Lori McKee

Dr. Lori McKee is an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. Her background as an elementary school teacher for 20 years deeply informs her current work. In her classroom, she became intrigued by the varied ways young children acquire literacies and the pedagogies that best support these diverse learning paths. This curiosity ultimately led her to pursue doctoral studies and now informs her practice in both teacher and graduate education.

At the undergraduate level, Dr. McKee’s teaching focuses on Elementary Language Arts, where she aims to equip preservice teachers with the tools to navigate the complexities of teaching literacies in contemporary settings. In her graduate courses, she facilitates MEd capstone and project courses, fostering professional growth and reflective practice among her students.

Dr. McKee’s research centers on literacies, pedagogies, and teacher professional learning, often incorporating program development and documentation phases. Her work has included studies on intergenerational literacies with elders and young children in elder care facilities, literacy pedagogies in collaboration with teachers and children in school settings, and professional learning opportunities that encourage teacher educators to engage with equitable reading pedagogies in teacher education.

Her research and teaching experiences are closely interwoven, and she actively contributes to both professional and academic dialogues on literacies, pedagogies, and teacher professional learning. In professional settings, she has published in journals such as The Reading Teacher and Perspectives and Provocations. Academically, her work appears in international journals like the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Literacy, Language and Education, and Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. She has also contributed chapters to books published by Routledge, Springer, and Policy Press.

• Ph.D. Western University, Multimodal Pedagogies, 2018
• M.Ed. Western University, Multiliteracies and Multilingualism, 2013
• B.Ed. Queen’s University, Primary-Junior, 1997
• B.A.Sc. Guelph University, Child Studies, 1996

• ECUR 990: Seminar in Curriculum Research
• ECUR/ETAD 991: Scholarship in Teaching
• ECUR/ETAD 992: Project – Research
• ECUR/ETAD 994: Thesis - Research
• ECUR 309: Introduction to Elementary English Language Arts
• ECUR 310: Literacy Across the Elementary Curriculum: Assessment and Planning in a Relational Context

• McKee, L. (2024). The design and implementation of a digital, multimodal researcher journal in program evaluation using self-study methods. In Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online. SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529683288  
• McKee, L., & Scheffel, T. (2024). Supporting preservice teachers to navigate the tensions of teaching English Language Arts: An examination of two teacher educator’s literacies pedagogies. Language and Literacy, 26(3), 75–95. https://doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29699
• McKee, L., Lunney Borden, L., Gould, B, Laughlin, J., & Morris, R. (2024). Antle discovers his voice: Examining uses of oral language resources for Mi’kmaw learners. Language & Literacy, 26(2), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29732
• Ciampa, K., Gallagher, T. L., Hong, H., McKee, L., & Scheffel, T. L. (2024). An Examination of Canadian and American Pre-Service Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs for 21st Century Literacy Instruction. Reading Psychology, 45(3), 311–336. https://doi.org/10.1080/02702711.2023.2294730
• Throop Robinson, E., & McKee, L. (2024). Adapting Mathematics Curriculum Making: Lessons learned from/with elementary preservice teachers for curriculum research. Brock Education Journal, 33(2), 8 – 31. https://doi.org/10.26522/brocked.v33i2.1016
• McKee, L., Murray-Orr, A., & Throop Robinson, E. (2023). Learning to teach outside the box: Exploring newness in literacies pedagogies in a pandemic. Language and Literacy, (25)1, 130-147. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/29657/21566

• Poczobut, S., Heydon, R., McKee, L., Seabrook, F., Cooper, E., Ott, M., & Zhang, Z. (2024, June). Critical reading praxes in academic reading through artistic textual engagements: An atelierista-led workshop [Workshop]. United Kingdom Literacy Association Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton. 
• Honeyford, M., Watt, J., Yaman Ntelioglou, B., King, D., McLaughlin, T., & McKee, L. (2024, June). Re-imagining literacies assessment: Undoing, decolonizing, liberating, righting, and reassembling assessment research, practice, and policy [discussant for panel presentation]. Language and Literacies Researchers of Canada (LLRC) SIG at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Montréal, Québec, Canada. [spotlight session]
• Poczobut, S., Seabrook, A., Heydon, R., Cooper, E., Hakooz, Y., McKee, L., McTavish, M., Zhang, Z. (2024, June). The Atelierista in supporting critical reading praxis in teacher education: The reading pedagogies of equity research project [Paper presentation]. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference 2024, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 
• McKee, L., & Scheffel, T.L. (2024, June). Diffusing binaries within shifting landscapes: An examination of two teacher educator's literacies pedagogies [paper presentation]. Language and Literacies Researchers of Canada (LLRC) SIG at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Montréal, Québec, Canada.