Edmund O'Sullivan

Edmund O’Sullivan is a Professor of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He is Director of the Transformative Learning Centre that does both research and graduate programs on ecological issues. The Centre emphasises a global-planetary vision combining ecological literacy, social justice and human rights concerns, with diversity education that deals with issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Its goal is to help sustain a vision in education that has a global planetary consciousness and which creates a critical approach to global market visions of education. Ed has been a Professor at the OISE for 32 years and has taught courses in child development, educational psychology, critical mass media studies, critical pedagogy and cultural studies and presently heads up the program for Transformative Learning. He is the author of eight books and has over a hundred articles, chapters in books and refereed journals. His latest books are Critical Psychology and Critical Pedagogy and most recently Transformative Learning: Building Educational Vision for the 21st Century. Ed has also been honoured in his teaching work when he received The OCUFA Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University Level.

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