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Thelma Akyea
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Black women in Canadian physics
Daniel Atkinson
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Food education; health education; science education
Pamela Brittain
Alumnus
Research Interests: Mathematics (elementary and pre-service teachers)
Selected Publications:
Brittain, P. (2021). Addressing math content knowledge and math anxiety in a teacher education program [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toronto, Ontario. https://hdl.handle.net/1807/106329
Jennifer Calix
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Mathematics education and technology education research; curriculum and pedagogy
Stacy Costa
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Mathematics; knowledge building; online learning; idea trajectories; STEM; collaborative learning; collaborative annotation; computational thinking; authoritative sources; innovation in schools
Selected Publications:
- Costa, S. A., Danesi, M., & Martinovic, D. (Eds.). (2020). Mathematics (education) in the information age. Springer.
- Costa, S. (2019). Knowledge building, mathematics, and creative thinking: An overview on Ontario elementary mathematical teaching beyond twenty-first-century skills. In M. Danesi (Ed.), Interdisciplinary perspectives on math cognition (pp. 277-286). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
James Crimmins
Alumnus
Research Interests: STEM education in elementary French Immersion schools
Sarah El Halwany
Alumnus
Research Interests: Affect/emotions in science education; STSE education
Selected Publications:
- El Halwany, S., Zouda, M., Pouliot, C., & Bencze, L. (2020). Student-teachers’ relationships to knowledge and to their practices for critical and activist STSE education. In K. W. Clausen & G. Black (Eds.), The future of action research in education: A Canadian perspective (pp. 171-193). McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- El Halwany, S., Bencze, L., Hassan, N., Schaffer, K., Milanovic, M., & Zouda, M. (2021). Becoming alive within science education (research): Thinking with life history(ies), bodies and stickiness. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 16(1), 85-107.
Sofia Ferreyro-Mazieres
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Mathematics education
Darlee Gerrard
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Science/engineering/STEM education; experiential and co-curricular learning; access to/equity in education leadership/outdoor/environmental education
Selected Publications:
Gitari, W. & Gerrard, D. (2017). Prioritizing scientific discourse by adult learners: An analysis of student writing using Bloom’s taxonomy. International Journal of Adult, Community and Professional Learning, 24(1), 15-30.
Alysse Kennedy
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Environmental and sustainability education in teacher education; EcoSchools and green schools programming; Environmental education and communication
Selected Publication:
- Inwood, H., & Kennedy, A. (2020). Conceptualizing art education as environmental activism in preservice teacher education. The International Journal of Art & Design Education, 39(3), 585-599.
- Inwood, H. J., & Kennedy, A. (2020). Exploring how university and school board partnerships can integrate professional development in environmental and sustainability education. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 23(1), 68-84.
- Inwood, H., & Kennedy, A. (2021, April). Integrating in-service and pre-service professional learning in ESE [Conference presentation]. EECOM 2021 Research Symposium, Online.
Rubaina Khan
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Engineering education; engineering design; learning communities; online learning
Selected Publications:
- Khan, R., & Slotta, J. (2020, October). Fostering learning communities in engineering design education: A critical discourse analysis of engineering syllabi [Conference presentation]. 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference. doi: 10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9274012
- Romkey L., Dawe N., & Khan, R., (2020). What is engineering science? Defining a discipline through a cross-institutional comparison and a multi-institutional workshop. 2020 Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA), Montreal, Canada. https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.vi0.14168
- Khan, R., Phillips, C., & Burke, L. E. C. (2021). Engineering in K-12 STEM education: Navigating interpretations of learning within and between divergent knowledge traditions [Conference presentation]. American Education Research Association (AERA) Conference, Online.
Eitan Laufer
Alumnus
Research Interests: Equity issues in STEM education; K-12 education
Selected Publications:
Laufer, E. D. S. (2020). The Underrepresentation of Youth from Low-income Communities in STEM Education: A Case Study Illustration from One Organization Seeking to Confront this Situation [Master’s thesis]. University of Toronto, Ontario. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/103793
Chelsie Leger
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Mathematics education; transitions in mathematics
Rachael Lewitzky
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Online learning; instructional design; user experience; UDL; accessibility; adult learning; post-secondary education; STEM
Asia Majeed
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Mathematics education
Claudia Mandekic
Alumnus
Research Interests: Math education and academic engagement through sports
Nurul Hassan Mohammad
Graduate Student
Research Interests: STEM education; identity; postsecondary education; higher education
Selected Publications:
- El Halwany, S., Bencze, L., Hassan, N., Schaffer, K., Milanovic, M., & Zouda, M. (2021). Becoming alive within science education (research): thinking with life history (ies), bodies and stickiness. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 16(1), 85-107. https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1007/s11422-020-09994-4
- Nurul Hassan. (2016). Ground Water Depletion Due To Water Mining– A Threat. Journal of Environmental Science, Computer Science, and Engineering & Technology, 5(Mar-May, 2016), Sec-A, 129-136.
Rumina Musani
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Medical education/pathology education; collaborative online learning
Selected Publications:
- Sutherland, D. R., & Musani, R. (2019). Re: Blaha J et al.: The monoclonal anti-CD157 antibody clone SY11B5, used for high sensitivity detection of PNH clones on WBCs, fails to detect a common polymorphic variant encoded by BST-1. Cytometry Part B, (Clinical Cytometry), 96(1), 16-18.
- Memon, S., Crump, M., & Musani, R. (2019). Rapidly progressive therapy-related myeloid neoplasm in a patient treated for Burkitt lymphoma: A case report. Human Pathology: Case Reports, 16(100285), 1-4.
