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University of Alberta Calendar 2023-2024 
    
University of Alberta Calendar 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Teaching and Scholarship

The Faculty of Education’s history of excellence in teaching and scholarship is reflected through the following award winners:

3M National Teaching Fellowship

  • Toni Samek (2012)
  • Olenka Bilash (2010)
  • Graham Fishburne (1990)

Provost’s Award for Early Achievement of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

  • Douglas Gleddie (2017)
  • Cheryl Poth (2013)
  • Lynette Shultz (2010)

Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

  • David Chorney (2014)
  • Carla Peck (2013)
  • Clive Hickson (2007)
  • Amanda Montgomery (2004)
  • Katherine Willson (2003)
  • Lynn McGarvey (2002)
  • Susan Gibson (2001)
  • Olenka Bilash (1999)
  • Roberta McKay (1997)
  • Marg Iveson (1996)
  • Moira Juliebo (1995)
  • Robert de Frece (1993)
  • Graham Fishburne (1987)
  • David Wangler (1987)

Teaching Unit Award

  • Lynn McGarvey, Gladys Sterenberg, Julie Long, Beverley Kula, Audrey Hodgson-Ward, Allison Finch, Carrie Watt and Janelle McFeetors (2012)

William Hardy Alexander Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

  • Randy Dziwenka (2008)
  • Beverley Kula (2005)
  • William Smale (2003)
  • Hedy Bach (2002)

Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

  • Jerry Kachur (2013)

Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Award

  • Lia Daniels (2018/19)
  • Alexandra Fidyk (2018/19)
  • William Hanson (2018/19)
  • Cathy Adams (2017/18)
  • Denise Larsen (2016)
  • Ali Shiri (2016)
  • Makere Stewart-Harawira (2015)
  • Dip Kapoor (2014)
  • Jerry Kachur (2013)
  • Linda Phillips (2012)
  • Randolph Wimmer (2012)
  • D Jean Clandinin (2011)
  • Anna Kirova (2010)
  • Ali Abdi (2009)
  • Toni Samek (2009)
  • Rosemary Foster (2008)
  • Jill McClay (2008)
  • George Buck (2007)
  • Margaret Mackey (2007)
  • Frank Peters (2006)
  • Joyce Bainbridge (2005)
  • Tara Fenwick (2005)
  • Julia Ellis (2004)
  • Ingrid Johnston (2004)
  • Carolyn Kreber (2003)
  • Anna Altmann (2002)
  • José da Costa (2002)

Faculty of Education Sessional Teaching Award

  • Julie Gellner (2018/19)
  • Jordan Long (2018)
  • Amy Thomas (2018)
  • Jodi Peebles (2017)
  • Robyn Shewchuk (2016)
  • Robert Bechtel (2015)
  • Beverley Preston (2014)
  • Bill Munro (2013)
  • Harold Pearse (2012)
  • Roland Duquette (2011)
  • Leonora Macy (2011)
  • Kerri Norberg (2010)
  • Daniel Robinson (2009)
  • Michael Burke (2008)
  • Randy Dziwenka (2008)
  • Joan Scott (2008)
  • Joanne Harle (2007)
  • Anthony Hollihan (2007)
  • Diane Shieron (2007)
  • Rillah Sheridan-Carson (2006)
  • Yvette Stack (2006)
  • Nancy Davis (2005)
  • Kathy Paterson (2005)
  • Audrey Hodgson-Ward (2004)
  • Sally Brenton-Hayden (2003)
  • Gail de Vos (2003)
  • Dougal MacDonald (2003)
  • Beverley Kula (2002)
  • William Smale (2002)
  • Hedy Bach (2001)
  • Bryan Connors (2001)
  • Glenys Berry (2000)
  • Douglas Brown (2000)
  • Lloyda Jones (2000)
  • Patricia Payne (2000)
  • Ray Benton-Evans (1999)
  • Joanne Sommerfeld (1999)

Faculty of Education Technology in Teaching Award

  • Jerine Pegg (2016)
  • Douglas Gleddie (2015)
  • William Dunn (2014)
  • Denyse Hayward (2014)
  • Amanda Montgomery (2014)
  • David Chorney (2013)
  • George Georgiou (2012)
  • Patricia Boechler, Mike Carbonaro (2011)
  • Jennifer Branch-Mueller, Joanne DeGroot (2011)

