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Faculty Member Area(s) of Research Research Interests
Dr. Heesoon Bai
Professor
  • Philosophies of Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • cultural practices
  • ethics and aesthetics
Dr. Susan Barber
Senior Lecturer
  • Counselling Psychology
  • refugee education
  • counselling psychology
Dr. Kumari Beck
Associate Professor
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • internationalization of higher education
  • international education
  • internationalization of curriculum
  • social education
  • anti-racist and multicultural education
  • globalization
  • postcolonial theory
  • pedagogy in post-secondary institutions
  • ethics of care
Dr. Charles Bingham
Professor
  • Philosophies of Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • philosophical perspectives on curriculum and education
  • recognition
  • authority
  • truth and self-fashioning
Dr. Elina Birmingham
Associate Professor
  • Educational Psychology
  • autism
  • social attention
  • social communication
  • educational psychology
Dr. Sean Blenkinsop
Professor
  • Environmental & Ecological Education
  • Philosophies of Education
  • Science Education
  • Social Issues in Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • philosophy of education
  • imagination in teaching and learning
  • ecology
  • relational epistemologies
  • theories of place
  • existentialism
  • continental philosophy
  • experiential and outdoor education
  • social/ecological justice
  • science education
Dr. Ann Chinnery
Associate Professor
  • Philosophies of Education
  • Social Issues in Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • ethics
  • teacher education
  • moral education
  • Emmanuel Levinas
  • social justice
  • diversity
Dr. Sean Chorney
Associate Professor
  • Mathematics Education
  • integration of digital technology into mathematics teaching
Ms. Isabelle Côté
Lecturer
  • French Education
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • French teacher training program
  • cultural diversity
Dr. Rebecca Cox
Associate Professor
  • Higher education
  • Educational Leadership & Policy
  • postsecondary access & equity
  • community colleges
  • postsecondary teaching and learning
  • qualitative research
Dr. Pooja Dharamshi
Assistant Professor
  • Teaching & Educational Practice
  • Social Issues in Education
  • teacher education
  • critical literacy
  • social justice education
  • literacy teacher educators
Dr. Lynn Fels
Professor
  • Arts Education
  • performative inquiry
  • arts for social change
  • arts across the curriculum
  • teacher education
  • curriculum
  • performative writing
  • arts-based research
  • natality
Dr. Mark Fettes
Associate Professor
  • Environmental & Ecological Education
  • Indigenous Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • language maintenance and revitalization
  • cultural diversity and intercultural communication
  • management of multilingualism
Dr. Roger Frie
Professor
  • Educational Psychology
  • Philosophies of Education
  • Counselling Psychology
  • hermeneutics
  • phenomenology
  • social theory
  • narrative psychology
  • cultural psychology
  • history of psychotherapy
  • contemporary psychoanalysis
  • existential therapy
Dr. Natalia Gajdamaschko
Teaching Professor
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT).
