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Rob Simon, Associate Professor

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Before joining OISE, and CTED, in 2010, Rob Simon was a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.   

Rob's research and teaching explore multiliteracy frameworks as a means of encouraging educators to develop understandings, curriculum, and pedagogy from students' literate lives - their diverse cultures, languages, and literacy practices.  The aim is to re-imagine schools and literacy classrooms as places oriented to increased equity, access, and educational opportunity for all students.

Research Interests:
• equity, diversity and social justice; literacy; teacher education and development; urban schooling; anti-racism; applied linguistics, second language education, and multilingualism; arts and media; critical pedagogy; students (including student experience, student engagement, and students at risk); research methodologies and practices (including measurement, evaluation, assessment, and knowledge mobilization)