I am an Associate Professor Emeritus, still active with research and publication - along with some university service activities. My research revolves around the STEPWISE curriculum and pedagogical framework developed in 2006. This focuses on actively educating students to critique relationships among fields of science & technology and societies & environments (STSE), particularly in terms of influences of powerful people (e.g., financiers) and groups (e.g., corporations, governments, think tanks, transnational groups [e.g., World Trade Organization]) on fields of science and technology/engineering and most else in societies. Such interactions can be thought of as a dispositif and it appears that pro-capitalist dispositifs are largely responsible for most harms - such as the climate emergency - to individuals, societies and environments. After students have been educated about potentially-harmful STSE relationships, we prepare them to design and implement research-informed and socially-negotiated sociopolitical actions to overcome harms of their concern. You can learn more about STEPWISE and gain open access to numerous related teaching and learning resources at: www.stepwiser.ca.

Kathy Bickmore is a Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. An active member and recent director of the Comparative International and Development Education specialization and centre, Prof. Bickmore is an internationally renowned scholar in comparative education, peace-conflict in schools, and citizenship education. She teaches comparative democratic citizenship and conflict/peacebuilding education, and critical curriculum and pedagogy studies.

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Dr. Jennifer Brant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She belongs to the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk Nation) with family ties to Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Her research focuses on Indigenous maternal pedagogies as liberatory praxis, and she has been recognized with the 2023 Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies Outstanding Publication in Curriculum Studies Award for her article “Confronting Colonial Violences in and out the Classroom: Advancing Curricular Moves toward Justice through Indigenous Maternal Pedagogies.” Her doctoral research was also recongized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education “George L. Geis Dissertation Award" (2018). Dr. Brant is the current faculty co-chair of the Indigenous Education Network and the founding director of the Indigenous Literatures Lab. Her publications include the edited collection "Rematriating Justice: Honouring the Lives of Our Indigenous Sisters" (2024) and "Forever Loved: Exposing the hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada" (2016) along with Dr. Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard. Dr. Brant teaches courses on Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous literatures, and structural and colonial violence in education. Her pedagogical and methodological innovations on Indigenous Maternal Praxis have made significant contributions across the fields of education, sociology and women and gender studies.

Dr. Kathryn Broad is a Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Dr. Broad’s scholarship and teaching explores educator learning including initial teacher education, induction and ongoing professional growth; curriculum and program development and design; and the relationship between policy and practice. Dr. Broad has worked with the Ontario Ministry of Education and Ontario College of Teachers on projects and research related to the continuum of teacher learning.

Dr. Broad has served in a variety of academic leadership roles at OISE, most recently as the Associate Chair, Teacher Education Director of the Master of Teaching Program. She has been recognized for her teaching, mentorship and leadership by OISE and the Ministry of Education.

Cassie J. Brownell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research critically considers the politics of identity, literacies, and civics in contemporary schooling. She teaches courses in critical literacies, digital literacies, and elementary education.

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For the 2026-2027 academic year, Dr. Brownell will be admitting 1-2 Ph.D. and/or M.A. students whose primary focus is critical and/or digital literacies education (with a preference for applicants focused on children under 12 years of age).

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Andrew B. Campbell (DR.ABC) is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in Leadership for Racial Justice in Teacher Education in the Master of Teaching Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto.

He is the Coordinator for the Black Future Educators’ Program (BFEP) and the newly appointed Centre for Black Studies in Education (CBSE) Director.

His exemplary work has seen numerous awards bestowed to him, such as a 2024 recipient of the Black History Month Award, from the Jamaica Canadian Association; The 2022 Award for Excellence in Initial Teacher Education from University of Toronto; The 2021 Distinguish African Caribbean Award from University of Toronto, African Alumni Association; The 2021 Champion Educator Award from the Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators (ONABSE), and numerous others.

His scholarship and teaching focus on advancing equity and belonging, affirming Blackness, educational leadership, 2SLGBTQIA+ issues, teacher education and Black educators’ pedagogy and practice. 

He has presented at numerous conferences and has delivered many presentations as a keynote speaker, motivational speaker, and workshop facilitator.

He loves people, food, fashion, travelling and bringing his community together for a good meal.

