Stephanie Chitpin
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Stephanie Chitpin
Full Professor
Room: LMX 464
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 4146
Work E-mail: steph.chitpin@uOttawa.ca
Biography
Stephanie Chitpin is a Professor of Educational Leadership at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Chitpin’s principal contribution to leadership and to the professional development of principals rests on her rejection of the inductive method. She argues that knowledge is acquired by hypotheses deductively validated as “falsifiability criteria”. Her research funded by The Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and The Ontario Ministry of Education, Canada, are international in scope, and includes the analysis of the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework (OKGF) based on Sir Karl Popper’s critical rationalism, as a new tool for understanding principals’ decision-making.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Professional development and school leaders in England: Decision-making for social justice (2020)
Ian Potter & Stephanie Chitpin
The paper identifies the professional development that leaders found to be most effective within their context. Leaders’ challenges are explored in relation to their efforts to reduce context-specific achievement gaps.
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Principal’s decision-making in bridging the student achievement gap (2019)
Stephanie Chitpin
The paper explores student achievement related decision-making processes of principals in Ontario. It also describes Ontario’s public education system with respect to neo-liberalism and student achievement.
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IN THE MEDIA
Why strong decision making matters in education
uO Media
April 27, 2021
Le Droit
January 31, 2020
Mike Harris’s 'common sense' attack on Ontario schools is back — and so are teachers' strikes
The Conversation
January 21, 2020