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Adult Education
Aziz Choudry 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.
Steven Jordan Qualitative research methods, Participatory action research (PAR), Adult education, Sociology of education.
Ralf St. Clair Adult Education, Language and literacy, Assessment, Curriculum and pedagogy, Research and methods, Higher education.
Sylvia Sklar Professional development, Adult learners, School leadership, Managing change, Partnerships in education.
Art
Boyd White 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.
Assessment
Beverly A. Baker Applied Linguistics, Language Assessment, Second Language Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, Educational Evaluation, Teacher Training
Ralf St. Clair Adult Education, Language and literacy, Assessment, Curriculum and pedagogy, Research and methods, Higher education.
Carolyn Turner 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.
Classroom Methods
Helen Amoriggi 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.
Jon Bradley 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 Language and literacy, Qualitative research methodologies, Classroom processes/professional development, Teacher education/student engagement, Gender issues in leadership/education.
Roy Lyster Second language acquisition, Immersion education, Classroom discourse, Educational sociolinguistics, Cross-cultural pragmatics.
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Jon Bradley 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.
Fiona J. Benson 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.
David Dillon Teacher education, Critical pedagogy.
Kara Jackson Mathematics education, Learning in and across contexts, Anthropology of education
Bronwen Low Curriculum theory, Cultural studies, New literacy studies, English education, Post-colonial theory.
Caroline Riches Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.
Ralf St. Clair Adult Education, Language and literacy, Assessment, Curriculum and pedagogy, Research and methods, Higher education.
Annie Savard Mathematics education, Learning and teaching probability, Ethnomathematics, Critical thinking and Decision making, Elementary school gambling.
Louise Savoie Littératie, Littérature jeunesse, Supervision pédagogique.
Shaheen Shariff 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.
Donna-Lee Smith Aboriginal literacy, Aboriginal education / curriculum development, Multiculturalism in the classroom, Literature for children and young adults, Fiction, short stories.
Doreen Starke-Meyerring Writing research & pedagogy. Workplace & academic writing, especially doctoral writing. Rhetorical (discourse) theory & analysis. Critical technology studies & digital literacies. Technology policy discourse & deliberation.
Ethnographic and Cultural Studies
Fiona J. Benson 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.
Jon Bradley 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.
Eric Caplan Philosophy of Jewish education, Teaching Jewish prayer, Reconstructionist Judaism, Contemporary Judaism, Jewish social activism.
Aziz Choudry 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.
Ratna Ghosh Intercultural/multicultural and International/comparative education, Teacher education, Gender and education, Women in development.
Kara Jackson Mathematics education, Learning in and across contexts, Anthropology of education
Bronwen Low Curriculum theory, Cultural studies, New literacy studies, English education, Post-colonial theory.
Mary Maguire Multiple & multilingual literacies, Ethnographic and qualitative research, Multicultural/ multilingual identity construction, Heritage language contexts/ schools, diaspora, Third space, multiple discourses. Inter-cultural education.
Kevin McDonough Philosophy of education, Moral and political theory, Civic education, Multicultural education, Inclusive education/ education for the disabled.
Caroline Riches Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.
Donna-Lee Smith Aboriginal literacy, Aboriginal education / curriculum development, Multiculturalism in the classroom, Literature for children and young adults, Fiction, short stories.
Teresa Strong-Wilson Changing literacy formations, Early childhood education, Social justice & Indigenous education, Stories/Narrative, Teacher education and professional development.
Lise Winer

 Second language methodology, Sociolinguistics, Language and literature, Caribbean English Creoles, Lexicography.
Gender and Social Issues
Fiona J. Benson 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.
Jon Bradley 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 Language and literacy, Qualitative research methodologies, Classroom processes/professional development, Teacher education/ student engagement, Gender issues in leadership/education.
Aziz Choudry 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.
Ratna Ghosh Intercultural/multicultural and International/comparative education, Teacher education, Gender and education, Women in development.
Kara Jackson Mathematics education, Learning in and across contexts, Anthropology of education
Steven Jordan Qualitative research methods, Participatory action research (PAR), Adult education, Sociology of education.
Claudia Mitchell Youth, gender and AIDS, Youth culture, Visual and arts-based research methodologies, Girls education in development studies, Teacher identity.
Caroline Riches Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.
Gale Seiler Science education, Urban education, Sociocultural theory & cultural sociology, Social construction of identity, Teacher education.
Shaheen Shariff 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.
Teresa Strong-Wilson

