Harris Wong
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亚洲天堂鈥檚 Faculty of Education, one of the world鈥檚 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鈥檚 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).
亚洲天堂鈥檚 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鈥檚 school counsellors, administrators, special education professionals, and school psychologists. With more than 57,000 alum located in 100 countries, the 亚洲天堂 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 亚洲天堂鈥檚 research and special collections, including the X瘫wi7x瘫wa Library with materials produced by Indigenous organizations, tribal councils, schools, researchers and publishers.
The Faculty鈥檚 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 亚洲天堂 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).
亚洲天堂鈥檚 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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Petherick, Leanne | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum Studies Research; Children & Youth; Feminist Studies; Pedagogy |
Phelan, Anne | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum Studies, Feminist Studies, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Teacher Education |
Pinar, William | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | All other humanities, n.e.c.; curriculum theory |
Puterman, Eli | School of Kinesiology | Kinesiology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Acute exercise; cellular aging; chronic stress; Exercise interventions; Health Psychology; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; Stress physiology; telomeres |
Rajagopal, Harini | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Multiliteracy and multimodality; Bilingual/Multilingual education; Decolonizing pedagogies and knowledges |
Renwick, Kerry | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics, n.e.c.; Teacher education and professional development of educators; Critical Pedagogy; Educational Policy; Familial Contexts; Health Education; 亚洲天堂 Economics; Human and Social Ecology; Public health; teacher education |
Rocha Perkerwicz, Samuel | Department of Educational Studies | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Philosophical Traditions in Education; philosophy of education |
Rogers, Theresa | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Children's literatures; Other languages and literature; Children's and Adolescent Literature; Digital Literacies; Education; Educational Approaches; Literacy; Youth Studies |
Rorick, chuutsqa | Department of Educational Studies | Indigenous language revitalization; Indigenous research methodologies; Land-based learning |
Ross, E. Wayne | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Specialized studies in education; Critical Pedagogy; Curriculum Studies; Educational Approaches; Political Contexts; Social Contexts; Social Justice in Education; Social Studies Education; teacher education |
Ruitenberg, Claudia | Department of Educational Studies | History and philosophy of education; Political science and policy administration; Environmental education and extension; Environmental philosophy and education; philosophy of education; Political education |
Sam, Johanna | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Education; Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Human Development; Adolescence; technology; Indigenous Education; Digital Pedagogy |
Schanding, Thomas | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Social and Emotional Learning; Universal Screening; Behavioral/Mental Health Interventions; Autism Spectrum Disorders; LGBTQIA+; Youth Social Justice |
Schnellert, Leyton | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Community Research; Teacher Education Research; Teacher Professional Development; Rural Education; Inclusive Education; Pedagogy; Self-regulated Learning; Middle Years Education; Literacy Education; Practitioner Inquiry |
Shan, Hongxia | Department of Educational Studies | Other education, n.e.c.; Immigration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning; Gender and work; Prof. learning |
Shapka, Jennifer | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Affective and Emotional Development; Cognitive Development; New Technology and Social Impacts; Technology, Media, Social Media, Adolescents, Cyberbullying, Self-regulation, Online Privacy |
Sheel, William | School of Kinesiology | Animal physiology, exercise; Kinesiology; airways, exercise, hypoxia, pulmonary physiology, respiratory muscle |
Sinner, Anita | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Artwork Scholarship; Creative Research Methodologies; a/r/tography; Artistic Research; Public Art and Pedagogy; Museum Education; International Art Education |
Stack, Michelle | Department of Educational Studies | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Educational policy; Media studies (except social media and digital media); Community Engaged Research; Knowledge translation; Cooperatives and Social Solidarity Economies; University Rankings and Equity; Disability studies; anti-racism; media education |
Stein, Sharon Rebekah | Department of Educational Studies | Higher education; Environmental education and extension; Comparative and cross-cultural education; Educational theory; Global education; Higher Education; International and comparative education; International education; Pedagogy and education; Post-colonial studies; Race/ethnicity; Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Social justice; sustainability; climate change; Climate education; Transdisciplinarity |
Talmy, Steven | Department of Language & Literacy Education | ESL, TESOL, LOTE and sign language curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; teacher education |
Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Science Education, Outdoor Education and learning, collaborative teacher inquiry, and teacher education; equipping teachers (both pre- and in-service teachers) with innovative pedagogical tools to support learning, both for science learners and beyond the domains of science; teachers |
Taylor, Alison | Department of Educational Studies | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Higher education; Specialized studies in education; Education, Knowledge and Skills; Educational Context; Political Contexts; Social Contexts; Social Policies |
Tomfohr-Madsen, Lianne | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | |
Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | cultural-historical psychology, child/parent relationships, student/ teacher relationships, play and performance based learning, bridging school and out of school contexts for learning, Alternative schooling and pedagogies, Critical theory, Discourse and critical discourse analysis, ethnography, Qualitative research, Socially constructing knowledge and identity, Sociocultural approaches to learning and teaching, Young people placed |