Major studies are being carried out in the areas of critical
thinking, literacy, cognitive
studies, and career counselling. In collaboration with school
boards we are beginning
research on educational change, rural education, school councils,
and technology in
instruction.
BAKSH, Ishmael Professor
Keywords
• Sociology; Caribbean; Trinidad; Tobago
Research specialty
• Sociology of education
Current research
• Caribbean education
• Student's perceptions of schooling in Atlantic Canada
Past research
• Educational and occupational aspirations in Trinidad and
Tobago
• Teachers' perceptions of teaching in Newfoundland
BARRELL, Barrie Associate professor
Keywords
• Secondary English education; technology in education; media
studies; teacher education
Current research
• Technology and education
• Robotics in education
• New conceptions of literacy
Potential research
• Virtual reality and education
BROWN, Jean Associate professor
Keywords
• Educational administration; school leadership; educational
change; school improvement; teacher-librarianship; learning resources
Current research
• Comparative studies in rural education, Newfoundland and
Labrador and Iceland
• Collaborative action research, School District #9 (learning
organization)
• Effective schooling in a telelearning environment study
• Pan-Canadian Professional Development Network for Teachers,
York University, Toronto Board of Education and District #9
Past research
• Action research in team leadership, alternative school
settings
• Evaluation of provincial school improvements
• Principal investigator for Grandy's River Collegiate: A
case study (part of CEA exemplary schools project) 1995
Potential research
• Comparative studies: Rural education in Ireland and Scotland
• Continued study of using ICT for change
• Policy development and analysis
BULCOCK, Jeff Professor
Keywords
• Sociology of education; survey research methodology
Current research
• Demography of slowing population growth in Newfoundland
and Labrador, 1998
• Condition of Adult Basic Education (ABE) in Newfoundland
and Labrador, 1999
• What international studies tell us about the condition
of Canadian schooling, 1997
Past research
• Quality of school life
• Literary profiles of Grade One school children
• Public attitudes toward schooling in Newfoundland and Labrador
Potential research
• School size and school performance
• Adult literacy and productivity
• Social capital and children's abilities
CANNING, Patricia Professor
Keywords
• Child development; day care and early childhood education;
special education; child and family policy; risk factors in development
Current research
• Longitudinal study of the relationship among preschool
child care quality and child development and family functioning
• Effects of economic and social uncertainty on children
and families
• Management practices in licenced child care centres and
their relationships to child care quality
Past research
• Effects of social and economic uncertainty on children
and families.
• Role of early childhood educators
• Report on special education in Newfoundland
Potential research
• Restructuring in education
• Health and social services in rural communities and its
effect on children and families
• Evaluation of early intervention programs for children
with autism and their families
COLLINS, Alice Professor
Keywords
• Teacher education; educational reform; school councils;
teacher development
Current research
• Educational reform
• School councils
• Women in education
GARLIE, Norman Professor
Keywords
• Counselling; special education; group approaches; parenting;
alcohol; death/loss; distance education; violence
Current research
• Touch-in counselling
• Counselling via distance systems
• Impact of student death on adolescents
• Impact of family violence on children
Past research
• Progressive relaxation with chronic schizophrenics
• Characteristics of teenagers with alcohol-related problems
• Death concern: A comparison of attitudes among educators,
nurses, clergy and student nurses on a death concern scale
• Teenage mothers and fathers
• Group counselling via teleconferencing
Potential research
• Impact of severe disability on teaching and learning
Other research and consulting
• Family assessments, Unified Family Court, St. John's, Newfoundland
GRANT McLOUGHLIN, John Associate professor
Keywords
• Mathematical problem solving; perceptions of mathematics;
teaching and learning of mathematics
Current research
• Mathematics in the working contexts of artists and carpenters
• Contrast of the mathematics researched and taught by academic
mathematicians
• Alternative models for schooling (mathematics): Weldorf,
Montessori, and homeschooling
Past research
• Undergraduate student perceptions of mathematics
• Nature of student-tutor interactions in a math help centre
Potential research
• Problem-based learning in mathematics
• Teachers' knowledge and perceptions of mathematics
• Misconceptions of mathematical concepts
HADLEY, Norman H. Professor
Keywords
• Humanistic education; person-centered psychotherapy; art
therapy; phototherapy; bullying behaviour; accident psychology;
health education; nonverbal communication; touching; leadership
Current research
• Humanistic foundations of behaviour art therapy
Past research
• Interactive model for the assessment of college teaching
• Essential life sciences for personal competence
• Bullying behaviour: behavioural model
• Behavioural foundations of fingernail biting
Potential research
• Encoding and decoding nonverbal messages: An overlooked
dimension in literacy evaluation
• Role of positive self-modelling in phototherapy
• Healing functions of touch in education and health care
• Accident psychology of motorcycling
• Effective health education: Implications for health and
health care dollars
• Caring leadership: Implications for joy, illness and absenteeism
HAWKSLEY, Fred Associate professor
Keywords
• Drama approaches to education; action-oriented research
and drama; pedagogy, curriculum development, and innovation; communication
and drama; learning through theatre; drama approaches in deaf
education
Current research
• Pedagogical-interventions to violence
• Inter-channel discrepancy theories models based on work
with actors and directors
• Theatre of the deaf and documentary theatre (Great War)
Past research
• Drama as a method of education for the deaf
• Discovering the drama of science
• Implementing learning through drama and arts, in education
programs, with untrained teachers
Potential research
• Research as communal versus heirarchical experience
• Learning through the arts - The drama of . . .
