ABSTRACT
Sandra Acker is a sociologist of education who has worked in the United States, Britain and (since 1991) in Canada at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) as a professor in the Department of Sociology in Education, crossappointed to the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education (Higher Education Group). Her research interests focus on gender and education, the teaching profession, and higher education, focusing on careers, change and workplace cultures. Good indications of her past work can be found in her books: Teachers, Gender and Careers; Gendered Education: Sociological Reflections on Women, Teaching and Feminism. She codirected a research project on the thesis supervision of graduate students in education and psychology, and conducted an ethnographic study of teachers’ work in two primary schools. Since coming to Canada, she continues to write up material from those studies, as well as moving on to Canadian-based research. Currently she is the principal investigator of a project called Making a Difference, which involves interviewing academics in the four fields of social work, education, pharmacy and dentistry.
