Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Barrie Bennett

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Classroom management and discipline
• Design of learning environments to meet diverse learner needs
• Educational change (local)
• Teacher's self assessment

Office: 416-978-0233
Email: b.bennett@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Carol Rolheiser

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Educational change
• Teaching in higher education
• Teaching/learning strategies

Office: N/A
Website
Email: carol.rolheiser@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Cassie J. Brownell

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Children and civics
• Children and politics
• Digital literacies
• Early childhood education
• Primary education

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: cassie.brownell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Cecilia Morgan

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Canada within the British Empire
• Canadian history
• Cultural history
• History of commemoration and public memory in Canada
• Settler colonial history
• Women's and gender history

Office: N/A
Website
Email: cecilia.morgan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Douglas McDougall

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Elementary mathematics
• Teacher change with mathematics teachers

Office: 416-978-0056
Mobile: 416-476-8450
Languages: English
Website
Email: doug.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Elizabeth Smyth

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• History of education in Canada
• History of sisters and nuns in Canada

Office: N/A, 416-978-5986
Email: liz.smyth@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Erica Walker

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Mathematics education policy
• Racial and gender equity in mathematics education
• Student persistence in advanced mathematics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: erican.walker@utoronto.ca

Garfield Gini-Newman

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Effective assessment practice
• Field of assessment

Office: N/A
Mobile: 4169532312
Email: ggininewman.gini.newman@utoronto.ca

Hilary Inwood

Lecturer, Department of Curriculum, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Lead, Environmental & Sustainability Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Art education
• Environmental and sustainability education
• Environmental art
• Nature-based learning
• Teacher education

Office: N/A
Website
Email: hilary.inwood@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jeff Bale

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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

Jen Gilbert

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Complicated narratives surrounding sex education/sexuality in schooling

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: jen.gilbert@utoronto.ca

John Bencze

Associate Professor Emeritus

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Julie Kerekes

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Applied linguistics
• Intercultural (mis)communication
• Sociolinguistics

Office: 416-978-0303
Languages: Hungarian,German
Website
Email: julie.kerekes@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kathleen Gallagher

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
• Centres
  • Centre for Drama, Theatre and Peformance Studies
  • School of Cities

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kathy Bickmore

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
• Centres
  • International and Development Education (CIDE)

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Linda Cameron

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Early childhood education
• Early literacy
• Parenting

Office: 416-219-7796
Home: 416-978-0321
Email: l.cameron@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mary Reid

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
• Centres
  • Centre for Urban Schooling (OISE/UT)

Areas of Expertise

• Arts in education
• Cultural sociology
• Cultural studies
• Education
• Latino-Canadian studies

Office: 4169780194
Home: 416-778-0439
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: r.gaztambide.fernandez@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shakina Rajendram

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Tamil,Malay
Website
Email: shakina.rajendram@utoronto.ca

Shelley Stagg Peterson

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Children's literature
• Early literacy
• Reading
• Rural education
• Writing and writing assessment

Office: 416-978-0329
Website
Email: shelleystagg.peterson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Tony Lam

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Areas of Expertise

• Self-assessment
• Survey instrument development
• Training and program evaluation

Office: 416-978-0140
Home: 416-283-6311
Mobile: 416-283-6311
Languages: Cantonese
Website
Email: tcm.lam@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online