Research and Teaching Interests of our Academic Staff

Qualitative research methods, participatory action research (PAR), adult education, sociology of education.

Drama & Theatre Education; Arts Based Educational Research Methods; Teacher Education; Teacher Identity; Curriculum & Pedagogy; Education for Sustainable Development; Creativity & Imagination.

Early childhood pedagogy, First Nations early education (teaching and learning), teacher education/training and professional development, arts-integrated pre-school and elementary education, curriculum and assessment in elementary schools.

Art education and self identity, aesthetics, ethics and values, art criticism, philosophy of education, cross cultural investigations into meaning making as emergent from encounters with art.

Teacher education, philosophy of education, arts education, social justice education.

Language and literacy, qualitative research methodologies, classroom processes/professional development, teacher education/student engagement, gender issues in leadership/education.

Second language acquisition, immersion education, classroom discourse, educational sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics.

Science education; integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (iSTEM) education; evolution education; science education reform in diverse contexts; problem-based learning; interactions among religion, science, culture, and education; environmental education; nature of science; conceptual understanding; cognitive and emotional development; socioconstructivist and sociocultural approaches to learning science; teacher education; curriculum development and assessment; educational leadership; research methods; peace studies; Islamic education; doctoral education reform.

Drama & Theatre Education; Arts Based Educational Research Methods; Teacher Education; Teacher Identity; Curriculum & Pedagogy; Education for Sustainable Development; Creativity & Imagination.

Critical Race Studies/Critical Race Feminism in education; Anti-colonial and post-colonial studies in education/Settler Colonialism;  Post-racialist/Antiracialist discourse;  Black Canadian Studies, Afro-pessimism, Afro-futurism;  Racially-embodied epistemologies, knowledge, and agency;  Community-based agency and impacts on schooling and education;  Community-based research methodologies;  Strategies of resistance;  Critical race pedagogies;  Social Studies Education/Sociology in Education;  Social Justice and Equity Education/Socially-Just Education;  Critical Integrative Anti-Racism

Mathematics learning and teaching, geometry and spatial mathematics, co-development of disciplinary knowledge and practice in classrooms, integration of STEM disciplines to support student learning.

Curriculum theory, cultural studies, new literacy studies, English education, postcolonial theory.

Teacher education, teacher identity, memory work studies, HIV and AIDS, sexuality education.

Computer science education, science and technology studies, sociology of education, higher education, science education, engineering education, mathematics education, gender studies, social justice in STEM education, teacher beliefs, teacher education, policy analysis, mixed methods research.

Teacher education, teacher identity, program design/reform, professional development, second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, sociolinguistics, online education.

Mathematics education, learning and teaching probability, ethnomathematics, critical thinking and decision-making, elementary school gambling.

School policy; leadership; education law; censorship; human rights; legal pluralism; legal issues relating to on-line social communications (includes cyber-bullying, cyber-libel, cyber-threats); constitutional law with focus on balancing free expression and privacy on-line; tort law (cyber-libel, negligence in the school context); criminal law (relating to on-line criminal harassment); secularism and/or religion in schools; competing rights/values in schools; social responsibility by corporate intermediaries and technology corporations relating to on-line communications; sensitivity and social responsibility of news media.

Early childhood pedagogy, First Nations early education (teaching and learning), teacher education/training and professional development, arts-integrated pre-school and elementary education, curriculum and assessment in elementary schools.

Historical consciousness, teacher identity and agency, narrative inquiry, social studies teaching and curriculum, the politics of history teaching, national historical narratives and issues of inclusion and exclusion, history and identity in Quebec and Canada, English-speaking Quebec, historical consciousness and community vitality.

Drama & Theatre Education; Arts Based Educational Research Methods; Teacher Education; Teacher Identity; Curriculum & Pedagogy; Education for Sustainable Development; Creativity & Imagination.

Science education; integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (iSTEM) education; evolution education; science education reform in diverse contexts; problem-based learning; interactions among religion, science, culture, and education; environmental education; nature of science; conceptual understanding; cognitive and emotional development; socioconstructivist and sociocultural approaches to learning science; teacher education; curriculum development and assessment; educational leadership; research methods; peace studies; Islamic education; and doctoral education reform.