Faculty of Education Undergraduate Teaching Award

  • Evelyn Steinhauer (2018/19)
  • Patti Pente (2018)
  • Lynne Wiltse (2016)
  • Jason Wallin (2015)
  • Bonnie Watt (2014)
  • David Chorney (2013)
  • Carla Peck (2012)
  • William Dunn (2009)
  • André Grace (2008)
  • Tom Dust (2007)
  • Clive Hickson (2007)
  • Ali Abdi (2006)
  • George Richardson (2006)
  • Nancy Melnychuk (2005)
  • Amanda Montgomery (2004)
  • Jack Goldberg (2003)
  • jan jagodzinski (2002)
  • Lynn McGarvey (2002)
  • Susan Gibson (2001)
  • Stan Wilson (2001)
  • Olenka Bilash (1999)
  • Brenda Gustafson (1999)
  • Eamonn Callan (1998)
  • Joe Norris (1998)
  • Bob Frender (1997)
  • Roberta McKay (1997)
  • Katherine Willson (1996)
  • Marg Iveson (1995)
  • Moira Juliebo (1995)
  • Jim Parsons (1995)
  • John Mitchell (1994)
  • Dave Wangler (1994)
  • Robert de Frece (1993)
  • Graham Fishburne (1993)
  • Fern Snart (1993)

J Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research

  • Max van Manen (2002)
  • D Jean Clandinin (2001)
  • JP Das (1987)

ATA Educational Research Award

  • George Georgiou (2019/20)
  • Dwayne Donald (2017)
  • Diane Conrad (2017)
  • Lynne Wiltse (2012)
  • Robert Klassen (2011)
  • Dwayne Donald, Florence Glanfield, Gladys Sterenberg (2010)
  • Terry Carson, Dwayne Donald, Ingrid Johnston, George Richardson (2008)
  • Phil McRae, Jim Parsons (2007)
  • José da Costa (2006)
  • Michael Emme, Anne Kirova (2005)
  • André Grace (2003)
  • David Smith (2002)
  • Fern Snart (2001)
  • José da Costa, Margaret Haughey (2001)
  • Joyce Bainbridge (2000)
  • Roberta McKay, Katherine Willson (1997)

Coutts-Clarke Fellowship

  • Darryl Hunter (2019/20)
  • Cheryl Poth (2018)
  • Lia Daniels (2017)
  • Alexandra Fidyk (2016)
  • Dinesh Rathi (2015)
  • Ying Cui (2014)
  • Kent den Heyer (2013)
  • Cathy Adams (2012)
  • George Georgiou (2012)
  • Patricia Boechler (2011)
  • Marian Rossiter (2010)
  • Diane Conrad (2009)
  • Claudia Eppert (2009)
  • Robert Klassen (2008)
  • Ali Shiri (2008)
  • Heidi Julien (2006)
  • Noorfarah Merali (2006)
  • Lisa Given (2005)
  • Jacqueline Leighton (2005)
  • George Richardson (2005)
  • Ali Abdi (2004)
  • Christina Rinalidi (2004)
  • Xin Ma (2003)
  • Rauno Parrila (2003)
  • Alison Taylor (2003)
  • André Grace (2002)
  • Mark Gierl (2001)
  • Tara Fenwick (2001)
  • Judy Cameron (2000)
  • Susan Gibson (2000)
  • Ingrid Johnston (1999)
  • Margaret Mackey (1999)
  • Tracey Derwing (1998)

Canadian Centre for Research on Literacy Research Fellowship

  • Alison McInnes (2014)
  • Lynne Wiltse (2013)
  • Denyse Hayward (2012)
  • George Georgiou (2010)
  • Linda Laidlaw (2009)
  • Patricia Boechler (2008)
  • Jacqueline Leighton (2007)
  • Lynn McQuarrie (2006)
  • Heidi Julien (2005)
  • Rauno Parrila (2004)
  • André Grace (2003)
  • José da Costa (2002)
  • Jill McClay (2001)

Centennial Professorship

  • Linda Philips (2011)

Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring

  • D Jean Clandinin (2009)
  • Todd Rogers (2005)

Killam Annual Professorship

  • Mark Gierl (2018)
  • Anna Kirova (2018)
  • Andre Grace (2011)
  • jan jagodzinski (2011)
  • Rauno Parrila (2010)
  • Margaret Mackey (2009)
  • Tracey Derwing (2008)
  • Stephen Norris (2006)
  • Max van Manen (2005)
  • D Jean Clandinin (2005)
  • Linda Phillips (2004)
  • D Jean Clandinin (2003)
  • Richard Sobsey (2000)
  • Graham Fishburne (1997)
  • Carolyn Yewchuk (1995)
  • Tom Kieren (1994)
  • Ronna Jevne (1991)

