2. The Centre for Education Research
(CER)
Literacy & Learning
Leadership in Education
Arts-based Education
Education for Inclusion & Social Justice
Three main partner groups:
• Researchers from the University of Prince Edward Island
(particularly from the Faculty of Education)
• Graduate students from UPEI (particularly from the Faculty of
Education)
• Affiliate partners who are active researchers from the
educational community, including faculty members from other
universities in Canada and beyond
3. Ray Doiron
Director, CER
Professor, Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• New Literacies and New Libraries
• Reading Motivation/Promotion
• Creating a culture for literacy in the community
• Reading at Home & School
Current Projects
• WorldReaders
• Eating Between the Lines
• Research in Early Childhood Development
• New Learners @UPEI
4. Alexander (Sandy) McAulay
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Knowledge-building technology and pedagogy
• Online knowledge-building environments
• Culture and media
Current Projects:
• New Learners @UPEI
5. Audrey Penner
Director: Adult Education, Learner
Supports, & Applied Research Holland
College
Research Interests:
• Developmental learning for adults
• Quality in higher-education environments and services
• Performance measures in educational delivery
• The integration of essential skills into adult learning
• Academic success for adult learners in post-secondary
programs
• Supporting transformational opportunities for learners
Current Projects:
• Island Prosperity Back to Basics
6. Basil Favaro
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Learning for enterprise
• Indigenous education
• Inclusive education
• Education for equity and social justice
Current Projects:
• Grade 3 Social Studies Provincial Identity Textbook
for PEI, 2008--2009
• Advocacy and Leadership: Enhancing Educational and
Employability Opportunities for Persons with
Disabilities
• Success for Schools for Mi’kmaq Learners on Prince
Edward Island
• Reflections on the UPEI Faculty of Education Pre-
Service Program by the Graduates 1999--2007
7. Carla DiGiorgio
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Adults with learning difficulties
• Secondary education for gifted students
• Inclusive education
Current Projects:
•Evaluation of newborn family literacy programs in the
Maritime provinces
•Advocacy and leadership: Enhancing educational and
employment opportunities for persons with disabilities
•Longitudinal study of the implementation of the
International Baccalaureate program
8. Fiona Walton
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Inuit and Indigenous education and health
• Inuit educational leadership
• Foucauldian ethics in education
• Family literacy
• Issues relating to diversity in education
• Knowledge exchange and translation
• Resilience in the teaching profession
Current Projects:
• Sivuniksaliurjiit--Paving the Way: Improving Educationa
Outcomes in Nunavut Through Community
Engagement and Parent Involvement
• Lighting the Quilliq: Developing Inuit Educational
Leaders in Nunavut
• Promoting Educational Success for Mi’kmaq Learners
on Prince Edward Island
9. Graham Pike
Dean, International Education
Vancouver Island University
Research Interests:
• Global education
• Education for sustainable development
• Citizenship education
• Internationalizing teacher education
10. J. Tim Goddard
Dean, Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Educational leadership and administration
• Role of cultural and demographic change on
schools (especially in minority and marginalized
populations)
Current Projects:
• An examination of the effects of the exam
exemption policy at Colonel Gray High School
• The 1st Charlottetown Conversation - Ethical
educational leadership within a context of diversity
• Examining perceptions of academic success among
minority culture students
• Promoting Educational Success for Mi’kmaq
Learners on Prince Edward Island
• Barriers and facilitators of academic success for
minority children in PEI schools
11. Jennifer Taylor
Associate Professor
Family & Nutritional Sciences
Research Interests:
• Nutrition education using a literacy perspective
• School Nutrition Policies, school food environment
• Dietary assessment
• Food security
Current Projects:
• SNAP (School nutrition and Activity Project):
Evaluating impact of school nutrition policies
• Eating Between the Lines
• Nutritional Assessment in Kenyan children
12. Kate Tilleczek
Canada Research Chair:
Youth Cultures & Transitions
Research Interests:
• Marginality & Youth
• Education & Developmental Health of Youth
• Children’s Mental Health
Current Projects:
• Communicating Knowledge Differently through Artistic
Expression: The Early Psychosis Mural Projects in Secondary
Schools
• Youth Mental Health in Rural Canadian Schools: an Arts-
informed Conversation
• Mapping the Pathways and Processes of Transition from
Elementary to Secondary School: A Long-Term Ethnographic
Study (2007--2010)
13. Miles Turnbull
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
•French as a second language (core and immersion)
•Code switching
•Teacher development
•Teacher belief system
•Project-based and experiential learning
•Educational technology
Current Projects:
• Une approche littératiée pour apprendre les sciences et la
langue en immersion française
14. Khym Goslin
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Advancing new perspectives regarding instructional
leadership
• Constellation frameworks that help describe/assess
instructional leadership practice
15. Martha Gabriel
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Research interests:
• Literacy/multiliteracies
• Web2.0 technologies and pedagogy
• E-learning
• Teaching/learning online
• Mentoring
• Knowledge exchange and translation
• Qualitative research design
Current Projects:
• New Learners@ UPEI
• Research in Early Childhood
• AIRS
16. Ronald MacDonald
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Science pedagogy
• Communities of practice
• Leadership in learning
• Gender issues in science education
• Web 2.0 integration in teacher education
• Bridging the University coursework and school
practicum divide
Current Projects:
• New Learners @UPEI
17. Sean Wiebe
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Poetic inquiry
• Curriculum theory
• Writing pedagogy
• Autobiographical research
• Teacher narratives
• Arts-Based methodologies
• A/r/tography
• Critical literacy
Current Projects:
• Building Skills and Confidence in Adolescent Dependent Readers
• Understanding the influence of the global dimension of digital literacies
on learning and writing in a university environment
18. Suzanne Thomas
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Arts-informed research methods
• Transdisiplinary research
• Art and social justice
• Potential of arts to promote social change
19. Tess Miller
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Research Interests:
• Classroom and Large-scale Assessment
• Mathematics Education
• Quantitative Methods
Current Projects:
• Using Differential Item Functioning in Non-
traditional Areas
• Impact of Large-scale Teacher Working Committee
Experience on Teachers’ Assessment Practices