Philosophy of Jewish education, teaching Jewish prayer, reconstructionist Judaism, contemporary Judaism, Jewish social activism

Intercultural/multicultural and International/comparative education, teacher education, gender and education, women in development.

Science education, gender studies, sociocultural issues in science education, teacher education, identity studies, informal education.

Critical Race Studies/Critical Race Feminism in education; Anti-colonial and post-colonial studies in education/Settler Colonialism;  Post-racialist/Antiracialist discourse;  Black Canadian Studies, Afro-pessimism, Afro-futurism;  Racially-embodied epistemologies, knowledge, and agency;  Community-based agency and impacts on schooling and education;  Community-based research methodologies;  Strategies of resistance;  Critical race pedagogies;  Social Studies Education/Sociology in Education;  Social Justice and Equity Education/Socially-Just Education;  Critical Integrative Anti-Racism

Educational leadership; collaborative inquiry and leadership; grass-roots international development; educational ethnography; social justice in education; education theory; Indigenous education; identity; reflective and reflexive practices and intersectional analysis of culture, identity, and learning.

Curriculum theory, cultural studies, new literacy studies, English education, postcolonial theory.

Philosophy of education, moral and political theory, civic education, multicultural education, Inclusive education, education for the disabled.

Computer science education, science and technology studies, sociology of education, higher education, science education, engineering education, mathematics education, gender studies, social justice in STEM education, teacher beliefs, teacher education, policy analysis, mixed methods research.

Cultural studies, media, new literacy, autoethnography, participatory research, visual studies, rurality, textual research, memory work studies, self-study and teacher education.

Teacher education, teacher identity, program design/reform, professional development, second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, sociolinguistics, online education.

Changing literacy formations, early childhood education, social justice and Indigenous education, stories/narrative, teacher education and professional development.

Historical consciousness, teacher identity and agency, narrative inquiry, social studies teaching and curriculum, the politics of history teaching, national historical narratives and issues of inclusion and exclusion, history and identity in Quebec and Canada, English-speaking Quebec, historical consciousness and community vitality.

Science education, gender studies, sociocultural issues in science education, teacher education, identity studies, informal education.

Informal and organisational learning, social learning, learning in communities and networks of practice, leadership and sustainability, global education, participatory action research (PAR), learning in international cooperation, knowledge co-production, knowledge brokering, learning-centred responses to climate change, social justice and environmental change.

Critical Race Studies/Critical Race Feminism in education; Anti-colonial and post-colonial studies in education/Settler Colonialism;  Post-racialist/Antiracialist discourse;  Black Canadian Studies, Afro-pessimism, Afro-futurism;  Racially-embodied epistemologies, knowledge, and agency;  Community-based agency and impacts on schooling and education;  Community-based research methodologies;  Strategies of resistance;  Critical race pedagogies;  Social Studies Education/Sociology in Education;  Social Justice and Equity Education/Socially-Just Education;  Critical Integrative Anti-Racism

Qualitative research methods, participatory action research (PAR), adult education, sociology of education.

Educational leadership, collaborative inquiry and leadership, grass-roots international development, educational ethnography, social justice in education, education theory, Indigenous education, identity, reflective and reflexive practices and intersectional analysis of culture, identity, and learning.

Youth, gender and AIDS, youth culture, visual and arts-based research methodologies, girls education in development studies, teacher identity, girlhood studies, gender violence, feminist theory, research as social change, gender and leadership, gender and post-harvest management.

Computer science education, science and technology studies, sociology of education, higher education, science education, engineering education, mathematics education, gender studies, social justice in STEM education, teacher beliefs, teacher education, policy analysis, mixed methods research.

Teacher education, teacher identity, program design/reform, professional development, second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, sociolinguistics, online education.

School policy; leadership; education law; censorship; human rights; legal pluralism; legal issues relating to on-line social communications (includes cyber-bullying, cyber-libel, cyber-threats); constitutional law with focus on balancing free expression and privacy on-line; tort law (cyber-libel, negligence in the school context); criminal law (relating to on-line criminal harassment); secularism and/or religion in schools; competing rights/values in schools; social responsibility by corporate intermediaries and technology corporations relating to on-line communications; sensitivity and social responsibility of news media.

