A leader in educational research, the Faculty of Education unites a wide and diverse community of passionate researchers.

A leader in education research

The Faculty of Education is a national and international leader in education that unites a diverse community of passionate researchers, both professors and students. It is also an official French and English language supplier to the Ontario Ministry of Education.

For the past thirty years, graduate students have organized the annual Jean-Paul Dionne Research Symposium, an event that showcases and shares student research.

The Faculty publishes a peer-reviewed open online journal, the Educational Review, and hosts two conferences as part of its Excellence in Education Lecture Series.

The Faculty is home to:

  • Laboratories, networks and Educational Research Units (ERU)
  • The holders of the Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, the Air Canada Professorship on Anti-racism, and the Research Chair in Medical Pedagogy at the Institut du Savoir Montfort
  • A community counselling service
  • A training and research facility for counselling and psychotherapy
  • The Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services (CRECS), which collaborates in research, evaluation and training with organizations in the educational, social service and health sectors

Our researchers in the news

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Speech bubbles, diverse conversations
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How plurilingualism is changing the way we think about French grammar

One of his academic colleagues calls him ‘Grammar Boy.’ It’s a fitting nickname. As a researcher focused on the teaching and learning of French in min…
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Cameron W. Smith
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Teachers, tech and language learning

Cameron Smith, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education, recalls a childhood in Europe immersed in a linguistic “hat trick” of English,…
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Young students with backpacks walking in school hallway
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Towards educational equity for Black students

Professor Tya Collins explains how the intersection of ableism and racism complicates the experience of Black students in inclusive/special education.…

Research events

Dialogues sur la recherche
Mar 28

Discover our new Educational Research Units on didactics and experiential learning

Join us for the next event in our  Research Conversations Series  entitled ''Discovery of our new Educational Research Units on Didactics and Experien…

Dialogues sur la recherche
Apr 18

Knowledge mobilization and Indigenous methodologies in educational research (Part 1)

Join us for the next event in our Faculty of Education Research Conversations Series (hosted jointly with our EDI Circles) entitled Knowledge mobiliza…

Dialogues sur la recherche
May 2

Knowledge mobilization and Indigenous methodologies in educational research (Part 2)

Join us for the next joint event in our Faculty of Education Research Conversations Series (hosted jointly with our EDI Circles) entitled Knowledge mo…