Faculty Research

In the Media: How producing videos on TikTok is impacting teaching

Kate Tilleczek, a professor of education at York University, and director of the Young Lives Research Lab, says relying on apps like TikTok can put more pressure on students.

Report shows lessons learned from changes to sex ed curriculum relevant during COVID-19

Changes to health, sexual and physical education curriculums in Ontario had a dramatic effect on teachers, but those lessons are even more salient today, outlines a new report by York University researchers.

The Conversation Canada – Federal budget 2021: 7 actions to ensure Canada’s ‘child-care plan’ is about education

The 2021 federal budget promises new investments of up to $30 billion over five years and $8.3 billion per year after that to create a Canada-wide early learning and child-care plan. In response to this, Faculty of Education assistant professor Cristina Delgado Vintimilla along with other members of the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory, co-authored an article for the Conversation Canada outlining actions that the Federal government can take to build a sustainable and relevant early education system responsive to the concerns of the 21st century in response to the Federal Budget 2021.

Faculty and Grad student presentations at AERA 2021 virtual annual meeting

A number of faculty and graduate students will be presenting at this year’s AERA virtual annual meeting.

Ontario’s Postsecondary Cooperative Education

Associate Professor Qiang Zha explores the status and characteristics of Ontario’s PSE co-op in the national and global contexts through the knowledge map analyses on a recent podcast on the Faculti web site.

The Conversation Canada Podcast: How to spark change within our unequal education system

Carl James, professor of education at York University and Kulsoom Anwer, a high school teacher who works out of one of Toronto’s most marginalized neighborhoods, Jane and Finch, were on The Conversation Canada Podcast episode 3 to discuss the injustices and inequalities in the education system – and the way forward.

Report outlines need for emergency planning to increase equity in access to education

A new report by Faculty of Education Professor Sarah Barrett highlights the need for emergency plans for teaching to increase equity in access to education.

Assistant Professor Gabrielle Moser’s article featured in Settler Colonial Studies journal

Assistant Professor Gabrielle Moser has written an article titled, Settler Colonialism’s Container Technologies: Photographing Crates in the Canadian Arctic (1926-1953), that was featured in Settler Colonial Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal which is published four times a year.

In the media: Plan to scrap ‘racist’ streaming in Grade 9 hailed as major step for Black students in Ontario

Influenced by the racial bias of educators, many students who do choose the non-academic stream are unaware of the consequences and often have to deal with a lifetime of obstacles because of it.

Meet a Grad Student: Mirco Stella

This month’s graduate student profile features international PhD Candidate, Mirco Stella. His research focuses on experiences of migration and displacement, and questions of pedagogy. “Crucial to my thinking about the world and education are the image of borders,” says Stella. “What it means to simultaneously inhabit and deconstruct the lines and places we’ve learned to […]