Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Top Stories
| Professor and associate vice-president Indigenous initiatives Susan Dion selected as SSHRC Impact award finalist – Professor and associate vice-president Indigenous initiatives Susan Dion was recently selected as one of two finalists in the Connection category of SSHRC’s 2022 Impact Award program. The awards celebrate outstanding achievements by Canadian scholars helping to deepen our understanding of people, human behaviour, and culture. Learn more Trailblazing first-generation York students share their experiences with equity, community and their peers in a new book co-authored by professor Carl James and Leanne Taylor (PhD ‘06) – The new book titled ‘First-Generation Student Experiences in Higher Education: Counterstories’ features the accounts of eight students who were the first in their families to attend university, participants in a program that was designed – in many ways as an “intervention” – to support young people who might otherwise have been unable to attend because of their social, cultural or financial circumstances. Read article in the fall issue of York U Magazine Associate Professor Aparna Mishra Tarc has published a piece in the Syndicate (Duke Press) titled ‘Learning to Read, Again’ in Nathan Snaza’s book ‘Animate Literacie: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism’. The piece is featured in a Symposium with other leading scholars in the Humanities and can be found here Assistant Professor Vidya Shah’s UnLeading podcast series featured on CareerWise website – The UnLeading podcast hosted by assistant professor Vidya Shah was featured in CareerWise’s “listen and learn” series of the best leadership podcasts. Read more ‘Big Thinking’ Podcast with Carl James – Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora Carl James joined host Gabriel Miller on the Big Thinking Podcast to talk about the question of race and the role it plays in shaping the experiences, education and overall life of Black youth. Listen to podcast Doctoral candidate Katherine Barron one of five York PhD students to receive Vanier Scholarship – Congratulations to PhD student Katherine Barron on being awarded a prestigious Vanier Canada Scholarship for 2022. The award, presented by the Government of Canada, is valued at $50,000 per year for up to three years. Barron’s cutting-edge research will examine the use of curriculum modifications for elementary school students. Read article MEd student Stephanie Cheung awarded York University’s Commercialization Fellowship – Stephanie’s research interests include post-secondary leadership and policy innovation, ethics and the philosophy of learning, and the nexus between education and the development of civic identity. Her fellowship project centers on votebetter.app, an organization with a mission to help students and student representatives alike navigate the landscape of student campus politics, form a collective voice on the issues they care about, and effectively organize for advocacy and change. The Commercialization Fellowship is funded by Innovation York and is intended to support the research commercialization process by providing strategic, short-term funding to assist in the development of commercially viable projects. Stephanie is being supervised by assistant professor Natalia Balyasnikova |
Program Office Updates
Dean’s Office
Faculty of Education Alumni Network (YUEAN) – Led by alumni volunteers, York University’s alumni networks deliver innovative and meaningful initiatives that enable alumni to connect with one another, to fuel student success and to support the York community. The Faculty of Education is currently looking for leaders & members for the @YorkUeducation Alumni Network! If you’re interested in joining our network, reach out to Evan Goldenthal at egolden@yorku.ca. Please spread the word to any Faculty of Education alumni who you may know or are in contact with
The Well-being Strategy Team wants your feedback! – Come join engagement sessions to share your feedback and recommendations on employee well-being needs to shape York’s future Well-being Strategy. Your input is extremely valuable to helping our whole community flourish and be well together. Learn more and register
Graduate Program Office
Congratulations to Dr. Marcela Duran on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation “The Story of a Course, School, First Language and Home: A Qualitative Discourse Analysis of the Voices of Refugee Students and their Teacher”. Marcela is a former secondee and course director with our Faculty
Upcoming Deadlines:
- Master of Leadership and Community Engagement (MLCE) program application deadline: December 15
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program application deadline: December 15
- Master of Education (MEd) program application deadline: January 15
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Office
We held our annual Information Night for teachers interested in applying to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Education Program on November 1. Watch session
The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Education Program will be accepting applications for the 2023-24 academic year as of December 5, 2022. All applications are due by March 21, 2023. Information about how to apply to the program can be found here
