Nadya Burton
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, Students and Pedagogy
Associate Professor
Faculty of Community Services
Midwifery Education Program
Toronto, Ontario
nadya.burton@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 557982
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Nadya Burton is an Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, and teaches in the Midwifery Education Program at both Toronto Metropolitan University and McMaster Universities. She is the Social Science Coordinator of the Midwifery Education Program Consortium (McMaster, Laurentian an...
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Nadya Burton is an Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, and teaches in the Midwifery Education Program at both Toronto Metropolitan University and McMaster Universities. She is the Social Science Coordinator of the Midwifery Education Program Consortium (McMaster, Laurentian and Toronto Metropolitan University Universities). Between 1996 and 1998, while completing her doctoral research at the University of Toronto (Sociology and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Nadya coordinated the Prior Learning Assessment program for the College of Midwives, the program that examined and licensed foreign-trained midwives for practice in Ontario. She has been teaching in the area of social justice and working across difference in midwifery care since 1999. Her teaching is primarily dedicated to helping future midwives work competently, compassionately and effectively across differences of class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, ability and language, as well as to thinking critically about midwifery in a broader social and cultural context. Nadya coordinates Admissions to the Toronto Metropolitan University Midwifery Education Program, and sits on the Aboriginal Issues Subcommittee as well as the Curriculum Committee. She is the Midwifery representative to the Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty Association as well as to the Faculty of Community Services Learning and Teaching Committee, she sits on the Genetic Screening Taskforce of the Association of Ontario Midwives and is a member of the Community Council of the Toronto Birth Centre.
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