Larry Beauchamp Senior Research Fellow

  • Martin Mrazik (2019/20)
  • Andre Grace (2018/19)
  • Larry Prochner (2017/18)
  • Mark Gierl (2016)
  • Margaret Mackey (2015)
  • Tracey Derwing (2011)
  • Stephen Norris (2010)
  • Jan Jagodzinski (2009)
  • Jean Clandinin (2008)
  • Linda Phillips (2007)

Martha Cook Piper Research Prize

  • George Georgiou (2014)
  • Lisa Given (2010)
  • Mark Gierl (2006)
  • Judy Cameron (2002)

McCalla Professorship

  • George Georgiou (2018/19)
  • Christina Rinaldi (2014)
  • Elaine Simmt (2012)
  • Ingrid Johnston (2011)
  • Ali Abdi (2009)
  • André Grace (2008)
  • Alison Taylor (2007)

McCalla Research Professorship

  • Margaret Mackey (2006)
  • David Smith (2005)
  • Judy Cameron (2004)
  • jan jagodzinski (2003)
  • Linda Phillips (2002)
  • Pat Rowell (2001)
  • Linda McDonald (2000)
  • Joyce Bainbridge (1999)
  • Graham Fishburne (1998)
  • Marg Iveson (1997)
  • Carolyn Yewchuk (1997)
  • Daiyo Sawada (1996)
  • Todd Rogers (1995)
  • Ronna Jevne (1994)
  • John Osborne (1993)
  • Don Sawatzky (1993)
  • Richard Sobsey (1992)
  • Robert Carney (1991)
  • John Mitchell (1991)
  • Max Van Manen (1990)
  • Tom Kieren (1989)
  • Lorraine Wilgosh (1989)
  • Bruce Bain (1989)
  • Robert Mulcahy (1987)
  • William Fagan (1986)
  • Steve Hunka (1985)
  • Heidi Kass (1985)
  • Charles Anderson (1984)
  • Kazim Bacchus (1984)
  • Tom Maguire (1983)
  • Michael Rodda (1983)
  • Gerry Kysela (1982)
  • Erwin Miklos (1982)
  • Robert Patterson (1981)

UNESCO Prize for Peace Education

  • Swee-Hin Toh (2000)

Members of the Faculty

Officers of the Faculty

Dean

  • J Tupper, PhD

Vice-Dean and Associate Dean (Academic)

  • L McGarvey, PhD

Associate Dean (Research)

  • D Larsen, PhD

Associate Dean (Graduate Studies)

  • E Simmt, PhD

Acting Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programs and Services)

  • M. Doherty, PhD

Associate Dean (Undergraduate Teacher Education)

  • W Dunn, PhD

Assistant Dean (Finance and Administration)

  • Y Norton, BA

Assistant Dean (Advancement)

  • S Mowat, BEd

Manager, Undergraduate Student Services

  • H Kennedy-Plant, MEd

Program Director, International Initiatives

  • L de Fabrizio, MA

Faculty Adjunct Colleagues

  • H Bach, PhD
  • C Blackstock, PhD
  • L Booi, BEd
  • C Desrochers, PhD
  • J Harley, PhD
  • K Howery, PhD
  • L Macy, PhD
  • L Paradis, PhD
  • M Phair, MEd
  • F Whiskeyjack, Elder First Nations
  • L Wright, PhD

Educational Policy Studies

Chair 

  • L Prochner, PhD

Professors

  • JL da Costa, EdD
  • D Da Costa, PhD
  • HA Kanuka, PhD
  • DP Kapoor, PhD
  • L Shultz, PhD
  • JM Sousa, PhD
  • B Stelmach, PhD
  • MW Stewart Harawira, PhD
  • C Weber-Pillwax, PhD
  • RJ Wimmer, EdD

Associate Professors

  • J Aniuk, PhD
  • S Carpenter, PhD
  • A Da Costa, PhD
  • D Hunter, PhD
  • R Sockbeson, PhD
  • E Steinhauer, PhD