Changing literacy formations, early childhood education, social justice and Indigenous education, stories/narrative, teacher education and professional development.

HIV and AIDS in higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa, rural development and higher education, gender in higher education, teacher development.

Computer science education, science and technology studies, sociology of education, higher education, science education, engineering education, mathematics education, gender studies, social justice in STEM education, teacher beliefs, teacher education, policy analysis, mixed methods research.

Historical consciousness, teacher identity and agency, narrative inquiry, social studies teaching and curriculum, the politics of history teaching, national historical narratives and issues of inclusion and exclusion, history and identity in Quebec and Canada, English-speaking Quebec, historical consciousness and community vitality.

Indigenous literacy, Indigenous education/curriculum development, multiculturalism in the classroom, literature for children and young adults, fiction, short stories.

Educational leadership, collaborative inquiry and leadership, grass-roots international development, educational ethnography, social justice in education, education theory, Indigenous education, identity, reflective and reflexive practices and intersectional analysis of culture, identity, and learning.

Informal and organisational learning, social learning, learning in communities and networks of practice, leadership and sustainability, global education, participatory action research (PAR), learning in international cooperation, knowledge co-production, knowledge brokering, learning-centred responses to climate change, social justice and environmental change.

Educational leadership, collaborative inquiry and leadership, grass-roots international development, educational ethnography, social justice in education, education theory, Indigenous education, identity, reflective and reflexive practices and intersectional analysis of culture, identity, and learning.

Youth, gender and AIDS, youth culture, visual and arts-based research methodologies, girls education in development studies, teacher identity, gender violence in schools.

Language and literacy, qualitative research methodologies, classroom processes/professional development, teacher education/student engagement, gender issues in leadership/education.

Curriculum theory, cultural studies, new literacy studies, English education, postcolonial theory.

Second language acquisition, immersion education, classroom discourse, educational sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics.

Literature for children and young adults, new literacies, media studies, visual literacy, digital literacy, sexual literacy.

Teacher education, teacher identity, program design/reform, professional development, second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, sociolinguistics, online education.

Early childhood pedagogy, First Nations early education (teaching and learning), teacher education/training and professional development, arts-integrated pre-school and elementary education, curriculum and assessment in elementary schools.

Second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, language planning and policy, multilingualism, sociolinguistics.

Changing literacy formations, early childhood education, social justice and Indigenous education, stories/narrative, teacher education and professional development.

School policy; leadership; education law; censorship; human rights; legal pluralism; legal issues relating to on-line social communications (includes cyber-bullying, cyber-libel, cyber-threats); constitutional law with focus on balancing free expression and privacy on-line; tort law (cyber-libel, negligence in the school context); criminal law (relating to on-line criminal harassment); secularism and/or religion in schools; competing rights/values in schools; social responsibility by corporate intermediaries and technology corporations relating to on-line communications; sensitivity and social responsibility of news media.

Science education; integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (iSTEM) education; evolution education; science education reform in diverse contexts; problem-based learning; interactions among religion, science, culture, and education; environmental education; nature of science; conceptual understanding; cognitive and emotional development; socioconstructivist and sociocultural approaches to learning science; teacher education; curriculum development and assessment; educational leadership; research methods; peace studies; Islamic education; and doctoral education reform.

Science education, gender studies, sociocultural issues in science education, teacher education, identity studies, informal education.

At-risk youth; mathematics education; pedagogy; pre-service and in-service teacher development; professional development; student engagement; teacher beliefs; teacher education; teacher identity; teacher practices

Mathematics learning and teaching, geometry and spatial mathematics, co-development of disciplinary knowledge and practice in classrooms, integration of STEM disciplines to support student learning.

Computer science education, science and technology studies, sociology of education, higher education, science education, engineering education, mathematics education, gender studies, social justice in STEM education, teacher beliefs, teacher education, policy analysis, mixed methods research.

Mathematics education, learning and teaching probability, ethnomathematics, critical thinking and decision-making, elementary school gambling.

Science education; integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (iSTEM) education; evolution education; science education reform in diverse contexts; problem-based learning; interactions among religion, science, culture, and education; environmental education; nature of science; conceptual understanding; cognitive and emotional development; socioconstructivist and sociocultural approaches to learning science; teacher education; curriculum development and assessment; educational leadership; research methods; peace studies; Islamic education; and doctoral education reform.

