M.Ed in Language & Literacy

Research areas of M.Ed students include:

• Engaging adolescent readers to read for joy before and during a pandemic
  
• A rhizomatic exploration of assemblages from a global studies classroom
  
• High school students' experiences in alternative education
• Postmodern narratives of being and becoming a teacher
• Anti-oppressive education in teaching high school English Language Arts
• Engaging middle school students in narrative non fiction writing
• Disciplinary literacy in high school classrooms
• Bilingual literacy development in early years French immersion contexts
• Digital filmmaking in the high school curriculum
• Gender and education: A framework for educating girls
• Gender and literacy: Engaging middle years boys in language arts
• The design of a grandparent/elder reading program in an urban elementary school
• Study of high school student writers who publish and participate in school literary magazines
• Practitioner research inquiry of an alternative education program for high school students
• Literacy development of English Language Learners in the primary years
• What English Language Arts teachers can learn from avid writers

Ph.D in Education
Research areas of Ph.D students include:

• Critical discourse analysis of government and media texts exploring framings of, and responses to, people experiencing homelessness in the context of COVID-19 
  
• Social class, positioning, and privilege in teaching English Language Arts 
  
• Information literacy as a critical area for decolonizing higher education and interrogating colonial knowledge structures and practices in academia