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Author Biographies
Clare Kosnikis Director of the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study at the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Her area of research is teacher
education which she has systematically studied. She is currently conducting a large-scale study of
28 literacy/English teacher educators in four countries.
Lydia Mennais an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary Education at the
University of Alberta. Her research interests are in the areas of teacher education, multiliteracies,
critical literacy, and teacher identity construction.
Pooja Dharamshiis Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Simon Fraser University. Her
research is in the areas of critical literacy and teacher education. She recently completed her
doctorate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/UofT exploring the practices and
pedagogies of literacy teacher educators with a critical stance.
Clive Beck teaches in the Curriculum Department at OISE/University of Toronto. He is
conducting an ongoing 12-year longitudinal study of 40 teachers. His books includeBetter Schools
(1990),Innovations in Teacher Education(2006), andGrowing as a Teacher(2014). He is a
past-President of the American Philosophy of Education Society.
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