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Educational Administration

Faculty, Staff and Associates

Faculty

Dr. Sheila Carr-Stewart (Department Head & Graduate Chair)
Teaching: Community Leadership, Administrative Roles, Organization Theory, First Nations Education, Capstone Research Paper
Research Interests: Indigenous Education, the Numbered Treaties, History and contexts of Education, Canadian history, school governance, community leadership, youth gangs, teacher recruitment and retention, school effectiveness.

Dr. David Burgess (Assistant Professor)
Teaching: Organizational Theory, Educational Law
Research Interests: Philosophy of Organization; Organization Theory; Educational Law; Argumentation, Rhetoric, and Persuasion in Educational Administration/Politics of Educational Administration; Comparative Educational Administration; Critical Realism

Dr. Michael Cottrell (Associate Professor)
Teaching: Canadian History, Native Studies, History of Education, Indigenous Education, International and Comparative Education.
Research Interests: Native-Newcomer Relations, History of Education, Indigenous Education, International and Comparative Education, Irish Diaspora.

Dr. Vivian. Hajnal (Associate Professor)
Teaching: Educational Research, change, finance.
Research Interests: Finance, school system amalgamation, school improvement.

Dr. Margaret Kovach (Assistant Professor)
Teaching: Indigenous approaches to research design, Indigenous leadership studies
Research Interests: Indigenous methodologies, Aboriginal higher learning, Distance Education Curriculum Development with an Indigenous focus.

Dr. Michelle Prytula (Assistant Professor)
Teaching: organizational theory, finance, contexts of educational administration.
Research Interests: teacher learning, action research, the professional learning community, teacher induction, school improvement.

Dr. Patrick Renihan (Professor / SELU Director)
Teaching: Organizational Behaviour, Instructional Supervision and Staff Development, Administrative Roles.
Research Interests: The Principalship, Board/CEO Assessment, School Effectiveness.

Dr. Bonnie Stelmach (Associate Professor)
Teaching: Parents and Education, Organizational Behavior, Rural Education, Gender in Educational Administration, and Law and Ethics in Teaching
Research Interests: The role of parents in education and schooling, educational policy, school improvement, and Aboriginal parent perspectives on education

Dr. Keith Walker (Professor)
Teaching: Leadership Ethics, Policy Making, Community Relations.
Research Interests: Ethics, school governance, school Improvement.

  Contact Information

Cindy Pollard - Department Secretary

Adjuncts and Affiliates:

Dr. D. Dibski (Finance), Professor Emeritus
Dr. Gerald Fallon (Human Resources) Nanaimo-Ladysmith School      District 68
Dr. William Gulka (Effective Schools)
Dr. Jim Jutras (Curriculum Leadership)
Dr. Warren Noonan (Human Resources, Administrative Roles)
Dr. Larry Sackney, Professor Emeritus
Dr. Murray Scharf, Professor Emeritus
Dr. William Smale (Educational Law)
Dr. Scott Tunison(Saskatoon Public Schools)
Dr. K Wilson (Organizational Theory), Professor Emeritus

Associates:

Dr. Marie Battiste, EFDT (Aboriginal Education)
Dr. Marcel D'Eon (Community Health & Epidemiology)
Dr. Ivan Kelly, EPSE (Statistics)
Dr. Leonard Proctor ECUR (Educational Technology)
Dr. Edwin Ralph, ECUR (Teaching Effectiveness)
Dr. Richard Schwier ECUR (Technology and Communications)
Dr. Angela Ward, ECUR (Curriculum Issues)

Professional Associates:

Dr. Susan Bens (Gwenna Moss Learning Centre)
Dr. Norm Dray (SELU)
Dr. Don Lloyd (Educational Finance)