Award-winning educator and academic leader with a PhD in Education and Educational Leadership from Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada, passionate for creating and cocreating inclusive, interdisciplinary educational experiences and motivational learning ecosystems for all learners and faculty members.
Olga Shugurova, PhD
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Published educational researcher with an area of expertise in authentic educational leadership as well as a novel integration of AI in learning to develop students’ motivation, authorial agency, and mental wellbeing.
Committed to promoting equity, diversity, and student success through innovative and evidence-based approaches. Nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Manitoba (2023-2024) for my interdisciplinary courses.
Received a research 2-year grant for an interdisciplinary qualitative study on gender and
learning development at York University (2007).
Education
Publications
Shugurova, O., Matusov, E., GPT, C., & Smith, M.P. (2024). Does ChatGPT4 have a dialogical self?: A Bakhtinian perspective. Culture and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X231219454
Shugurova, O. (2024). Walking with A/R/Tographic oil pastels in field research: Ontological engagements. In R. Irwin et al. (Ed.), Pedagogical Propositions: Playful Walking with A/r/tography (pp.162-169). Book One: Encounters. InSEA.
Shugurova, O. (2023). Searching for a more-than-human dialogic pedagogy. i.e.: inquiry in education, 15(3), 1-22.
Shugurova, O., Matusov, E., & Marjanovic-Shane, A. (2022). The University of Students: A place for joint self-education. Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal, 10, E1-E42 https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2022.497
Shugurova, O. (2021). Feminist dialogic pedagogical spaces in teacher education: Practical inclusivity, eye-opening, and change. Contemporary Education Dialogue, 18(1), 29-57.. https://doi.org/10.1177/0973184920969338
Shugurova, O. (2021). Transformative, intercultural learning from the Indigenous Teaching Circle: Creative autoethnographic reflections on dialogic, holistic education with place. Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, 15(29), 1-35.
Shugurova, O. (2020). Co-constructing a learner-centered, democratic syllabus with teacher candidates: A poetic rendering of students' meaning-making experiences. i.e.: inquiry in education, 12(3), 1-20.
Shugurova, O. (2020). Exploration of students’ thoughts about their right to freedom of education. Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal, 8, SF50-SF58, https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2020.345
Shugurova, O. (2019). A/r/tographic remembering of my ideological becoming in the Ukrainian USSR: Learning, compulsory schooling, and the search for dialogic pedagogy through the visual poetics in early years classroom, International Journal of Education and the Arts, 20(17), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.26209/IJEA20N17
Shugurova, O. (2018). A/r/tography of life learning. Journal of Unschooling & Alternative Learning, 12(23), 20-55.
Shugurova, O. (2019). Teaching teacher candidates about social transformations through arts and place: “Wait, but what does it have to do with me as a teacher?”. i.e.: inquiry in education, 11(1), 1-19.