Executive Committee Member, 2005- | Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning OISE

Professor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto.

Professor Campbell teaches in both the graduate program in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development and the Master of Teaching pre-service teacher education program. Her courses focus on professional ethics in education and the moral and ethical dimensions of teaching and schooling, as well as educational philosophy and qualitative research methods.

Campbell’s research and scholarship are in the related areas of applied professional ethics and moral agency in teaching. Her book, The Ethical Teacher (Open University Press, 2003), is currently being translated into Chinese for release in Asia in 2010. She is a co-editor of Curriculum Inquiry, an international refereed curriculum journal. Her most recent research project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is entitled, “The Cultivation of Ethical Knowledge in Teaching.” Selected publications include:

Campbell, E. (2008). Preparing Ethical Professionals as a Challenge for Teacher Education. In Educating Moral Sensibilities in Urban Schools.  Kirsi Tirri (Ed.). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, Chapter 1, pp. 3-18.

Campbell, E. (2008). Teaching Ethically as a Moral Condition of Professionalism. In The International Handbook of Moral and Character Education. Darcia Narváez and Larry Nucci (Eds.). New York: Routledge, Chapter 30, pp. 601-617.

Campbell, E. (2008). The Ethics of Teaching as a Moral Profession. Curriculum Inquiry, 38(4): 357-385.

Campbell, E. (2005). Challenges in Fostering Ethical Knowledge as Professionalism Within Teaching Communities. International Journal of Educational Change, 6(3): 207-226.

Campbell, E. (2004). Ethical Bases of Moral Agency in Teaching. Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 10(4): 409-428.

Campbell, E. (2003). Moral Lessons: The Ethical Role of Teachers. Educational Research and Evaluation: An international journal on theory and practice, 9(1): 25-50.

Graduating with a B.A. from Queen’s University in 1982, Campbell subsequently received a B.Ed., M.Ed., and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Before her position in the Academy, she had been a secondary school English teacher in Toronto. Since 1992, she has been a professor at the University of Toronto and is a member of OISE’s Centre for Teacher Development. In 1999, she was a Visiting Scholar at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, England, and in 2005, she was the Helen DeVitt Jones Lecturer at the College of Education, Texas Tech University.

Email: ecampbell@oise.utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-978-0232