WHITWORTH WINNERS
Louise Gaudreau (2001)
Biography
Louise Gaudreau is Assistant Dean for Research, Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Education, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She has taught elementary, secondary and college students and has also been a university lecturer in teacher training. She first studied microbiology and then pedagogy. She holds a master's degree in education (didactics) as well as a doctorate in education (evaluation).
Most of her research work has been action research and evaluative research. She has also directed several evaluation programs, and in so doing, investigated a number of different areas: sex education, health education, AIDS, training strategies for teachers and other specialists, and evaluation practices. Along with her partners from community groups, she was a co-recipient of the Fonds Famille 1995 prize awarded by Québec's Secretariat for Family Affairs for her research in the use of peer training in blended-family mediation.
Louise Gaudreau has provided training in many different areas (e.g., health, women's outreach, project development). She has been involved in international co-operation projects in education (Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea) either as project director or as trainer. She is a scientific adviser to different government departments and public or community organizations.
Primary Research Interests
a) Action research
b) Evaluative research
c) Evaluation of programs, policies and projects
d) Relationship between the educational intent of teacher trainers, educators or others, and the results achieved
Three Resources That Have Been Influential in My Work
Community groups: For their informal education outreach programs for vulnerable groups and because they have been my partners in many of my research activities.
Québec education system: Several key partners in Québec's education system have contributed to the development of educational research, especially in terms of program evaluation, institutional evaluation and outreach programs, each of which is an area that greatly concerns me as well. The Ministère de l'Éducation du Québec, the school boards, the Conseil scolaire de l'Île de Montréal, several schools and adult education centres have helped me carry out my research work.
Federal and provincial health systems: Over the past fifteen years, different parties from Canada's and Québec's health systems have been involved in my research work, especially that related to AIDS prevention.
Publications
- Gaudreau, L. (2001). Évaluer pour évoluer : les étapes d'une évaluation de programme ou de projet. Montréal: Éditions Logiques - Conseil scolaire de l'Île de Montréal.
- Gaudreau, L. (2001). Évaluer pour évoluer : les indicateurs et les critères. Montréal: Éditions Logiques - Conseil scolaire de l'Île de Montréal.
- Gaudreau, L. (2000). « Apport de la théorie des représentations sociales à l'éducation relative à la santé ». Dans Représentations sociales et éducation. Montréal: Éditions nouvelles. pp. 143-164.
- Gohier, C., Bednarz, N., Gaudreau, L., Pallascio, R. et et Parent, G. (1999). L'enseignant : un professionnel Presses de l'Université du Québec. 192 pages