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Dr. Rodney A. Clifton
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B.Ed.
University of Alberta, M.Ed. University of Alberta, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Ph.D.
University of Stockholm
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Rodney
A. Clifton earned a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and a Fil. Dr.
from the University of Stockholm. He has taught at the University of Toronto,
Memorial University, Bishop's University, and the University of Manitoba.
In addition, he has held research fellowships at the University of Stockholm
and the Australian Council for Educational Research. He has published
Socioeconomic status, attitudes, and educational performances: A comparison
of students in England and New Zealand (Almqvist & Wiksell International,
1978), Authority in Classrooms with Lance W. Roberts (Prentice Hall, 1993),
and Crosscurrents: Contemporary Canadian educational issues also with
Lance W. Roberts (Nelson Canada, 1995), and more than 70 articles and
essays in educational and sociological journals and books.
Areas
of Specialization:
- Sociology of Education
- Post Secondary Education
- Educational Research Methods
- Minority Groups
Research Interests:
- Educational Policies
- Minority Groups
- Sociology of Education
- Higher Education
Selected Publications/Presentations or Other Accomplishments:
Clifton, R.A., Perry, R.P., Roberts, L.W., & Peter, T. (In press). Gender, psychosocial dispositions, and the academic achievement of college students. Research in Higher Education.
Clifton, R.A. Teaching indigenous populations. (In press, L.J. Saha and A.G. Dworking (Eds.)) The New International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching. New York: Springer.
Clifton, R.A. (In press). The education of graduate students: A social capital pperspective. Journal of Thought.
Dooner, A.M., Mandzuk, D., & Clifton, R.A. (2008).Stages of collaboration and the realities of professionsal learning communities. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24, 564-574.
Clifton, R.A. 2008. Truth, reconciliation, and aboriginal residential schools: A reply to Michael Ignatieff. C2C: Canada's Journal of Ideas, forthcoming.
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