Acting Department Head

Jay Wilson Professor and Department Head, Curriculum Studies. Acting Department Head, Educational Administration and Educational Foundations

Research Area(s): technology; authentic learning; design

Faculty

Karla Jessen Williamson Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations

Research Area(s): Aboriginal Peoples; knowledge; paradigm shift; gender and construction

Marcia McKenzie Professor (on sabbatical until July 2021), Educational Foundations

Research Area(s): environment; sustainability; youth; educational policy

Janet McVittie Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations

Research Area(s): assessment; sustainability; place-based education; inquiry

Shaun Murphy Professor, Educational Foundations (EFDT)

Research Area(s): teacher education; curriculum studies; mathematics education; teacher & children’s knowledge; narrative inquiry; familial curriculum making; interwoven lives of children, families, & teachers; rural education

Paul Orlowski Associate Professor, Educational Foundations

Research Area(s): poverty; racism; media; democracy; social justice

Verna St. Denis Professor, Educational Foundations

Research Area(s): teaching lives of Indigenous teachers; anti-colonial, critical race theory; anti-oppressive teacher education; associations and collaborations between western theories; Indigenous education

Alexandria (Alex) Wilson Professor, Educational Foundations

Research Area(s): anti-oppressive education; social justice; social movements; gender and sexual orientation

Lynn Lemisko Professor & Department Head, Educational Psychology & Special Education

Research Area(s): teacher education; social studies education; and history of education