Faculty of Education

Dr. Derek Gladwin

Dr. Derek Gladwin

Associate Professor

Environmental literacy, energy literacy, systems, complexity, energy transition, transdisciplinary education, arts-based education, textual literacy, digital literacy, storytelling and narrative inquiry, empathy education, futures literacy

Dr. Janice Forsyth

Dr. Janice Forsyth

Professor, Indigenous Land-Based Physical Culture and Wellness

Indigenous sport; Canadian sport; Indigenous physical activity; Canada; sports at Canadian Indian residential schools; residential school history; sport and reconciliation; safe sport for Indigenous athletes; Indigenous data in sport; sport and colonialism

Dr. Victor Brar

Adjunct Professor

Educational Leadership, K-12 education, School governance, Social reproduction, Inequality in education

Gail Wilson

Senior Instructor

Games education/physical education, instruction, specifically the presentation of developmentally appropriate games for youth sport and physical education

Linda Siegel, PhD

Professor Emerita

Learning disabilities, dyslexia

Patricia Vertinsky, Ed.D

Professor

Social and cultural history of the body, gender, race, aging and disability, gender relations, health, sport and exercise, social history of women and health, social/cultural aspects of sport and physical activity, health education, promotion and policy

Laura Hurd, MSW, PhD

Laura Hurd, MSW, PhD

Professor

Aging, ageism, health, illness, social exclusion

Richard Young, Ed.D

Richard Young, Ed.D

Professor

Parent-adolescent interaction (conversations), career development, particularly as a function of family influence

Tania Lam, PhD

Associate Professor

Walking, spinal cord injury, physical therapy, rehabilitation, movement, neuroscience

Prof. Handel Kashope Wright, PhD

Prof. Handel Kashope Wright, PhD

Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence

Director, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education

Professor

Black Studies, African Studies, Cultural Studies, Youth; Identity issues; multiculturalism (Canadian and international); decolonialism; Sierra Leone; Cultural Studies of Education; Africana Cultural Studies; Anti-racism; social justice issues in education and society,

Monique Bournot-Trites, BA, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Second language acquisition, French as a second language, French immersion, Core French, French schools, learning content in second language, language assessment, second language literacy (reading especially, intecultural competence, teacher education in second language

Blye Frank, PhD

Blye Frank, PhD

Dean and Professor

Boys’ and men’s sociology of health, masculinities and schooling, gender and schooling, sexualities and schooling, professional development in education

Dr. Rita Irwin, EdD

Dr. Rita Irwin, EdD

Professor

Arts education, arts teacher education, teacher education, arts based research, research creation, artists-in-residence, community engagement, diversity, international education, refugee education

Jo-Anne Dillabough

Associate Professor

Sociology of education, youth culture

Victoria Purcell-Gates, PhD

Professor

Literacy, education

Peter Gouzouasis, BMus, MMus, PhD (Music)

Professor

Arts-based research, autoethnography, creative analytical practices, creativity in teaching and learning, digital media in teaching and learning, early childhood education, jazz (performance and recorded music), music media, music learning, and pedagogy

J. Scott Goble, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of Music Education

Music and history, music education, conducting, choral music

Ian Franks, PhD

Ian Franks, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Motor skill acquisition, Human motor control, Computer analysis of sport, Reaction Time, Startle

Prof. Judith Daniluk, MSc, PhD

Prof. Judith Daniluk, MSc, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Women’s sexuality, reproductive health and decision-making, psychosocial consequences of infertility, voluntary and involuntary childlessness, delayed childbearing, fertility knowledge and awareness, egg freezing to delay childbearing,

Joe Lucyshyn

Associate Professor

Positive behaviour support, behavioural family intervention, applied behaviour analysis, behaviour disorders, single-subject research