RESEARCH & FACULTY
Jeffrey Wood
Jeffrey Wood
Assistant Professorx4283
ELSE 303G
Sudbury Campus
Jeffrey taught for 8 years in the Peel District School Board, 6 of those years at the kindergarten level; although he is now working at the university level he still remains passionate about teaching. He has taught Primary Junior Literacy and Education and schooling for the School of Education since 2005.
- B.A. (honours) York University
- B.Ed. University of Ottawa
- M.Ed. York University
- Ph.D. Indiana University
He is currently working with the Rainbow District School Board on a multi-year research project studying the application of a Reggio Approach to the implementation of the Early Learning Program.
Additionally, for the past 17 years, he has been working on a long term ethnographic study into the literacy use and understanding of children. The study has followed the children from a young age and looks at their changing literacy use and beliefs across contexts and time.
- Executive Board Member , Early Childhood Educators Association, an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English
- Editor- Early Childhood Educators Association Yearbook
- Leo and Jean Fay Fellow
- Dixon Van Mierlo, T & J. Wood (2010). An early learning Journey: A social constructivist approach. Ministry of Education Monograph.
- Wood J. (2011). Research Capacity Building in the Northeastern Region. Sudbury, ON: North Eastern Ontario Education Network.
- Wood, J. (2008). The teacher as researcher. In Provenzo, E. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. New York: Sage.
- Wood, J. (2005). Moses's story: Critical literacy and social justice in an urban kindergarten.Voices of Practitioners.
- Wood, J. (2007). Defining literacies: Early literacies from the perspective of three children
