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.
“Welcome to e-learning, where some parents have become reluctant helicopters, circling their kids as they attempt to learn, helping them with their every move. Throughout the country, grown-ups privileged enough to be able to stay at home, or to even have a few minutes of “spare time,” can be found sitting adjacent to their children […]
The Faculty of Education welcomes three new postdoctoral fellows this fall: Beyhan Farhadi, David Pereira and Farra Yasin.
This month’s graduate student profile features Brittany Tomin, a fourth-year Doctoral Candidate at the Faculty of Education. Her research explores how science fictional and speculative storytelling can be used to help students imagine and address present challenges and future concerns collaboratively. “Young people are constantly inundated with images of destruction, take climate change for example, […]
Do you enjoy hearing about the latest thought-provoking research? The Scholars’ Hub @ Home speaker series features discussions on a broad range of topics, with engaging lectures from some of York’s best minds. The Scholars’ Hub events are done in partnership with Vaughan Public Libraries, Markham Public Library and Aurora Public Library, and presented by […]
Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora at York University’s Faculty of Education, tells CBC’s guest host Alison Brunette about his research on how Black children experience the school system. James says Black, racialized, and Indigenous students are streamed into particular programs that will not lead to university. “From the very time […]
“With schools reopening after COVID-19 closures, concerns about the safety and certainty of public schooling have driven some parents to consider alternatives to sending kids back to brick-and-mortar classrooms,” says Sue Winton, Associate Professor at York University’s Faculty of Education in a recent piece for the Conversation. One option making headlines is the formation of “learning […]
A new video produced by Educational Developer and Designer Daniel Becker introduces students to the eClass (formerly known as Moodle) learning management system in York’s Faculty of Education. The video provides education students with a better understanding of how to be successful this fall in the online/remote environment. For questions and inquiries about eClass contact […]
We are excited to announce the recipients of this year’s Don Galbraith Pre-Service Teacher Award of Excellence presented by the Science Teacher Association of Ontario (STAO). Teacher Candidates were nominated by their course directors based on criteria of exceptional creativity, commitment to teaching, willingness to engage in new methodologies, skills at research and production of […]
The York community is invited to visit the University’s new website which launched on Aug. 31 with a modern design, enhanced functionality and an improved user experience. The new Faculty of Education web site was one of the pilot sites for the launch.