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
Ann Lopez
Associate Professor, Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-8922
Email: ann.lopez@utoronto.ca
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
Carl Corter
Professor Emeritus, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Child care programs
- Early childhood programs
- Human development and young children
- Kindergarten
- Parent engagement with schools
- Parenting and young children
Office: 416-934-4513
Email: carl.corter@utoronto.ca
Carol Rolheiser
Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Associate Dean, Teacher Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Classroom assessment
- Educational change
- Large scale educational reform
- Teacher education
- Teaching in higher education
- Teaching/learning strategies
Office: 416-946-8534
Email: carol.rolheiser@utoronto.ca
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
Charles Pascal
Professor, Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Child care crisis
- COVID-19 – Online learning
- 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
Chloe Hamza
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-1059
Email: chloe.hamza@utoronto.ca
Clare Brett
Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Graduate Studies
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Computer-mediated learning
- Cultural implications of computer technology
- Distance education
- Online learning environments
- Social
Office: 416-978-0132
Email: clare.brett@utoronto.ca
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
Dan Lang
Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Professor, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Daniel Schugurensky
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Adult education in Argentina
- Citizenship education
- Latin Americans in Canada
- Participatory democracy
Office: 416-978-0812
Languages: Spanish,Portuguese
Email: dschugurensky@oise.utoronto.ca
Dave Cooper
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, 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
- 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: david.cooper.a@utoronto.ca
David Booth
Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-295-5359
Email: david.booth@utoronto.ca
Diane Gerin-Lajoie
Professor, Department of Curriculum,Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Director of the Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-1993
Languages: French and English
Email: diane.gerin.lajoie@utoronto.ca
Douglas McDougall
Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Associate Dean, Programs, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0056
Mobile: 416-579-5524
Email: doug.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
Earl Woodruff
Professor and Associate Chair , Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

- 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: 416-978-1068
Home: 416-848-1748
Email: earl.woodruff@utoronto.ca
Elizabeth Smyth
Professor, Department of Curriculum,Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Vice Dean, School of Graduate Studies
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- History of education in Canada
- History of sisters and nuns in Canada
- Teaching highly able (gifted) students
Office: 416-978-0145, 416-978-5986
Email: liz.smyth@utoronto.ca
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 langaguage learners
- Psychological problems in children/youth
Office: 416-978-0916
Home: 4164137776
Mobile: 416-413-7776
Languages: Hebrew, French
Email: esther.geva@utoronto.ca
Eunice Jang
Associate 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
Gary Knowles
Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Alternative genre social science research approaches
- Arts-informed social science research
- Beginning teacher experiences and mentoring
- Experiential and environmental education
- Home schooling
- School architecture
- Teacher education and professional development
Office: 416-978-0778
Mobile: 416-801-5387
Email: gary.knowles@utoronto.ca
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
Glen Jones
Ontario Research Chair on Postsecondary Education and Measurement
Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Dean, 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
Grace Feuerverger
Professor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and identity in schooling
- Education as uplifting the human spirit
- Holistic education
- Intercultural harmony
- Language
- Multicultural
- Multicultural literacy programs for immigrants
- Multilingual issues in education
- Refugee education
Office: 416-978-0229
Home: 416-785-6301
Languages: French, Italian, German, Hebrew, Yiddish
Email: grace.feuerverger@utoronto.ca
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
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: 416-978-0257
Website
Email: hilary.inwood@utoronto.ca
J. Roy Gillis
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0679
Email: roy.gillis@utoronto.ca
Jamie Magnusson
Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Citizenship
- Democracy
- Equity
- Globalization
- Higher education
- Ideology of science
- Neoliberal restructuring
- Political sociology of knowledge
- Public education
- Women's studies: equity
Office: 416-978-1208
Email: jamielynn.magnusson@utoronto.ca
Jane Gaskell
Professor, Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Feminist thought in education
- Policy issues in Canadian education
- School choice
- Secondary schools
- Toronto School Board history
- Vocational education
Office: 416-978-8858
Email: jgaskell@oise.utoronto.ca
Janette Pelletier
Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Director of the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study
- 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: 416-934-4555
Home: 416-972-9931
Website
Email: janette.pelletier@utoronto.ca