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• Research Interests: Language and literacy education; teacher education for literacy; children's literature.
   
• Work In Progress: A three-year study of teacher education for literacy teaching being conducted at three Candian universities.  The study follows a group of beginning teachers through their 4th year of teacher education and into the first two years of their teaching careers.  The focus is on the participants' needs as literacy teachers, the supports provided by the profession, and the teachers reflections on the literacy courses they took in their pre-service program.
   
• E-mail: joyce.bainbridge@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.3751
   
• Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~jb5/Homepage.html
   

• Research Interests: Language arts education; middle years education; Aboriginal education; adolescent literature; gender equity; gender and language.
   
• Work In Progress: Ongoing explorations of gender and literacy as well as research into single gender schooling in Western Canada.
   
• E-mail: heather.blair@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0921
   
• Research website link: http://www.education.ualberta.ca/boysandliteracy/

Branch, JL BA, BEd, MLIS, PhD (Alberta).
 

• Research Interests: School librarianship; information literacy; think aloud method; information seeking and use.
   
• Work In Progress: Pre-service teachers' understandings of information literacy; understanding the information-seeking behaviours of distance learning students.
   
• E-mail: jbranch@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0863

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Clandinin, DJ BA, MEd, PhD (Toronto).
 

• Research Interests: Teacher education and development; curriculum theory; classroom practice; practical knowledge; narrative inquiry.
   
• Work In Progress: A major multi-sited project exploring the ways contexts shape and are shaped by teachers' personal practical knowledge; editing a major handbook on narrative research methodologies; a reflective inquiry project with physicians-in-training and beginning physicians; a study of the intergenerational impact of family stories of school on youth; a narrative inquiry into the intersection of children's, family's, teachers' and administrators' stories of school.
• E-mail: jean.clandinin@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.7770 

Cooley, GM BFA, BEd, MA, PhD (Concordia).
 

• Research Interests: Art Education, aesthetic creative inquiry processes, reflective practitioner research in the arts classroom, image based research, aesthetic response to visual aspects of contemporary culture, visual arts and electronic media, video and photo installation, documentary film, collaborative research, narrative inquiry.
   
• Work In Progress: Photo installation, documentary film, reflective practitioner research in the art/drama classroom, art and research as performance, the visual aesthetics of cyber culture, the Art in arts integrated curriculum.
   
• E-mail: gcooley@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0902

D

• Research Interests: Choral music/choral music education; the use of handbells in music education; elementary music education; Orff-Schulwerk. (Joint appointment with Department of Music).
   
• Work In Progress: Influences of a post-practicum collaborative curriculum project on the practice of elementary music teachers; the relationship of second-language learning and music learning.
• E-mail: bob.de.frece@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0931

E

• Research Interests: Space and place; school-based mentorship programs; researching children's perspectives; gender issues; multiculturalism; narrative inquiry; teacher-as-researcher; interpretive inquiry.
   
• Work In Progress: Research on mentorship programs; research on space and place in multidisciplinary literature.
   
• E-mail: julia.ellis@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0932

F

• Research Interests: Motor learning and motor development in children; psychological aspects associated with motor behavior; movement and hemispheric brain differences; visual and kinesthetic imagery development in children; instructional strategies and effective teaching.
   
• Work In Progress: Exemplary teachers' use of imagery in the preparation, planning and organization of effective instruction.
   
• E-mail: graham.fishburne@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0922

G

• Research Interests: Social studies education; problem based learning and learning to teach; preservice teachers' historical knowledge and its influence on their thinking about pedagogy, and the integration of computer technologies into teacher education.
   
• Work In Progress: Thinking Differently About Technology Enhanced Learning Environments: A Faculty Professional Development Project, and a Study of Preservice Teachers' Historical Understanding: From Theory to Practice.
   
• E-mail: susan.e.gibson@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0545
   
• Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~segibson/

 Gustafson, BJ BSc, MEd, PhD (Alberta).
 

• Research Interests: Science and technology education; children's conceptions of science; elementary science program development; preservice teacher education.
   
