SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Tjandra, C. (2024). Creative (Multilingual) Placemaking in the Classroom: Enhancing Plurilingual Children’s Language Awareness and Belonging, The Canadian Modern Language Review, 80(3), 159-185.
Tjandra, C. (2021). Supporting newcomer children’s language awareness, incidental language learning, and identity negotiation through the multilingual linguistic landscape: An exploratory case study, The Canadian Modern Language Review, 77(1), 1-22.
Tjandra, C., Corcoran, J., Gennuso, M., Yeldon, A. (2020). Digital Autobiographical Identity Texts as Critical Plurilingual Pedagogy, Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity, 4(1), 81-100.
Stagg-Peterson, S., Jang, S., & Tjandra, C. (2019). Young children as playwrights and their participation in classroom peer culture of sociodramatic play. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 18(3), 227—242.
INVITED KEYNOTES & PLENARIES
Tjandra, C. (2021, November). Pedagogical Innovations in the Post-Pandemic Era: A Reflection on Curriculum Development, Teaching, and Learning. Ceremony of Appreciation for Inspiring Teachers and School Principals of Republic Indonesia, National Teachers Day 2021. Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. Jakarta, Indonesia.
Tjandra, C. (2020, November). My Language, My Identity: Creating a Third Space for Plurilingual Pedagogies and Multimodalities in the English Language Classroom. Invited keynote speaker for the National English Education, Language and Literature Seminar (NEELLS), promoting sensibility in English education, language and literature. State University of Malang (Universitas Negeri Malang). Malang, Indonesia.
Tjandra, C. (2020, September). Critical Literacy for Indonesian Children: What and How. Guest lecture for Teaching English to Young Learners webinar in Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University, Graduate Program in English Language Teaching. Surabaya, Indonesia.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Stagg-Peterson, S., Jang, S., Tjandra, C. (2018, May). Children’s Meaning Making in Dramatic Play: Multimodality, Playwright, Directive Uses. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Regina, Saskatchewan.
Corcoran, J., Tjandra, C., Gennuso, M., Yeldon, A. (2018, October). Teacher Reflections on Digital Autobiographical Texts in (Critical) Language Teacher Education. Second Language Digital Literacies (L2DL) Symposium. Digital presentation. University of Arizona.
Tjandra, C. & Warburton, K. (2018, November). Improvisation-based Storytelling through Tableau: Fostering Students’Creativity, Communication, and Critical Thinking Skills. Arts for Education Conference, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
AWARDS
2022-2024 Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)
2020-2022 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
2018-2019 Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC-M)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Language and Literacies Education
Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Master of Arts in Language and Literacies Education
Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bachelor of Education, in Elementary Education (K-6)
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bachelor of Design, in Environmental Design
Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada