Gregory Lowan-Trudeau

Positions

Professor

Werklund School of Education, Specialization, Curriculum and Learning

Contact information

g.lowan-trudeau@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: 403.220.7922

For media enquiries, contact

Clayton MacGillivray
Content and Media Specialist

Email: clmacgil@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @UCalgaryEduc

Background

Educational Background

PhD Educational Contexts, University of Calgary,

MEd Educational Studies (Thesis-Based), Lakehead University,

BEd Environmental Science Education (via OE3), Lakehead University,

BKin Kinesiology, University of Calgary,

Biography

Professor

Academic Program Coordinator, MEd Specialist: Contextualizing Curriculum, Pedagogy & Learning

*Available to supervise graduate students in Curriculum & Learning MA, PhD & EdD programs and BEd Honours projects in research areas listed below

Affiliations

Research

Areas of Research

Interests:

Environmental Education & Communication; Science, Technology & Society
- Critical media literacy
- Critical energy literacy
- Digital technologies
- Climate change
- Environmental politics
- Outdoor & experiential approaches
- Intersectional environmental justice
Content, Discourse & Framing Analyses

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
EDER 600	Research Methodology in Education
EDER 606	Writing Educational Research
EDER 693.14	Inquiry Through Sciences, Health, & Environmental Education

Projects

Current

Co-I: Canadian Environmental Educators' Uses of Humour / Le Recours à l’Humour par les Écopédagogues au Canada

PI: Dr. Connie Russell, Lakehead University (2024-Present)

Awards

Experiential Learning (Team) Sustainability Award (2020), University of Calgary.
Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair (2019-20), UC Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies.

Publications

Content, discourse, or framing analysis? Identifying an appropriate text-based methodology for a climate change curriculum review. Lowan-Trudeau, G.. Sage Research Methods: Data and Research Literacy. (2025)
Exploring sociocritical renewable energy education: Insights from Alberta, Canada. Lowan-Trudeau, G. & Fowler, T.A.. Environmental Education Research, 31(7). 1532-1555. (2024)
Climate activism in K-12 schools.. In S. Von Mering et al. (Eds.) The Routledge handbook of grassroots climate activism. Field, E., Stapleton, S., Lowan-Trudeau, G. & Harris, C., Puttur, A., & Nguyen, C.. Routledge. 574-585. (2024)
Museums, climate change and energy education: A digital discourse analysis. Patten, F. & Lowan-Trudeau, G.. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 40(4). 676-692. (2024)
Special issue: Digital technologies and environmental education.. Lowan-Trudeau, G. (Ed.) . The Journal of Environmental Education, 54(1). (2023)
“A good hell”: Absurdist insights for environmental education & research. Lowan-Trudeau, G.. Environmental Education Research. 29(4), 649-658. (2023)
Climate change curricula in Alberta, Canada: An intersectional framing analysis . Lowan-Trudeau, G.. Northwest Journal of Teacher Education. 17(3), Article 10, 1-14. (2022)
Towards a theory of critical energy literacy: The Youth Strike for Climate, renewable energy, and beyond. Lowan-Trudeau, G. & Fowler, T.A. . Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 38(1), 58-68. (2022)
Special issue: Revisiting justice in environmental and sustainability education: What pandemics (can) reveal about the politics of global environmental issues. . Rodrigues, C. & Lowan-Trudeau, G. (Eds.) . The Journal of Environmental Education, 52(5). (2021)

In the News

UCalgary study shows nuclear energy literacy is key to informed decision-making. UToday . (2025)
School strike for climate: Why are students still striking? . University of Sydney News. (2022)