Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Angela Miles
Professor Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community and international development
- Community education and organizing
- Feminist movement and theory
- Gender and Development
- Inequality
- International development
- Justice
- Neo-Liberal Globalization/Economics resistance and alternatives
- Popular romance literature (Harlequin romances)
- Poverty
- resistance and alternatives
Office: 416-978-0809
Email: angela.miles@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ann Lopez
Professor, Teaching Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-black racism in education
- Anti-racism education
- Black history curriculum
- Decolonizing education
Office: 416-978-8922
Email: ann.lopez@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Barrie Bennett
Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Home: 902-659-2699
Email: bbennett@oise.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Carol Rolheiser
Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: carol.rolheiser@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Cassie J. Brownell
Assistant Professor, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Children and civics
- Children and politics
- Digital literacies
- Early childhood education
- Primary education
Office: N/A
Mobile: 406-868-4268
Website
Email: cassie.brownell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Charles Pascal
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Child care crisis
- Former deputy minister of education in Ontario
- How COVID has improved education globally
- Policy and education
- Screening tests for students and teachers
- Seniority hiring rules
Office: 416-716-7245
Email: charles.pascal@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Chloe Hamza
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-1059
Email: chloe.hamza@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Clare Brett
Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Graduate Studies
Administrative leave from July 1, 2022 to June 30 2023
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Computer-mediated learning
- Cultural implications of computer technology
- Distance education
- Online learning environments
- Social media
Office: 416-978-0132
Email: clare.brett@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
D. W. Livingstone
Professor emeritus, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Education and employment
- Learning (formal and informal) and work (paid and unpaid)
- Public opinion about public education
- Social class and education
- Underemployment
Office: 905 271-2755
Home: 905-271-2755
Email: dwlivingstone@gmail.com
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Dan Lang
Professor Emeritus, Theory and Policy Studies in Education, Management and Geography

Areas of Expertise
- Accountability and performance indicators
- Comparative analysis
- Economics of education
- Educational management and finance
- Funding formulas
- Quality assurance
Office: 416-978-1246
Mobile: 416-230-2684
Email: dan.lang@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Dave Cooper
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Emeritus, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athlete centred coaching
- Cricket and the History of cricket in Canada
- Globalization of sport
- Health and physical education in Ontario
- Health and physical education Teacher preparation in Ontario
- History of Canadian cricket
- Play practice and game sense
- Soccer
- Soccer – global and in Canada
- Sport coach education – national coaching certification program facilitator
- Squash
- Squash - global and in Canada
- Tactical Decision-Making in Sport
- Teaching games for understanding and game sense
- Teaching/Coaching pedagogy using teaching Games for understanding (TGfU)
Office: 416-978-4113
Home: 905-820-2167
Email: davidbcooper1952@gmail.com
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Diane Gerin-Lajoie
Professor Emerita, Department of Curriculum,Teaching and Learning and Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-1993
Languages: French
Email: diane.gerin.lajoie@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Douglas McDougall
Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Director, Centre for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education.
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0056
Mobile: 416-476-8450
Email: doug.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Earl Woodruff
Professor and Associate Chair

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Cognition and learning
- E-Learning
- Emotions and learning
- Emotions and technology
- Gamification
- M-Learning
- Mobile computing
- Play and technology
- Science testing
Office: 416-934-4511
Home: 416-848-1748
Email: earl.woodruff@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Elizabeth Smyth
Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum,Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A, 416-978-5986
Email: liz.smyth@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Esther Geva
Professor, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Acculturation
- Assessment of immigrant children
- At-risk ESL children
- Cognitive and linguistic processes
- Cross-cultural issues among immigrant children
- Cross-cultural issues among second language learners
- Psychological problems in children/youth
Office: 416-978-0916
Mobile: 416-413-7776
Languages: Hebrew, French
Website
Email: esther.geva@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Eunice Eunhee Jang
Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: n/a
Email: eun.jang@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Feng Ji
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Data sciences
- Machine learning applications in social and behavioral sciences
- Psychometrics
- Quantitative methods in social and behavioral sciences
Office: 416-978-6752
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: f.ji@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
George Dei
Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-racism education and inclusive schooling
- Black youth dropouts/academic success
- Critical ethnography
- History of Africentric schools
- Indigenous knowledges and anti-Colonialism
- Race
Office: 416-978-0460
Mobile: 416-539-8551
Languages: Twi
Email: george.dei@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Glen Jones
Professor of Higher Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian higher education policy (federal and provincial)
- Comparative/International higher education
- Politics of higher education
- University decision-making/governance
- University faculty and academic work
Office: 416-978-8292
Home: 416-463-5615
Website
Email: gjones@oise.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Professor Emerita, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: helen.lenskyj@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Hilary Inwood
Lecturer, Department of Curriculum, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Lead, Environmental & Sustainability Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
J. Roy Gillis
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0679
Email: roy.gillis@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Janette Pelletier
Professor Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Early child development and education
- Early literacy development
- Full-day kindergarten
- Integrated early years services (child care/kindergarten/parenting support)
- Kindergarten/early learning programs (English and French immersion)
- Parent involvement in early education
- Right to play
- Teacher beliefs and practices
Office: 416-934-4506
Home: 416-972-9931
Email: janette.pelletier@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jean-Paul Restoule
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0806
Email: jeanpaul.restoule@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jeanne Watson
Professor, Applied Psychology and Human Development

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Emotional expression
- Emotionally focused psychotherapy
- Empathy in psychotherapy
- Experiential psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy process and outcome
- The therapeutic relationship
Office: 416-978-0705
Email: jeanne.watson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jeffrey Ansloos
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: n/a
Mobile: n/a
Email: Jeffrey.ansloos@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jeffrey Steele
Associate Professor, Department of Language Studies, UTM

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-926-1300, ext.3352
Home: 416-924-3049
Languages: French
Website
Email: jeffrey.steele@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jennifer Jenkins
Professor, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: jenny.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jennifer Sumner
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0784
Website
Email: jennifer.sumner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online