Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Glen Jones

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

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: N/A
Home: 416-463-5615
Mobile: 416-458-1783
Languages: English
Website
Email: glen.jones@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Social Justice Education

Areas of Expertise

• Critique of Olympic Industry
• Gender and sport
• Physical and health education
• Sports law

Office: N/A
Website
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
  • 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

Hye-Su Kuk

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Areas of Expertise

• Adult Learning Theory
• Anti-colonial Theorizing
• Crises of Democracy
• Organizational change
• Participation

Office: N/A
Languages: Korean,English
Website
Email: hyesu.kuk@utoronto.ca

J. Roy Gillis

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

Areas of Expertise

• Violence and bullying

Office: (416) 978-0679
Email: roy.gillis@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Janette Pelletier

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

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
Mobile: 416-972-9931
Email: janette.pelletier@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jean-Paul Restoule

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Areas of Expertise

• Aboriginal worldview and identity development
• Indigenous children

Office: 416-978-0806
Email: jeanpaul.restoule@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jeanne Watson

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

Areas of Expertise

• Emotional expression
• Emotionally focused psychotherapy
• Empathy in psychotherapy
• Experiential psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy process and outcome
• The therapeutic relationship

Office: 416-978-0705
Languages: English
Website
Email: jeanne.watson@utoronto.ca
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

Jennifer Jenkins

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

Areas of Expertise

• Children's mental health
• Family conflict and divorce
• Parenting
• Sibling relationships

Office: 416-978-0939
Languages: English
Website
Email: jenny.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jennifer Sumner

Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Areas of Expertise

• Food
• Globalization
• Organic agriculture
• Rural communities
• Sustainability

Office: 416-978-0784
Email: jennifer.sumner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jennifer Wemigwans

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Areas of Expertise

• Decolonization & Indigeneity
• Indigenous cultural expression
• Indigenous Knowledge teachings
• Philosophy & Ethics
• Policy & Politics
• Race, Gender & Class
• Technology

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jennifer.wemigwans@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

John Portelli

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Social Justice Education
• Centres
  • Centre for Ethics
  • Centre for Leadership and Diversity
  • Integrative and Anti-Racist Education

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: +1 416-978-1277
Home: 416-622-1439
Languages: Maltese, Italian, some French and Arabic
Website
Email: john.portelli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Judith Wiener

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

Areas of Expertise

• Children and Adolescents with ADHD (Family dynamics; Self perceptions; Social Functioning)
• Children and Adolescents with Learning Disabilities

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: jwiener@oise.utoronto.ca

Julie Garlen

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

Office: N/A
Email: julie.garlen@utoronto.ca

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

Kang Lee

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

Areas of Expertise

• Face processing in infants, children, and adults
• Lying & cheating in children and adults

Office: (647) 606-6849
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: kang.lee@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Karen Mundy

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Areas of Expertise

• Education in the developing world

Office: N/A
Email: karen.mundy@utoronto.ca

Katherine Entigar

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Areas of Expertise

• Nonprofit education with.of.by.for adult immigrants

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish; Castilian
Website
Email: k.entigar@utoronto.ca

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: 416 978-7982
Home: 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

Katreena Scott

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

Areas of Expertise

• Child abuse and neglect
• Dating violence
• Domestic violence
• Gender-based violence
• Treatment of offenders

Office: 416-978-0971
Email: kscott@oise.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Keith Oatley

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

Areas of Expertise

• Cognitive science
• Emotion
• Psychology of fiction

Office: 416-961-7969
Home: 416-961-7969
Email: keith.oatley@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kiran Mirchandani

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Areas of Expertise

• criminalization and welfare policy
• critical perspectives on organizational development and learning
• gendered and racialized processes in the workplace
• globalization and economic restructuring

Office: (416) 978-0884
Website
Email: kiran.mirchandani@utoronto.ca

Lana Stermac

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Applied Psychology and Human Development

Areas of Expertise

• Counselling psychology
• Posttraumatic mental health
• Psychological trauma and related clinical interventions
• Sexual victimization

Office: 416-978-0722
Website
Email: l.stermac@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Lauren Bialystok

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Social Justice Education

Areas of Expertise

• Ethical controversies in education
• Gender and sexual diversity
• Liberalism and democracy in education

Office: (416) 978-0412
Languages: French,German
Website
Email: lauren.bialystok@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Leesa Wheelahan

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• Department
  • Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

Areas of Expertise

• Critical Realism
• Social Realism
• Sociology of Curriculum
• Sociology of Knowledge
• Tertiary Education Policy

Office: (416) 978-1217
Website
Email: leesa.wheelahan@utoronto.ca

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