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Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Anne Marie Chudleigh

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

    Office: N/A
    Email: a.chudleigh@utoronto.ca

    Ashley Moore

    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise

      Office: N/A
      Languages: Japanese,French,English
      Email: ar.moore@utoronto.ca

      Barrie Bennett

      Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

      Areas of Expertise

      • Classroom management and discipline
      • Design of learning environments to meet diverse learner needs
      • Educational change (local)
      • Teacher's self assessment

      Office: 416-978-0233
      Email: b.bennett@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Carol Rolheiser

      Professor Emeritus/Emerita

      Areas of Expertise

      • Educational change
      • Teaching in higher education
      • Teaching/learning strategies

      Office: N/A
      Website
      Email: carol.rolheiser@utoronto.ca
      Preferred method of contact: Email
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Cassie J. Brownell

      Associate Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Children and civics
      • Children and politics
      • Digital literacies
      • Early childhood education
      • Primary education

      Office: N/A
      Languages: English
      Website
      Email: cassie.brownell@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Cecilia Morgan

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Canada within the British Empire
      • Canadian history
      • Cultural history
      • History of commemoration and public memory in Canada
      • Settler colonial history
      • Women's and gender history

      Office: N/A
      Website
      Email: cecilia.morgan@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Douglas McDougall

      Professor Emeritus/Emerita

      Areas of Expertise

      • Elementary mathematics
      • Teacher change with mathematics teachers

      Office: 416-978-0056
      Mobile: 416-476-8450
      Languages: English
      Website
      Email: doug.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Elizabeth Smyth

      Professor Emeritus/Emerita

      Areas of Expertise

      • History of education in Canada
      • History of sisters and nuns in Canada

      Office: N/A, 416-978-5986
      Email: liz.smyth@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Erica Walker

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Mathematics education policy
      • Racial and gender equity in mathematics education
      • Student persistence in advanced mathematics

      Office: N/A
      Website
      Email: erican.walker@utoronto.ca

      Garfield Gini-Newman

      Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

      Areas of Expertise

      • Effective assessment practice
      • Field of assessment

      Office: N/A
      Mobile: 4169532312
      Email: ggininewman.gini.newman@utoronto.ca

      Hilary Inwood

      Lecturer, Department of Curriculum, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

      Lead, Environmental & Sustainability Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

      Hilary Inwood

      Areas of Expertise

      • Art education
      • Environmental and sustainability education
      • Environmental art
      • Nature-based learning
      • Teacher education

      Office: N/A
      Website
      Email: hilary.inwood@utoronto.ca
      Preferred method of contact: Email
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Jeff Bale

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • 1977--1987 (SSHRC-funded, 2021-2026)
      • Language
      • Race
      • The Regulation of Difference, The Heritage Languages Program in Ontario

      Office: N/A
      Languages: German,Spanish - Latin American,French
      Website
      Email: jeff.bale@utoronto.ca

      Jen Gilbert

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Complicated narratives surrounding sex education/sexuality in schooling

      Office: N/A
      Languages: English
      Website
      Email: jen.gilbert@utoronto.ca

      John Bencze

      Associate Professor Emeritus

      Areas of Expertise

      • Philosophy of science
      • Relationships among fields of science
      • School science teaching and learning
      • Science and technology
      • Science teacher education
      • Secondary school science education
      • Sociology of science

      Office: N/A
      Mobile: 647-298-6182
      Website
      Email: larry.bencze@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Julie Kerekes

      Associate Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Applied linguistics
      • Intercultural (mis)communication
      • Sociolinguistics

      Office: 416-978-0303
      Languages: Hungarian,German
      Website
      Email: julie.kerekes@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Kathleen Gallagher

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Applied Theatre
      • Arts education
      • Documentary Theatre
      • Ethnographic research
      • Gender and schooling
      • Urban schooling
      • Youth studies

      Office: 416 978-7982
      Home: 416-960-5633
      Languages: English,French
      Website
      Email: kathleen.gallagher@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Kathy Bickmore

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Conflict; violence, and peacebuilding (in) education – Canadian and international comparative perspectives
      • Conflictual-controversial issues dialogue – developing capabilities to counter disinformation, polarization, and disengagement
      • Curriculum theory, research, and policy – Canadian and international comparative perspectives
      • Education for democratic citizenship – Canadian and international comparative perspectives
      • Gender & intersectional equity, diversity and justice in/ through education
      • Student leadership in conflict resolution and peacebuilding (e.g. peer mediation, restorative justice, equity action, school governance participation)

      Office: (416) 978-0237
      Languages: Spanish - Latin American,French
      Website
      Email: k.bickmore@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Linda Cameron

      Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

      Areas of Expertise

      • Early childhood education
      • Early literacy
      • Parenting

      Office: 416-219-7796
      Home: 416-978-0321
      Email: l.cameron@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Lydia Cao

      Assistant Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • AI in Education
      • Climate Education
      • Computer-supported Collaborative Learning
      • Education for Sustainable Development
      • Immersive Technologies (XR)

      Office: N/A
      Email: ly.cao@utoronto.ca

      Mary Reid

      Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

      Areas of Expertise

      • Curriculum and teaching in mathematics
      • Dismantling anti-Asian racism in schooling (AsianCrit, Bamboo Ceiling, Model Minority Myth, COVID-19)
      • Harmful effects of the model minority myth in STEM education

      Office: 416-556-6416
      Website
      Email: mary.reid@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Arts in education
      • Cultural sociology
      • Cultural studies
      • Education
      • Latino-Canadian studies

      Office: 4169780194
      Home: 416-778-0439
      Languages: Spanish - Latin American
      Website
      Email: r.gaztambide.fernandez@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Shakina Rajendram

      Assistant Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Higher education contexts through translanguaging
      • Multiliteracies pedagogies
      • Pre-service and in-service teacher education
      • Second language learning and curriculum development
      • Supporting multilingual learners in K-12

      Office: N/A
      Languages: English,Tamil,Malay
      Website
      Email: shakina.rajendram@utoronto.ca

      Shelley Stagg Peterson

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Children's literature
      • Early literacy
      • Reading
      • Rural education
      • Writing and writing assessment

      Office: 416-978-0329
      Website
      Email: shelleystagg.peterson@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Tony Lam

      Associate Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Self-assessment
      • Survey instrument development
      • Training and program evaluation

      Office: 416-978-0140
      Home: 416-283-6311
      Mobile: 416-283-6311
      Languages: Cantonese
      Website
      Email: tcm.lam@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online