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Dr. Paul Sherman is retiring Chair of the Community Social Services Program at the University of Guelph-Humber, Toronto, Canada. He is also the founding director of the university’s Soka Education Research Centre on Global Citizenship (SERC-GC), which he will continue to run in retirement. Before entering higher education as a profession, Paul worked for over thirty years in various roles as a clinician and senior administrator in non-profit community mental health settings, particularly with youth and their families.
He earned his undergraduate honours degree in psychology from York University (Toronto), his postgraduate diploma in child assessment and counseling from the University of Toronto, and his PhD in Education and Social Justice at the University of Lancaster, U.K. His main research interests include soka (value creating) education and global citizenship education, and his research on these and other topics has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.
Paul has taught undergraduate-level courses on global citizenship at the University of Guelph-Humber and Soka University of Japan He has developed and led undergraduate-level study abroad courses in Sweden, Japan, Italy, and Austria. For the past three years post-COVID-19, Paul and his research assistants in SERC-GC have collaborated with Kansai Soka High School in Osaka, Japan on a highly successful collaborative online international learning project (COIL).
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