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Dr. Jim Cummins

Professor Emeritus

Location: Toronto, Ontario
Email: james.cummins@utoronto.ca
Website: http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/%7Ejcummins/cummins.htm

Dr. Jim Cummins is a Professor with the department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at OISE. Dr. Cummins holds a Canada Resarch Chair (Tier 1) and has been a recipient of the International Reading Association’s Albert J. Harris award (1979). He also received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the Bank Street College of Education in New York City (1997).

In recent years, he has been a co-investigator on a large-scale SSHRC-funded project entitled “From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Designing Learning Environments for Knowledge Generation within the New Economy.” He is currently involved in a project to validate the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Steps to English Proficiency assessment tool. He is also conducting a research review on English Language Learners’ academic trajectories.

Dr. Cummins has co-authored several books on literacies in education, and has seen his work translated into Japanese and Spanish.

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