Research
- 2019-2024
Thinking Historically for Canada's Future
Collaborator
SSHRC Partnership Grant, $2,500,000
PIs: Carla Peck, U Alberta and Lindsay Gibson, UBC
- 2021鈥2023
Beyond Lip-service: Investigating teacher educators鈥 pursuit of inclusive practice during COVID19
Co-Investigators: L. D'Amico, R. Williamson, M. Hatala
SSHRC RDI Grant, $75,000 - 2021鈥2023
Understanding students' choice of course modality in changing times
Co-Investigator: L. D'Amico
SSHRC Small Grant, $7,000
- 2014鈥2015
Secondary school field trial of HistoryConcepts: A web-based tool for the assessment of students鈥 epistemological beliefs in the domain of history
Co-Investigator; Collaborator: 脰zlem Sensoy
SSHRC Small Grant, $9,880 - 2014鈥2015
Exploratory use of HistoryConcepts 鈥 a web-based assessment of students鈥 epistemological beliefs in the domain of history
Co-investigator; Collaborators: Ross Jamieson, Mark Leier
51社区黑料Teaching and Learning Grant, $4,990
- 2010鈥2013
Validating and disseminating a measure of metahistorical conceptions
Principal Investigator; Collaborators: Mark Leier, Peter Seixas, Kadriye Ercikan
Spencer Foundation Small Grant, $39,853 - 2009鈥2010
A Design Theory of Metahistorical Understanding in the Social Studies Classroom
Principal Investigator; Collaborator: 脰zlem Sensoy
SSHRC Small, $13,632 - 2007鈥2008
Develop and test new curriculum materials designed to teach 鈥渕etahistorical鈥 ideas (ideas about the nature of historical knowledge) to Grade 11 Social Studies students
Principal Investigator; Collaborator: 脰zlem Sensoy
Canadian Council on Learning, $61,000
- 2005鈥2006
Bridging school and practice by wire: Design research into the potential of telementoring
Discovery Parks, $10,000 - 2002鈥2006
Beyond Best Practice: Research-based innovation in learning and knowledge work
Co-investigator; Collaborators: 7 others from OISE/UT
SSHRC INE, $3,000,000 - 2002鈥2003
Tracking Canada's Past
Join Investigator; Collaborators: Marlene Scardamalia
SSHRC, $120,000 - 2000鈥2002
The Telementoring Orchestrator
Develop and disseminate a next-generation web-based application to support research and practice in telementoring.
Office of Learning Technologies Grant, Human Resources Development Canada, $110,000
- 2000
The Telementoring Orchestrator
President鈥檚 Research Grant, 51社区黑料, $9,700
- 1999鈥2002
Construct an informal network of children and adults to study the Canadian Pacific Railway. Participants in Vancouver and Toronto will exploit unique resources in their communities (museums, archives, historic sites, and local experts) to construct and refine historical narratives about this period and its events. Through the use of the Knowledge Forum software, participants will share and refine their narratives collaboratively, learning about the nature of historical evidence and accounts by confronting and negotiating differences in perspective.
With Marlene Scardamalia
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad, $120,000
- 1998鈥2000
Explore the potential of telementoring as a mode of continuous staff development and educational outreach for business. The project also developed an empirically鈥揵ased Telementor Guidebook for prospective volunteers and their work organizations.
With Marlene Scardamalia
Office of Learning Technologies, Human Resources Development Canada, $77,000