  • Vygotsky’s educational theory
  • activity theory
  • cross-cultural investigation in education
  • Q-methodology and study of subjectivity
Dr. Enigda Gebre
Assistant Professor
  • Educational Technology & Learning Design
  • learning and representations
  • learning technologies and contexts
  • nature and role of context in learning
  • student engagement
  • active learning classrooms
  • design-based research in education
  • visual data analysis
Dr. Alanaise Goodwill
Assistant Professor
  • Counselling Psychology
  • Indigenous Education
  • Indigenous psychology
  • psychological practice in the areas of identity reclamation, collective healing and restitution
  • Indigenous language in the practice of family and group counselling
  • Indigenous research methods
  • decolonizing mental health practices
Dr. Huamei Han
Associate Professor
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • multilingualism
  • language ideologies
  • minority churches
  • China-Africa trade migration
Dr. Joel Heng Hartse
Lecturer
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • second language writing
  • English as a second/additional language
  • academic writing
  • academic publishing
  • language ideology
  • writing studies
  • world Englishes
Dr. Cher Hill
Assistant Professor
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • practitioner inquiry
  • in-service teacher education
  • qualitative research methodology
  • transformative learning
  • gender-equity
Dr. Maureen Hoskyn
Associate Professor
  • Educational Psychology
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • individual and developmental relations between executive function and early learning for young children aged 3 to 8 years
  • neuroimaging of cognitive processes
  • children with developmental dyslexia
Dr. Roumiana Ilieva
Associate Professor
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • English as an additional language education
  • language, culture, and identity
  • internationalization of education
  • teacher education and teacher identities
  • immigration and integration
Dr. Sharalyn Jordan
Associate Professor
  • Counselling Psychology
  • LGBTQI refugee mental health
  • queer migration
  • genders and sexualities
  • stigma
  • trauma
  • self and identity formation
  • cultural safety
  • intersectionality
  • narrative inquiry
  • dialogical analysis
  • critical ethnography
Dr. Gillian Judson
Assistant Professor
  • Educational Leadership & Policy
  • Environmental & Ecological Education
  • Teaching & Education Practices
  • imagination and leadership
  • relational leadership theory
  • imagination and learning (preK through post-secondary)
  • imaginative education
  • imaginative ecological education
  • place-based and ecological teaching practices
  • story/story-telling
  • emotional engagement
Dr. Vicki Kelly
Associate Professor
  • Indigenous Education
  • Arts Education
  • Environmental & Ecological Education
  • Indigenous epistemologies
  • knowledge practices and pedagogies
  • education for reconciliation and healing
  • art as an Indigenous knowledge practice and as a site for activism
  • Indigeneity and Indigenous resurgence
  • integration of Indigenous knowledge practices and pedagogies in ecological education
  • the role of the arts in human development
  • Métissage as inquiry and curriculum
  • place-based performance and art as inquiry
Dr. Daniel Laitsch
Professor
  • Educational Leadership & Policy
  • education policy
  • neoliberalism
  • assessment
  • research use
Dr. Ena Lee
Assistant Professor
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • Social Issues in Education
  • critical pedagogy
  • critical academic literacy
  • anti-racist education
  • student and teacher identity
  • teacher education
  • English as a second/additional language
Dr. Lucy Le Mare
Professor
  • Educational Psychology
  • social and emotional development
  • social and emotional education
  • risk and resilience
  • early childhood
  • attachment
Dr. Inna Stepaniuk
Assistant Professor
  • Social Issues in Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practice
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Educational Leadership & Policy
  • Inclusive Education
  • inclusive education
  • equity
  • disability studies
  • teacher learning
  • system change
Dr. Sara Davidson
Assistant Professor
  • Indigenous Education
  • Teaching & Educational Proactice
  • Indigenous communities
  • English language arts
Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen
Associate Professor
  • Educational technology and learning design 
  • Teaching and educational practice
  • Language, cultures, literacies and education
  • agency and identity
  • imagination and creativity 
  • immersive learning 
  • sociocultural theories
  • posthuman theories
Dr. Tenzin Doleck
Assistant Professor
  • Educational Technology & Learning Design