Assistant Professors

  • N Steinhauer, PhD
  • P Steinhauer, PhD

Adjunct Colleagues

  • J Carr, MEd
  • S Carr-Stewart, PhD
  • V Cawagas, EdD
  • D Clément, PhD
  • Cleveland-Innes, Martha, PhD
  • EJ Crier, BA
  • L D’Elia, MEd
  • R Guimarães-Iosif, PhD
  • E Lemaire, PhD
  • P McRae, PhD
  • K Pashby, PhD
  • T Prete, PhD
  • A Schrader, PhD
  • M Swanson, PhD
  • TL Thompson, PhD
  • P Timanson, PhD
  • S Wilson, PhD
  • K Wells, PhD
  • N Yanitski, EdD
  • L Yochim, PhD

Assistant Chair (Administration)

  • I Martyniak, BCom, MEd

Educational Psychology

Professor and Chair

  • GH Buck, PhD

Professors

  • PM Boechler, PhD
  • MD Carbonaro, PhD
  • M Cutumisu, PhD
  • LM Daniels, PhD
  • GK Georgiou, PhD
  • MJ Gierl, PhD
  • A Grace, PhD
  • DJ Larsen, PhD
  • JP Leighton, PhD
  • LM McQuarrie, PhD
  • M Mrazik, PhD
  • JR Pei, PhD
  • CA Poth, PhD
  • CM Rinaldi, PhD
  • V Smith, PhD
  • D Truscott, PhD
  • WJ Whelton, PhD

Associate Professors

  • M Abbott, PhD
  • O Bulut, PhD
  • D Cormier, PhD
  • Y Cui, PhD
  • W Hanson, PhD
  • J Harley, PhD
  • D Hayward, PhD
  • Y Jiang, PhD
  • S King, PhD
  • A McInnes, PhD
  • N Merali, PhD
  • L Ranta, PhD
  • KJ Van Vliet, PhD
  • L Wade Woolley, PhD
  • SC Yohani, PhD

Assistant Professors

  • H Brown, PhD
  • R Hudson Breen, PhD
  • K Lee
  • P Sevigny, PhD
  • M Tremblay, MEd

Adjunct Colleagues

  • R Adkins, PhD
  • S Antonucci, PhD
  • D Armstrong, MEd
  • O Babenko, PhD
  • A Baird, MA
  • S Barford, PhD
  • A Barlow, PhD
  • S Brenton-Haden, PhD
  • D Brown, PhD
  • L Calvert, MEd
  • O Cankaya, PhD
  • S Carter, PhD
  • W Chambers, PhD
  • L Chmiliar, PhD
  • C Cumming, PhD
  • T Devost, MEd
  • J Dicks, PhD
  • M DiStasio
  • T Dorn, MEd
  • C Duff, PhD
  • TL Duncan, MEd
  • JC Dunn, PhD
  • W Dunn, PhD
  • K Dushinski, PhD
  • K Dykshorn, MEd
  • W Edey, MEd
  • S ElAtia, PhD
  • J Eliuk, PhD
  • J Foote, PhD
  • L Fraser, MA
  • A Funamoto, PhD
  • G Gaine, PhD
  • RO Gervais, PhD
  • M Guardado, PhD
  • J Harley, PhD
  • WL Hawkins, PhD
  • M Hebert, PhD
  • P Hill, PhD
  • S Hoover, PhD
  • CL House, PhD
  • M Jahnukainen, PhD
  • T Janzen, PhD
  • Y Jiang, PhD
  • L Johnson, PhD
  • M Kadambi, PhD
  • R Klassen, PhD
  • S Knish, PhD
  • N Kostiuk, PhD
  • G Lefrancois, PhD
  • Y Legris, PhD
  • M Lewis, MD
  • N Liwski Hanson, PhD
  • R Lucardie, PhD
  • L MacKay, PhD
  • R Major, PhD
  • D Mark, PhD
  • D Massey, PhD
  • V Massey, PhD
  • K Merritt, PhD
  • J Moench, PhD
  • B Monkhouse, PhD
  • L Moussu, PhD
  • M Nelson, PhD
  • M Nicoll, PhD
  • L Offrey, PhD
  • A Oswald, MEd
  • T Pino, Med
  • T Pott, PhD
  • W Randall, PhD
  • C Rasmussen, PhD
  • T Rieck, PhD
  • L Rose, PhD
  • M Ross, PhD
  • S Ross, PhD
  • K Schalk, PhD
  • G Shoepp, PhD
  • D St. Arnault, PhD
  • G Stewart, PhD
  • C Stratton, MEd
  • J Tremblay, PhD
  • J Turner, PhD
  • S Varnhagen, PhD
  • JS White, PhD
  • E Wikman, PhD
  • J Wiley, Med
  • G Wong, PhD

