Program Assistant | Education, University of Regina

Audrey Aamodt

Lecturer
Elementary Education Program

Office: ED 369
E-mail: Audrey.Aamodt@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4518
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Alayne Armstrong

Assistant Professor
Mathematics Education

Office: ED 324
E-mail: Alayne.Armstrong@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4607
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
My primary research interests focus on alternative ways of teaching and learning mathematics, particularly interdisciplinary approaches that promote the authority of all learners. I also study the nature of collective cognition in the mathematics classroom and the ways it may be documented.

Emily Ashton

Lecturer
Early Childhood Education

Office: ED 324
E-mail: Emily.Ashton@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4608
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Jesse Bazzul

Associate Professor
Science Education

Office: ED 327
E-mail: Jesse.Bazzul@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4529
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
My research interests revolve around social theory and its connection to structures of education, social and ecological justice, with a specific interest in the direction and development of science and environmental education. Currently, my scholarly work addresses how ethical subjectivities are constituted through education, as well as how these ethical subjectivities align (or do not align) with vital political struggles in/through education.

Buryl Bernard

Instructor
Health, Outdoor, Physical Education (HOPE)

Office: ED 375
E-mail: Buryl.Bernard@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4526
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Abu Bockarie

Associate Professor
Adult Education & Human Resource Development

Office: ED 221.3
E-mail: Abu.Bockarie@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5601
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Dr. Bockarie's areas of expertise are adult vocational and technical education and training, human resources development, literacy training, lifelong learning, innovations in instruction and learning, training of trainers, academy-industry relations, work-based training, and educational and training policy analysis. At present, he is conducting two major studies both of which are part of transdisciplinary research projects funded by SSHRCC. The research projects are entitled "Exploring the links among education, training and human resources development and productivity" and "The role of educationand training in social cohesion in Southern Saskatchewan." Dr. Bockarie's other research projects are: "The Use of Interactive Informational Technology in Instruction at the University of Regina"; "Analysis of Social Partnerships for Training: A Case Study of the Saskatchewan Labour Force Development Board"; and "A Study of the Organisation and Administration of Vocational and Technical Education in Saskatchewan." He is a co-applicant for a SSHRC Developmental grant to conduct a research on workplace training and development in Saskatchewan. Dr. Bockarie's previous research includes analysis of public policies in education and training in British Columbia, the vocational role of universities in British Columbia, and adult literacy and development in Sierra Leone. Several of Dr. Bockarie's research reports are now in the pre-publication stage. He has however prepared several conference reports.

Dr. Fadila Boutouchent

Associate Professor / Professeure adjointe
Programme du baccalauréat en éducation

Office: CT 124
E-mail: Fadila.Boutouchent@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5619
Fax: 306-585-4949

Dr. Melanie Brice

Assistant Professor
Indigenous Education, Language & Literacy Education, and Educational Core Studies

Office: ED 326
E-mail: Melanie.Brice@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5142
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Douglas Brown

Associate Professor
Social Studies Education

Office: ED 382
E-mail: Douglas.Brown@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4083
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Michael Cappello

Associate Professor
Educational Core Studies

Office: ED 376
E-mail: Michael.Cappello@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4606
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Laurie Carlson Berg

Professor / Professeure titulaire
Programme du baccalauréat en éducation (On Sabbatical from July 1 - December 31, 2019)

Office: CT 123
E-mail: Laurie.Carlson.Berg@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4524
Fax: 306-585-4949

Dr. Paul Clarke

Professor
Educational Leadership

Office: ED 337
E-mail: Paul.Clarke@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4626
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Alec Couros

Professor - Information and Communication Technologies; ICT Coordinator
Director, Faculty Based Research Centre

Office: ED 383
E-mail: Alec.Couros@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4739
Fax: 306-585-4880
Website: http://couros.ca/

Dr. Jerome Cranston

Dean
Professor

Office: ED 309
E-mail: Jerome.Cranston@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4500
Fax: 306-585-5330

