Alice Levasseur’s research is focused on assessing workplace psychological health indicators, as well as exploring leadership practices that foster motivation and the engagement and mobilization of teaching staff. The comprehensive study of these variables, which have the potential to contribute to staff retention, fulfillment and well-being at work, considers the organizational and relational factors such as workload, autonomy, recognition, justice and relational trust as perceived by staff in...
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Banafsheh Karamifar is a Assistant Professor - Linguistics and FSL at Laurentian University. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from University of Paris 10 and a Post-doctoral degree in Media Communication from the University of Ottawa. Banafsheh has taught at different universities in France and in Canada, covering subjects such as French writing, French grammar, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and second language learning as well as Integration of technology in education. Her interdisciplinary rese...
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Dr. Trista Hollweck is a pracademic who integrates the worlds of research, policy, and practice. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa where she teaches graduate and Bachelor of Education courses. Trista designs, leads and researches educational networks at the local, provincial, national and international level, such as the global policy learning network ARC Education Project, the bilingual Lego Foundation-funded Canadian Playful Schools Network an...
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Professor Lerona Dana Lewis completed her doctoral studies in the Faculty of Education and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, exploring the culture of faculty development in medical education. Her primary areas of expertise are school, family, and community relations, and the social practices that shape Black children's schooling experiences in K -12 contexts. She has extensive experience in Teacher Education with a focus on science education from a socia...
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Jessica Sokolowski is an LTA professor and cohort lead for the Imagination, Creativity and Innovation Cohort in the Faculty of Education. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa, with a research focus on arts-based and experiential learning methods. Passionate about access to the arts, Jessica offers programming in the arts through her studio, CreatEd, and is a steering committee member with the Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity. She is committed to educatin...
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Tasha-Ann Ausman is an LTA Professor at the University of Ottawa, and a full-time mathematics and science teacher with the Western Quebec School Board. Her research employs decolonizing, psychoanalytic, and post-colonial frameworks in the areas of Curriculum Studies, STEAM, and Queer Studies. Her work appears in Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, Journal of the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Multicultural Education Review, Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, a...
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Professor Alain Essaddam holds a doctorate in mathematics teaching and a master's degree in education sciences : Métiers de l'enseignement, de l'éducation et de la formation en mathématiques from the University of Nantes in France. Professor Essaddam has been teaching mathematics in France, and has accompanied students with learning difficulties in mathematics in France and Canada. One of his research interests concerns the relationship between math and sciences. He is developing an auxiliary o...
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Claude Quevillon Lacasse completed her master’s studies in linguistics, with a minor in language teaching and learning, and a PhD in education at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She was a course lecturer in the teacher education program at UQAM and the Université de Montréal, as well as a French teacher for newcomers at Concordia University. She worked as a collaborator for the Quebec Ministry of Education and Télé-Québec en classe, and is the current president of Association québéc...
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