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Faculty and staff are dedicated to understanding and improving learning environments. Many faculty and staff bring years of experience to the Faculty of Education. Their experiences include classroom teaching, overseas development projects, analysing the professional development of teachers, working with adolescents at risk, developing early childhood education programs, researching reading processes, teaching in Canada’s far north, and studio teaching in music and the fine arts. Faculty and staff consider themselves to be both teachers and learners, and bring broad and rich experiences to our community — among us you will find a computer science professor who is a flautist, a playwright who develops telecommunications tools, and a timber-frame carpenter who conducts research in music and mathematics education.

Our commitment to fostering rich learning environments is reflected in the approaches to teaching exemplified in the Faculty. Classes are small — most B.Ed./Dip.Ed. classes range from 20–35 teacher candidates per class, and graduate courses average 10 in number. A variety of instructional strategies are used, including cooperative projects, action research, small discussion groups, individual projects, seminars, lectures, and hands-on workshops. Critical issues, such as inclusionary teaching practices, the use of technology, and the ways that class, race, and gender affect teaching and learning environments, are common threads that run throughout course offerings.

The teaching faculty is made up of full-time and part-time members. Full-time faculty ensure that a variety of philosophical viewpoints and approaches to various subject disciplines and educational issues are represented by the Faculty of Education as a whole. Part-time faculty are hired for their particular expertise, to meet particular programmatic needs. Our part-time faculty include those individuals who have been seconded from their school positions for several years, so that they can enhance the Faculty’s perspectives, and, in turn, return to their home schools with a more enriched perspective on teacher education and development.

A number of faculty and staff have an abiding interest in international education, research, and development, and related projects are significant and wide-ranging. For example, the Faculty assisted the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in preparing teachers for its 40,000 non-formal primary schools. Faculty are recognized regionally, nationally and internationally for their contributions to education, research, and development.

Contact Information

Pat Deir, Administrative Assistant, e-Services
Faculty of Education, Queen's University
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
email: pat.deir@queensu.ca
phone: (613) 533-6722