Dr. Jenn de Lugt

Associate Professor
Inclusive Education and Educational Core Studies

Office: ED 239.1
E-mail: Jenn.deLugt@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4541
Fax: 306-585-4880

Jean Dufresne

Director / Directeur
Programme du baccalauréat en éducation

Office: CT 211.2
E-mail: Jean.Dufresne@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4527
Fax: 306-585-4949

Dr. Nick Forsberg

Professor
Health, Outdoor, Physical Education (HOPE)

Office: ED 384
E-mail: Nick.Forsberg@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4528
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Cindy Hanson

Professor and Director,
Adult Education & Human Resource Development

Office: ED 221.8
E-mail: Cindy.Hanson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4513
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests

I am interested in participatory, community based, and transformational forms of learning and research. My scholarship is linked to nonformal learning, equity issues, and research and facilitation methodologies. My funded research includes work on intergenerational learning in Indigenous communities, gender, and labour education. My research is local and global in scope.

Dr. Cristyne Hébert

Assistant Professor
Assessment and Evaluation; Educational Core Studies

Office: ED 397
E-mail: Cristyne.Hebert@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4625
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Dr. Hébert’s research examines barriers to engagement with digital literacies and multiliteracies in K-12 classrooms, including: teacher pedagogical support; curriculum, policies, and practices in teacher education; parental engagement; and issues of equity and access in technological and technologically-mediated environments. Her work with students, teachers, teacher candidates, and parents in this area has centered mainly on digital game-based learning, digital storytelling, and maker pedagogies. Dr. Hébert’s research also examines multimodal assessment practices, assessment in teaching and teacher education, reflective practice, place-based inquiry, and curriculum studies.

Dr. Xia Ji

Director, Professional Development and Field Experiences
Associate Professor - Science Education

Office: ED 355.16
E-mail: Xia.Ji@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4943
Fax: 306-585-4006

Dr. Anna-Leah King

Assistant Professor - Indigenous Education; Educational Core Studies; Language and Literacy Education
Chair, Indigenization

Office: ED 369
E-mail: Anna-Leah.King@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5071
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Patrick Lewis

Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Human Resources
Professor - Early Childhood Education

Office: ED 309
E-mail: Patrick.Lewis@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5353
Fax: 306-585-5330

Research interests

My area of teaching and research interests cut across several landscapes including but not limited to:

Early literacy
Play, Art and Narrative in Early Learning
Storytelling, Autoethnography, and Narrative Inquiry
Spirituality of Play
Treaty Education
Phenomenology
Hermeneutics

Julie Machnaik

Instructor, Educational Core Studies
Chair, Elementary Program

Office: ED 396
E-mail: Julie.Machnaik@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4602
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Ronald R. Martin

Associate Professor - Educational Psychology
MA / MSc Program in Gerontology Coordinator

Office: ED 378
E-mail: Ron.Martin@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4515
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Dr. Ronald R. Martin is a Registered Doctoral Psychologist with a background in Clinical Psychology. His current research interests focus on health and wellness among teachers. He is also involved in health-related research pertaining to seniors (i.e., pain and falls among seniors with and without dementia). He has been awarded Tri-Council (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; SSHRC) and provincial grants (Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation) to support his current program of research.

Dr. Christine Massing

Associate Professor
Early Childhood Education

Office: ED 326
E-mail: Christine.Massing@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4611
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Christine's research is primarily focused on how immigrant and refugee teachers and student teachers experience the disjuncture between the westernized dominant discourse of early childhood education and their own culturally-constructed knowledges, beliefs, and values. Most recently, Christine has been part of a team researching the ways in which globalization and colonization have influenced the inclusion or exclusion of local, indigenous knowledges and practices in the context of teacher education in Canada, Colombia, and Namibia. Her other research interests include ethnography, professional identity construction, instructional strategies, teacher beliefs, immigrant/refugee families’ engagement in early childhood settings, cross-cultural play, and parent-child interactions.

