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Helen Amoriggi
Associate Professor

 

Education
Room 319

(514) 398-2474

helen [dot] amoriggi [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

SpeedReading/eSpeedReading Productivity Research; Academic life-skills for student athletes; Graduate Thesis, Proposal Preparation Seminars; Information/eInformation Overload Research; Readers' Theatre & Puppetry Training for Elementary Science Teachers of Evolutionary Biology; Productivity & Management Training.

Beverly A. Baker
Faculty Lecturer

(514) 398-1274

beverly [dot] a [dot] baker [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Applied Linguistics, Language Assessment, Second Language Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, Educational Evaluation, Teacher Training

Fiona J. Benson
Associate Professor
Director, Office of Student Teaching

Education
Room 428

(514) 398-7046

Fiona [dot] j [dot] benson [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Teacher Education; Program design, reform, policy; Social Justice Education (queer theory); Care Pedagogy (teacherly love); Teacher induction, mentoring, vocational wellbeing; Pre and in-service professional development; Secondary English Language Arts (literate thinking); Curriculum development.
Spencer Boudreau
Assistant Professor
Ombudsperson for Students 

McTavish 3610

(514) 398-7059

spencer [dot] boudreau [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Field experiences of education students, Induction and mentoring of new teachers, Religious education in public and private schools, Religion in the public sphere.

Jon Bradley
Associate Professor 

Education
Room 423

(514) 398-2467

jon [dot] bradley [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Boy learning & gender learning differences, Male elementary teachers & curriculum implications, Boy boredom and societal implications, Professional teacher writing, Teaching/learning elementary social studies, Elementary curriculum development, First Nations school/curriculum evaluations.

Lynn Butler-Kisber
Professor
Director, Centre for Educational Leadership
Director, Graduate Certificates in Leadership

Education
Room 439

(514) 398-5811

lynn [dot] butlerkisber [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Web site

Language and literacy, Qualitative research methodologies, Classroom processes/professional development, Teacher education/ student engagement, Gender issues in leadership/education.

Eric Caplan
Associate Professor
Director, Jewish teaching option
Joint appointment with Department of Jewish Studies 

Education
Room 365

(514) 398-6544

eric [dot] caplan [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Philosophy of Jewish education, Teaching Jewish prayer, Reconstructionist Judaism, Contemporary Judaism, Jewish social activism.

Aziz Choudry
Assistant Professor 

Education
Room 314

(514) 398-2253

aziz [dot] choudry [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Adult Education, informal education, popular education, and the construction and production of knowledge(s) in social movements and community organizations, Social movements, NGOs, trade unions, ‘global justice’, and social change.

David Dillon
Professor 

Education
Room 305

(514) 398-2468

david [dot] dillon [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Teacher education, Critical pedagogy.

Ratna Ghosh
C.M., O.Q., Ph.D., F.R.S.C.
James McGill Professor
William C. Macdonald Professor of Education 

Education
Room 322

(514) 398-5398

ratna [dot] ghosh [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Intercultural/multicultural and International/comparative education, Teacher education, Gender and education, Women in development.

Richard Harris
Associate Member 

Department of Physics

(514) 398-6522

dik [dot] harris [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Website


Charlotte Hussey
Faculty Lecturer 

Education
Room 303

(514) 398-3082

charlotte [dot] hussey [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)


Kara Jackson
Assistant Professor

Education
Room 317

(514) 398-2460

kara [dot] jackson [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Mathematics education, Learning in and across contexts, Anthropology of education.

Steven Jordan
Associate Professor
Department Chair 

Education
Room 244

(514) 398-2472

steven [dot] jordan [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Qualitative research methods, Participatory action research (PAR), Adult education, Sociology of education.

Bronwen Low
Associate Professor 

Education
Room 339

(514) 398-6399

bronwen [dot] low [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Curriculum theory, Cultural studies, New literacy studies, English education, Post-colonial theory.

Denise Lussier
Professor Emeritus 

Education
Room 412

(514) 398-2483

denise [dot] lussier [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Development of intercultural communicative competence in education. Measurement and evaluation. Development of curriculum.

Roy Lyster
Professor 

Education
Room 304

(514) 398-5942

roy [dot] lyster [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Second language acquisition, Immersion education, Classroom discourse, Educational sociolinguistics, Cross-cultural pragmatics.

