Faculty Research

In the media: How ChatGPT, other AI tools could change the way students learn

Lesley Wilton, an assistant professor of education at York University, weighs in on how artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT will affect learning.

The Conversation: Are ‘top scholar’ students really so remarkable — or are teachers inflating their grades?

Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, Carl E. James, writes about a recent Toronto Star investigation into grade inflation and whether it’s holding top students back and setting others up to fail. James analyzed top scholar media coverage, STEM study, and teacher-student relations to understand this upward trend.

Less Distant Horizons

Trailblazing first-generation York students share their experiences with equity, community and their peers in a new book

Get to know our faculty: Gabby Moser

This month’s ‘Get to know our faculty’ profile features assistant professor Gabby Moser whose current field of research is visual citizenship, and especially the role photography plays–both in artworks and through everyday objects, such as family snapshots–in shaping who can be seen and recognized as a citizen.

In the media: Land and Language

Celia Haig-Brown, a Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, wrote a master’s thesis on Kamloops residential schools in the mid-1980’s, the work was published as a book but was ignored. Haig-Brown has returned to the work and recently published ‘Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School―Resistance and a Reckoning’ in light of recent events.

Join discussion on how leaders are using evidence to end homelessness

Making the Shift (MtS), a youth homelessness social innovation lab co-led by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness at York University, will host a virtual discussion on “Using Data and Evidence to End Homelessness: Drawing lessons from the United Kingdom” on Nov. 17 at 11 a.m.

In the media: Change the system, not the students: Sociologist on Black lives in Canadian education

Professor Carl E. James is the winner of the prestigious 2022 Killam Prize for Social Science. The sociologist has studied Canada’s schools and universities for 40 years. He argues there is much to learn about how racialized students can succeed in education.

Professor Sue Winton to deliver talk on privatization and public education

Sue Winton, associate professor in York University’s Faculty of Education, will draw on her book Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada, (University of Toronto Press), to explain how growing education privatization is undermining public education and democracy during a public talk, Nov. 8.

In the media: Project helps breathe new life into stories of Greenwood’s forgotten dead

Naomi Norquay, a senior scholar at York University, and Rachel Lobo of the University of Toronto set out to work on uncovering the narratives of the people buried at the Greenwood Cemetery’s indigent plot in 2020 before the pandemic.

New Provostial Fellows engage community to lead on Sustainable Development Goals

Four new Provostial Fellows have taken up their roles this year. The program is now in its second year running, with current fellowships in place until spring 2023.