Our Members

Directors

Reva Joshee, OISE/UT

John Portelli, OISE/UT

James Ryan, OISE/UT

Core Members

Denise Armstrong, OISE/UT, Toronto District School Board

Denise is a Curriculum Instructor and Initial Teacher Education Programme Co-ordinator (Teacher Education Seminar & SP2 - French & International Languages) at OISE.

Andrew Beecher, OISE/UT

Andrew is in the MEd Educational Administration Program in TPS at OISE. His area of interest is the preparation of administrators for diverse schools towards equity, social justice and democracy. In examining current programs and policies he hopes to assist in the provision of solutions to this end.

Zhara Bhanji, OISE/UT

Zhara is in the PhD Program, TPS/Education Administration and is an instructor of the Issues in Global and International Education course in the B.Ed. program at OISE/UT. She recently taught courses in the International Project Management Program, School of Business at Humber College. Experiences prior to coming to OISE include working with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada, spending eight months on an International Development Management Fellowship working in rural India on development projects and working in the Office of the Ontario Minister for Education. Her research interests/areas of expertise include Leadership from a Comparative and International Perspective, Educational Policy Studies, Comparative and International Education, Globalization and the Role of Multinational Technology Corporations in Education, Information Communication Technology and Education, Global and International Education and Canadian Aid Policies in Education.

Nina Bascia, OISE/UT

Dwight Boyd, OISE/UT

Gwendolyn D. Bourdon

Gwendolyn was a student of OISE/UT (TPS) in Higher Education/Health Profession Education from 2001-2004. She received her Master of Education degree in November, 2004. Her research interests include accreditation of education programmes, the relationship between accreditation of education programmes and the professional regulatory bodies, the recognition of academic and professional qualifications, human rights, education as a human right, patient education material in languages other than English, competence of health care professionals, interprofessional education, cultural competence. Gwendolyn is a Registered Nurse, with a focus of professional practice in community nursing.

Caroline Chassels, OISE/UT

Sharon Leonie Brown, OISE/UT

Leonie is a Master's candidate in the TPS department at OISE. Her research deals heavily with equity and feminist issues.

Carol Brayman, OISE/UT

Carol is an Ed.D candidate in Ed. Admin. (Theory and Policy Studies). She is a retired secondary school principal and consultant. She is a district executive member of OSSTF and OPC, and works at the provincial level with OSSTF (equity). Her research interests include leadership/succession planning/ social justice, diversity and equity.

Allison Clinton, OISE/UT, Peel District School Board

Allison is a Superintendent of Education with the Peel District School Board, and is assigned to Secondary Schools (10). She is a doctoral student in Theory and Policy Studies, where her area of study is leadership through a critical theory lens. Allison is an adjunct lecturer for OISE/UT in the pre-service Alt 5 program teaching School and Society. She has been an educator for 31 years, and was a secondary principal in two schools, a superintendent of an elementary family of schools (22).

Eric Fredua-Kwarteng, OISE/UT

Erin Irish, OISE/UT

Valentyna Kushnarenko, OISE/UT

Fred MacDonald, OISE/UT, Toronto District School Board

Brenda McMahon, OISE/UT, Toronto District School Board

Laura Pinto, OISE/UT

Katina Pollock, OISE/UT

Mandira Raksit, OISE/UT

Lorayne Robertson

Cindy Rottman, OISE/UT

Eva Sancho

Sabrina Saunders

Sabrina is an Ed.D. student in the TPS Ed Admin program, and is currently working as a GA on Ryan & Joshee's Inclusive Leadership SSHEC. She has worked at both the college and university level as a minority student and Native student administrator/counsellor/service provider/programmer. Her original training was in elementary education, with a double masters degree in educational administration and socio-education. Sabrina has developed mentoring programs for both post-secondary and secondary schools and have concentrated previous research around areas of success and engagement of marginalized students. She is interested in working with other student and professional members in the CLD, especially in planning learning opportunities for ourselves and the community.

Marlene Ruck-Simmons, OISE/UT

Virginia Stead, OISE/UT

Colleen Stewart, OISE/UT, Simcoe District School Board

Dwayne Washington, OISE/UT

Dwayne is an Ed. D candidate in the Educational Administration program (TPS) at OISE. His research interests include social justice, equity, and diversity in education. Dwayne is American, from Rochester, New York. He was previously an Elementary Teacher and High School Assistant Principal (VP).

Ann Yeong

Ann is a Doctoral Student in the Philosophy of Education program (TPS) at OISE. She came to Canada after having completed G.C.E. 'A' - levels in Singapore. Ann recently completed her M.A. in Philosophy of Education and is now enrolled in the doctoral stream of the same program. In my M.A. thesis she explored how implicit epistemological presuppositions may covertly impede commitment to critical multicultural education. Ann’s current area of interest is investigating the insight that epistemology can offer on student engagement and educational leadership. She is also interested in exploring how teachers' and educators' epistemological presuppositions affect their practices in pedagogy/curriculum and policy making as well as their perception of students as epistemic agents. Finally, she is interested in how these issues may be significant in a multiracial and/or multicultural context.

