Samia Khan
Learning; Educational technology; Teacher education; Science education; STEM.
Dr. Khan’s research investigates teachers and learners of STEM. She also builds educational technology and does research on them. She has presented keynote addresses, received continual national funding, and published in the pre-eminent journals in these areas. Her scholarship has contributed to the advancement of teacher practice, educational technology research and development, and our contemporary understanding of how people of all ages in their various communities can learn.
Robert VanWynsberghe
Sustainability education; Community capacity; Behaviour change; Social change.
Dr. VanWynsberghe’s research is rooted in essential questions about human action and social change in the field of sustainability.
Colleen Haney
CNPS cohort coordinator; Scarfe Counselling Clinic; Stress and coping research.
Dr. Haney is the supervisor for the Master of Education in Counselling Psychology program’s off campus cohorts, allowing students who work full time to complete a Master’s degree on week-ends and evenings. She has been instrumental in developing a free counselling clinic in Scarfe for students, staff, faculty, and Vancouver residents. Dr. Haney supervises student research in the area of stress, coping, and ethics and is currently developing a method of evaluation of clinical counselling skills.
Margaret Early
K-12 English language learner education; International perspectives; Multiple literacies; Research design and method.
Her research focuses on English Language Learners in K-12 multilingual public school settings and the potential benefits and limits of multilingual and multimodal pedagogies in promoting language and content learning. Dr. Early’s scholarship has contributed to the teaching of language/s and other modes across the curriculum and has had an impact in the advancement of policies and pedagogies that promote using diversity as a resource.