Like many of you, we have been shocked by the tragic death of George Floyd, another unarmed Black man, who died at the hands of police in the USA. As all of us know, this is not an isolated incident, and anti-Black racism is real, deep and systemic, impacting not just those in the US but also Canada. We recognize the pain and frustration felt by our Black community members both within the Faculty and more broadly.
This past May, Professor Pam Millett participated in a panel conversation about some of the hardships of COVID-19 that fall disproportionately on students with disabilities.
By the time babies are three months old, they can distinguish between races, and they prefer faces from their own ethnic group. As toddlers, that preference can start to put down roots in terms of how they understand people’s behaviour. In the early 1990s, Carl James, Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and […]
Faculty of Education Professor Carl James was on CP24 to discuss how to talk about race and anti-Black racism to children. He highlighted the importance of teaching children about race at a young age and understanding that racism is a systemic problem in Canadian society as well.
Protests erupted across the United States, Canada, and the world over the weekend, as thousands demonstrated against racism and police brutality, specifically towards members of the Black community. These demonstrations, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, aim to seek justice for George Floyd. Floyd was killed during an arrest in Minnesota on May […]
As the spread of the novel coronavirus forces people indoors, some have turned to recreating viral dance challenges on TikTok. The TikTok website says their mission is “to inspire creativity and bring joy.”
Amira El Masri, a recent PhD graduate at the Faculty of Education has recently been awarded two national awards: the Michel Laferrière Research Award for the best doctoral thesis by the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC) and the George Geiss Award by the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE).
The Downsview community mourns the loss of Sharon Roberts who was a PSW for more than 24 years at the Downsview Long Term Care Centre whose life was lost to COVID-19. Downsview currently mourns this frontline hero. The impacts of COVID-19 on racialized and disenfranchised communities have been well-documented. Professor Carl James at York University’s […]
Welcome to the May 2020 edition of Innovatus, a special issue of YFile devoted to teaching and learning innovation at York University.
This month, I am delighted to partner with the Faculty of Education on this special spotlight edition. Together with Dean Lyndon Martin, we are sharing with you many of the exciting endeavours that the Faculty of Education has undertaken to enhance teaching and learning for its students.
Congratulations to Magdalena Kisielewska-Zaranek – a student in the Faculty’s Bachelor of Education degree program at York University’s Glendon Campus – on being awarded the Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association (OMLTA) Helen G. Mitchell Award. One graduating student from each Faculty of Education who will be qualified to teach French as a Second Language (FSL) […]