Theory and Policy Studies in Education

TPS Researchers

How can we ensure that policy processes honour and support the values of diversity, peace, and democracy?

How can universities and colleges provide a more supportive learning environment for students?

How do we bring fairness and opportunity to urban school communities? How do universities evolve as institutions?

How can more public schools kids achieve higher level of academic success?

How did Aboriginal people's transatlantic travel shape their identity and learning?

How educational change is guided, supported, and sustained at the school,
school district and government levels and how that might relate to student learning and
achievement.

TPS Research Projects

Dan Lang, Higher Education Council of Ontario, Deciding to Transfer: A Study of College to University Choice, $208,000, 2008-2011.

Creso Sá, SSHRC Major Research Grant, (2008-2012): Institutional Changes in Academic Science in Canada.
Creso Sá, University of Toronto Connaught Matching Grant Award, (2008-2010): Research and technology transfer in science and engineering.
Creso Sá, SSHRC Major Research Grant, (2008-2012): (with Ben Levin): Knowledge Mobilization Strategies of Faculties of Education. A Canadian Education Association grant (2008-2009) is also supporting related work on the use of research evidence in education
Ruth Sandwell, Principle Investigator, (2009-2012): Heat, Light and Work in Canadian Homes 1900-1950: The Social History of Fossil Fuels and Hydro-Electricity. This project draws on oral histories, aggregate census data, company records, the records of educational organizations such as university farm extension movements and home economics departments, and the advertising campaigns of electrical companies to explore Canadians' resistance to new fuels in the 1900-1950 period, and the social, political and economic changes these new fuels brought to Canadian households.

Ruth Sandwell, Co-investigator, (2008-15): The History Education Network )/ Histoire et Éducation en Réseau (THEN/HIER) SSHRC Strategic Research Cluster Grant for $300,00 per year for seven years ($2.1 million dollars total) to support the creation of the first pan-Canadian network of historians, history educators and history teachers across the country to improve history education in Canada; Penney Clark, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, UBC, principal investigator

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Tricia Seifert, PI. “Supporting Student Success: The Role of Student Services in Ontario’s Postsecondary Institutions”
2011-2013 – Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Carol Rolheiser, Emily Greenleaf (TPS alumna), Tricia Seifert, Pamela Gravestock (TPS alumna), and Megan Burnett. “TAs as Members of the Teaching Team in Initiatives Supporting the Development of Core Student Skills and Competencies”
Jim Ryan, Denise Amstrong, Reva Joshee, & John Portelli, SSHRC, (2010): The Micropolitics of Social Justice Leadership in Education.”