Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
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
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
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
John Bencze
Associate Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
John Percy
Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor Emeritus, Centre for Science, Math and Technology Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-2577
Home: 416-231-6798
Website
Email: john.percy@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
John Portelli
Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Critical democracy and education
- Critical pedagogy and Paulo Freire
- Democracy and education
- Leadership and social justice and policy
- Maltese in Canada
- Narratives of migration and exile
- Social justice and equity issues in educational leadership and policy
- Student engagement
- Tahar Ben Jelloun and Laila Lalami and Education
Office: 416-978-0446
Home: 416-622-1439
Mobile: 416-559-3732
Languages: Maltese, Italian, some French and Arabic
Website
Email: john.portelli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online