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Research Areas

The Frazer Faculty of Education is home to a vibrant community of scholars exploring how teaching, learning, and leadership can shape a more equitable and innovative future. Our research spans key areas including pedagogy, technology in education, health and wellness, social justice, leadership, STEM, and more.

Explore the research areas below to learn more about the associated faculty, labs, and projects driving discovery and impact across the field of education. 

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Blended and flipped learning environments
  • Coding and K-12 education
  • Critical digital literacies
  • Digital technologies, accessibility and inclusivity 
  • Applications of information and communication technologies to K-12 and post-secondary settings
  • Instructional design
  • Maker pedagogies 
  • Use and impact of technology in K-12 and higher education classrooms
  • Video podcasts and instruction in K-12 and higher education

Associated Labs & Research Groups 

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

Grants Awarded

  • Canadian Council on Learning ($75,000). Evaluating the Impact of Learning Objects on Classroom Learning
  • SSHRC Partnership Development Grant – Computational Thinking in Mathematics Education ($199,380) 
  • SSHRC StrategicResearch Grant ($70,000).  Exploring the Use of Learning Objects in Math & Science Classroom

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  • App development and use in education and training
  • Design, quality and effectiveness of video podcasts and online learning tools
  • Mobile apps and learning
  • Mobile technologies
  • Instructional design
  • Social networking media 

Associated Labs & Research Groups 

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

Grants Awarded

  • Ontario Research Fund ($1,175,000). There’s an App for That: Designing, Developing, Researching Educational Apps

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  • Advancing EDI through social media
  • At-risk youth
  • Bullying
  • Design Justice through Technology
  • Developing resilience
  • Digital technologies, accessibility and inclusivity 
  • Equity and access to mathematics for typically underserved populations of learners
  • Equitable access to higher education
  • Gender differences in the use of technology
  • Inclusive mathematics education (at-risk students, English language learners, culturally responsive pedagogy)
  • Indigenous ways of knowing and issues
  • Women and non-dominant groups in STEM/STEAM education

Associated Labs & Research Groups 

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

Grants Awarded

  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($70,799). A multidisciplinary approach to developing and evaluating a mobile technology-supported, culturally responsive vocabulary intervention for Aboriginal students
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($100,000). Increasing Literacies Through Supported Education and Policies of Inclusion
  • SSHRC Insight Grant. Adolescents, Identity and Digital Literacies
  • SSHRC Partnership Development Grant ($135,000). Diversities of Resilience: Understanding the Strategies for Success used by Underrepresented Students in Canadian Universities

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  • Bullying and safe schools
  • Mental health education for teachers
  • Mental health & digital technology
  • Psychological empowerment for at-risk populations
  • Rethinking physical education
  • Simulation research in areas of health promotion and education
  • Youth suicide

Associated Labs & Research Groups 

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

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  • Alternative and inclusive assessment
  • Alternative learning environments
  • Conceptual development in technology use
  • Equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility
  • Learning & pedagogy in higher education
  • Internationalization 
  • Mathematics
  • Online and e-learning
  • Policy development
  • Professional development
  • Technology diffusion

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

  • Bilingualism/multilingualism in families, schools and communities
  • Digital literacies
  • English language education
  • Indigenous language learning
  • Online language learning
  • Language and literacy development and assessment for linguistically diverse learners
  • Secondary school English pedagogy
  • Teaching English as a second language across curriculum and bilingual education
  • Technology-assisted language and literacy acquisition

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

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  • Effective leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)
  • E-Leadership as enabling function for technology-enriched learning
  • Digital privacy
  • Higher education leadership and policy studies
  • Information and communication technologies and application to K-12 and post-secondary settings
  • Leadership decision-making leveraging big data and critical thinking in organizations
  • VUCA and VUCA Prime in leadership

Associated Labs & Research Groups 

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

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  • Higher education
  • K-12 mathematics education
  • Social justice and mathematics
  • Task design theory and implementation
  • Technology and mathematics education

Associated Labs & Research Groups 

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

  • Evaluating the quality of online learning
  • Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC) model
  • Online learning curriculum development
  • Problem-based learning (PBL) in online environments
  • Virtual classrooms
  • Virtual environment creation

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Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

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  • Affect and cognition in mathematics
  • Children’s literature and mathematics
  • Growth and pathways of mathematical understanding
  • Elementary mathematics education
  • Interventions and innovative practice in mathematics
  • Learning mathematics through problem-solving scenarios
  • Mathematical thinking and reasoning of learners
  • STEAM education
  • STEAM teacher development (pre-service and in-service)
  • Women in STEM

Associated Labs & Research Groups 

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

Grants Awarded

  • Ontario Ministry of Education ($413,891). Programming, Remediation and Intervention for Students At-Risk in Mathematics
  • Ontario Ministry of Education ($1,204,000). Science 3d: Discovery, Design & Development Through Makerspaces
  • Ontario Research Fund ($1,175,000). There’s an App for That: Designing, Developing, Researching Educational Apps
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($57,800). Using mathematical models to disrupt probabilistic misconceptions about social issues.
  • SSHRC Insight Grant ($246,000). Making Minds: Digital Maker Education for Literacies Learning With Marginalized Youth

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  • Cultural competency for future teachers 
  • Early childhood education
  • Examining the use of technology in pre-service teacher education
  • Evidence-based teaching
  • Teacher Education in Ontario
  • Pre-service teachers identity and development
  • STEAM teacher development (pre-service and in-service)
  • Tensions between theory and practice

Faculty & Supervisors in this Area

Grants Awarded

  • SSHRC Insight and Development Grant ($69,000). Exploring Teacher Knowledge of Mathematics in Issues of Social Justice.
  • SSHRC Insight and Development Grant ($74,900). The (Un) Making of the Teacher
  • SSHRC Partnership Development Grant ($150,000).  Improving our Schools

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