School policy; leadership; education law; censorship; human rights; legal pluralism; legal issues relating to on-line social communications (includes cyber-bullying, cyber-libel, cyber-threats); constitutional law with focus on balancing free expression and privacy on-line; tort law (cyber-libel, negligence in the school context); criminal law (relating to on-line criminal harassment); secularism and/or religion in schools; competing rights/values in schools; social responsibility by corporate intermediaries and technology corporations relating to on-line communications; sensitivity and social responsibility of news media.

Science education; integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (iSTEM) education; evolution education; science education reform in diverse contexts; problem-based learning; interactions among religion, science, culture, and education; environmental education; nature of science; conceptual understanding; cognitive and emotional development; socioconstructivist and sociocultural approaches to learning science; teacher education; curriculum development and assessment; educational leadership; research methods; peace studies; Islamic education; and doctoral education reform.

Philosophy of education, moral and political theory, civic education, multicultural education, Inclusive education, education for the disabled.

Art education and self identity, aesthetics, ethics and values, art criticism, philosophy of education, cross cultural investigations into meaning making as emergent from encounters with art.

Teacher education, philosophy of education, arts education, social justice education.

Historical consciousness, teacher identity and agency, narrative inquiry, social studies teaching and curriculum, the politics of history teaching, national historical narratives and issues of inclusion and exclusion, history and identity in Quebec and Canada, English-speaking Quebec, historical consciousness and community vitality.

Language and literacy, qualitative research methodologies, classroom processes/professional development, teacher education/student engagement, gender issues in leadership/education.

Drama & Theatre Education; Arts Based Educational Research Methods; Teacher Education; Teacher Identity; Curriculum & Pedagogy; Education for Sustainable Development; Creativity & Imagination.

At-risk youth; mathematics education; pedagogy; pre-service and in-service teacher development; professional development; student engagement; teacher beliefs; teacher education; teacher identity; teacher practices

Computer science education, science and technology studies, sociology of education, higher education, science education, engineering education, mathematics education, gender studies, social justice in STEM education, teacher beliefs, teacher education, policy analysis, mixed methods research.

Teacher education, teacher identity, program design/reform, professional development, second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, sociolinguistics, online education.

Historical consciousness, teacher identity and agency, narrative inquiry, social studies teaching and curriculum, the politics of history teaching, national historical narratives and issues of inclusion and exclusion, history and identity in Quebec and Canada, English-speaking Quebec, historical consciousness and community vitality.

Philosophy of Jewish education, teaching Jewish prayer, Reconstructionist Judaism, contemporary Judaism, Jewish social activism.

Philosophy of education, moral and political theory, civic education, multicultural education, Inclusive education, education for the disabled.

School policy; leadership; education law; censorship; human rights; legal pluralism; legal issues relating to on-line social communications (includes cyber-bullying, cyber-libel, cyber-threats); constitutional law with focus on balancing free expression and privacy on-line; tort law (cyber-libel, negligence in the school context); criminal law (relating to on-line criminal harassment); secularism and/or religion in schools; competing rights/values in schools; social responsibility by corporate intermediaries and technology corporations relating to on-line communications; sensitivity and social responsibility of news media.

Language and literacy, qualitative research methodologies, classroom processes/professional development, teacher education/student engagement, gender issues in leadership/education.

Drama & Theatre Education; Arts Based Educational Research Methods; Teacher Education; Teacher Identity; Curriculum & Pedagogy; Education for Sustainable Development; Creativity & Imagination.

Qualitative research methods, participatory action research (PAR), adult education, sociology of education.

Visual methodologies, participatory research, memory-work studies, autoethnography, self-study, arts-based inquiry, qualitative research photography, participatory video, textual approaches to research.

Computer science education, science and technology studies, sociology of education, higher education, science education, engineering education, mathematics education, gender studies, social justice in STEM education, teacher beliefs, teacher education, policy analysis, mixed methods research.

Cross-linguistic approaches to bilingual and immersion education, strategy instruction, peer interaction, teacher scaffolding to promote collaborative language learning, the influence of sociolinguistic context in bilingual classrooms.

Second language acquisition, immersion education, classroom discourse, educational sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics.