• Work In Progress: Preservice teacher education; design technology education for young children; science discourse practices.
   
• E-mail: brenda.gustafson@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0872

H

• Research Interests: Physical education, effective teaching, teacher preparation, inclusive physical education, Olympic Education.
   
• Work In Progress: Effective teaching in physical education, conceptions of successful teaching; subject area differences.
   
• E-mail: chickson@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0918

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Kirova, A PhD (Sofia, Bulgaria) PhD (Alberta).
 

• Research Interests: Early childhood education; gender fair classroom practice; social-emotional development; early development of logical-mathematical thinking; young children and computer technology; peer relationships and loneliness; early childhood educators as researchers; action research.
   
• Work In Progress: Pedagogical implications of loneliness in culturally and linguistically diverse children; a collaborative research project on preschool children's learning of mathematical concepts and their subsequent transfer to a more abstract medium such as computer technology, in a gender fair classroom; action research as a tool of professional development.
   
• E-mail: anna.kirova@ualberta.ca
• Phone: 780.492.0913

L

• Research Interests: Early literacy and the education of young children; diversity; adopted children and schools; drama education; ecological approaches in curriculum and research; teacher education.
   
• Work In Progress: Longitudinal study of internation adoption and normative structures in education; use of complexity science to refram curriculum practices,; using drama to explore 'writerly' texts.
   
• E-mail: llaidlaw@ualberta.ca
   
• Phone: 780.492.0884

Leroy, CA BA, BEd, MEd, PhD (Alberta).
 

• Research Interests: Literacy and pedagogy in elementary classrooms; reading and writing difficulties; education for children "at risk" because of their social circumstances; case study research.
   
• Work In Progress: Childrens conceptions of literacy; teachers' beliefs about reading instruction for children in difficulty; literacy-based mentorship programs.
   

• E-mail: carol.leroy@ualberta.ca

• Phone: 780.492.0923

Long, JS BSc, BEd, MEd, PhD (Alberta).
 

• Research interests: mathematics education, ethic of care, care theory, classroom practice, narrative and phenomenological research traditions.
   
• Works in progress: Care for students and care for mathematical ideas in an elementary classroom; A day in the life of an elementary classroom; Mathematical sites of care.
  
• E-mail: jslong@ualberta.ca
   
• Phone: 780.492.5837

M

• Research Interests: Writing theory and pedagogy; literacy; teacher education and professional development; literature for adolescents; middle years education; case studies, action research.
   
• Work In Progress: National survey of the teaching of writing; classroom case studies in multiliteracy teaching and learning; young adolescent writers composing in new writing environments.
   
• E-mail: jill.mcclay@ualberta.ca 
   
• Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~jmcclay

McGarvey, LM BEd, MEd, PhD (Alberta).

• Research Interests: Mathematics education; mathematical reasoning and explanation; mathematical understanding of young children; sociocultural cognition; curriculum theory and development; hermeneutics and ecological perspectives in research.
   
• Work In Progress: Mathematical reasoning in young children; curriculum development and assessment in early childhood mathematics education.
   
• E-mail: lynn.mcgarvey@ualberta.ca
   
• Phone: 780.492.2436 

 Montgomery, AP BA, MAT, DMusEd (With Distinction) (Indiana).
 

• Research Interests: Music literacy; music teacher education; elementary school music; and early childhood music.
• Work In Progress: Relationship between emergent music literacy and emergent language literacy; and reflective inquiry for pre-service music education students.
   
• E-mail: amanda.montgomery@ualberta.ca
   
• Phone: 780.492.0914

O

• Research Interests: School librarianship; teaching the research process; the process of change in education; program implementation.
   
• Work In Progress: Internet use in schools; the role of affect in students' information search and use; the role of the principal in school library program implementation.
   
• E-mail: doberg@ualberta.ca
   
• Phone: 780.492.2267
   
• Websites: http://www.ualberta.ca/~doberg/  http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/faculty_doberg.htm

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Peck, C BA (Combined Honours), BEd (with Distinction), MEd, PhD (UBC).