Faculty
Visiting Scholars
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Stephen Bahry, Visiting Scholar
Comparative, International and Development Education Centre
s.bahry@utoronto.ca
Stephen Bahry recently received his doctorate in the Comparative, International and Development Education Program and Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His dissertation, Perspectives on quality in minority education in China: The case of Sunan Yughur Autonomous County, Gansu, was a multiple embedded case study of stakeholder perspectives on the place of local knowledge, and minority language and culture within quality education under conditions of minority language endangerment and curriculum reform. The thesis was selected co-winner of the CIES Language Issues Dissertation Competition Award. His recent comparative work focuses on the intersection of educational reform, language-in-education policy and practice, and minority education, focussing on curriculum reform, quality perspectives, cultural and linguistic diversity and bilingual and multicultural education.
Dates of Residence: January 2011 - December 2012
Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Visiting Scholar
Comparative, International and Development Education Centre
sarah_dryden@post.harvard.edu
Sarah Dryden-Peterson is a Visiting Scholar with CIDEC. She is a graduate of the doctoral program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her work focuses on the connections between education and community development. She examines issues such as the role of social institutions in immigrant/refugee integration, the connections between education and family livelihoods, and transnational institution-building. Her work is situated in conflict and post-conflict settings in sub-Saharan Africa and with African Diaspora communities in the United States and Canada. She is concerned with the interplay between local experiences of children, families, and teachers and the development and implementation of national and international policy. Her recent work has been published in Teachers College Record, the Journal of Refugee Studies, Refugee Survey Quarterly, and the International Journal of Education Development. She has taught middle school in Boston and founded non-profits in Uganda and South Africa.
Francine Menashy, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Comparative, International Development Centre, OISE
francine.menashy@gmail.com
Francine Menashy is a postdoctoral research fellow with CIDEC, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. Her project focuses on the World Bank's support of private sector engagement in education. Her research interests include education as a human right, public-private partnerships, global public goods, and the policies of global governance organizations. Her work has been published in Globalisation, Societies and Education, the McGill Journal of Education and the Journal of Educational Thought. She is also a co-editor on the forthcoming volume Public Private Partnerships and Educational Governance. Menashy holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto/OISE, Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and B.A. from McGill University.
Dates of Residence: January 2011 - April 2012
Kerrie Proulx, Visiting Scholar
Comparative, International Development Centre, OISE
kerrie.px@gmail.com
Kerrie Proulx works internationally to support program implementation and policy development through research and evaluation. Her work focuses on educational access, transitions and equity (social class, ethnicity & gender) and aims to increase understanding of the reasons why some children and youth fail to access and complete education, and why some succeed against in the odds in education. Her recent work in Bangladesh has examined the impact of early childhood education and maternal education on children’s access, participation and achievement in the early years of primary school. She has worked for numerous non-profit international agencies to provide research guidance in early childhood programmes and strengthen the capacity of country offices to develop and implement effective research strategies. She holds a Doctorate in Education from the University of Warwick in the UK and a Masters in Psychology from the University of Munich.
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Dates of Residence: March 2012 - December 2013
Zahra Punja, Visiting Scholar
Comparative, International Development Centre, OISE
zahra@rogers.com
Zahra Punja received her PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the area of Knowledge Building in Medical Education. She also has a Masters in Arts in Educational Technology from Concordia University, a Bachelor of Education from York University and a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from York University. This past year, Zahra worked as a Consultant for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's Peer Support Project. She was also a researcher for Professor Itiel Dror at Cognitive Consultants International. From 2008-2009, Zahra worked for the Royal College of Physicians of Canada where she worked on a research project involving patient safety. Her CIDEC Visiting Scholar project builds on this research, and proposes to design, teach and evaluate patient safety online using mobile learning to the Aga Khan University Medical School East Africa campus. She is a Reviewer for the journal of Medical Education and Medical Teacher.
Dates of Residence: February 2011 - December 2012
Anna Rzhevska, Visiting Scholar
Comparative, International Development Centre, OISE
anna.rzhevska@i.ua
Anna received her Ph.D. from Luhansk Tara Shevchenko National University, Ukraine. Her general research interest is the European Higher Education Area with emphasis on Modern West European universities. As the academic administrator she pays particular attention to the European university practice which includes international activities; governance, management, administration; financing, and quality assurance. In 2011, she published a book, Development of Modern University Education in West European Countries, in Ukrainian.
Dates of Residence: April 2012 - March 2013