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My academic background includes extensive undergraduate and graduate
work in science, the arts, and education. The result of this broad
ranging study is an understanding of the interface between literacy,
science, and the arts.
I began my university education with undergraduate work
in biology. I graduated in 1963 with a B.Sc. Degree, Honors in Biology,
from Dalhousie University.
Following this I entered a graduate program in biochemical
genetics at the University of Toronto.
After two years I switched to an undergraduate program in
music performance (classical guitar) at the Faculty of Music, University
of Toronto. I studied classical guitar performance for two years.
Next, I spent two summers at the Ontario College of Education
(University of Toronto) and obtained an Ontario High School Assistant
Certificate, which allowed me to become a high school math/science teacher.
After one year of high school teaching (Applewood Heights,
Mississauga), I studied (in Italian) at the International Center for Montessori
Studies in Bergamo, Italy, and received a Montessori Elementary Diploma.
Upon my return to Canada I taught for a year at Warrendale, a treatment
centre for disturbed adolescents, during which time I was taking courses
in special education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
At the end of that year I became a graduate student full
time and completed first a Master of Arts in Education Theory (Special
Education) and then a Ph.D. in Education Theory (Special Education/Literacy
Education) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University
of Toronto.
I have also taken two courses in university management through
the Center for Higher Education Research and Development at the University
of Manitoba:
1994 (May 1-12) Senior University Administrators Course
(Banff)
1995 (February 25 - March 1) The Challenge of Change-Senior
University
Administrators (Victoria)
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