Ph.D. Students and Their Dissertation Topic Areas

Alexander, Leslie (CSCI) "The Construction of Situated Cognition as Problem-Solving Knowledge: Implications for Teaching in the Context of Unforgiving Learning Environments" (Graduated 1998)

Badali, Salvador (CSCI) "Seconded Teachers as Teacher Educators" (Graduated 1998)

Brooks, Clare (CUST) "Enhancing Science Teaching in an Elementary School: A Case Study of a School-Initiated Teacher Professional Development Program" (Graduated 1997)

Chang, Yang (EDST) "From Dewey's Legacy to Schön's Epistemology of Practice: Reconceptualizing Reflective Teacher Education" (Graduated 1997)

Chin, Peter (CUST) "Co-operating teachers' approaches to the teaching and learning of pre-service teachers"

Crespo, Sandra (CUST) "Exploring Pre-service Teachers' Learning to Teach Through Math Penpal Investigations" (Graduated 1998)

Gudjonsson, Haftor (CUST) "The Contextual Factors Influencing Teacher Education in Iceland"

Harding, Craig (CUST) "Teachers' Conceptions of History Education: A Phenomenographic Inquiry" (Graduated 1999)

Hoban, Garry (CUST) "A Professional Development Model Based on Interrelated Principles of Teacher Learning." (Graduated 1996)

Lock, Beverley (CUST) "Collaboration Among Teacher Educators Designing an Integrated Program for Elementary Pre-Service Teachers"

Mahood, Minas (CSCI) "Introducing Action Research as a Model of Professional Development in Bahrain"

Mitchell, Jane (CSCI) "An Analysis of Information Technology Strategies and Their Effects on Pre-Service Teacher Education"

Mueller, Andrea (CUST) "Emerging Student Expertise: A Community of Inquiry in an Elementary Science Classroom" (Graduated 1998)

Nicol, Cynthia (CUST) "Learning to Teach Prospective Teachers to Teach Mathematics." (Graduated 1997)

Partridge, David (CSCI) "Becoming Pedagogically Thoughtful: Developing Practical Knowledge About Teaching Physical Education During the Practicum Experience" (Graduated 1997)

Rasberry, Gary (CSCI) "Through a Poet's 'I': Imagining the Curious Time of Researching Pedagogy" (Graduated 1998)

Reynolds, Karen (CSCI) "Criterion-Referenced Assessment and Evaluation as Socially Situated Practice." (Graduated 1998)

Scott, Jeanette (CSCI) "Following Unnamed Rivers and Ruminating on Teaching as a Vocation." (Graduated 1996)

Segal, Avner (CSCI) "Subjecting the 'Objective' Centre: On Reading and Writing Texts in/as Social Studies Education" (Graduated in 1999)

Smart, Doug (CSCI) "Exploration of the Professional Ethical Standards of Early Career Teachers and These Teachers' Reasoning About Ethical Issues"

Taylor, John (EDST) "Educational Discourses and Teaching Identities: An Ethnography of Being Taught to Teach"

Thompson, Merrilee (CSCI) "An Investigation of the Communication of Knowledge Within Mentoring Relationships Among Female Beginning Teachers and Mentor Teachers"

Tubianosa, Teresita (CUST) "Classroom Practice, Collaboration, School and Community Cultures"

Vaisman, Tamar (EDST) "Hishtalmoot" An Israeli Case Study of a Collaborative, Self-Directed Teacher Professional Development Project"

Wong, Marina (CUST) "A Study of Elementary Teachers' Understandings and Practices of Music Education in Vancouver and Hong Kong" (Graduated 1999)