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Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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

    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

    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