Dr. Lydia Cao is an Assistant Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching explore artificial intelligence in education, computer-supported collaborative learning, immersive technologies (XR), and knowledge building. Her work navigates the design and implications of emerging technologies for teaching and learning and advances global conversations on sustainability education. Dr. Cao is an active public scholar and shares her work via media outlets and invited talks.

Dr. Cao received her PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge and has held postdoctoral fellowships at both the Harvard Graduate School of Education and OISE, where she led projects related to collaborative AI and cross-community knowledge building to address sustainability challenges. This work has received the Outstanding Paper Award from the International Society of Learning Sciences in 2025. She currently teaches Introduction to AI in Education at the University of Toronto.

Alexandre Cavalcante is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Prof. Cavalcante's research focuses on numeracy education in various contexts, mathematics education for citizenship, financial numeracy, and secondary mathematics teacher education.

Anne Marie Chudleigh is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She serves as the Associate Director of the Master of Teaching (MT) Program as well as the Academic Coordinator for Primary/Junior. Courses taught include Child and Adolescent Development and Learning. Her research is in the field of teacher education.

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Michelle Dubek is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research focuses on STEAM education and assessement within interdisciplinary learning contexts. Prof. Dubek teaches Science and Environmental Education foundation courses.

Angela Easby is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She is a Métis and Anishinaabe scholar with research interests in urban Indigenous communities, Indigenous education, Anishinaabemowin revitalization, and community-based research design. She is an Anishinaabemowin learner and a beadwork artist.

Dr. Sameena Eidoo (she/her) is an award-winning educator and researcher.

She is the Principal Investigator of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant-funded study exploring Muslim narrative change in film and television. This study examines what Muslim cultural workers are doing to elevate Muslim dignity on screen. As a former collaborator with the Narrative Change Lab, Dr. Eidoo led the development of the inaugural lab cohort program that convened Muslim cultural workers from across the country to develop a narrative system, and designed a curriculum centered on reimagining Muslim narratives.

Her book, Shaping Muslim futures: Youth visions and activist praxis (2021), amplifies the counter-narratives of activist Muslim youth living into their desired futures, and creates space for readers to clarify their own. It bridges critical approaches to Muslim studies, youth studies and futures studies, and applies an intersectional analysis. Grounded in community wisdom, the resource is for youth, educators, and organizers. Shaping Muslim Futures was featured on the Canadian Council of Muslim Women’s Islamic Herstory Month Reading List.

Previously, Dr. Eidoo served as Assistant Director, Education and Programs at the Multi-Faith Centre for Spiritual Study and Practice, University of Toronto. In this leadership role, she curated arts-based programming that provoked examination of life purpose and meaning, and situated faith and spirituality as an embodied experience mediated by power. She served on the University of Toronto's tri-campus Equity Committee, and advised on religious accommodation policy and practice.

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Professor Antoinette Gagné is Professor Emerita in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Professor Gagné's research focuses on diversity issues in education and the experiences of immigrant children, teachers and families in the Canadian education system. She teaches courses in the language and literacies education program, including critical pedagogy and cultural and linguistic diversity.

Dr. Julie Garlen is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Dr. Garlen is a critical cultural theorist of childhood and curriculum and her scholarship and teaching broadly explores childhood, education, and curriculum studies. Her research questions examine the ways in which the Western myth of childhood innocence informs work with and understandings of children in North American contexts. Dr. Garlen is an active public scholar and shares her work via podcasts, media interviews, invited talks and panels. 

Dr. Garlen previously held Professorship at Carleton University and Georgia Southern University. Additionally, she served as the Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University. She has worked in the U.S. South as an elementary school teacher and an early childhood teacher educator.

Tara Goldstein is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She is a critical ethnographer and arts-based researcher pursuing a teaching and research program in queer studies in education and culture, performed ethnography, and verbatim theatre. Prof. Goldstein teaches currently teaches graduate research methodology courses in performed ethnography, verbatim theatre and life research writing

James Hewitt is a Professor with the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. His research interests focus on computer supported learning environments, electronic discourse, distance education, multimedia case studies, teacher education, generative artificial intelligence, online communities, and educational technologies. He teaches courses in the curriculum program on the science of learning, knowledge building, technology in the classroom and qualitative inquiry.