Mary Maguire
Professor 

Education
Room 405

(514) 398-2183

mary [dot] maguire [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Multiple & multilingual literacies, Ethnographic and qualitative research, Multicultural/ multilingual identity construction, Heritage language contexts/ schools, diaspora, Third space, multiple discourses. Inter-cultural education.

Lynn McAlpine
Associate Member 

(514) 398-2384

lynn [dot] mcalpine [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Higher education, faculty development, doctoral/ research education, academic practice.

Kevin McDonough
Associate Professor 

Education
Room 411

(514) 398-6949

kevin [dot] mcdonough [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Philosophy of education, Moral and political theory, Civic education, Multicultural education, Inclusive education/ education for the disabled.

Claudia Mitchell
Professor 

(514) 398-1318

claudia [dot] mitchell [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Youth, gender and AIDS, Youth culture, Visual and arts-based research methodologies, Girls education in development studies, Teacher identity.

Ronald Morris
Associate Professor 

Education
Room 410

(514) 398-6971

ron [dot] morris [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Values education, Ethics and leadership in higher education, Body, spirit and sexuality, Narrative and values education, The commercialization of education.

Anthony Paré
Professor 

Education
Room 352

(514) 398-5600

anthony [dot] pare [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Doctoral writing, Doctoral education, Literacy education, Composition and rhetoric, Genre studies, Workplace literacy.

Caroline Riches
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Programs & Graduate Certificate in TESL 

Education
Room 248B

(514) 398-5793

caroline [dot] riches [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.

Mela Sarkar
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Programs 

Education
Room 248A

(514) 398-2756

mela [dot] sarkar [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Second language acquisition, Mother tongue maintenance, Language planning and policy, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics.

Annie Savard
Assistant Professor 

Education
Room 309

(514) 398-5150

annie [dot] savard [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Mathematics education, Learning and teaching probability, Ethnomathematics, Critical thinking and Decision making, Elementary school gambling.

Louise Savoie
Faculty Lecturer
Coordinator, Teaching French as a Second Language Program 

Education
Room 432

(514) 398-5944

louise [dot] savoie [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Littératie, Littérature jeunesse, Supervision pédagogique.

Gale Seiler
Associate Professor

Education
Room 357

(514) 398-7106

gale [dot] seiler [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Science education, Urban education, Sociocultural theory & cultural sociology, Social construction of identity, Teacher education.

Shaheen Shariff
Assistant Professor 

Education
Room 312

(514) 398-5396

shaheen [dot] shariff [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

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.

Sylvia Sklar
Assistant Professor 

Education
Room 440

(514) 398-8267

sylvia [dot] sklar [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Professional development, Adult learners, School leadership, Managing change, Partnerships in education.

Donna-Lee Smith
Faculty Lecturer
Director, First Nations and Inuit Education Teaching Programs

Education
Room 248

(514) 398-6696

donnalee [dot] smith [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Aboriginal literacy, Aboriginal education / curriculum development, Multiculturalism in the classroom, Literature for children and young adults, Fiction, short stories.

Doreen Starke-Meyerring
Associate Professor 

Education
Room 318

(514) 398-1308

doreen [dot] starke-meyerring [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Writing research & pedagogy. Workplace & academic writing, especially doctoral writing. Rhetorical (discourse) theory & analysis. Critical technology studies & digital literacies. Technology policy discourse & deliberation.

Teresa Strong-Wilson
Associate Professor

Education
Room 415

(514) 398-4170

teresa [dot] strong-wilson [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Changing literacy formations, Early childhood education, Social justice & Indigenous education, Stories/Narrative, Teacher education and professional development.

Carolyn Turner
Associate Professor 

Education
Room 421

(514) 398-6984

carolyn [dot] turner [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

Second and foreign language assessment, Classroom-based assessment that links assessment/teaching/learning, Impact of high-stakes tests on teaching and learning, Mixed methods research.

Boyd White
Associate Professor 

Education
Room 351

(514) 398-2444

boyd [dot] white [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)

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.

Lise Winer
Professor
Graduate Program Director

Education
Room 413

(514) 398-5946

Email

Second language methodology, Sociolinguistics, Language and literature, Caribbean English Creoles, Lexicography.

Elizabeth Wood
Professor
Associate Dean (Academic) 

Education
Room 230

(514) 398-8154

elizabeth [dot] wood [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email)


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