Full-time Faculty of Education
Jane Baskwill
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of South Australia
Research Areas: Practitioner action research; Arts-informed research methodologies; Gender and educational administration; Activism and professionalism; Literacy and gender; Arts-informed literacy learning; Family literacy and parental involvement in education; Early childhood literacy; Peace and environmental education.
Robert N. Bérard (Sabbatical January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012)
Professor of Education
PhD, McMaster University
Research Areas: Curriculum and instruction in history and social studies (elementary and secondary); history and politics of education; private/independent schooling and home schooling; teachers organizations; educational policy formation.
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
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
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of Alberta
Research Areas: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education; international/Intercultural education; critical feminist pedagogy; immigrant issues; transformative learning; Africentricity in education; critical race theory.
Saad Chahine
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, OISE / University of Toronto, OISE
Research Areas: Classroom Assessment; Program Evaluation; Educational Measurement; Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment; Mathematics Education.
Andrea English
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, Humboldt University Berlin Germany
Research Areas: Theories of teaching and learning; the philosophy of John Dewey; 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, especially J.F. Herbart; critical theory; the notion of ‘negative experience’ in education; the role of listening in teaching and learning.
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Michelle Forrest
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: Collaborative curriculum implementation; philosophy across the curriculum; philosophy for children; values and music education; narrative and teacher education; aesthetics and the arts in values education; philosophy and teacher education; art as methodology in educational research; aesthetics for teachers; controversy in the classroom; conceptualizing communicative competence in a digital age; reader-response theory; bias and media literacy.
Fred French
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of Alberta
Research Areas: Cognition, metacogntion, assessment for learning and learner strategies with an emphasis on exceptionality, learning disabilities and ADHD; educational legislation and administrative practices with an emphasis on student rights and inclusion.
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 (Sabbatical January 1, 2012 - June 30, 2012)
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.
Mary Jane Harkins
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: University, school and community collaborations; globalization; indigenous knowledge and education; literacy assessment and instruction; learners with exceptionalities and inclusive education; teacher education; and international humanitarian issues.
Carol Hill
Assistant Professor of Education
EdD, Indiana University
Research Areas: Students with exceptionalities; inclusive education; programs that model coping skills for anxiety provoking situations; coaching for children and adolescents with ADHD.
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Joyce Kennedy
Term
PhD, University of New Brunswick
Research Areas: Adolescents with hearing loss; inclusive education; students with exceptionalities; classic grounded theory.
Sara King
Assistant Professor
PhD, Dalhousie University
Registered Psychologist
Research Interests: Social functioning in children with disruptive behaviour disorders and chronic illness, aggression and ADHD, assessment and intervention for complex learning and behavioural disorders.
Eva Knoll (Sabbatical July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012)
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 context; affect in mathematics learning; mathematics in art and in crafts; arts in mathematics.
Ashwani Kumar
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, University of British Columbia
Research Areas: Curriculum Studies; International Curriculum Studies, Geography Education; Place-based Education; Social Studies Education, Holistic Education; Peace Education, Philosophy of Education
Valda Leighteizer
Assistant Professor of Education
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Areas: Social construction of knowledges; issues of equity: (race/racism; sex/gender heterosexism/homophobia).
Diana Maclean
Term
MEd, Acadia University
Research Areas: Learning disabilities; teacher education; education in Cuba and Honduras; literacy and early childhood education.
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: Literacy and new technologies; critical literacies; the social construction of literacy and literacy instruction; teacher research and research methodologies.
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Melissa McGonnell
Assistant Professor
PhD, Dalhousie University
Research Interests: Assessment and intervention for complex learning and behavioural disorders; cross-discipline practice; teacher and physician education; transition to post-secondary settings.
Sue McGregor (Sabbatical January 1, 2012 - June 30, 2012)
PhD, University of Strathclyde
Research Areas: Transdisciplinary methodology; integral leadership; home economics philosophy and leadership; consumer moral leadership; global; citizenship and peace education
Jamie Metsala
Gail and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Learning Disabilities
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of Toronto
Research Areas: Reading disabilities and reading acquisition, social cognition in children with nonverbal learning disabilities, development of speech perception & phonological awareness, learning disabilities
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 (Sabbatical January 1, 2012 - June 30, 2012)
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; poetic and literary anthropology; ethnography; narrative and other qualitative research perspectives, including feminist research practices; aesthetic and digital literacies; popular culture and cultural politics.
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.
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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
Associate Professor of Education
PhD, University of Alberta
Research Areas: Female teachers—their subjectivities and experiences (women and difficult experiences in teaching; internationally educated female teachers); Innovative forms of research including arts-based research, writing as a process of inquiry, poetic inquiry, memory work/collective biography; Contemplative inquiry, contemplative pedagogy, mindfulness; Embodied and relational ways of being and knowing
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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Summary of Research Profile Overheads
Faculty Research Areas
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