Teacher education, teacher identity, program design/reform, professional development, second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, sociolinguistics, online education.

Second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, language planning and policy, multilingualism, sociolinguistics.

Cross-linguistic approaches to bilingual and immersion education, strategy instruction, peer interaction, teacher scaffolding to promote collaborative language learning, the influence of sociolinguistic context in bilingual classrooms.

Second language acquisition, immersion education, classroom discourse, educational sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics.

Teacher education, teacher identity, program design/reform, professional development, second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, sociolinguistics, online education.

Second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, language planning and policy, multilingualism, sociolinguistics.

Science education; integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (iSTEM) education; evolution education; science education reform in diverse contexts; problem-based learning; interactions among religion, science, culture, and education; environmental education; nature of science; conceptual understanding; cognitive and emotional development; socioconstructivist and sociocultural approaches to learning science; teacher education; curriculum development and assessment; educational leadership; research methods; peace studies; Islamic education; and doctoral education reform.

Language and literacy, qualitative research methodologies, classroom processes/professional development, teacher education/student engagement, gender issues in leadership/education.

Drama & Theatre Education; Arts Based Educational Research Methods; Teacher Education; Teacher Identity; Curriculum & Pedagogy; Education for Sustainable Development; Creativity & Imagination.

Critical Race Studies/Critical Race Feminism in education; Anti-colonial and post-colonial studies in education/Settler Colonialism;  Post-racialist/Antiracialist discourse;  Black Canadian Studies, Afro-pessimism, Afro-futurism;  Racially-embodied epistemologies, knowledge, and agency;  Community-based agency and impacts on schooling and education;  Community-based research methodologies;  Strategies of resistance;  Critical race pedagogies;  Social Studies Education/Sociology in Education;  Social Justice and Equity Education/Socially-Just Education;  Critical Integrative Anti-Racism

At-risk youth; mathematics education; pedagogy; pre-service and in-service teacher development; professional development; student engagement; teacher beliefs; teacher education; teacher identity; teacher practices

Mathematics learning and teaching, geometry and spatial mathematics, co-development of disciplinary knowledge and practice in classrooms, integration of STEM disciplines to support student learning.

Teacher education and international development, teacher identity, self-study, gender and teacher identity.

Computer science education, science and technology studies, sociology of education, higher education, science education, engineering education, mathematics education, gender studies, social justice in STEM education, teacher beliefs, teacher education, policy analysis, mixed methods research.

Teacher education, teacher identity, program design/reform, professional development, second language acquisition, mother tongue maintenance, sociolinguistics, online education.

Early childhood pedagogy, First Nations early education (teaching and learning), teacher education/training and professional development, arts-integrated pre-school and elementary education, curriculum and assessment in elementary schools.

Changing literacy formations, early childhood education, social justice and Indigenous education, stories/narrative, teacher education and professional development.

Teacher education, philosophy of education, arts education, social justice education.

Historical consciousness, teacher identity and agency, narrative inquiry, social studies teaching and curriculum, the politics of history teaching, national historical narratives and issues of inclusion and exclusion, history and identity in Quebec and Canada, English-speaking Quebec, historical consciousness and community vitality.

Critical Race Studies/Critical Race Feminism in education; Anti-colonial and post-colonial studies in education/Settler Colonialism;  Post-racialist/Antiracialist discourse;  Black Canadian Studies, Afro-pessimism, Afro-futurism;  Racially-embodied epistemologies, knowledge, and agency;  Community-based agency and impacts on schooling and education;  Community-based research methodologies;  Strategies of resistance;  Critical race pedagogies;  Social Studies Education/Sociology in Education;  Social Justice and Equity Education/Socially-Just Education;  Critical Integrative Anti-Racism

Youth as knowledge producers, youth and sexuality, youth and HIV and AIDS, girlhood studies, youth culture.

Mathematics education, learning and teaching probability, ethnomathematics, critical thinking and decision-making, elementary school gambling.

Early childhood pedagogy, First Nations early education (teaching and learning), teacher education/training and professional development, arts-integrated pre-school and elementary education, curriculum and assessment in elementary schools.

Changing literacy formations, early childhood education, social justice and indigenous education, stories/narrative, teacher education and professional development.