Researcher Spotlight
Rebecca Coulter
Rebecca Coulter
INTERESTS: My teaching interests are diverse and I offer a range of courses in the graduate program. I hold the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching and the OCUFA Award for Outstanding Contributions to University Teaching. In 2005 I was honoured to receive the Achievement Award from the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education. In 2007 Canadian Dimension recognized my work as a "Teacher Who Changes the World."

Research

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Derek Allison

Interests:  Organization and administration of schools and school systems; theories of administration; research traditions in educational administration
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John Barnett

Carol Beynon

Interests:  My research interests are varied and focus on:
  • Music Education
  • Arts Education
  • Teacher Identity
  • Curriculum Development

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Pam Bishop

Jason Brown

Interests:  I am interested in holistic approaches to individual, family and community wellness. Research I have been involved with has been done in partnership with non-government community-based organizations delivering health, social or educational services. In this research we emphasize the gifts and assets of individuals, families and communities facing significant challenges.
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Julie Byrd.Clark

Interests:  My research interests include: bi/multilingualism, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, second language learning and teaching, social processes, social identity construction, discourse analysis, linguistic minorities, multi-modality, French language pedgagogy, Franco-Ontarian studies, Canadian studies, globalization, and reflexive, multi-sited ethnography.
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Rebecca Coulter

Interests:  My teaching interests are diverse and I offer a range of courses in the graduate program. I hold the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching and the OCUFA Award for Outstanding Contributions to University Teaching. In 2005 I was honoured to receive the Achievement Award from the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education. In 2007 Canadian Dimension recognized my work as a "Teacher Who Changes the World."
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Brent Debassige

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Greg Dickinson

Interests:  My writing is primarily in the area of Law and Education. In 1988, I launched the Education & Law Journal (published three times a year by Carswell), of which I continue to be Editor in Chief. I have written five books, including a senior-level law text that was used very widely in Ontario secondary schools for more than fourteen years. I have written several dozen articles, including many in refereed Canadian and international journals. One of my articles, jointly authored with W. R. Dolmage, won the 1996 R. W. B. Jackson award. In 1997, I was awarded the prestigious Edward G. Pleva Gold Medal for Excellence in Teaching.
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Alan Edmunds

Interests:  Current research interests include the study of a highly precocious child writer, the implementation of school-wide behaviour and classroom management interventions, and the development of cognitive intervention strategies for students with learning disabilities and ADHD.
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Farahnaz Faez

Interests:  My research interests are second language teaching and learning, pre-service and in-service ESL teacher education, internationally educated teachers, English language learners in K-12 programs and World Englishes.
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George Gadanidis

Rachel Heydon

Interests:  My interests stem from my experiences as a special education/literacy teacher in a variety of communities and settings. These interests include: language and literacy teaching, learning, and curricula (particularly in regard to young children and other persons who are minoritized), multimodal literacy, art as literacy, intergenerational learning, early childhood curricula, teacher professional learning. These interests are all firmly rooted in critical theory with its goal of emancipation.
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Kathy Hibbert

Peter Jaffe

Interests:  My research and clinical interests center on violence and abuse in the lives of children and families and the response to these problems by professionals in the justice, social service, health and educations systems.
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Michael Kehler

Interests:  Gender theories, masculinities research, ethnographic studies; the counter sexist politics of high school young men; and currently examining the intersections of health, masculinity and physical activity in secondary schools.
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Perry Klein

Interests:  One focus of my research is literacy education, particularly writing education, for diverse students. Another strand of my research concerns writing to learn.
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Marianne Larsen

Alan Leschied

Interests:  My research interests have been in areas related to childrens legislation and how policies and services promote the welfare of children and families. The following books may be of interest: The Young Offenders Act: A Revolution in Canadian Juvenile Justice (1991); Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs (2001), and Research and Treatment for Aggression with Adolescent Girls (2002).
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Wayne Martino

Interests:  My research and teaching interests include: gender issues and reform in urban education; minority underachievement in urban schools, adolescent boys' and girls' perspectives on gender, curriculum participation and schooling; boys' education; masculinities and schooling; male teachers and male teacher shortage in schools; feminist, queer and critical pedagogies; boys and literacy; bullying and safe schools; anti-racist and anti-oppressive education; addressing homophobia and transphobia in schools; investigating the perspectives and experiences of minority students and teachers in urban schools; queer, feminist and postcolonial theories in education; the impact of single sex schooling; boys' under-achievement in schools; qualitative studies in education.
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Margaret McNay

Immaculate Namukasa

Interests:  My current research interests are in Teachers' views of mathematics, Students' Mathematical thinking, Teaching for understanding, Phenomenology of attending, Globalization and education, Complexity research, Curriculum reform; and Learning materials and instruments. Another strand of my research concerns writing to learn.
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Elizabeth Nowicki

Interests:  Elizabeth’s research interests are drawn from educational, developmental, and social psychology. Current research focuses on children’s understanding of social interactions at school including: group norms on learning ability, implicit and explicit attitudes about ability and gender, and views on inclusion. Her research employs quantitative and qualitative analyses, Trochim’s concept mapping procedures, and meta-analyses.
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Jerry Paquette

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Allan Pitman

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Katina Pollock

Goli Rezai-Rashti

Susan Rodger

Robert Sandieson

Vicki Schwean

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Jacqueline Specht

Rosamund Stooke

Paul Tarc

Interests:  My main research interests in progressive and critical modes of education are articulated through 'post'-informed theories of representation, ethics, subjectivity and pedagogy. I have taught for nine years in K-12 schools in South America, South-East Asia and Ontario. My particular objects of inquiry include: globalization and education, international education (including international school teachers and the International Baccalaureate), theories of knowing, politics of schooling, progressive pedagogies, critical literacies, teacher education, reflective practice, teachers' work and learning, and interpretive research methods in Education.
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Shelley Taylor

Aniko Varpalotai