Professional Profile

Pam Whitty

Pam Whitty has been teaching at UNB for the past ten years. She is a professor of education and teaches courses in early childhood curriculum, early literacies and cultural constructions of childhood as well as qualitative research. Her current research projects include E/Merging Literacies : Valuing the Literacies of Community Workers (SSHRC funding) and E/Merging Literacies: Parents Learn as They Teach Their Children.(National Literacy Secretariat). Other educational projects she is involved include Mary Grannan: Fredericton’s Famous Storyteller, and Telling Tales out of School: A Reclamation of the Histories of the Fredericton School for the Deaf( 1882-1902).

Her doctoral work A Reclamation of the Educational Thought of Helen Keller: Her Journey from No-World to World Home,consisted of an examination of the autobiographies in an effort to reclaim Keller’s thinking as an educator.

She is also involved with various arts organizations in the Fredericton area including the NB Summer Chamber Music Festival and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design

International teaching experience includes teaching stints in Sweden, Thailand and the Czech Republic. And an online course with Trinidad and Tobago.

Prior to 1991, Pam taught kindergarten, first grade and special education in the Fredericton area for 13 years.