  • learning sciences
  • data science applications 
  • metacognition
  • self-regulated learning
Dr. Ana Maria Navas Iannini
Assistant Professor
  • Science Education
  • informal science education
  • museum education 
  • visitor studies
  • socioscientific issues 
  • science communication
Dr. Robyn Ilten-Gee
Assistant Professor
  • Teaching & Educational Practice
  • Indigenous Education
  • Educational Technology & Learning Design
  • Educational Psychology
  • Social Issues in Education
  • children's moral
  • social development and reasoning
  • critical and social justice pedagogy
  • digital media
Dr. Peter Liljedahl
Professor
  • Mathematics Education
  • creativity and discovery in mathematics teaching and learning
  • classroom practice
  • numeracy
  • instructional design
  • assessment in mathematics
  • student learning behavior (student)
  • teacher tensions
Dr. Angel Lin
Professor
  • Languages, Cultures and Literacies in Education
  • plurilingual & pluricultural education
  • discourse analysis
  • academic literacies
  • language across the curriculum
Dr. Ching-Chiu Lin
Assistant Professor
  • Arts Education
  • community arts education
  • digital media and arts learning
  • arts-based educational research
  • digital storytelling
  • teacher education
Dr. Michael Ling
Senior Lecturer

  • Philosophies of Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • educational theory
  • teacher education
  • social and cultural theory
  • aesthetics
  • cross-cultural approaches to the arts and performance
  • contemporary and popular culture
  • sociology and psychology of creativity
  • history of inquiry, teacher inquiry, self-study
Dr. Margaret MacDonald
Associate Professor
  • Indigenous Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • early childhood education
  • pedagogical documentation
  • intergenerational teaching and learning
  • formative assessment
  • heritage language revitalization
  • responsive curriculum development
Dr. Jan MacLean
Senior Lecturer
  • Arts Education
  • Social Issues in Education
  • art and literacy
  • inclusive education
  • art and social change

Dr. Kris Magnusson
Professor

 

  • Counselling Psychology
  • career development
  • career counselling practice
  • evidence-based practice
  • adult learning
  • competency-based educational technology
Dr. Elizabeth Marshall
Associate Professor
  • Language, Cultures, Literacies, and Education
  • children’s & young adult literature 
  • childhood studies 
  • life writing 
  • teachers, students and schools in popular culture 
  • graphic narratives 
  • teaching children’s literature across the curriculum 
Dr. Steve Marshall
Associate Professor
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • Counselling Psychology
  • multilingualism
  • academic writing
  • plurilingualism and academic literacy
Dr. Masahiro Minami
Assistant Professor
  • Counselling Psychology
  • mental health services research & implementation science
  • clinical systems engineering
  • implementation & evaluation
  • conflict psychosocial reconciliation & community development
  • Japanese morita therapy & zen
  • family therapy
Dr. Danièle Moore
Professor
  • French Education
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • educational sociolinguistics
  • multilingual language aquisition
  • plurilingualism
  • plurilingual and pluricultural competence (PPC)
  • multilingual literacies
  • language revitalization
  • language policies
  • French as a second/third language
Dr. Cristiano B. Moura
Assistant Professor
  • Science Education
  • history, philosophy and sociology of science
  • justice-centred pedagogies
  • decolonial perspectives in science education
  • nature of science
Dr. Yumiko Murai
Assistant Professor
  • Educational Technology & Learning Design
  • creative learning pedagogy and teacher education
  • making and play in education
  • assessment for learning
  • online learning communities
  • design-based research
Dr. John Nesbit
Professor
  • Educational Psychology
  • Educational Technology & Learning Design
  • educational psychology
  • intelligent tutoring systems
  • self-regulated learning
  • argumentation
Dr. Paul Neufeld
Associate Professor
  • Educational Psychology
  • reading development
  • instruction of English language learners
  • learning disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Dr. Michelle Nilson
Associate Professor
  • Educational Leadership & Policy
  • Higher Education
  • higher education leadership
  • organizational theory
  • research method
  • postsecondary aspirations, access, and affordability
  • community engaged research
  • program evaluation
Dr. Kevin O'Neill
Professor
  • Educational Technology & Learning Design
  • Teching & Educational Practice
  • Social Issues in Education
  • Higher Education
  • nature of historical knowledge
  • design-based research