 Changing literacy formations, Early childhood education, Social justice & Indigenous education, Stories/Narrative, Teacher education and professional development.
Higher Education
Ralf St. Clair Adult Education, Language and literacy, Assessment, Curriculum and pedagogy, Research and methods, Higher education.
Lexicography
Lise Winer Second language methodology, Sociolinguistics, Language and literature, Caribbean English Creoles, Lexicography.
Literacy and Language
Beverly A. Baker Applied Linguistics, Language Assessment, Second Language Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, Educational Evaluation, Teacher Training
Fiona J. Benson 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.
Lynn Butler-Kisber Language and literacy, Qualitative research methodologies, Classroom processes/professional development, Teacher education/ student engagement, Gender issues in leadership/education.
Bronwen Low Curriculum theory, Cultural studies, New literacy studies, English education, Post-colonial theory.
Roy Lyster Second language acquisition, Immersion education, Classroom discourse, Educational sociolinguistics, Cross-cultural pragmatics.
Mary Maguire Multiple & multilingual literacies, Ethnographic and qualitative research, Multicultural/ multilingual identity construction, Heritage language contexts/ schools, diaspora, Third space, multiple discourses. Inter-cultural education.
Anthony Paré Doctoral writing, Doctoral education, Literacy education, Composition and rhetoric, Genre studies, Workplace literacy.
Caroline Riches Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.
Ralf St. Clair Adult Education, Language and literacy, Assessment, Curriculum and pedagogy, Research and methods, Higher education.
Mela Sarkar Second language acquisition, Mother tongue maintenance, Language planning and policy, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics.
Donna-Lee Smith Aboriginal literacy, Aboriginal education / curriculum development, Multiculturalism in the classroom, Literature for children and young adults, Fiction, short stories.
Doreen Starke-Meyerring 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 Changing literacy formations, Early childhood education, Social justice & Indigenous education, Stories/Narrative, Teacher education and professional development.
Carolyn Turner 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.
Lise Winer

 Second language methodology, Sociolinguistics, Language and literature, Caribbean English Creoles, Lexicography.
Literature and Writing
Beverly A. Baker Applied Linguistics, Language Assessment, Second Language Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, Educational Evaluation, Teacher Training
Jon Bradley 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.
Anthony Paré Doctoral writing, Doctoral education, Literacy education, Composition and rhetoric, Genre studies, Workplace literacy.
Louise Savoie Littératie, Littérature jeunesse, Supervision pédagogique.
Donna-Lee Smith Aboriginal literacy, Aboriginal education / curriculum development, Multiculturalism in the classroom, Literature for children and young adults, Fiction, short stories.
Doreen Starke-Meyerring Writing research & pedagogy. Workplace & academic writing, especially doctoral writing. Rhetorical (discourse) theory & analysis. Critical technology studies & digital literacies. Technology policy discourse & deliberation.
Lise Winer Second language methodology, Sociolinguistics, Language and literature, Caribbean English Creoles, Lexicography.
Management
Helen Amoriggi 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.
Shaheen Shariff 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 Professional development, Adult learners, School leadership, Managing change, Partnerships in education.
Doreen Starke-Meyerring

 Writing research & pedagogy. Workplace & academic writing, especially doctoral writing. Rhetorical (discourse) theory & analysis. Critical technology studies & digital literacies. Technology policy discourse & deliberation.
Mathematics and Science Education
Richard Harris Website
Kara Jackson Mathematics education, Learning in and across contexts, Anthropology of education
Annie Savard Mathematics education, Learning and teaching probability, Ethnomathematics, Critical thinking and Decision making, Elementary school gambling.
Gale Seiler Science education, Urban education, Sociocultural theory & cultural sociology, Social construction of identity, Teacher education.
Media and Technology
Shaheen Shariff 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.
Doreen Starke-Meyerring Writing research & pedagogy. Workplace & academic writing, especially doctoral writing. Rhetorical (discourse) theory & analysis. Critical technology studies & digital literacies. Technology policy discourse & deliberation.
Philosophy of Education
Kevin McDonough Philosophy of education, Moral and political theory, Civic education, Multicultural education, Inclusive education/ education for the disabled.
Boyd White Art education, Aesthetic education, Aesthetics, Philosophy of education, Issues of culture and values in education.
Professional Development
Fiona J. Benson 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.
Lynn Butler-Kisber
Language and literacy, Qualitative research methodologies, Classroom processes/professional development, Teacher education/ student engagement, Gender issues in leadership/education.
Caroline Riches Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.
Sylvia Sklar Professional development, Adult learners, School leadership, Managing change, Partnerships in education.
Religion and Values
Spencer Boudreau Field experiences of education students, Induction and mentoring of new teachers, Religious education in public and private schools, Religion in the public sphere.
Eric Caplan Philosophy of Jewish education, Teaching Jewish prayer, Reconstructionist Judaism, Contemporary Judaism, Jewish social activism.
Kevin McDonough Philosophy of education, Moral and political theory, Civic education, Multicultural education, Inclusive education/ education for the disabled.
Ronald Morris Values education, Ethics and leadership in higher education, Body, spirit and sexuality, Narrative and values education, The commercialization of education.
Shaheen Shariff

