Welcome

The Network of Centres and Institutes in Education (NCIE) was created in 2002 by the Faculty of Education Dean, Dr. Rob Tierney. It brings several research centres and institutes under one administrative umbrella within the faculty.

The NCIE administrative team provides support services for the various research and program activities of centres and institutes within the network. Find more about our staff.

While each centre/institute in NCIE has its own unique mandate, purpose, and focus, their common features have served to bring them together. Other collaborative groups may join the Network in the future.

The Network may be seen as a "generative space" where faculty and graduate students might come together around sets of shared research interests and problems that often transcend departmental boundaries. One of the primary roles of Centres in the Faculty of Education is to undertake and promote a variety of research and communication activities around a focussed set of issues, which define that particular Centre or Institute. By creating a network of units within the Faculty of Education, Dr. Tierney is seeking to truly promote and nurture the type of social organizational structure that Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger have referred to as a "Community of Practice."