As teens venture out to explore and experiment with sexuality and forge their new, post-pandemic identities, let’s not begin every conversation about sexuality with worries about pregnancy and disease, writes Associate Professor Jen Gilbert in an article for the Conversation Canada.
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.
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 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.
A number of faculty and graduate students will be presenting at this year’s AERA virtual annual meeting.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.