness and the writing process, June 2004, CSSE Conference. University of Manitoba


7. RESEARCH GRANT AND CONTRACT INFORMATION

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant. (2024-2025). (P. Howard, P.I. J. Whitehead, J. Stark, M. Ostshewski, Co-applicants) Connecting and Learning with Culture Bearers and Communities: Working Toward EDIA, Indigenization, Reconciliation and Decolonization through Music and Arts. , $58,229.

  • Accelerating Climate Change Education in Teacher Education Grant. (2024) (C. Karsgaard, P.I. , P. Howard, C. Kreber, Q. Jin), Project Title: Building Community Connections for ESE-TE: A Participatory Symposium, $5,000. 

  • Cape Breton University (2018). RISE Grant. An Inquiry into Integrative Teaching and Learning: A Case Study of a Canadian Secondary School, $4692.72

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2016) – Re conceptualizing teacher identity for the creative economy. Sean Wiebe, PI - $275,087. 

  • Cape Breton University (2013). Research program grant. Teaching sustainably: Post secondary student experience of a paper-less classroom. - $3000.00

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2011) – Digital composing processes of pre-service literacy teachers - $59,462.00

  • Cape Breton Health Research Grant Fund (2011): Teachers’ experience of pandemic preparedness in the elementary classroom - $2297.00

  • Cape Breton University (2010) – Research Program Grant - $5551.00

  • Cape Breton University (2009) – New Faculty Research Start Up Grant – $2000.00

  • SSHRC (2004 -2006) – grant to undertake doctoral research on the ecological literacy of children in coastal Newfoundland and Labrador - $57,000