Antonina Lukenchuk

Rank: Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, NCE

Office Location: Lisle

Office Phone Number: 630-344-4636

Email address: Antonina.Lukenchuk@nl.edu

EDUCATION

Degree: EdD

Institution: Northern Illinois University

Field: Adult Education

PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT

In navigating my educational journey, I get oriented by experience and the knowledge of arts and sciences, intuition (statistical probability?) and the lighthouses that dispel darkness. The beacons of my voyage are thinkers of the past and present. With Plotinus (ca. 205–270), I tread the path of spiritual evolution: from the eye of flesh, to the eye of reason, and to the eye of contemplation. With Ken Wilber (b. 1949), I feel One Taste of the ocean—the world of no boundary that I share with others. Anton Makarenko (1888-1939) teaches me how to educate responsible citizenry with ethical and aesthetic sensibilities. Will I manage to carry out at least a fraction of my lofty aspirations?

CURRENT COURSES I TEACH

ESR 610: Paradigms of Research

ESR506: Interpretive & Critical Research

FND 504: History and Philosophy of Education

PUBLICATIONS (RECENT)

Traversing the chiasms of lived experiences: Phenomenological illuminations for practitioner research. (2006). Educational Action Research International Journal, 14(3), 423-435.

PRESENTATION (RECENT)

Critical discourse analysis of terrorism and “just war”: Teacher educators’ perspectives. Paper presentation at the 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference in Advances in Qualitative Methods. July 13-16, 2006, Queensland, Australia.

WORK IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY

Fermilab, Batavia, IL; Service Learning project facilitator

Junior Achievement League, IL; Service Learning project facilitator

Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; Service Learning project facilitator

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Discourse analysis, phenomenology, narrative, auto/biography, cross-cultural studies

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching English as a foreign language: Ukraine, 1987-1994

Internship, United Nations Organization: New York, July-August, 1996

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Music, martial and other arts