Assistant Chair (Administration)

  • E Grieve, MLIS

Elementary Education

Associate Professor and Chair

  • J Pegg, PhD

Professors

  • HA Blair, PhD
  • JL Branch-Mueller, PhD
  • J Huber, PhD
  • M Kim, PhD
  • A Kirova, PhD
  • L Laidlaw, PhD
  • LM McGarvey, PhD
  • C Peck, PhD
  • PV Pente, PhD
  • L Prochner, EdD

Associate Professors

  • T Cardinal, PhD
  • D Gleddie, PhD
  • PJ McFeetors, PhD
  • KM Robinson, PhD
  • L Wiltse, PhD

Assistant Professors

  • S Khan, PhD
  • L Menna, PhD
  • S Peltier, PhD

Adjunct Colleagues

  • B Bradford, PhD
  • R Nixon, PhD
  • T Paszek, PhD
  • H Pearse, PhD
  • H Raymond, PhD
  • J Rodger, PhD
  • K Smith, PhD
  • S Woitte, PhD
  • S Wong, PhD

Assistant Chair (Administration)

  • V Grabia, MA

School of Library and Information Studies

Chair

  • A Samek, PhD

Professor

  • A Shiri, PhD

Associate Professors

  • M McNally, PhD
  • T Oliphant, PhD
  • D Rathi, PhD
  • D Zhao, PhD

Assistant Professors

  • D Allard, PhD
  • B Reyes Ayala, PhD
  • A Worrall, PhD

Adjunct Colleagues

  • D Demers, PhD
  • G deVos, MLS
  • P Martinez, MLIS
  • F Tough, PhD

Assistant Chair, Administration 

  • I Martyniak, BCom. MEd

Secondary Education

Professor and Interim Chair

  • TJ Dust, DMusEduc

Professors

  • CA Adams, PhD
  • OSE Bilash, PhD
  • DH Conrad, PhD
  • K den Heyer, PhD
  • WE Dunn, PhD
  • FA Glanfield, PhD
  • jj jagodzinski, PhD
  • ESM Simmt, PhD
  • GP Thomas, PhD
  • J Wallin, PhD
  • B Watt, PhD

Associate Professors

  • DW Chorney, PhD
  • A Fidyk, PhD
  • DT Donald, PhD
  • C Eppert, PhD
  • S Lessard, PhD
  • NM Nocente, EdD

Assistant Professors

  • M Higgins, PhD
  • D Lewkowich, PhD
  • L Sulz, PhD
  • C van Kessel, PhD

Adjunct Colleagues

  • W Abdul Jabbar, PhD
  • A Binde, PhD
  • R Cardinal, Sr
  • W Diefenthaler, MA
  • F Elliott, PhD
  • E Ghostkeeper, MA
  • M Hoven, PhD
  • M Mackey, PhD
  • J Mgombelo, PhD
  • R Petryshyn, PhD
  • R Ritter, PhD
  • F Shariff, PhD
  • M Van Manen, PhD
  • D Wiseman, PhD

Assistant Chair (Administration)

  • V Grabia, MA

Education Centres Canadian Centre for Research on Literacy Director

  • L Laidlaw, Ph.D. (Interim Director 2019-2020)

Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research Director

  • L Shultz, PhD

Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education Co-Directors

  • M Kim, PhD
  • J McFeetors, PhD

Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation Director

  • M Gierl, PhD

Centre for Research in Teacher Education and Development Director

  • B Watt, PhD

Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services Executive Directors

  • G Lieb, PhD

JP Das Centre on Development and Learning Disabilities Director

  • G Georgiou, PhD

Western Canadian Centre for Deaf Studies Director

  • vacant

Additional Members of Faculty Council

President and Vice-Chancellor

  • B Flanagan

One Representative from the following Faculties:

  • Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Arts
  • Augustana Campus
  • Business
  • Extension
  • Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
  • Campus Saint-Jean
  • Native Studies
  • Nursing
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Science

Herbert T Coutts Library

  • One Representative

Alberta Education

  • One Representative

Alberta Teachers’ Association

  • One Representative

Education Students’ Association

  • Two Representatives

Graduate Students’ Association

  • Two Representatives

Non-academic Staff

  • Two Representatives

Sessional Staff

  • Two Representatives

Non-Voting Members

  • Director, Professional Learning Unit
  • Space & Facilities Manager