Sandra Leanne Bosacki is Associate Professor in the Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Education at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, where she teaches courses in developmental educational psychology and educational research methodologies. She received her Ph.D. in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of The Culture of Classroom Silence (Peter Lang, 2005), and has published widely in professional journals on education and children's social cognitive development.