EDUCATION FACULTY WITH EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH INTERESTS

The following tenure-track faculty members have interests related to research in early childhood education. Please click on the names below to find out more about the courses they teach and their specific research interests, as well as their contact infomation.

Department of Curriculum Studies (CUST)

Ann Anderson

Early childhood mathematics, multiple literacies in young children

Linda Farr-Darling

Young children's moral understandings, the development of empathy in primary students

Peter Gouzouasis

Early childhood music education, multimedia constructions of children

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology and Special Education (ECPS)

Laurie Ford

Developmental (cognitive, social, and emotional) assessment of young children; family-school relationships; school psychology training and practice in diversity.

Hillel Goelman

Early child development and early intervention, longer term effects of early experiences, child care policy.

Janet Jamieson

Education of the deaf & hard of hearing, mother-child interactive behaviours and problem-solving strategies

Kimberly Schonert-Reichl
Social and emotional development of young children

Pat Mirenda

Supporting the development of children with Autism and developmental disabilities in inclusive Settings

Nancy Perry

Meta-cognition, motivation, and self-regulated learning in elementary school children

Marion Porath

Giftedness, social cognition, developmental theory, problem-based learning

Linda Siegel

Cognitive aspects of learning disabilities, early detection and remediation of learning disabilities, children with English as a Second Language (ESL)

Department of Educational Studies (EDST)

Mona Gleason

History of childhood, gender and Sexuality

Allison Tom

Anthropology of education, Feminist, collaborative & ethnographic research methods, child care workers.

Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)

Jim Anderson

Emergining/early literacy, family literacy, socio-cultural aspects of literacy.

Marlene Asselin

Literacy, multi literacies and information literacy, school libraries

Marilyn Chapman

Emergent/early literacy, early childhood education, language and literacy across the curriculum, assessment in early childhood education, sociocognitive and sociocultural dimensions of literacy, writing and multimodality

Margot Filipenko

Early literacy and children's literature

Jan Hare

Aboriginal literacy, Aboriginal early childhood education

Maureen Kendrick

Literacy as a socio-cultural practice, play, multimodality and ethnography

Victoria Purcell-Gates

Cultural practices of literacy, designing early literacy instruction that builds on young children's linguistic, cognitive, cultural, and social models.

Kenneth Reeder

Child language in education, technology and language learning

Jon Shapiro

Preschool education, emerging literacy, reading attitudes, reading difficulties