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Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Hye-Su Kuk

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adult Education
  • Citizenship Learning
  • Organizational dynamics of social movement
  • Participatory democracy
  • Social change

Office: N/A
Languages: Korean,English
Website
Email: hyesu.kuk@utoronto.ca

J. Roy Gillis

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Violence and bullying

Office: (416) 978-0679
Email: roy.gillis@utoronto.ca
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Janette Pelletier

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Early child development and education
  • Early literacy development
  • Full-day kindergarten
  • Integrated early years services (child care/kindergarten/parenting support)
  • Kindergarten/early learning programs (English and French immersion)
  • Parent involvement in early education
  • Right to play
  • Teacher beliefs and practices

Office: 416-934-4506
Home: 416-972-9931
Mobile: 416-972-9931
Email: janette.pelletier@utoronto.ca
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Jean-Paul Restoule

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aboriginal worldview and identity development
  • Indigenous children

Office: 416-978-0806
Email: jeanpaul.restoule@utoronto.ca
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Jeanne Watson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Emotional expression
  • Emotionally focused psychotherapy
  • Empathy in psychotherapy
  • Experiential psychotherapy
  • Psychotherapy process and outcome
  • The therapeutic relationship

Office: 416-978-0705
Languages: English
Website
Email: jeanne.watson@utoronto.ca
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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

Jeffrey Ansloos

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Decolonization
  • Indigenous curriculum
  • Structural violence and trauma

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French
Website
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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

Jennifer Jenkins

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Children's mental health
  • Family conflict and divorce
  • Parenting
  • Sibling relationships

Office: 416-978-0939
Languages: English
Website
Email: jenny.jenkins@utoronto.ca
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Jennifer Sumner

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Food
  • Globalization
  • Organic agriculture
  • Rural communities
  • Sustainability

Office: 416-978-0784
Email: jennifer.sumner@utoronto.ca
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Jennifer Wemigwans

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Decolonization & Indigeneity
  • Indigenous cultural expression
  • Indigenous Knowledge teachings
  • Philosophy & Ethics
  • Policy & Politics
  • Race, Gender & Class
  • Technology

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jennifer.wemigwans@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
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John Portelli

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

John Portelli

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical democracy and education
  • Critical pedagogy and Paulo Freire
  • Democracy and education
  • Leadership and social justice and policy
  • Maltese in Canada
  • Narratives of migration and exile
  • Social justice and equity issues in educational leadership and policy
  • Student engagement
  • Tahar Ben Jelloun and Laila Lalami and Education

Office: +1 416-978-1277
Home: 416-622-1439
Languages: Maltese, Italian, some French and Arabic
Website
Email: john.portelli@utoronto.ca
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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
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Kang Lee

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Face processing in infants, children, and adults
  • Lying & cheating in children and adults

Office: (647) 606-6849
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: kang.lee@utoronto.ca
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Karen Mundy

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Education in the developing world

Office: N/A
Email: karen.mundy@utoronto.ca

Katherine Entigar

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Nonprofit education with.of.by.for adult immigrants

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish; Castilian
Website
Email: k.entigar@utoronto.ca

Kathleen Gallagher

Professor

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: 416-978-0160
Home: 416-960-5633
Mobile: 416-960-5633
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: kathleen.gallagher@utoronto.ca
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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
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Katreena Scott

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Child abuse and neglect
  • Dating violence
  • Domestic violence
  • Gender-based violence
  • Treatment of offenders

Office: 416-978-0971
Email: kscott@oise.utoronto.ca
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Keith Oatley

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive science
  • Emotion
  • Psychology of fiction

Office: 416-961-7969
Home: 416-961-7969
Email: keith.oatley@utoronto.ca
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Kiran Mirchandani

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • criminalization and welfare policy
  • critical perspectives on organizational development and learning
  • gendered and racialized processes in the workplace
  • globalization and economic restructuring

Office: (416) 978-0884
Website
Email: kiran.mirchandani@utoronto.ca

Lana Stermac

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Counselling psychology
  • Posttraumatic mental health
  • Psychological trauma and related clinical interventions
  • Sexual victimization

Office: 416-978-0722
Website
Email: l.stermac@utoronto.ca
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Lauren Bialystok

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethical controversies in education
  • Gender and sexual diversity
  • Liberalism and democracy in education

Office: (416) 978-0412
Languages: French,German
Website
Email: lauren.bialystok@utoronto.ca
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Leesa Wheelahan

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical Realism
  • Social Realism
  • Sociology of Curriculum
  • Sociology of Knowledge
  • Tertiary Education Policy

Office: (416) 978-1217
Website
Email: leesa.wheelahan@utoronto.ca

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
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Marcelo Vieta

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Class-struggle approaches
  • Continental philosophy
  • Critical development studies
  • Critical theory
  • Economic democracy
  • Labour-process theory
  • Latin American social and political thought
  • New cooperativism
  • Organization studies, with a focus on participatory and democratic organizations
  • Philosophy of technology.
  • Political economy
  • Social and solidarity economy initiatives and conceptualizations of the social economy
  • Social movement learning
  • Sociology of work
  • Work-integration social enterprises and social cooperatives
  • Worker- and community-recuperated enterprises (formerly capitalist firms or public-sector interests that are converted to workers' or community self-management)
  • Workers' self-management/autogestión
  • Workplace and organizational learning and social change
  • Worldwide cooperative movement, with a focus on worker cooperatives

Office: (416) 978-0515
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American,Italian
Website
Email: marcelo.vieta@utoronto.ca

Margaret Schneider

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Human-animal interaction/ Companion animals and mental health
  • Major areas of research and teaching,
  • Professional ethics
  • Sexual orientation and gender

Office: 416-978-0684
Email: margaret.schneider@utoronto.ca

Marvin Zuker

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Education law
  • Equity
  • Justice

Office: (416) 978-1181
Website
Email: marvin.zuker@utoronto.ca

Mary Reid

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Curriculum and teaching in mathematics
  • Dismantling anti-Asian racism
  • Harmful effects of the model minority myth in STEM education
  • Math results

Office: 416-556-6416
Website
Email: mary.reid@utoronto.ca
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