Nikki Forfar

M.T. Student / Ontario College of Teachers Candidate; Comparative, International, and Development Education

Nikki completed her undergraduate science education in the University of Waterloo’s cooperative education program, underpinning her belief in the value of strong links between the work world and academia. That interest is currently being echoed in her pursuit of the Master of Teaching, which concurrently joins teacher education alongside a masters in education. 

Her interest in education was sparked through her interest in international development, nurtured first during her health degree and later expanded through governance and human rights work with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).  Her work in both Ottawa and Zimbabwe as a CIDA representative honed a sense of the practical barriers to implementation of evidence-based best practices, as well as a passion for figuring out how to overcome those barriers.  These experiences eventually sent her back to school to gain some theoretical groundings for her experiences, which she is enjoying trying to figure out in the RSPE team in between attempts to inspire joy in some of Ontario`s youngest minds for the mathematical and political puzzle inherent in questions of governance.  She is primarily focused on the Use of Online Research project, on the hunt for those web-based indicators which can help overcome those barriers to the ‘mobilization’ aspect of KM.