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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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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

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

    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
    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

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    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

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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

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