• Developing models for interchannel discrepancy, actors
and directors, and skills teachers and counsellors can use
JOHNSON, Trudi Assistant professor
Keywords
• Newfoundland legal history; women and property in Newfoundland
history; Newfoundland educational history; social studies methodologies;
effective teaching practices
Current research
• History of curriculum and instruction in Newfoundland
• Research trends in social studies education
• Inheritance practices in Newfoundland history
Past research
• Newfoundland matrimonial property law in history
• Teacher training in Newfoundland history
• Social studies methodologies
Potential research
• Comparative study of curriculum and instruction between
Newfoundland and England
• Effective teaching practices
KELLEHER, Royston Professor
Keywords
• Teaching; teacher education
Current research
• Case methodology in teacher education
• Student experiences in teaching practices
• International student teaching
Past research
• Supervising roles in education
• Attitudinal shifts during student teaching
• Follow-up of teacher interns
KENNEDY, William Professor
Keywords
• Counselling psychology; teacher education
Current research
• Counselling development and practice: An international
perspective
• Psycho-social education in rural Newfoundland
Past research
• Counselling in the New Millennium, published book
• Models of teacher education
Potential research
• General area of counselling psychology
MANN, Bruce Associate professor
Keywords
• Web; taxonomy; computer; auditory; instruction; learning
Research specialty
• Instructional technology
Current research
• A taxonomy of Web-course management in higher education
• Psychological effects of auditory prompting during educational
computing
• Critical competitors in educational computing
Past research
• Technology orientation for educators
Potential research
• Digital versus traditional biology labs
McCANN, W.P. Professor emeritus
Keywords
• History of education in Newfoundland; history of education
in Canada
Current research
• History of education in Newfoundland 1800-1900
• Canadian Education 1985-1986
Past research
• Education and economic conditions in Newfoundland and Labrador,
1836-1986
Potential research
• Social and cultural history of Newfoundland
MULCAHY, Dennis Associate professor
Keywords
• Rural education; curriculum multiage pedogogy; distance
education
Current research
• School closure and consolidation
• Rural education reform
• Multi-age education and distance education
Past research
• Oral history of the one-room schoolhouse
• Teaching strategies in multi-grade classrooms
• Community resistance to school closure
Potential research
• The pedogogy of telelearning
• The use of computers in multi-age classrooms
NETTEN, Joan Honorary research professor
Keywords
• Teaching second languages; learning second languages
Current research
• Conceptualization, implementation and evaluation of intensive
core French for Grade Six students
Past research
• Characteristics of oral proficiency, French immersion
• Teaching strategies in French Immersion classrooms
• Student-teacher interaction patterns in French Immersion
classrooms
Potential research
• Accuracy and fluency in oral and written exercises among
intensive French students
• Teaching strategies for encouraging accuracy and fluency
in French as a second language
NESBIT, Wayne C. Professor
Keywords
• Emotional abuse in the classroom; bullying and peer abuse;
school policy development on bullying and school violence
Current research
• School violence
• Bullying
Past research
• Integration of special needs learners
• Psychological abuse
• Senior high school programs for students with cognitive
challenges
Potential research
• Extreme violence in schools
• Teacher in-service and extreme violence
OKSHEVSKY, Walter C. Assistant professor
Keywords
• Philosophy in education; ethics in educational practice
and policy; critical thinking and epistemology; moral education;
liberal education; educational leadership; university and academic
freedom; critical theory and hermeneutics
Current research
• Current assessments of liberal education
• Kant and moral education
• Richard Roity: Postmodern challenges to education
Past research
• Harvey Siegel on critical thinking
• Hermeneutic critique of liberal education
• Wittgenstein and the limitations of critical theory
Potential research
• Contemporary formulations of academic freedom
• The limits of virtue-ethics in moral education
• Versions of multiculturalism (i.e., Kantion/Rawlsian)
