Research

Each year, groundbreaking research conducted by faculty at the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning influences educational policy in the province of Ontario, across Canada and around the world. 

 

Current Funded Research

2011 Early Researcher Award

Indigo Esmonde - Solving Inequalities: Building Capacity for Schools and Communities to use Mathematics towards Social Justice

2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Public Outreach and Dissemination Grants

Tara Goldstein - Teaching Other People's Children: Enhancing the Dissemination fo Harriet's House and Ana's Shadow

Stephanie Springgay - Politics and Performance Art

2011 KNAER Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research

Linda Cameron and Lyn Vause - Knowledge Mobilization, Early Learning Research and On-Line Learning Communities

2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants

Indigo Esmonde - Developing Analytic Methods for Digital Media

2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Standard Research Grants

Elizabeth Campbell - The Ethical Curriculum

Indigo Esmonde - Changing the Equation: Mathematics and Social Justice

Tara Goldstein - Teaching Other People's Children: A Trilogy of Performed Ethnographies of Teacher Education

Mary Kooy - Teacher Learning that Matters: Explanding a Longitudinal Study into Technology-Mediated Professional Communities

Clare Kosnik - Literacy Teacher Educators: Their Backgrounds, Vision and Practices

Lance McCready - Educational Trajectories of Young Black Men in Canadian Urban Centres

James Slotta - Knowledge Community and Inquiry for Elementary Science Classrooms

Stephanie Springgay - The Pedagogical Impluse: Art, Education and Knowledge Production

Heather Sykes - Sport, Gender Justice and Anti-Globalization Movements: Curriculum and Policy Implications for Ontario and Canada

2010 Connaught New Researcher

Enrica Piccardo - The role of empathy in second language education: Exploring literary narratives

Rob Simon - Teaching to learn: Collaborative teacher research in community

2009 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Standard Research Grants

Clive Beck and Clare Kosnik - Teacher change: patterns, factors and implications for professional education

Larry Bencze - Mediated Critical and Activist Science Education

Kathy Bickmore - Peacebuilding Dialogue in Schools: Circle Processes for Restorative Problem-Solving & Democratic Learning

Karyn Cooper - DigitalInteractive Video Exploration and Reflection (D.I.V.E.R.): A collaborative framework for digital video analysis in the social sciences

Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández - Urban Arts High Schools

Gila Hanna - Teaching Mathematical Methods Through Proof

Jim Hewitt - Toward the Synergistic Integration of Computer-Mediated Communication and wikis

2009 International Opportunities Fund

Marlene Scardamalia - Can schools operate as Knowledge-Creating Communities? A Multi-Nation Investigation

2009 The Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) Research Fellowship

Indigo Esmonde - Teaching & Learning Mathematics for Social Justice

Ministry of Education

Eunice Jang - OISE STEP Field Test Validation Project