Full-time Faculty of Education
Jane Baskwill
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of South Australia
Research Areas: Research methodologies, practitioner research, arts-informed research, gender and educational administration in Nova Scotia and in Jamaica, activism and professionalism, literacy and gender, arts-informed literacy learning.
Robert N. Bérard
Professor of Education
PhD, McMaster University
Research Areas: History of education; teaching history and social studies; private/independent schooling; home schooling.
Geneviève Boulet
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, Université de Montréal
Research Areas: The learning and teaching of number concepts; history of mathematics in mathematics education; language and mathematics.
G Michael Bowen (Sabbatical July 1 - July 1 2011)
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of Victoria
Research Areas: Sociology/ethnography of science, informal science, on-line collaborative communities, graphing/inscriptions learning & use, writing-to-learn science, inquiry activities, gender issues in science education, science teacher education.
Susan M. Brigham (Sabbatical July 1 - July 1 2011)
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of Alberta
Research Areas: Adult education; international/intercultural education; critical feminist pedagogy; migration; social justice; school to work transitions.
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Elizabeth Church
Professor of Education
PhD, University of Toronto
Research Areas: Step families; gender, rural mental health, feminist therapy.
Andrea English
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, Humboldt University Berlin Germany
Research Areas: Theories of teaching and learning, critical theory, the notion of negative experience in education, teacher education, listening in teaching and learning, democratic and moral aspects of education, the philosophy of John Dewey, 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy of education.
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Michelle Forrest (Sabbatical Jan 1 - July 1 2011)
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: Scholarship: Aesthetics, the arts and media in education: chance operations, collaboration and invention in scholarship.
Fred French
Associate Professor of Education,
PhD, University of Alberta
Research Areas: Cognition, learner strategies with an emphasis on exceptionality and learning disabilities; educational legislation and administrative policies with an emphasis on student rights.
Marnina Gonick
Canada Research Chair in Gender
Associate Professor of Education and Women's Studies
PhD, OISE/University of Toronto - Dept of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
Research Areas: Gender and Schooling, girlhood studies, cultural studies, sociology of education, feminist qualitative research.
Patricia Gouthro
Professor of Education,
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: Adult Education, feminist perspectives, distance technology, critical theory, life-long learning.
William Hare
Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of Toronto
Research Areas: Moral aspects of education and teaching; open-mindedness; critical thinking and the intellectual virtues; the philosophical and educational ideas of Bertrand Russel, philosophy in teacher education.
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Mary Jane Harkins (Sabbatical Jan 1 - Jan 1 2012)
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: Addressing youth violence using an intersectoral approach; use of assistive technology to support the education of students with exceptionalities; and inclusive education.
Carol Hill
Assistant Professor of Education
EdD, Indiana University
Research Areas: Treatment for older children with autism spectrum disorders; inclusion of children with autism spectrum disorders; programs that model coping skills for anxiety provoking situations in children; coaching for children and adolescents with ADD.
Joyce Kennedy
Term
PhD, University of New Brunswick
Research Areas: Adolescents with hearing loss; inclusive education; students with exceptionalities; classic grounded theory.
Eva Knoll
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, University of Exeter
Research Areas: Mathematical research situations in the classroom (RSC); research experience in pure mathematics as a learning con¬text, affect in mathematics learning.
Valda Leighteizer
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: Social construction of knowledges, issues of equity: (race/racism, sex/gender heterosexism/homophobia).
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Lisa Levy
Term
MEd, Acadia University
Research Areas: inclusive education; literacy; technology integration within education; universal design for instruction and learning.
Anne MacCleave
Professor of Education
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Research Areas: Research methodologies; professional ethics; values reasoning; cultural psychology; educators’ implicit assumptions about teaching, learning and schooling.
Andrew Manning
Professor of Education,
PhD, University of Ottawa
Research Areas: The construction of literacy and literacy instruction; teacher research.
Sue McGregor
Professor of Education
PhD, University of Strathclyde
Research Areas: Citizenship global and consumer rights education, human rights and responsibilities, globalization/global economy.
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Max Moulton
Assistant Professor of Education
MEd, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: Social studies methodology; global issues; curriculum development and leadership; and school leadership.
Allan Neilsen
Professor of Education
PhD, University of Minnesota
Research Areas: Critical literacy; critical pedagogy; teacher beliefs; images of teaching; media education.
Lorri Neilsen
Professor of Education,
PhD, University of New Hampshire
Research Areas: Writing as inquiry; feminist research methods; gender and literacy; gender and technology; arts-based inquiry.
Donovan Plumb
Professor of Education,
PhD, University of Alberta
Research Areas: Adult education; social theory, adult education futures, education technology, distance education; sociology of education; philosophy of education.
Robert Sargent (Sabbatical Jan 1 - July1 2011)
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: International education; global education; curriculum development; creativity and curiosity in cultural contexts; education in Trinidad & Tobago; teacher education.
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Cornelia Schneider
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, Université René Descartes - Paris 5
Research Areas: inclusive education, disability studies, early childhood education, sociology of childhood, comparative research (inclusive education in Europe).
Jim Sharpe
Dean, Faculty of Education,
EdD, University of Toronto
Research Areas: Adult and continuing education, social movements, politics of lifelong learning.
Susan Walsh (Sabbatical July 1 - July1 2011)
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of Alberta
Research Areas: Writing-as-inquiry; women, language, and writing; feminist and poststructuralist theories; arts-informed research methodologies; arts-informed pedagogy; mindfulness and pedagogy.
Hong Wang
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, Queen’s University
Research Areas: Teaching English as a second or foreign language; ESL/EFL pedagogy; ESL/EFL teacher education and professional development; language policies; ESL/EFL curriculum implementation and evaluation.
Bev Williams
Assistant Professor of Education
MEd, Acadia University
Research Areas: Science curriculum development and methodology; Professional Communities Within Schools"- i.e teaching as a shared professional activity & collective responsibility.
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Faculty Research Areas
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