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By: Dr. Larry Yore
The research agenda of faculty members is as equally diverse
as the organization, goals, programs, and graduate students of
the Faculty of Education. The Faculty recognizes education and
schooling as a construct involving learning and lifestyle choice
in diverse settings and across the lifespan, not simply a construction
of bricks and mortar called ‘schools’. The research
to document, evaluate, and explain this learning and choices
utilizes a wide variety of quantitative, qualitative, and community-based
approaches. The Faculty continues its long-established interests
and scholarship into curriculum development, implementation,
and analysis; classroom teaching, learning, assessment, and related
issues; counseling and administration; and educational policy,
management, and practices. More recently, the Faculty has expanded
its inquiries into the construction of knowledge in a variety
of authentic contexts: gender and ethnicity issues; art, learning,
and work communities; health, wellness, and literacy; physical
performance and lifestyles; recreational organization, management,
and programming; and classroom applications of information communication
technologies.
The Faculty’s research efforts are broadly grounded in
the professional practice of formal education (elementary,
secondary, postsecondary) and informal education (museums,
galleries, learning communities, and other institutions); the
social sciences, humanities, sciences, mathematics, and technology;
and health, wellness, and medicine. This broad academic foundation
supports an equally broad array of research projects funded
by the Canadian Council on Learning, Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council,
Michael Smith Foundation, Imperial Oil Foundation, Heart and
Stroke Foundation, and several other public and private funding
agencies. Further details about specific Faculty research interests
and projects can be found at:
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