Researcher's site: Candy Jones
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5204-6930

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Contact Information

Email: jonesc@brandonu.ca
Phone: 2047245354

Research Interests

Dr. Candy Jones is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education (Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy) at Brandon University. She is passionate about teacher education as well as the provision of effective and meaningful teacher professional development, particularly for teachers in rural contexts. As an educator who taught in three different rural Manitoba communities over her 20-year teaching career, Candy both advocated for equity for rural teachers, and worked towards the improvement of professional development opportunities available to educators. Her Ph.D. research, which built on her previous work as a PD committee chair and part-time Numeracy Coach, examined possibilities for developing contextually responsive PD models that mitigate challenges divisions and teachers face with regards to providing and accessing meaningful PD.

Candy's research agenda at BU includes research projects focused on teacher identity development, rural teacher identity, recruitment and retention of rural teachers, incorporating rural and Indigenous ways of knowing in mathematics, community-based teacher education programs, rural homelessness, climate change education, self-study of teacher educator practice (S-STEP) research, and the impact of menopause on women academic leaders.

Research Area

rural education

Keywords

rural education; mathematics education; self-study of teacher education practices; teacher identity; menopause and leadership; recruitment and retention of rural teachers; community-based teacher education programs; rural identity; climate change education

Field(s)

Curriculum & Pedagogy ; Curriculum & Pedagogy