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Elizabeth Smyth's Homepage Elizabeth Smyth (esmyth@oise.utoronto.ca) The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto 252 Bloor St West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6 voice: 416 923 6641 x 8110 fax: 416 926 4761 I am Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. I am cross-appointed to the Department of Theory and Policy Studies. My involvement in field development, initial and graduate education and research clusters around the changing context of education and classroom practice, historical and contemporary studies of the impact of gender, the history of teachers and the education of highly able learners. A complete list of reports and publications is available by contacting me directly. Please note that there are two course presentations listed below in COURSES TAUGHT. COURSES TAUGHTMy courses are presented through Computer Mediated Conferencing. For the presentation notes from the Teaching, Learning and Research in Today's University: Information Technology and the University Professor 11 - 12 April, 2000, please click here. For the IT Forum from Robert Cook, Co-Director, Education Commons please click here. For the powerpoint slides, for the talk entitled "Distance Education in Ontario's Secondary School Study", presented at the Durham District School Board - Distance Learning My current course offerings include:
This course critically analyzes a number of curriculum models and explores instructional strategies currently used to program for high ability students in a variety of learning environments. Program differentiation within a regular classroom setting is also examined. The course is delivered through computer mediated conferencing.
This course will examine how appropriate curriculum for the education of girls and young women has been defined and delivered in Canadian schools. This course is delivered through Computer Mediated Conferencing.
This course provides students with an overview of the persistent and recurring themes in the history of Canadian Education. It examines the interdependent relationship of the history of education to the larger field of Canadian history, using categories of analysis drawn from current historiography. This course is delivered through Computer Mediated Conferencing.
This course explores the growing historical literature on women and institutions of advanced education. Topics include: the nineteenth-century academy and women's college movement;women and public secondary schooling; the admission of women to universities; women's experience of higher education in the twentieth century. This course is delivered through Computer Mediated Conferencing.
This course analyses the interplay of gender, race, class, ethnicity and religion in the history of education in Ontario from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. This course is delivered through Computer Mediated Conferencing. RESEARCH: FUNDED BY GRANTING COUNCILS
I am the sole investigator of this three year course of research which documents and analyzes the history of teaching sisters in English Canada and their roles in the development of elementary, secondary and higher education. It builds on the research completed under the SSHRC study (File 410-94-0314), "Teaching Sisters in English Canada: Structuring a Context for Ongoing Research by Creating a Database and through a Case Study of One Order 1891-1951." The three phases of the study employ techniques of oral history, collection and scrutiny of archival sources, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, to develop the history of seven purposefully identified communities of sisters who included teaching as one of their mandates.
I am a collaborating investigator on this multi year SSHRC grant, with Dr. Sandra Acker (Principal Investigator) and Drs. Joanne Dillabough (OISE/UT) Dianne Hallman (University of Saskatchewan and Therese Hamel (Université de Laval) as co-investigators.
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENTI have served as an executive member of a number of professional organizations including the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education, Canadian History of Education Association, The Association for the Gifted in Ontario (CEC), the Canadian Catholic Historical Association (President-General 1998-2000), the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. I am a member of the international advisory board for Sister-l (sister-l@listserv.syr.edu), an online discussion group focusing on historical and contemporary issues of women religious. |