OLDFORD-MATCHIM, Joan Professor
Keywords
• Emergent literacy; family literacy programs; community
literacy programs
Current research
• Family literacy program evaluation
• Emergent reading achievements
• Reading attitude and reader self-concepts
• Parental involvement in reading education
Past research
• Emergent reading
Potential research
• Reading as social interaction
• Gender relationships in children's reading achievements
ROBERTS, Brian A. Professor
Keywords
• Sociology of music education; musician and teacher identity;
institutional power; social re-creation; assessment in music education;
voice performance; teaching voice and choir
SHARPE, Dennis B. Professor
Keywords
• Technology education; industrial; post-secondary and adult
education; school-work transition; employability skills
Current research
• School to work transition issues
• Technology-education curriculum and instructional development
within North America and Europe
• Employability skills
Past research
• Youth transition into the Labour market: A longitudinal
panal study design
• Post-secondary attrition
• Technology education in Canada
Potential research
• Effective delivery of post-secondary education through
distance techniques
• Vocational and adult education in various post-secondary
settings
• Examination of technology education issues: An international
comparison
• Program development and options in post-secondary education
SINGH, Amarjit Professor
Keywords
• Sociology of education; diversity and education; aging
and society; critical pedogogy
Current research
• Well-being of Asian elderly: Cross-cultural study
• Critical education and teacher internship
• Father's participation and role in children's reading ability
Past research
• Multiculturalism and schooling
• Self-concept and achievement
• Significant others and reading
Potential research
• Asian Diaspora and aging
SHEPPARD, Bruce Associate professor
Keywords
• Educational leadership; educational change; school improvement;
organizational learning in educational settings; program implementation;
effective schooling in telelearning environments
Current research
• Improving learning outcomes through data-driven interventions
• Effective schooling in telelearning environments
• Human resources study of the education sector
• Team leadership and improved student outcomes
Past research
• Transformation nature of instructional leadership
• Emerging learning organizations: Taylor High school
• Leadership training
• Leadership in secondary schools
• Teacher librarians
Potential research
• Leadership development, organizational learning, improved
classroom practices, and improved student outcomes, three-year
study
STEVENS, Ken Professor
Keywords
• Telelearning; virtual classroom; rural education
Current research
• Digital intranet
• Virtual classroom pedagogy
• Rural schools and teaching
Past research
• Rural education and regional economic development
TITE, Rosonna Associate professor
Keywords
• Child abuse; peace bonds; sex-role learning
Research specialty
• Violence against women and children
Current research
• Child abuse: The co-ordination of services (i.e., teachers,
social workers and the police)
• Peace bonds: Qualitative evidence based on practice
• Empowering teachers to teach about violence
Past research
• Women's studies in Canadian universities
• Sex-role learning: A feminist approach
Potential research
• Feminist pedagogy
YEOMAN, Elizabeth Associate professor
Keywords
• Narrative inquiry; life history; oral history; feminist
theory; critical educational theory; Motherhood; minority language;
social justice; Aboriginal educators; cyberspace
Research specialty
• Methodologies: life history, oral history, narrative inquiry,
including critical educational theory, feminist theory topics
and social justice in education, minority language issues, motherhood
and the narrative construction of identity
Current research
• Teachers and social justice, a comparative study of teachers
in four countries: Canada, U.S., France, U.K. (internal research
and development funding)
A published book on critical and feminist pedagogy
• Various articles
Past research
• Cultural and affective aspects of language learning
• Elementary school children's understanding of feminist,
anti-racist and multi-cultural stories
• Feminism, anti-racism and teacher education
Potential research
• Life-history study of single mothers and single-parent
families
• Study of teachers and social justice (extended to other
countries)
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