Dr. Eleanor Pierre has a doctorate in Curriculum Studies. She performs training and workshops for colleges and universities in a variety of areas, including teacher education, TA training, change management, program review to name a few. She has also held several teaching positions at the college and university levels.
Eleanor has served on several committees dealing with the College and University levels of governance, as President of Phi Delta Kappa, the University of Toronto chapter, and on the planning committee of the International Creativity conference at Northwood University for several years. She is one of the founding members of Mindshift, a creativity group at the college, and has worked in various capacities with planning committees of the Central Regions of the CAAT system under ACCATO and has delivered instruction in the International educational field.
Her research interests include Comparative and International Education for the new knowledge learner, Reform of TVET, Human Resource Development, Teacher Education and Training, Evaluation of learning and teaching, E-learning, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), Knowledge Management, and Policy Analysis and Development.
Her most recent research, using both quantitative and qualitative methods looked at “Teachers’ perceptions of Professional Development required for improved practice: A comparative study”. This study looked at the governance, operation and context of teacher’s in-service programs (in Ontario and the Caribbean) at the College and Polytechnic levels and provided a forum for teachers in both context to voice their professional needs. Second, it is the intent that recommendations from this study will be useful for policy makers, curriculum designers, administration, and teacher educators in teacher education programs. Third, this research breaks new ground for evaluation of teachers at various levels of entry with varying educational accreditation into an ever changing education platform.
Eleanor worked on a methodology for a bid to carry out work at the Open University of Sri Lanka, which received approval for Capacity Enhancement for program change and redesign in the area of curriculum design and CIT training in Sri Lanka (OUSL Project).
Eleanor’s future interest is in the pedagogy of learning, evaluation needs of the global learner, teacher education, educational administration in developing countries, and curriculum design to maximize learning for improved practice. Her work is by no means limited to educational institutions but she has been working with business and industry to create pedagogically sound training modules for face to face and on-line delivery.
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