Academic Staff

  • Heather A Blair

    Dr. Blair's main research interests include language arts education, middle years education, aboriginal education, adolescent literature, gender equity, gender and language.

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    Jennifer L Branch

    Dr. Blair's main research interests include language arts education, middle years education, aboriginal education, adolescent literature, gender equity, gender and language.

  • D Jean Clandinin

  • G Miriam Cooley

    Dr. Cooley's primary research interests are Art Education, aesthetic creative inquiry processes, reflective practitioner research in the arts classroom, image based research, aesthetic response to visual aspects of contemporary culture, visual arts and electronic media, video and photo installation, documentary film, collaborative research and narrative inquiry.

  • Julia L Ellis

    Dr. Ellis' primary research interests are Space and place, school-based mentorship programs, researching children's perspectives, gender issues, multiculturalism, narrative inquiry, teacher-as-researcher and interpretive inquiry.

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    Ethel B Gardner

    Dr. Gardner's primary research interests are aboriginal education, aboriginal language and literacy, indigenous language revitalization, indigenous languages and technology.

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    Susan E Gibson

    Dr. Gibson's primary research interests are preparation of social studies teachers, infusing technology into teaching and learning, and preparing preservice and practicing teachers for teaching in a digital age.

  • Brenda J Gustafson

    Dr. Gustafson's primary research interests are science and design technology education with children, elementary science program development, designing computer visualizations to teach science and nature of models.

  • Clive N Hickson

    Dr. Hickson's primary research interests are physical education programming for elementary school children, the effective teaching of physical education in elementary schools, teacher preparation for the delivery of quality physical education programming, inclusive physical education programming, world-wide standards of physical educaiton programming and teacher preparation and program delivery.

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    Anna Kirova

    Dr. Kirova's primary research interests are early childhood education,,gender fair classroom practice, social-emotional development, early development of logical-mathematical thinking, young children and computer technology, peer relationships and loneliness, early childhood educators as researchers and action research.

  • Linda Laidlaw

    Dr. Laidlaw's primary research interests are early literacy and the education of young children; diversity; adopted children and schools; drama education; ecological approaches in curriculum and research; teacher education.

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    Carol A Leroy

    Dr. Leroy's primary research interests are literacy and pedagogy in elementary classrooms; reading and writing difficulties; education for children "at risk" because of their social circumstances; case study research.

  • Julie S Long

    Dr. Long's primary research interests are mathematics education, ethic of care, care theory, classroom practice, narrative and phenomenological research traditions.

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    Jill K McClay

    Dr. McClay’s research program focuses upon two primary areas: the theory and pedagogy of written composition, and the professional development of teachers.

  • Lynn M McGarvey

    Dr. McGarvey's primary research interests are mathematics education; mathematical reasoning and explanation; mathematical understanding of young children; sociocultural cognition; curriculum theory and development; hermeneutics and ecological perspectives in research.

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    Amanda P Montgomery

    Dr. Montgomery's primary research interests are music literacy; music teacher education; elementary school music; and early childhood music.

  • Dianne Oberg

    Dr. Oberg's primary research interests are school librarianship; teaching the inquiry process; culture and change in education; program evaluation; the role of the principal in school library program implementarion.

  • Carla Peck

    Dr. Peck's primary research interests are social studies education; history education and citizenship.

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    Jerine Pegg

    Dr. Pegg's primary research interests are science education; teacher professional development; science and literacy integration; scientist-teacher partnerships.

  • Patti Pente

    Dr. Pente's primary research interests are art education; arts-based research methodologies; a/r/tography; pre-service teacher identity formation; feminist scholarship; post-structural theory; critical theory of community and subjectivity; theories of space and place.

  • Linda M Phillips

    Dr. Phillips primary research interests are assessment, early, family and third age literacy, scientific literacy, language and literacy acquisition and development, biomedical studies of dyslexia, and longitudinal studies.

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    Larry Prochner

    Dr. Prochner's primary research interests are comparative and international early childhood education; early childhood curriculum and history of education.

  • Kathy Robinson

    Dr. Robinson's primary research interests are multicultural music and education, ethnomusicology, elementary and secondary general music, voice and opera.

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    Marie-Claire Shanahan

    Dr. Shanahan's primary research interests are improving underrepresented students’ affective response to science through hands-on activities; preservice teachers’ beliefs about the nature of science and their plans to enact reform-based strategies.

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    Gladys Sterenberg

    Dr. Sterenberg's research interests are mathematics education; teacher professional development in mathematics; teachers’ images of mathematics; history of mathematics; mathematical stories.

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    Lynne V Wiltse

    Dr. Wiltse's primary research interests are minority language education, literacy pedagogy in elementary classrooms, multicultural children's literature, sociocultural theory, teacher education and qualitative methodologies.

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    Joe Z Wu

    Dr. Wu's primary research interests are bilingualism and bilingual education; curriculum, instruction, learning, and policies for education in second, foreign, and minority languages; cultural diversity and mutliculturalism.