Dr. Angela McGinnis

Associate Professor
Educational Psychology

Office: ED 221.10
E-mail: Angela.McGinnis@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4509
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Barbara McNeil

Associate Professor
Language and Literacy Education

Office: ED 338
E-mail: Barbara.McNeil@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4403
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Working chiefly in the areas of language and literacies, my primary research interests include literacy teaching and learning (PreK-12 - reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and responding), critical literacies, critical pedagogies, writing pedagogies, children’s literature, linguistic diversity, teacher education, arts education, multicultural education, children and war, and inclusive museums. My research interests lend themselves to interdisciplinarity as well as multidisciplinarity in local as well as global contexts.

Dr. Alison Molina-Girón

Associate Professor - Educational Core Studies
(On Sabbatical from July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020)

Office: ED 332
E-mail: Alison.Molina-Giron@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4002
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests

Citizenship and multicultural education
Youth engagement
Diversity and civic identity
Citizenship and multicultural studies
Social justice

Denise Morstad

Instructor
Arts Education - Music Education

Office: ED 221.4
E-mail: Denise.Morstad@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4522
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Val Mulholland

Associate Professor - Language and Literacy Education
(On Administrative Leave, July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020)

Office: ED 239
E-mail: Valerie.Mulholland@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4618
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Kathleen T. Nolan

Professor
Mathematics Education

Office: ED 394
E-mail: Kathy.Nolan@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4516
Fax: 306-585-4880
Website: http://www2.uregina.ca/ktnolan/

Dr. Pamela Osmond-Johnson

Associate Dean, Student Services and Undergraduate Programs
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership

Office: ED 355.15
E-mail: Pamela.Osmond-Johnson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4555
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
My primary research interests are in the area of teacher professional learning, teacher professionalism, and the work of teacher associations. I am particularly interested in the manner in which teacher federations serve as platforms for teacher activism and broader notions of professionalism. I am also interested in social justice leadership and understanding more about how educational leaders strategically navigate the space between supporting organizational priorities and challenging institutional norms.

Dr. Heather Phipps

Assistant Professor / Professeure adjointe
Minority Language Education

Office: CT 211.3
E-mail: Heather.Phipps@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5606
Fax: 306-585-4949

Dr. Fatima Pirbhai-Illich

Professor
Language and Literacy Education

Office: ED 340
E-mail: Fatima.Pirbhai-Illich@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5603
Fax: 306-585-4880
Website: http://fatimapirbhaiillich.wordpress.com/

Research interests
Fatima’s research examines issues around social and human justice in particular, her areas of interest and expertise are centred around the academic achievement of minoritized (immigrant, refugee, Indigenous) students. In addition, she has a great deal of research expertise in working with critical multicultural education, culturally responsive literacy education including multiliteracies, critical literacies, and English as an Additional Language within teacher education. Fatima’s research also focuses on processes of ethical engagement of internationalization in institutions of higher education.

Dr. Kathryn Ricketts

Associate Professor
Arts Education - Dance Education

Office: ED 381
E-mail: Kathryn.Ricketts@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4525
Fax: 306-585-4880
Website: http://kathrynricketts.blogspot.com/

Research interests
I explore spectatorship and the culturally-inscripted body within our ever-growing world of fluid borders and hybrid identities with a focus on inclusive education. While critiquing text centred educative strategies I strives to cultivate dynamic and imaginative spaces whereby the body at play, including all abilities and challenges, becomes the most critical tool for transformative learning across all subject areas. I move education onto a horizontal plane of exchange and empathy rather than a vertical plane of transmission. The reciprocal nature of this approach allows for vibrant explorations with self invested learners who become connected to and responsible for their immediate, local and global community.

Kyle Robinson

Lecturer
Inclusive Education

Office: ED 327
E-mail: Kyle.Robinson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4124
Fax: 306-585-4880

Dr. Gale Russell

Associate Professor - Mathematics Education
Chair, Secondary Program

Office: ED 333
E-mail: Gale.Russell@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4510
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests

Impacts on and opportunities within mathematics and the teaching and learning of mathematics that result from the perspectives of different worldviews (in particular, the Traditional Western worldview and an Indigenous worldview);
Occurrences of polysemy between English and Aboriginal English within the mathematics register and its relationship to teaching and learning as well as culture and language preservation;
Teachers' and students' understanding of zero;
Preservice teachers' probabilistic thinking;
Ethnomathematics; and,
Factors influencing how preservice teachers choose their program of study.