- Musani, R., Okinda, N., & Philip, D. N. (2018). A bloody tale of two cities: A study of an online hematopathology course among students in Toronto and Nairobi. SSRN. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3172340
Ana Maria Navas Iannini
Alumnus
Research Interests: Science education; science communication and museum education
Selected Publications:
- Pedretti, E., & Navas Iannini, A. M. (2020). Controversy in science museums: Re-imagining exhibition spaces and practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429507588
- Pedretti, E., & Navas Iannini, A. M. (2020). Towards fourth-generation science museums: Changing goals, changing roles. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 20(4), 700-714.
Anuli Ndubuisi
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Engineering education; collaborative learning; active learning; learning in diverse virtual teams
Selected Publications:
- Ndubuisi, A., Khan, R., Marzi, E., & Edun, O. (2020, October). A KCI approach to promote intercultural competencies for international virutal [sic] engineering student teams (InVEST). [Conference presentation]. 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference. doi: 10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9274093
- Ndubuisi, A., Khan, R., Marzi, E., & Edun, O. (2020, September). InVEST: Integrating virtual collaboration and intercultural competencies in engineering education. [Conference presentation]. 2020 International Conference on Technology and Entrepreneurship (ICTE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ ICTE47868.2020.9215541
- Ndubuisi, A., Marzi, E., & Slotta, J. (2021) Cross-cultural virtual team projects: International virtual engineering student teams. In S. Stephanie, B. Barbosa, I. Crawford & S. Luck (Eds.), Developments in virtual learning environments and the global workplace (pp. 86-107). IGI Global.
Zoya Padamsi
Alumnus
Research Interests: Curriculum development; STSE; interdisciplinary collaborations
Selected Publications:
- Padamsi, Z. (2017). Why pursue STEM when we have STSE? A Canadian perspective. Journal for Activist Science and Technology Education, 8(1), 18-20.
Sa'diyya Parnell-Hendrickson
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Mathematics education; self-regulated learning
Nadia Qureshi
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Experiences of Black and racialized students in accessing STEM post-secondary studies
Selected Publications:
- Elias, P., Luk, A., Perry, J., Qureshi, N., & Wyper, L. (2021). Adult literacy policy and practitioners. In S. M. Brigham, R. McGray & K. Jubas (Eds.), Adult education and learning in Canada: Advancing a critical legacy. Thompson Books.
- Bencze, L., El Halwany, S., Milanovic, M., Qureshi, N., & Zouda, M. (2019). Bloqueios ao engajamento cívico crítico e ativo na/através da Ciência Escolar: Histórias do Campo. [Roadblocks to critical and active civic engagement in/through school science: Stories from the field.] Educação e Fronteiras, 9(25), 47-70.
- Elias, P. & Qureshi, N. (2019, June). Adult education and transitional learning: Interrogating “transition” in literacy and basic skills programming. In J. P. Egan (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th CASAE annual conference (p. 342-348). Ottawa, ON: Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE).
Kristen Schaffer
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Informal science education; critical practitioner inquiry; community based research; ecology education; ecotourism
Selected Publications:
- Schaffer, K. (2021, Apr). Learning to be community-responsive: An informal educator’s attempt to recognize children’s funds of scientific knowledge. Paper presentation at the American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Virtual.
- El Halwany, S., Bencze, L., Hassan, N., Schaffer, K., Milanovic, M., & Zouda, M. (2021). Becoming alive within science education (research): thinking with life history (ies), bodies and stickiness. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 16(1), 85-107. https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1007/s11422-020-09994-4
- Schaffer, K. & El Halwany, S. (2020). Feeling environmental policing: Possibilities and challenges for socio-ecological justice. CSSE-CACS 2020 Proceedings in the Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 18(1), pp. 171-172. Retrieved from https://jcacs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jcacs/article/view/40539
Desiree Sylvestre
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Identity development; science teacher identity development; positionality; agency
Joseph Wilson
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Metaphor studies; laboratory life; discourse analysis; artificial intelligence; communicating science
Selected Publications:
- Wilson, J. (2021, March). The ghost in the machine: Emergent metaphors of ‘virtual’ and ‘artificial’ in computer science in the 1950s. Workshop presented at Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Online.
- Wilson, J. (2021). Decaying words: The Metaphor of evolution in language becomes literal in a Canadian forest. Technology and Language, 2(1), 26-36.
- Wilson, J. (2020). Constraints on generality: The (mis-) use of generic propositions in scientific prose. The Digital Scholar: Philosopher’s Lab, 3(1), 51-66.
Majd Zouda
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Activist science education; STSE; socioscientific issues; STEM education; elite schools; action research; critical discourse analysis
Selected Publications:
- Zouda, M., Tsoubaris, D., El Halwany, S., Milanovic, M., Nurul-Hassan, M., [sic] Rahman, S.S., & Bencze, L. (2021, February). Values negotiations and constructs of sociotechnical imaginaries in a school science course. In J. L. Bencze (Presider), Promoting sociopolitical civic engagement through science and technology education: Ontological, epistemological, methodological and axiological considerations [Symposium presentation]. International Organization for Science and Technology Education 2020 (IOSTE 2020) Conference, Daegu, Korea.
- Zouda, M. (2018). Issues of power and control in STEM education: A reading through the postmodern condition. Cultural Studies of Science Education,13(4), 1109-1128.
- Zouda, M., Nishizawa, T., & Bencze, L. (2017). ‘In the eye of the hurricane’: Using STEPWISE to address urgent socio-political issues in Venezuela. In L. Bencze (Ed.), Science and Technology Education Promoting Wellbeing of Individuals, Societies and Environments. (pp. 339-357). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.