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LeBlanc Yvonne, CLA Faculty

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Yvonne LeBlanc

CLA Faculty

Contract and Sessional Faculty
Department of Health Aging & Society

Area(s) of Interest:

Biography

I received my PhD from the Sociology Department at McMaster University in 2010 and since that time I have been working as a sociologist in the area of health and aging. My scholarly interests fit broadly within the areas of critical health and aging studies, and educational gerontology. Over the past decade, I have taught a wide variety of core and elective health and aging undergraduate courses in the Health Aging and Society Department at McMaster University. As a teacher, pedagogically, I am primarily interested in engaging students in experiential and active learning opportunities that are  designed to enhance their learning about aging and health ; more specifically, to critically reflect on their attitudes about older people and growing older and the contemporary issues facing older adults.

Teaching

1st year Courses:

Introduction to Aging and Society

2nd Year Courses:

Research Methods in Health and Aging 1

Theoretical Perspectives in Health Aging and Society

Health: Continuum of Care

Special Topics: Aging, Work, Pensions, & Retirement

Special Topics in Health Studies: The Practice and Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

The Sociology of Aging

Social Research Methodology

3rd Year Courses:

The State, Civil Society, and Health

The Practice of Everyday Life: Observations and Inquiry.

Perspectives on Disability, Chronic Illness, and Aging

Sociology of the Family and Life Cycle

Sociology of Work

Sociology of Organizations

4th Year Courses:

Seminar: Aging and Well-being

Seminar: Social Policy and Aging

Seminar: Aging and Health

Seminar: Death and Dying in Later Life

Seminar: Sociology of Health, illness, and Gender

Seminar: Professions and Occupations in Health and Aging

Research

Recent Publications:

Neiterman, E., & LeBlanc, Y. (2018). The timing of pregnancy: women’s interpretations of planned and unplanned pregnancy.” Qualitative Sociology Review. 14(1):52-66. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.14.1.03.

LeBlanc Y. (2016). The re-emergence of other healing paradigms In J. Gillett and G. Andrews (Eds.), Health and Society: Critical Perspectives. (pp.198-222). Don Mills Ontario: Oxford University Press.

LeBlanc Y., I. L. Bourgeault, and E. Neiterman. 2013. ‘Comparing Approaches to Integrating Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Health Care Professionals in Canada and the UK’. Healthcare Policy Special Issue. 9:126-138.

Works in Progress

LeBlanc Y., E. Burke. 2021. A Scoping Review of undergraduate ‘Intergenerational Experiential Pedagogy’.

Current Research:

MacPherson Institute Teaching & Learning PALAT (Priority Areas for Teaching and Learning) Research Grant. 2020. “An Evaluation of the ‘Intergenerational Learning’ Component of an Introduction to Aging and Society Course”.

Affiliated Research Groups:

Canadian Association on Gerontology

Canadian Sociological Association

Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging (Associate Member)