Research Chairs
Canada Research Chair
Children’s Mental Health and Violence Prevention
Professor Tracy Vaillancourt
As Canada Research Chair, Tracy Vaillancourt is working on developing the clear understanding of bullying that is needed if we are to get a handle on this difficult challenge. Professor Vaillancourt will document the ways bullying starts. Then she will follow it as it escalates—or stops. Finally, she will track bullied children to understand the effects of their victimization over time.
University Resarch Chair
Educating the “Good Citizen”
Professor Joel Westheimer
This research project explores the ways educational theorists conceive of teaching democracy and the ways school practices embrace or challenge these conceptions. The researche is based on parallel and longitudinal case studies of schools explicitly teaching democratic citizenship and a corresponding process of reading and interpreting social, theoretical, and historical sources.
Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie
Écoles de langue française et inclusion
Professor Nathalie Bélanger
This project is part of a larger research program examining the processes of inclusion and exclusion in schools from a sociological perspective and with regard to the accepted definition of an open school in a minority French-language milieu.