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Karen Acton

Assistant Professor

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

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  • Assistant Professor
    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

BIO

Dr. Karen Acton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, in the Educational Leadership and Policy (ELP) program at OISE.

Dr. Acton has experience in the both the K-12 education system and in higher education. She previously worked in the elementary and secondary panels as a teacher, department head, principal, system-level administrator, and at the Ministry of Education as an Education Officer. Dr Acton held a position of Assistant Professor, Teaching Duties at Western University in the Faculty of Education before coming to OISE. She currently teaches a wide variety of graduate-level courses on educational leadership and policy, research methods, program implementation, and change facilitation. Dr. Acton’s most recent publications highlight her range of research interests, including: principals as change agents, leadership in challenging urban schools, barriers to environmental teacher leadership, and transformative pedagogy.

DEGREES

  • PhD
    OISE, University of Toronto, Canada
  • BEd
    Western University, London, Canada
  • MSc
    University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
  • BSc
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

LANGUAGES

  • German
    Can read, speak and understand
  • French
    Can read, speak and understand

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