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Ann Lopez

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Anti-black racism in education
  • Anti-racism education
  • Black history curriculum
  • Decolonizing education

Office: 4169788922
Website
Email: ann.lopez@utoronto.ca
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Anna Katyn Chmielewski

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Neighbourhood inequality
  • Policies around school and program choice
  • School segregation
  • Socio-economic disparities in academic achievement
  • Streaming and tracking

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ak.chmielewski@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

Beyhan Farhadi

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical policy sociology
  • Social and cultural geography
  • Surveillance studies

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: beyhan.farhadi@utoronto.ca

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
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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
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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
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Charles P. Chen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Career theories and counselling approaches
  • Counsellor education and training
  • Life-career integration and development
  • Meaning making and human agency in worklife
  • Morita therapy and Morita-philosophy-based career counselling intervention
  • Postmodern and humanistic inquires in counselling and career psychology
  • Vocational and career psychology broadly defined

Office: (416) 978-0718
Email: cp.chen@utoronto.ca

Chloe Hamza

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Early identification of students at risk for self-injury in schools
  • Mental wellbeing

Office: 416-978-1059
Languages: English
Website
Email: chloe.hamza@utoronto.ca
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Claudia Milena Diaz Rios

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Accountability
  • Curriculum reforms
  • Decentralization
  • Education policy responses to crisis (migration & COVID)
  • Politics of education
  • Privatization

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Email: claudia.diazrios@utoronto.ca

Creso Sa

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Evolving role of universities in supporting innovation
  • Organization of science
  • Science & technology policy

Office: (416) 978-1515
Website
Email: c.sa@utoronto.ca

Dan Lang

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Dan Lang

Areas of Expertise

  • Accountability and performance indicators
  • Comparative analysis
  • Economics of education
  • Educational management and finance
  • Funding formulas
  • Quality assurance

Office: 416-978-1246
Mobile: 416-230-2684
Email: dlang@oise.utoronto.ca
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Daniel Corral

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • College choice and enrollment in postsecondary education
  • Institutional finance and student aid
  • Student transitions into and out of higher education

Office: N/A
Website
Email: daniel.corral@utoronto.ca

Dave Cooper

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Emeritus, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Athlete centred coaching
  • Cricket and the History of cricket in Canada
  • Globalization of sport
  • Health and physical education in Ontario
  • Health and physical education Teacher preparation in Ontario
  • History of Canadian cricket
  • Play practice and game sense
  • Soccer
  • Soccer – global and in Canada
  • Sport coach education – national coaching certification program facilitator
  • Squash
  • Squash - global and in Canada
  • Tactical Decision-Making in Sport
  • Teaching games for understanding and game sense
  • Teaching/Coaching pedagogy using teaching Games for understanding (TGfU)

Office: 416-978-4113
Home: 905-820-2167
Email: davidbcooper1952@gmail.com
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

David Livingstone

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

D. W. Livingstone

Areas of Expertise

  • Education and employment
  • Learning (formal and informal) and work (paid and unpaid)
  • Public opinion about public education
  • Social class and education
  • Underemployment

Office: N/A
Mobile: 647 238-4771
Languages: French
Website
Email: david.livingstone@utoronto.ca
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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
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Earl Woodruff

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cogntive Work Analysis
  • Collaboration Training
  • Gamification
  • Innovation and collaboration facilitation
  • Innovation Trainiing
  • Learning and Training Audits
  • Mobile Technologies and E-Learning
  • Problem Solving Training
  • Socio-cogitive facilitation
  • Software Training
  • Think Aloud Analysis

Office: 416-934-4511
Home: 416-848-1748
Mobile: 416-848-1748
Website
Email: earl.woodruff@utoronto.ca
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Elizabeth Buckner

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Internationalization
  • Private higher education
  • Sustainable Development

Office: N/A
Website
Email: elizabeth.buckner@utoronto.ca

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
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Eric Lavigne

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Administrators’ recruitment, careers, and performance
  • Higher education administration and leadership
  • Organizational leadership, decision-making, and change

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: eric.lavigne@utoronto.ca

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

Esther Geva

Professor

Esther Geva

Areas of Expertise

  • Acculturation
  • Assessment of immigrant children
  • At-risk ESL children
  • Cognitive and linguistic processes
  • Cross-cultural issues among immigrant children
  • Cross-cultural issues among second language learners
  • Psychological problems in children/youth

Office: (416) 978-0916
Languages: Hebrew, French
Email: esther.geva@utoronto.ca
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Eunice Eunhee Jang

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive diagnostic assessment
  • Language assessment
  • Mixed methods research
  • Program evaluation

Office: (416) 978-0238
Website
Email: eun.jang@utoronto.ca
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Feng Ji

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Data sciences
  • Machine learning applications in social and behavioral sciences
  • Psychometrics
  • Quantitative methods in social and behavioral sciences

Office: 416-978-6752
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: f.ji@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Francine Menashy

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • education for refugees and in emergencies
  • education partnerships
  • Global education governance and policy, international aid to education
  • power asymmetries, racism, and coloniality in global education

Office: N/A
Email: francine.menashy@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

George Dei

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anti-racism education and inclusive schooling
  • Black youth dropouts/academic success
  • Critical ethnography
  • History of Africentric schools
  • Indigenous knowledges and anti-Colonialism
  • Race

Office: (416) 978-0460
Languages: Twi
Website
Email: george.dei@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Glen Jones

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian higher education policy (federal and provincial)
  • Comparative/International higher education
  • Politics of higher education
  • University decision-making/governance
  • University faculty and academic work

Office: 416-978-8292
Home: 416-463-5615
Mobile: 416-463-5615
Languages: English
Website
Email: glen.jones@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Critique of Olympic Industry
  • Gender and sport
  • Physical and health education
  • Sports law

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

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
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