Elizabeth Tingle
Affiliations
Academic
Werklund School of Education, Undergraduate Programs in Education
Contact information
Background
Credentials
Permanent Professional Teaching Certificate, Alberta Learning, 2004
Educational Background
BEd Secondary Education with Distinction, University of Alberta, 2001
MA Educational Research, Adult Learning Specialization, University of Calgary, 2020
Biography
Elizabeth Tingle has over ten years of teaching experience across all divisions in both Edmonton and Calgary, primarily in the disciplines of English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Health. In addition to teaching pre-service teachers as an instructor at Werklund, she also supports the work of Dr. Shelly Russell-Mayhew as the lab coordinator for the Body Image Research Lab. As a teacher educator, Elizabeth is interested in health promotion and health education in the school context from a weight-neutral perspective that also meaningfully takes into account teacher wellbeing. As an adult learning scholar, she is curious about leveraging the power of non-formal learning pedagogies in formal learning settings. She has been very involved in the creation, production, and co-hosting of two podcasts related to wellbeing in the school setting, namely the mini-series The Podclass: Conversations on School Health (a collaboration with Werklund and the national charity Ever Active Schools) and Teacher Fan Club.
Awards
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship, Social Studies and Humanities Research Council. 2019
More Information
Tingle, E., Groen, J., Russell-Mayhew, S., Nutter, S., & Saunders, J. F. (2025). “Going against everything society has told me”: The role of transformative learning in healing internalized weight stigma. Studies in the Education of Adults, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2025.2578879
Russell-Mayhew, S. & Tingle, E. (2025, January 1). This year, consider resolutions focused on well-being instead of weight loss. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/this-new-year-consider-resolutions-focused-on-well-being-instead-of-weight-loss-246151
Taylor, L. M., Wilson, O. W. A., Tingle, E., & Russell-Mayhew, S. (2024). Purposeful practice: Physical Education for Everybody. Runner: The Journal of the Health and Physical Education Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, 55(1), 11-15. https://www.hpec.ab.ca/uploads/files/Runner_Vol55No1_2024-05.pdf
Tingle, E. & Nutter, S. (2024). What’s behind weight-based bullying? Causes and potential solutions for weight bias in the school setting. BC Counsellor, 19(1), 7-9. https://www.bccounsellor-digital.com/bcot/0124_spring_summer_2024/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1962967#articleId1962967
Tingle, E., Saunders, J. F., Nutter, S., & Russell-Mayhew, S. (2023). Taking weight out of the equation: Unintended harms of weight-focused health promotion in schools. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, 94(2), 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/07303084.2022.2146818
Williams, E. P., Tingle, E., Morhun, J., Vos, S., Smith, K., Gereluk, D. & Russell-Mayhew, S. (2022). “Teacher burnout is one of my greatest fears”: Interrupting a narrative on fire. Canadian Journal of Education. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/cje/1900-v1-n1-cje07119/1090611ar.pdf
Tingle, E. (2022). How teachers can help schools become more weight neutral. The Journal of the Health and Physical Education Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, 53(1), 45-48. https://www.hpec.ab.ca/uploads/files/RunnerVol53No1-2022.pdf
Tingle, E., (2021). Glimpses of acceptance through problem frames: An analysis of the lessons on fatness in the television series This is Us. Fat Studies 11(3), 318-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2021.1996922
Fulwiler, D., Tingle, E., Murray, K., Russell-Mayhew, S. (2020, October 2). Well-being opportunities: Lessons learned from educators in a worldwide pandemic. EdCan Network. https://www.edcan.ca/articles/well-being-opportunities/
Tingle, E. & Groen, J. (2019). [Review of the book Seeking wisdom in adult teaching and learning: An autoethnographic inquiry, by W. Fraser]. Adult Education Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713619889579
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