People

Affiliated Faculty Members

• Vera Caine, Nursing 

• Florence Glanfield, Secondary Education 

• Randy Wimmer, Educational Policy Studies

• Janice Huber, Elementary Education

Adjunct Professors

• Ted Paszek 

• Heather Raymond

• Kathy Toogood

Graduate Research Assistant

Julie Mooney, PhD Candidate
jmooney@ualberta.ca  

Biography of Founding Director Dr. Jean Clandinin

D. Jean Clandinin is Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development at the University of Alberta. A former teacher, counsellor, and psychologist, she completed her B.A. and M.Ed. at the University of Alberta and her PhD at the University of Toronto. She was a faculty member at the University of Calgary from 1984 to 1990 when she moved to the University of Alberta to establish the Centre. Establishing the Centre and working in it for 30 years has been her most significant achievement. She is author or co-author of many books including the co-authored (with Michael Connelly) Narrative Inquiry, published in 2000.  She edited the Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: Mapping a methodology (Sage, 2007) and co-edited the Handbook of Research in Teacher Education (Sage, 2017). She was honoured to be asked by Routledge to be included in their World Educationalist series.

She is past Vice-President of Division B (Curriculum Studies) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and is the 1993 winner of AERA's Early Career Award. She is the 1999 winner of the Canadian Education Association Whitworth Award for educational research. She wasawarded AERA's Division B Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. She is a 2001 winner of the Kaplan Research Achievement Award, a 2004 Killam Scholar, and the 2008 Larry Beauchamp Award from the University of Alberta. She is the 2009 winner of the Killam Mentoring Award and the 2010 winner of the Graduate Teaching Award at the University of Alberta. She won the 2015 AERA Division K Legacy Award, the 2015 International Study Association of Teachers and Teaching STAR award and the 2016 Benjamin Cluff Junior Award for Educational Research, Brigham Young University. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria in 2017.