  • usable innovations for learning
Dr. Susan O'Neill
Professor
  • Arts Education
  • Social Issues in Education
  • music and arts learning and engagement
  • youth culture and creativity
  • creative collaborations
  • arts and digital media
 
Dr. Amy Parent
Assistant Professor
  • Equity Studies in Education
  • Educational Theory and Practice
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Aboriginal high school to university transitions
  • Aboriginal undergraduate to graduate transitions
  • Indigenous knowledge systems and methodologies
  • Aboriginal youth studies; Indigenous doctoral programming
  • integrating Indigenous content into teacher education
Dr. Rhonda Philpott
Lecturer
  • Language, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • teacher education
  • international education
  • social justice education
  • literacy education
Dr. Michelle Pidgeon
Professor
  • Indigenous Education
  • Higher Education
  • Educational Leadership & Policy
  • higher education
  • student affairs and services
  • recruitment and retention
  • Indigenous research methodologies
  • research ethics
Dr. Paula Rosehart
Limited-term Lecturer
  • Teaching and Educational Practices
  • Arts Education
  • Indigenous Education
  • practitioner inquiry
  • teacher education
  • curriculum design
  • arts-based research
  • somatics
  • transformative learning
Dr. Cécile Sabatier
Associate Professor
  • French Education
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • linguistic and professional identities of in-service and pre-service teachers of French
Dr. Michèle Schmidt
Associate Professor
  • Indigenous Education
  • Educational Leadership & Policy
  • Aboriginal university preparaton program evaluation
  • parenting & school
  • accountability and assessment in British Columbia schools
Dr. Özlem Sensoy
Professor
  • Social Issues in Education
  • social justice education
  • critical multicultural education
  • critical pedagogy
  • media literacy
  • popular youth culture
  • Middle East & Islam
  • feminist postcolonial theory
  • visual research methods
Dr. Yaroslav Senyshyn
Professor
  • Arts Education
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • Philosophies of Education
  • interdisciplinary research in arts and moral education
  • existential-phenomenological approach
  • discursive analysis
  • performance anxiety
  • creative performance
  • teaching and music aesthetics
Dr. Nathalie Sinclair
Professor
  • Mathematics Education
  • Educational Technology & Learning Design
  • mathematics education
  • digital technology
  • aesthetics
  • embodied cognition
  • dynamic geometry
  • history of mathematics
  • diagramming
  • gestures
Dr. Stephen Smith
Teaching Professor
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • curricular and instructional practices in physical education
  • health and vitality
  • somatics of teacher education
Dr. Suzanne Smythe
Associate Professor
  • Languages, Cultures, Literacies & Education
  • Social Issues in Education
  • adult literacy and adult education
  • digital literacy pedagogies
  • digital justice
  • equitable access to new technologies
  • community-based and relational research methods
Dr. Celeste Snowber
Professor
  • Arts Education
  • embodiment
  • arts-based research
  • performative and poetic inquiry
  • somatics
  • arts/dance education
  • spirituality
  • curriculum theory
  • site-specific performance
Dr. Krista Socholotiuk
Assistant Professor
  • Counselling Psychology
  • child
  • adolescent & family mental health
  • testing & assessment
  • research methods & statistics
  • theories of counselling & counselling skills
Dr. Jeff Sugarman
Professor
  • Educational Psychology
  • critical educational psychology
  • theoretical and philosophical psychology
  • personhood
  • selfhood
  • human agency
  • historical ontology
  • hermeneutics
  • neoliberalism
Dr. Robert Williamson
Assistant Professor
  • Inclusive Education
  • special education
  • exceptionality
  • inclusion
  • teaching efficiencies and personalized instructional practice
Dr. Philip Winne
Professor
  • Educational Psychology
  • Educational Technology & Learning Design
  • educational psychology
  • self-regulated learning
  • metacognition
  • learning sciences
  • learning technologies
  • motivation
  • study tactics and learning strategies
  • adaptive software for researching and promoting self-regulated learning
Dr. David Zandvliet
Professor
  • Environmental & Ecological Education
  • Science Education
  • Teaching & Educational Practices
  • science, technology and environmental education
  • learning environment
  • sustainable urban neighbourhood networks
  • environmental learning and experience
  • ecological literacy
Dr. Rina Zazkis
Professor
  • Mathematics Education
  • undergraduate mathematics education
  • teaching, learning and understanding elementary number theory