Dr. Antoinette Gagné

Antoinette Gagné is an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair for Student Experience in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her research has focused on teacher education for diversity and inclusion in various contexts. She has explored the experiences of young English language learners and their families as well as internationally educated teachers in Canadian schools and universities. Antoinette is also the convenor of the Network of Critical Action Researchers in Education (NCARE) which brings together university educators from a dozen countries. As part of her contribution to NCARE, she is exploring auto, duo and multi-ethnographic writing in graduate education as it is growing in popularity in coursework as well as theses. In a separate study, she is researching the editing practices of faculty at OISE as they interact with graduate students who are writing about their own research. 

More recently and with SSHRC funding, she has been investigating the educational integration of Syrian refugee children and youth in Canadian schools and how best to support pre-service and in-service teachers to meet the diverse needs of this population with the support of a SSHRC Insight Grant. In addition, Antoinette is part of a SSHRC-funded research team along with Dr. Jeff Bale and Dr. Julie Kerekes at OISE, working to identify how teacher candidates, teacher educators, practicing teachers, and subject consultants in local boards interpret and enact Ontario’s 2015 teacher education curriculum policy which mandates that teacher education programs include a course where teacher candidates learn to work with English learners and other diverse students across the curriculum.