CAFE
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Executive Officers of the Board
President
Dr. Jeannie Kerr
Jeannie Kerr is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is an educational philosopher, theorist and researcher focused on decolonial imaginaries in educational spaces from pre-school to doctoral programs. She is a long-standing member of CAFE and has held many positions on the executive.
First Vice-President - Chair of Awards
Dr. Frances Helyar
Frances Helyar is Professor of Education Emerita at Lakehead University's Orillia campus. Her research examines the history of education in New Brunswick and teacher education in Atlantic Canada.
Second Vice-President - Program Chair
Dr. Gemma Porter
Gemma Porter is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Saint Thomas University. She is currently serving as Secretary-Treasurer of CAFE as well as Recruitment and Outreach Officer, and is also President of the Canadian History of Education Association.
Secretary - Treasurer
Peter Glinos
Peter Glinos is a PhD Candidate at Queen's University in the Faculty of Education. His work is focused on the history of the Alternative Education Resource Organization, a transnational network of self-identified alternative educators. His research interests include: innovative pedagogies, generative AI policy, the history of education policy, the development of the education state, and history education.
Past President
Dr. Jonathan Anuik
Jonathan Anuik is an Associate Professor in the Educational Policies Studies Department in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. A long standing member of CAFE and its SIG CHEA, he has acted in the very challenging role of Second Vice President (Programme Chair) position for the past few years. Each of these years, a face-to-face conference was supposed to be held in Alberta (2021) and in Montreal (2022), only to have it pivot to an on-line venue.
Members of the Board
CJE Editorial Board Representative
Dr. Michelle Forrest
Michelle Forrest is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Education Faculty at Mount Saint Vincent University and a long-serving member of CAFE and its SIG, CPES, from which she received its Distinguished Service Award in 2016. Her article “Sensitive Controversy in Teaching to be Critical” received the CAFE Article Award in 2010, and in 2019, with collaborators Sandra Bruneau and Linda Wheeldon, she delivered the CAFE keynote address, “Women Philosophers of Education in Canada.” Michelle has served as CAFE’s representative to the Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Education since 2015.
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Member at Large (Special Events)
Dr. Paul W. Bennett
Paul W. Bennett is Founding Director of Schoolhouse Institute, Adjunct Professor of Education at Saint Mary’s University, and the author of ten books, including two nationally-recognized Canadian history textbooks and The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada’s Schools (MQUP 2020).
Member at Large (Communications)
Renée McKinstry
Renée McKinstry is a PhD Candidate (Educational Foundations) and Instructor in the Faculty of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University.
Special Interest Group (SIG) Presidents
CHEA President
Dr. Gemma Porter
Gemma Porter is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Saint Thomas University. She is currently serving as Secretary-Treasurer of CAFE as well as Recruitment and Outreach Officer, and is also President of the Canadian History of Education Association.
CPES President
Dr. Lauren Bialystok
Dr. Lauren Bialystok is Associate Professor of Ethics and Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research interests include identity, sex education, ethics and political theory, and AI in education.
CASE President
Dr. Beyhan Farhadi
Dr. Beyhan Farhadi is an Assistant Professor in Educational Policy and Equity at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto researching online education and resistance to neoliberal restructuring.
Emerging Scholars Committee
(vacant)