Faculty

Sociomoral development in childhood and adolescence; moral reasoning; values acquisition in family and school contexts; identity formation; ethical dimensions of schooling; teacher-student relations

Children's theory of mind; cognitive development; language development; metalinguistics; early childhood/kindergarten education; socio-cultural context of development

Bilingual/ESL and Chinese children's literacy development; cross-cultural and cross-linguistic studies of literacy

Early childhood programs, practice, and policy; Integrated Services for children; Kindergarten education; parenting; parent involvement in schools; teacher education

Nonintrusive and developmentally sensitive prevention and treatment approaches for child psychopathologies; proactive classroom management

Development of academic excellence; teaching for wisdom; conceptual change; evolution and theory of mind and consciousness; personal identity and self-awareness 

Cognitive development; symbolic development; word learning; picture books; pragmatics and social cognition

Cognitive & linguistic processes in normally achieving and in learning disabled children; reading processes in first and second language; cross-cultural psychology; at-risk ESL children

Social and emotional development; family interaction; child psychopathology

Teacher education, evidence-informed decision-making, networked learning communities, classroom assessment, teacher belief

Lying in children and adults; face processing

Emotional and personality development; cognition-emotion; dynamic systems approaches; emotional neurobiology; developmental neuroscience

Difference between the scientific and clinical methods; relationship between emotion and cognition; evolution of consciousness

Reading and writing difficulties; attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; working memory and executive functions; adaptive instruction; teacher knowledge and practice relating to children with special education needs

Special Education, Learning Disabilities, Adolescent Suicide, the Adolescent Brain, Neuroscience and Education.

Cognitive development and teacher and student's mathematics learning

Early child development, education and policy, early literacy and cognitive development, parent involvement, family literacy, early writing, children’s drawings, French immersion

Environmental factors that influence the social development of preschool-aged children; cognitive and emotional school readiness; the impact of neighbourhoods on children; family law

Theory of mind; Text processing; Cognitive development and learning; symbolic thinking in literary interpretation; Expertise

Youth justice; young offenders; children's rights; competence in legal and medical domains; informed consent

Children maltreatment; domestic violence; development and evaluation of intervention programs for men who are abusive in their intimate relationships or in their relationships with their children

Brain and behaviour research, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),cognitive mechanisms, learning, mental health problems

Human development; self-concept; social cognition; family relations; school/ community interface; evaluation research; qualitative methods; intentional child abuse and unintentional injury prevention 

Peer relations and social adjustment of children and adolescents with learning disabilities and ADHD; Social and affective impacts of inclusion; Beliefs of children and adolescents with learning dis abilities and with ADHD about their difficulties

Basic processes in reading; reading/writing disabilities; classroom reading/writing instruction; assessment and remediation approaches to written language difficulties

Cognition and learning; sociocognitive knowledge building; technology in education

Human development; cognitive and social processes in developmental diversity; longitudinal studies of population developmental health

Social understanding in infancy and early childhood; joint attention; self; theory of mind

The cognitive science of rational thought; individual differences in reasoning and decision making; the cognitive psychology of reading

Learning disabilities; treatment intervention; learning and behavioural correlates of medical conditions

Knowledge Building; Research Design; Intentional Learning

Promoting vocabulary development in schools, especially in the primary grades

Cognition and emotion; human/computer interaction; psychology of narrative literature

Language development; cognitive development; cognition and literacy

Emotional and personality development; cognition-emotion; dynamic systems approaches; emotional neurobiology; developmental neuroscience

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Teacher Education; Early Child Development; Gifted; Special Education; Clinical Psychology; Adolescence; Conflict Resolution