Underpinning my research in all of these areas, which often merge and challenge one another, is a desire to decolonize education and mathematics.

Dr. Twyla Salm

Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Programs
Professor - Health, Outdoor, Physical Education (HOPE)

Office: ED 355.5
E-mail: Twyla.Salm@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4604
Fax: 306-585-4006

Research interests
Dr. Salm's research interests focus on teaching and learning in higher education with specific interest in developing the professional educator, mentoring and health curriculum change in higher education. She also studies anti-oppressive teacher education and the implications for interprofessional collaboration on school and community health.

Dr. JoLee Sasakamoose

Associate Professor - Educational Psychology & Counselling
(On Sabbatical, July 1 - Dec. 31, 2019)

Office: ED 380
E-mail: JoLee.Sasakamoose@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4540
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Dr. JoLee Sasakamoose is an Anishinabe (Ojibwe) from M’Chigeeng First Nation in Ontario. She is an Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Counselling at the University of Regina. She serves as the founding Director of the Health Advocacy and Research Training (HART) program that works in partnership with the Fred Sasakamoose Indigenous Youth Leadership and Wellness Program, a youth sport, recreation and health camp at the University of Regina. She serves as Research Affiliate with the Indigenous Peoples Health Research Centre, and a methodologist with the Saskatchewan Centre for Patient Oriented Research (SCPOR). Dr. Sasakamoose is an Indigenous methodologist utilizing community and participatory-based research approaches with FN communities and peoples. From a strengths-based, trauma informed decolonizing lens, her research engages Indigenous peoples in defining health and healthy communities; explores the intergenerational effects of historical trauma and traditional healing methods as protective factors with Indigenous peoples; utilizes neurodecolonization, contemplative mind body practices and Sîtoskâkewin© expressive therapies in the promotion of health and wellbeing. Dr. Sasakamoose has received funding from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, the Community Initiatives Fund, the Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit, the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Heritage Foundation. Dr. Sasakamoose teaches Group Counselling, Counselling Girls and Women, Counselling Children and Youth, Indigenous Family Therapies, and Indigenous Qualitative Research.

Dr. Sara Schroeter

Assistant Professor
Arts Education - Drama Education

Office: ED 379
E-mail: Sara.Schroeter@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4603
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
My research focuses primarily on how drama, an aesthetic art form and multimodal literacy practice, can be used to examine differences of race, class, gender, and sexuality in schools with multiracial student populations. Much of my work has examined these issues in Francophone minority language schools outside Quebec; however, my focus has recently expanded to explore representational practices in musical theatre productions at English and French immersion schools in the prairies and on professional stages. I am also collaborating with two elementary school teachers and my colleague, Dr. Joël Thibeault, on a project examining how drama can be used to teach French in Francophone schools. My research interests lie at the crossroads of anti-racist and decolonizing pedagogies, drama and cultural production, literacy, and minority language education.

Dr. Marc Spooner

Professor
Educational Psychology

Office: ED 377
E-mail: Marc.Spooner@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4538
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Dr. Marc Spooner is a professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He specializes in qualitative and participatory action research at the intersections of theory and action-on-the-ground. His interests include: homelessness & poverty, "audit culture" & the effects of neoliberalization & corporatization on higher education, and social justice, activism, & participatory democracy. He has published in a variety of venues including peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, government reports, and popularizations. He is recognized by the Canadian Senate as an expert in homelessness and has been the principal investigator for several research studies on homelessness funded by federal and municipal governments.

