Antonia Soldovieri
Doctor of Philosophy in School and Applied Child Psychology (PhD)
Educators' perceptions and experiences of teacher training and inclusive teaching
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ÑÇÖÞÌìÌÃ’s Faculty of Education, one of the world’s leading education faculties, has served the local, national, and international education community through leadership in research, teaching, service and advocacy for more than 60 years. As the largest Faculty of Education in British Columbia, it plays a critical and influential role in the advancement of education in the province, shaping and participating in education’s possibilities and potential as a social good.
Today, the Faculty of Education creates conditions for transformative teaching, innovative learning, and leading-edge research guided by the highest standards of scholarship and the principles of collaboration, social justice, inclusion and equity. Offering undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional development opportunities, the Faculty of Education enrolls thousands of students each year on two campuses and ranks 10th in the world, according to QS World University Rankings (2021).
ÑÇÖÞÌìÌÃ’s Faculty of Education prepares more than 45% of the elementary and the majority of secondary educators in British Columbia, and a significant proportion of British Columbia’s school counsellors, administrators, special education professionals, and school psychologists. With more than 57,000 alum located in 100 countries, the ÑÇÖÞÌìÌà Faculty of Education truly is a global entity.
The Faculty of Education is home to four departments (, ,, , and ) and two schools (the School of Kinesiology and the Okanagan School of Education).
We provide outstanding research facilities for faculty and graduate students that promote leading-edge research. Our Education Library is a specialized resource with access to all of ÑÇÖÞÌìÌÃ’s research and special collections, including the X̱wi7x̱wa Library with materials produced by Indigenous organizations, tribal councils, schools, researchers and publishers.
The Faculty’s Education Research and Learning Commons at Ponderosa Commons features technology-enhanced teaching and learning spaces and also informal learning spaces. A number of faculty manage their own research labs, situated throughout campus.
Many of our PhD students have been selected as ÑÇÖÞÌìÌà Public Scholars and have received other honours.
Notable strengths are in literacy education and multilingualism; struggling and marginalized youth; Indigenous education, decolonization, and research; transformational program and curriculum design and inclusive pedagogies for schools, community organizations and higher education; sexual orientation and gender-identity inclusive education; social-emotional learning and well-being; autism; exercise physiology, socio-cultural aspects of health; neuromechanical studies; and multidisciplinary research in diversity, health, early childhood education, and digital media. The School of Kinesiology ranks 1st in Canada and 4th in the world by QS World University Rankings (2021).
ÑÇÖÞÌìÌÃ’s Faculty of Education is the national leader in the number of education graduate student fellowships received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Additionally, the Faculty of Education is home to six Canada Research Chairs, one CIHR chair and nine donor-funded research chairs and professorships.
Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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Hubley, Anita | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Psychological and health measurement; test development and validation; adult neuropsychological, personality, and mental health topics and assessment; research with general community and vulnerable populations (e.g. elderly, homeless, drug addicted) |
Hurd, Laura | School of Kinesiology | Sociological methodology and research methods; Sociology and social studies of health, health systems and health care; Aging; Gender; health; ageism or age-based discrimination; sociology of aging; sociology of health; embodiment or embodied experience; body image; chronic conditions or chronic illness; disability; Assistive technology; qualitative methods; media representation; LGBTQ+ aging; intersectionality; information and communication technology |
Inglis, J Timothy | School of Kinesiology | Exercise science, neurophysiology, biomechanics, stance and balance control, human microneurography, physical therapy and rehabilitation, vestibular system |
James, Susan | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Cultural Psychology & Psychotherapy, Immigrant Mental Health & Culture Specific Syndromes, Philosophical Psychology, Spirituality & Psychotherapy |
Jenson, Jennifer | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Other languages and literature; Digital Cultures and Education; Digital Games; Game-based Learning; Gender; Online Learning; technology; Technology Implementation and integration |
Johnson, Nic | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | gender-based violence |
Kassan, Anusha | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Social sciences; Child and youth mental health; Social justice; Multiculturalism and diversity; Feminist-multicultural pedagogy; immigration; Cultural and social justice responsiveness; Anti-oppressive therapy |
Katz, Jennifer | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Inclusive Education; The Three-Block Model of UDL; Universal design for learning (UDL) |
Keenan, Harper | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Gender, sexuality and education; Inter-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary learning and education; Colonialism; early childhood and elementary education; Educational Context; Gender; race; sexuality; teacher education; childhood; Transgender Studies; LGBT Studies; queer studies |
Kelly, Deirdre | Department of Educational Studies | Children and youth, Gender studies, Media and democracy, Social justice, Sociology of Education |
Kendrick, Maureen | Department of Language & Literacy Education | literacy, digital literacy, Children and youth, ESL, international perspectives |
Khan, Samia | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | science education, teaching and learning, cognition, digital technology, learning space design, case study, higher education, Educational Technologies, Science Education, Teacher Education |
Kim, Hyosub | School of Kinesiology | Sensorimotor control; Motor systems; Sensorimotor neuroscience; Sensory processes, perception and performance; Motor learning; motor control; Computational modeling; Bayesian Methods |
Kindler, Anna | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | art education; artistic and aesthetic development; teacher education |
Knight, Vicki Floyd | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Applied Behaviour Analysis; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Developmental Disabilities; Single-Case Research; Academic Interventions; Instructional Strategies |
Koehle, Michael | School of Kinesiology | Systems physiology; Other clinical medicine; Musculoskeletal biology and physiology; Exercise Physiology; air pollution; Sport and Exercise Medicine; Environmental Physiology; Altitude |
Kovach, Margaret | Department of Educational Studies | |
Kroc, Edward | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Statistical theory and modeling; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Ecological applications, n.e.c.; Psychological methodology design and analysis, and psychometrics; measurement; Measurement error; Statistics; urban ecology; Seabirds; Gulls; Quantitative ecology |
Kubota, Ryuko | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Specialized studies in education; critical applied linguistics; culture and language; Language Rights and Policies; language education; language ideologies; multicultural education; race and language teaching |
Kumpulainen, Kristiina | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Languages and literature; Social sciences; Critical literacies/pedagogies; Digital Literacies; Arts-based research; Multiliteracy and multimodality; Place-based literacies; Storytelling/narrative inquiry; Imagination |
Kunnas, Marika | French language and literacy curriculum, pedagogy and didactics (except sign language); Bilingual/Multilingual education; Critical intercultural studies; Critical literacies/pedagogies; Decolonizing pedagogies and knowledges; Drama/Theater education; French language education; Race and antiracism; identity; language ideologies | |
Lam, Tania | School of Kinesiology | Sensorimotor physiology; Kinesiology; Physical therapy; Neurological disorders (except neuromuscular diseases) |
Leddy, Shannon | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Visual arts and media arts; Art education; Indigenous Education; Indigenous ways of knowing; curriculum; Pedagogy; art as public pedagogy; bio-cultural diversity and sustainability education |
Li, Guofang | Department of Language & Literacy Education | longitudinal studies of immigrant children |
Liao, Xiangyi | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | latent variable modeling; item response theory (IRT) models; multilevel modeling and causal machine learning |