Professor Alvi is an award-winning professor and anti-racism educator. Her courses explore issues around anti-racism and anti-oppression pedagogy, marginalized youth and BIPOC youth subcultures. She also serves as an Anti-Racism Consultant for schools with large BIPOC student populations. She completed her PhD in Education at the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral research explored how Muslim youth subcultures perform identity through clothing, such as the hijab.”Full profile and research ...
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Richard Barwell is a full professor in the Faculty of Education and served as dean from 2017 until 2024. He began his career at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, where he earned a PhD in education, and later joined the Faculty in 2006. His research focuses on mathematics education, with a particular interest in the role of language in teaching and learning mathematics, an interest which first arose prior to his university career, when he taught mathematics in the United Kingdom ...
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Stephanie Chitpin is a professor of Educational Leadership at the Faculty of Education. Her principal contribution to leadership and to the professional development of principals rests on her rejection of the inductive method. She argues that knowledge is acquired by hypotheses deductively validated as “falsifiability criteria.” Her research funded by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Ontario Ministry of Education, are international in...
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Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is a full professor in the Faculty of Education. He is the former vice-dean of graduate studies, and director of the teacher education and Indigenous teacher education programs. He is actively engaged in addressing the 94 Calls to Action put forth by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in partnership with local Indigenous and school board communities. His teaching and research are situated within the wider international field of curriculum studies and life writing r...
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