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Faculty of Education
8655 Education Building, 778.782.4787 Tel, 778.782.4320 Fax, >
Dean
K.C. Magnusson BEd, MEd (Regina), PhD (Alta)
Associate Deans
S.C. de Castell BA (Sir G Wms), MA, PhD (Lond)
D. Paterson BEd (Alta), MA, PhD (Br Col)
Faculty and areas of research
See “Faculty of Education” on page 199 for a complete list of faculty.
C.L. Amundsen – teaching and learning technology use in higher education; faculty development
H. Bai – philosophy of education; humanities; social, moral philosophy; epistemology; ecology; Asian philosophies; Zen arts
R. Barrow – philosophy of education; moral philosophy; curriculum; teacher education; place of philosophy in empirical educational research and teacher education
K. Beck – international education, globalization, postcolonial thought, feminist principles, race, diversity and multicultural education, curriculum and pedagogy in higher education, ethics of care
C.W. Bingham – philosophy of education; literary theory; curriculum; the psyche; teaching as a life practice; inter-human recognition; literary representations of education, hermeneutics, deconstruction, queer theory
S. Blenkinsop – philosophy of education; imagination in teaching and learning; ecology; relational epistemologies; theories of place; existentialism; continental philosophy
S.R. Campbell – historical and psychological development of mathematical thinking from an embodied perspective informed by Kant, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty; methods of psychophysics and cognitive neuroscience as a means for operationalising affective and cognitive models of math anxiety and concept formation
W. Cassidy – curriculum and instruction; citizenship/law-related education; social justice and human rights; the ethics of care; fostering inclusive educational environments for ‘at risk’ marginalized youth; cyberbullying
A. Chinnery – teacher education, philosophy of education, moral education, curriculum theory, social justice education
D.H. Dagenais – bilingualism; socio-linguistics; literacy; ethnography; educational change; language learning in minority and majority contexts; literacy practices at home and at school
S.C. de Castell – educational media studies, non-formal learning environments; multi-modal, study of emerging methods of models of educational communications, education, gaming and gender
K. Egan – Canada Research Chair; educational theory; intellectual development; the nature and development of imagination and its role in education
L. Fels – arts-based research; writing as research and presentation; drama/theatre education; arts as social action; performance and technology; on-line publishing; curriculum and evaluation; professional development in education
M. Fettes – epistemological, sociopolitical and pragmatic aspects of educational reform; theoretical aspects of modernity and post-modernity; the history and sociology of linguistic and educational thought
R. Frie – psychotherapy, subjectivity and inter-subjectivity in modern philosophy, psychoanalysis
I. Geva-May – policy studies, policy analysis, policy evaluation, comparative policies, public policy instruction and international development of public policy programs, political cultures impact on policy-making, disciplinary focus on policy of higher education, immigration, health care
P.P. Grimmett – teacher education and teacher development; curriculum theory and implementation; educational leadership; teacher research; reflective practice; cultures of teaching
H. Han – TESL/FL, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, language ideology and practices
M.J. Hoskyn – development of executive function in young children, neurophysiological processes involved with learning to read among preschoolers and school-aged children, learning disabilities, early intervention
R. Ilieva – teaching and learning English as an additional language, sociocultural, poststructural, critical and psychoanalytical perspective on language learning, teaching and curriculum, culture(s) in language education, teacher identities, international education
M. Jacquet – intercultural and multicultural education, bilingual education teacher in-service training related to diversity, cultural and religious accommodation in school, integration of African francophone students
L. Kanevsky – giftedness and gifted learners, socio-cultural and Vygotskian approaches to learning and development
D. Kaufman – teaching and learning with technology, instructional methods in higher education, research and evaluation methods, medical education
P.A. Keats – witnessing and vicariously witnessing trauma; secondary traumatization; acute and post-traumatic stress; expressive trauma interventions, visual research methods
V. Kelly – holistic education, indigenous education, the integration of the arts in education and art therapy, aesthetic ways of knowing and the imagination, indigenous knowledge, arts-based research methodologies
J. LaBrie – post-secondary education leadership; role of agenda setting in policy development; funding models in post-secondary education; strategic planning; international program development and curricular integration
L. LaRocque – community, collaboration, ethic of caring, leadership, district-school relations, implementation of change, school reform, educational policy, teacher education
L.J. Le Mare – children’s socio-emotional development in family and school contexts; early childhood education; impact of early adversity
D.A. Laitsch – the use and misuse of research in policymaking and issue advocacy; policy issues related to market-based education reform efforts; the impact of high stakes accountability and assessment programs on educational systems