Claire St. Cyr-Power

Secondment / Enseignante en prêt de service
Programme du baccalauréat en éducation

Office: CT 211.4
E-mail: Claire.St.Cyr-Power@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4530
Fax: 306-585-4949

Research interests
Claire St. Cyr-Power est enseignante en prêt de service au Programme du Bac à l’Université de Regina depuis 2012. Elle cumule plus d’une vingtaine d’année d’expérience en grande majorité avec le Conseil des écoles fransaskoises (CÉF) où elle a occupé une variété de postes y inclus titulaire de classe, directrice adjointe et orthopédagogue. Claire enseigne principalement des cours de l’année du pré-internat. En plus de l’enseignement, elle est responsable de la supervision de stagiaires. Elle offre également de l’appui langagier aux étudiants du Bac.

Dr. Larry Steeves

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership

Office: ED 395
E-mail: Larry.Steeves@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4798
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Upon joining the Faculty of Education in 2007, initial areas of research interest included accountability frameworks, educational investment and student learning, aboriginal education, school size and learning outcomes, and protection for minority faith education adherents. Since that time, research related to First Nations and Métis education has become an important focus. Examples include service as Principal Investigator for the research project, Seeking their Voices. This has resulted in a further research project, Indigenous leadership for Improved Indigenous Student Learning: Perspectives from the Field that, in conjunction with colleagues from Northern Arizona University, is currently underway.

Another area of interest relates to human resource management and, more specifically, leadership development programs. These research areas evolved in response to requests from the Saskatchewan educational administration community that program development in these areas were necessary. Examples of research/development include a Human Resource Graduate Certificate and research regarding teacher recruitment and retention, particularly in First Nations and northern Saskatchewan communities.

A final area of research focus has been the consideration of blended/online instruction. My involvement in online instruction has led to action research related to blended instruction. This work is ongoing.

Dr. Andrea Sterzuk

Professor
Language and Literacy Education

Office: ED 248
E-mail: Andrea.Sterzuk@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5607
Fax: 306-585-4880
Website: http://andreasterzuk.com/

Research interests
I work in the area of critical applied linguistics. My research tends to examine issues of power, identity and language in education. My previous research projects have explored language variation in elementary schools; English-only ideology in higher education; language planning and policy in higher education and the development of language beliefs in pre-service teachers. I'm currently involved in collaborative research projects in the area of language reclamation.

Dr. Alexandra Stoddart

Assistant Professor
Health, Outdoor, Physical Education (HOPE)

Office: ED 324
E-mail: Alexandra.Stoddart@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5031
Fax: 306-585-4800

Research interests
Dr. Stoddart's research is focused on physical education, the physical education curriculum, and physical literacy using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. She works collaboratively with teachers, students, and researchers in K-12 schools to explore these topics. Her primary research area is exploring the concept of physical literacy and its development through quality physical education. A second and complementary area of research is based on exploring physical literacy and its potential outside of the school system.

Dr. S. Anthony Thompson

Professor
Educational Psychology

Office: ED 331
E-mail: Santhony.Thompson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4678
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Recently, Dr. S. Anthony Thompson has become interested in Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) and Inclusive Education. He has researched broadly in the field of Inclusive Education and Teacher Education. His work is largely informed by alternative understandings of dis/ablement and has conducted inclusive educational research in classroom settings, but also in larger areas such as disability policy through the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance (CDPA). Dr. Thompson is currently involved in a pan-Canadian study of teacher education and inclusive education through the Canadian Research Centre on Inclusive Education.

Dr. Valerie Triggs

Associate Professor
Arts Education - Visual Arts Education

Office: ED 335
E-mail: Valerie.Triggs@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5275
Fax: 306-585-4880

Research interests
Dr. Triggs’ research interests focuses on the ecological impacts of art and aesthetic practice in extending classically scientific modes of research and pedagogies. In particular, her study concentrates on potential for educational practice and human adaptability that is generated when sociopolitical and cultural awareness appreciate a broader empiricism, one that includes human responsiveness to aesthetic realities which may be felt but are not directly accessible as sense data and rational understanding. Other areas of research include affect theory, diffractive methods, a/r/tographic research, new materialisms, curriculum in the Anthropocene, and the field experience in initial teacher education.

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