Fireside Chat
May 8, 2008 (1:00pm - 2:30pm)

Biographical Sketch :

Michael Connelly is Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of University of Toronto (OISE/UT), Founder and former Editor of Curriculum Inquiry, former Chair of Curriculum, and founding Director of the OISE/UT Center for Teacher Development. He has written on science education, curriculum studies, teacher education, multiculturalism and narrative inquiry. He was Director of the Canada Project, Second International Science Study, and Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education/OISE/UT doctoral program. He has made teaching a priority, with many former students winning dissertation, and research and teaching awards. He has worked with schools, school boards, and teacher organizations; and wrote policy papers for the Science Teachers Association of Ontario, the Ontario Teachers Federation, and the Ontario Ministry of Education. He received AERA’s Division B Lifetime Achievement Award, the Canadian Society for the Study of Education’s Outstanding Canadian Curriculum Scholar Award, the Canadian Education Association Whitworth award, the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Association’s award for excellence in teaching, and other scholarly awards. He has worked internationally in human resource development, curriculum, teacher education, and community schools in Jordan, Egypt, and China. His long-term, ongoing, urban education research program in Bay Street Community School is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is currently studying the narrative histories of immigrant family knowledge structures and ways of knowing as they interact with the Canadian school system.