This month’s graduate student profile features Zaitun Pwin, a third-year PhD student in the Graduate Program in Education. Her research focuses on the role of education for Rohingya youths in Canada and the language and cultural socialization with regard to Canadian schooling. Pwin is the first Rohingya woman to study in a Canadian PhD program. "My advice is always believe in yourself and listen to your heart," she says. "Most of […]
There has been considerable change in lives worldwide in 2020 due to the novel coronavirus, and the persistence of systemic anti-Black racism. Participants in the Faculty of Education’s Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) program have seen the impact of change upon multiple fronts, because the program involves faculty, students and community partners at York’s […]
Three professors at the Faculty of Education have been awarded grants by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Associate Professor John Ippolito and Assistant Professor Gillian Parekh have been awarded Insight Grants, and Assistant Professor Gail Prasad has been awarded an Insight Development Grant, collectively totalling approximately $450,000.
Research Minute – Professor Rachel Silver on Anthropologies of Gender, Sexuality, and Policy My research connects insights from the field of comparative and international education and the anthropologies of gender, sexuality, and policy. Specifically, I explore how discourses, policies, and programs related to gender and sexuality intersect with youth lives in contexts where young people […]
Dr. Kate Tilleczek has been appointed Research Advisory Council Chair at Pathways to Education Canada. Pathways to Education is a charitable social innovation supporting youth in low-income communities to graduate from high school and build the foundation for a successful future.
Welcome to the November 2020 issue of Innovatus, a special issue of YFile that is devoted to teaching and learning innovation at York University.
York University community members are playing a key role in a provocative four-part series on the challenges facing public schooling.
Celia Popovic, Associate Professor at York University’s Faculty of Education, and Dr Fiona Smart from Edinburgh Napier University, recently launched a virtual book titled “Educational Developers Thinking Allowed.” The book serves as a primer to the field of Educational Development and has emerged from the collective experience and knowledge of a large number of educational […]
"I started my career as an elementary school teacher, and they were some of the most magical years of my life. Teaching for me has become a journey of self-discovery, an encounter with the self. Education is ultimately an endeavour in being more human. It demands of us an ongoing commitment to living and working from our complex and often contradictory parts - the magical parts, the scared parts, the joyful parts, the engaged parts, the ignorant parts and the resistant parts."
York University’s Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project, Faculty of Education and Centre for Refugee Studies present a monthly virtual colloquium series on the intersections of refugee education, anti-Black racism and COVID-19 in Canada and East Africa.