 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.
Research and Methods
Lynn Butler-Kisber Language and literacy, Qualitative research methodologies, Classroom processes/professional development, Teacher education/ student engagement, Gender issues in leadership/education.
Kara Jackson Mathematics education, Learning in and across contexts, Anthropology of education
Steven Jordan Qualitative research methods, Participatory action research (PAR), Adult education, Sociology of education.
Mary Maguire Multiple & multilingual literacies, Ethnographic and qualitative research, Multicultural/ multilingual identity construction, Heritage language contexts/ schools, diaspora, Third space, multiple discourses. Inter-cultural education.
Claudia Mitchell Youth, gender and AIDS, Youth culture, Visual and arts-based research methodologies, Girls education in development studies, Teacher identity.
Ralf St. Clair Adult Education, Language and literacy, Assessment, Curriculum and pedagogy, Research and methods, Higher education.
Carolyn Turner 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.
Second Language Education
Beverly A. Baker Applied Linguistics, Language Assessment, Second Language Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, Educational Evaluation, Teacher Training
Denise Lussier Development of intercultural communicative competence in education. Measurement and evaluation. Development of curriculum.
Roy Lyster Second language acquisition, Immersion education, Classroom discourse, Educational sociolinguistics, Cross-cultural pragmatics.
Mary Maguire Multiple & multilingual literacies, Ethnographic and qualitative research, Multicultural/ multilingual identity construction, Heritage language contexts/ schools, diaspora, Third space, multiple discourses. Inter-cultural education.
Caroline Riches Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.
Mela Sarkar Second language acquisition, Mother tongue maintenance, Language planning and policy, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics.
Carolyn Turner 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.
Lise Winer

 Second language methodology, Sociolinguistics, Language and literature, Caribbean English Creoles, Lexicography.
Situated Learning
Kara Jackson Mathematics education, Learning in and across contexts, Anthropology of education
Anthony Paré Doctoral writing, Doctoral education, Literacy education, Composition and rhetoric, Genre studies, Workplace literacy.
Sociolinguistics
Roy Lyster Second language acquisition, Immersion education, Classroom discourse, Educational sociolinguistics, Cross-cultural pragmatics.
Caroline Riches Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.
Mela Sarkar Second language acquisition, Mother tongue maintenance, Language planning and policy, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics.
Lise Winer Second language methodology, Sociolinguistics, Language and literature, Caribbean English Creoles, Lexicography.
Teacher Education
Helen Amoriggi 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 Applied Linguistics, Language Assessment, Second Language Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, Educational Evaluation, Teacher Training
Fiona J. Benson 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 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 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 Language and literacy, Qualitative research methodologies, Classroom processes/professional development, Teacher education/ student engagement, Gender issues in leadership/education.
David Dillon Teacher education, Critical pedagogy.
Ratna Ghosh Intercultural/multicultural and International/comparative education, Teacher education, Gender and education, Women in development.
Kara Jackson Mathematics education, Learning in and across contexts, Anthropology of education
Caroline Riches Teacher Education, Teacher Identity, Program design/reform, Professional development,Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Online Education.
Gale Seiler Science education, Urban education, Sociocultural theory & cultural sociology, Social construction of identity, Teacher education.
Sylvia Sklar Professional development, Adult learners, School leadership, Managing change, Partnerships in education.
Teresa Strong-Wilson

 Changing literacy formations, Early childhood education, Social justice & Indigenous education, Stories/Narrative, Teacher education and professional development.
Youth
Claudia Mitchell Youth, gender and AIDS, Youth culture, Visual and arts-based research methodologies, Girls education in development studies, Teacher identity.
Annie Savard Mathematics education, Learning and teaching probability, Ethnomathematics, Critical thinking and Decision making, Elementary school gambling.
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