Lindy Zaresky, OISE/UT, York Region District School Board

Affiliate Members

Estina Phillips Boddie

Estina is an M.Ed. candidate in the Higher Education program (TPS) at OISE. Her research interests include equity, social justice and diversity in education. Estina holds a B.A. in Employment Relations/Sociology from the University of Toronto

Carmel Borg

Paul R. Carr

Paul R. Carr is assistant professor in the Beeghly College of Education at Youngstown State University in Ohio. Originally from Toronto, he continues to do research on anti-racism, equity, and policymaking in education. He completed his doctorate in the Sociology of Education at OISE in 1996, with his thesis focusing on anti-racism and transformational change in education. For 17 years he was a Senior Policy Advisor in the Ontario government, primarily in the Ministry of Education, where he worked on a range of equity in education policies, programs, and initiatives. Presently, Paul teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of education, qualitative methodology, educational policymaking, and multicultural leadership in education. One of his current research projects centres around the issue of democracy and social justice in education. In 2007, a book he edited with Darren E. Lund of the University of Calgary entitled The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege, and Identity in Education will be published by SENSE Publishing. In another collaborative effort with Dr. Lund, they are working on a second book entitled Doing Democracy and Social Justice in Education, which will be published by Peter Lang in 2008. Paul is involved in ongoing research on interculturalism, environmental education, and democratic education with colleagues in French- and Spanish-speaking contexts.

Sean Coutts

Sean Coutts is a PhD student in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at OISE/UT. His interests include corporate values versus the creation of engaged citizens.

Jim Daku

Jim Daku is a second year PhD student in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at OISE/UT. His studies have focused on diversity, critical democracy and student engagement and the impact of personal values on leadership.

Yonette Dey

Yonnette is Course Director at York University, Faculty of Education (2nd of 3 year term; seconded faculty). She has been a Vice Principal with the Toronto District School Board (for 2 years) and a Teacher with the Toronto District School Board (for 9 years). Her research interests include Leadership, Culturally Responsive Leadership, Community Involvement, Inclusive Curriculum, Life History Research.

Catherine Hands, OISE/UT

Jun Hirata, Hiroski University, Japan

Jun is a Lecturer at the Department of School Education, Faculty of Education at Hirosaki University. Research interests include School Councils and Accountability.

Zahra Hojati, OISE/UT

Zahra is an Ed.D. candidate in Higher education (TPS) with a collaborative program in Women’s studies. She has a B.A and M.A in educational administration from Iran, and worked as a registrar and educational researcher at Shiraz University in Iran. Zahra has worked as a Research assistant in the department of applied psychology at OISE, and a member of advisory group in family service association (FSA) in Toronto. Her research interests include Anti-racist, Anti-colonial , and Women’s study in higher education.

Eric Jabal, OISE/UT

Sonia James-Wilson, University of Rochester

Sonia is an Assistant Professor at the Warner Graduate School of the University of Rochester where she is teaches courses in Teaching and Curriculum and Educational Leadership. Her research interests include urban and inclusive (anti-racist) education, teacher leadership, educational reform and integrated arts. She has worked in the field as a classroom teacher, educational researcher, consultant, and teacher educator in both Canada and the United States. Her research and writing are focused on ways in which multiple forms of differences amongst people contribute to injustice and inequality in education.

Lauri Johnson, University of Buffalo

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a former administrator with the New York City Public Schools who focused on the professional development of teachers and administrators in issues of diversity. Her research interests include examining how White educators conceptualize race, comparative studies of multicultural policy in the United States and Canada, successful urban school leadership, and community activism in urban school reform. She is the co-editor of Urban Education with an Attitude (SUNY Press, 2005) a new book that profiles collaborative efforts by university faculty, urban teachers, parents, and community activists in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Portland Maine and Buffalo to develop policy initiatives that promote educational equity, community-based curricula, teacher education for social justice, and parent empowerment programs.

Alexander Katsabouris, OISE/UT

Alexander is a PhD candidate in the History of Education (TPS) at OISE. He is the Founder and Director of the Montessori Academy of Canada from 1995-2001. His research interests include Private School Administration and Administrators, History of Montessori Schools in Toronto, and Ethnicity.

Catherine A. Lugg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Department of Theory, Policy & Administration
Graduate School of Education

Catherine Lugg's interests include: Educational politics and policy, the politics of law, social justice, queer issues, social history.

Chris McGrath

Chris is a PhD Candidate in Theory and Policy Studies at OISE/UT whose research interests centre around the experiences of queer-identified people in the academy and how they use their understanding of self as 'other' to effect social/policy/curricular change.

Elizabeth MacDonald, Limestone District School Board

Anne Marrien, Director or Programs, Canadian Race Relations Foundation

Peter Mayo, University of Malta

Peter is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Education Studies, Faculty of Education at the University of Malta. He has a Ph.D (Sociology) from OISE/UT. His areas of interest include Gramsci, Freire, Workers´ Education, Critical Pedagogy, Museum Education, Anti-Racist Education and issues concerning multi-ethnicity, Postcolonialism, Identity and Difference, Schools as Community Learning Centres, University Continuing Education, The Debate around Lifelong Learning.

Agata Mleczko, Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

Agata Mleczko is a PhD student at the Adam Mickiewicz University, currently conducting her dissertation research in Italy on Chinese Diaspora in Milan. She is part of a research project financed by Italian government, that will examine the education of the second generation. Her research interests include how formal education shapes immigrants' life trajectories.

Jason Price, Nippissing University

Patrick Solomon, York University

Michelle Stack, University of British Columbia

Michelle is an Assistant Professor in Educational Administration and Leadership at the University of British Columbia. Her areas of interest include Social Justice, Impact of Media on Policy and leadership, Media and Pathologizing of Children. Youth and Participatory Research, Critical Policy Analysis, Media Education.

Janice Wallace, University of Alberta