Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
A historian of education, his research on school reform and children with disabilities highlights how urban schools were reorganized a century ago to accommodate pupil differences and how reform shaped the development of modern special education. Dr. Ellis’s research assigns young people a central place in history, examining their struggles and successes and using these to measure the nature and extent of educational change. Other interest: historical approaches to education policy analysis.
Contributions:
Ellis, J. (2013). “Inequalities of children in original endowment": How intelligence testing transformed early special education in a North American city school system, History of Education Quarterly, 53, 401-429. doi:10.1111/hoeq.12035
Ellis, J.A. (2014). “All methods–and wedded to none": The deaf education methods debate and progressive educational reform in Toronto, Canada, 1922-1945, Paedagogica Historica, 371-389. doi:10.1080/00309230.2013.833273
Yoshida, K., Shanouda, F., Ellis, J. (2013). An education and negotiation of differences: The "schooling" experiences of English-speaking Canadian children growing up with polio during the 1940s and 1950s. Disability & Society, 29, 345-358. doi:10.1080/09687599.2013.823080
Keywords:
History of education; Special education; Inclusive education; Disability studies; Educational reform; Policy; Urban education.
j.ellis@ubc.ca
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