P. Liljedahl – instances of creativity, insight, and discovery in mathematics; mathematics and affect, professional growth of teachers, mathematical problem-solving, numeracy, instructional design
G.M. Ling – cultural theory, philosophy and curriculum theory, art and literature
M.J. MacDonald – early childhood education; language and literacy development; intergenerational and family literacy; pedagogical documentation; negotiated curriculum; early childhood environments
A.M. MacKinnon – science education; teacher education; philosophy of science; children's conceptual development in science; the nature and role of practicum experiences in teacher development
G. Madoc-Jones – language arts; hermeneutics; philosophy of education; poetry; history of literacy; BC literature
C.M. Mamchur – language arts education; enhancing teacher and student self-concept and developing curriculum to do that; teaching and learning style models; Jungian psychological type and perceptual psychology measures (pre and in-service), archetypes and language acquisition
E. Marshall – representations of gender and sexuality in children’s and young adult’s literature, constructions of girlhood and study textual representations in a range of cultural texts produced/read by youth
S. Marshall – academic literacy; sociolinguistics; multilingualism; language learning
D. Moore – applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism and pluralingualism; pluriliteracy; immigration; language acquisition and second language learning; code-switching
J. Nesbit – educational psychology; educational technology; self-regulated learning with multimedia; cognitive tools; learning resource evaluation; adaptive learning systems; research methods
P. Neufeld – general inter-literacy development and instruction; learning disabilities; and English-as-a-second-language reading; the social construction of disability and risk
M. Nilson – post-secondary education governance, finance, access, participation, and policy, leadership, program development, assessment, evaluation
D.K. O’Neill – educational technology; inquiry learning in K-12 history and science; computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) in K-12; tele-mentoring (on-line mentoring), relationships to support inquiry-oriented teaching
D. Paterson – school counselling; developmental counselling; counselling in the elementary school; school-based support teams; counselling in groups
M. Pidgeon – higher education, aboriginal post-secondary completion and retention, student services, methodology, critical policy analysis
N. Popadiuk – international students, cultural transitions and adjustment, culturally-competent counselling, interpersonal relationships, agency, post-secondary, school counselling
S. Richmond – arts education; aesthetics and arts theory; philosophical and social foundations of education; globalization; arts-based research; photography; teacher education
C. Sabatier – French education, multilingualism pedagogy; socio-linguistic research on school and immigration
M.J. Schmidt – K-12 research in the areas of educational reform; classroom assessment; ethnography; education of minorities; intersection of parenting and schools; educational leadership
Ö. Sensoy – study of social power in relation to education and schooling, encompassing fields such as critical pedagogy, critical multicultural education, social education, popular culture, media literacy, cultural studies, anti-oppression oriented theories, visual research methods
Y. Senyshyn – philosophy of education and language; philosophical analysis applied to creative live musical performance
N. Sinclair – the use of technology in mathematics education, role of the aesthetic in mathematics learning, teaching and learning geometry
S.J. Smith – human sciences; issues related to physical education; outdoor education and health education; physical education, phenomenological inquiry, pedagogical theory, and children’s play interactions
C. Snowber – movement education; arts-based educational research; physical education; arts in education; phenomenological curriculum research; embodiment and pedagogy; writing and the body
L. Sterling – program evaluation in aboriginal health and labor markets; First Nations curriculum; impact of residential schools; curriculum development for aboriginal social work programs
J.H. Sugarman – the psychology of personhood, selfhood, and human agency, sociocultural perspectives on psychological development, theory and philosophy of educational psychology
K. Toohey – English as a second foreign language; multi-cultural education; native Indian education; bilingual education; bilingual education for minority language students
S. Vamos – health education; teacher preparation in health education; curriculum development in health education; co-ordinated school health programs; adolescent health behaviours and attitudes.
D. van der Wey – coalition politics, indigenous education, anti-oppression education, aboriginal literature and pedagogy, curriculum and pedagogy
P.H. Winne – educational psychology; self-regulated learning; learning tactics and strategies; metacognition; software learning technologies that support learning
A.F. Wise – educational technology, online teaching and learning environments, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), computer-mediated communication, designing online conversation spaces, professional education and lifelong learning in formal and informal environments, education technology and international development
D. Zandvliet – learning environments, science and environmental education, education and technology; affects and effects of new ICT’s on physical and psychosocial learning environments
R. Zazkis – mathematics education; teacher’s understanding of mathematics
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