Research Office
Research Events:
- Mark your calendars! On Friday, December 16th from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m., the Office of the Associate Dean of Research is hosting a timely panel, The Digital Age from Human Perspectives, featuring professor sava saheli singh, post-doctoral fellow Dr. James Stinson, and visiting scholar Dr. Jonah Rimer. The event will be chaired by professor Kate Tilleczek. Register here
Selected Upcoming External Grants:
- SSHRC New Knowledge Synthesis Grant Competition: Shifting Dynamics of Privilege and Marginalization (Agency deadline: December 15, 2022)
- SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants (Agency deadline: December 15, 2022)
- CIHR National Women’s Health Research Initiative: Pan-Canadian Women’s Health Coalition – Hubs (Agency deadline: February 1, 2023)
- SSHRC Connection Grants (Agency deadline: February 1, 2023)
- Insight Development Grants (Agency deadline: February 2, 2023)
Selected Internal Grants:
- Funding for Indigenous Scholarly Events and Outreach Activities (VPRI deadline: January 1, 2023)
- Funding for Scholarly Events and Outreach Activities (VPRI deadline: January 1, 2023)
- SSHRC Exchange – Conference Grant (VPRI deadline: February 1, 2023)
Selected Upcoming Awards:
- Nominations for the 2023 Carol Crealock Award should be submitted to CASWE (casweacefe@gmail.com and fuhong@uvic.ca) by December 20, 2022
- Nominations for the 2023 CACS Award for the Outstanding Publications in Canadian Curriculum Studies should be submitted to Professor Nicholas Ng-A-Fook at nngafook@uottawa.ca by February 1, 2023
- Nominations for the 2023 CACS Ted T. Aoki Award for Distinguished Service should be submitted to Professor Avril Aitken at aaitken@UBishops.ca by February 1, 2023
- Nominations for the 2023 CATE Award for Contributions to Research in Teacher Education are due March 13, 2023
- Nominations for the 2023 Yidan Prize are now open and will close on 31 March 2023, 12:00 p.m. Hong Kong time (GMT+8).
Professional Learning Office
Winter 2023 AQ Session – Registration is now open for the Office of Professional Learning’s Winter AQ session which runs January 17 – March 31, 2023 (see individual course details for specific dates as some may vary). The deadine to register for courses is January 10, 2023. Learn more
New Publications
Associate Professor Sue Winton has a new book titled “Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada” published by University of Toronto Press. Learn more
Associate Professor Sue Winton has co-authored an article with Paulie McDermid (PhD student) titled “What’s ‘fairness’ got to do with it? Discourse coalitions, arguments, and discursive struggles over public funding of Ontario’s private schools” in the Journal of Educational Administration and History
Forthcoming book co-edited by associate professor Warren Crichlow titled ‘Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald: Unsettling Complacency, Reconstructing Subjectivity’ on Routledge – The book engages with the writings of W.G. Sebald,mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture, to explore the theme of unsettling complacency and confront difficult knowledge around trauma, discrimination and destruction. The book also includes a chapter by professor Karen Krasny. Learn more
In Case You Missed It…
The first talk of the L(iberalArts) ED(ucation) Lecture Series organized by Professor Qiang Zha took place on December 1. The recording of the talk entitled “Decolonizing the Academy: Trans-systemic Transformations in Reconciliation and Indigenization” delivered by Dr. Marie Battiste, can be viewed here
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 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. Read article
In the Media
Heritage minister asked to step in amid staff departures from National Gallery – Assistant professor Gabby Moser was quoted in an article on the CBC website on November 30. Read article
News from the York Community
Academic Innovation Fund: Call for submissions, put your creativity to work – York University’s Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) is now accepting 2023 grant applications and Will Gage, associate vice-president, teaching and learning, encourages faculty to put their creative ideas to work. Read more
York U Holiday Assets for 2022 – The Holiday Season has arrived! It is important to keep our relationships with our partners and community contacts strong by connecting with them to celebrate the season. You can access York U branded assets such as print or digital cards, and download Zoom backgrounds and social assets to share with your partners and networks. Download assets
Just for Fun
Home Grown Microgreens by Daniel Becker – I was told that microgreens are a nutrient dense form of greens that are so delicious that you will have a hard time going back to plain old salad after you get a taste for them. I read that it takes less than 2 weeks to get a pretty serious amount of salad fixings, so I thought it was something to look into. Read more
Events
The Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora presents a panel discussion on Miss Lou (a.k.a. Lousie Bennett,) the Jamaican language, and the performance of identity.
The event will also include the launch of the book ‘Miss Lou and the Jamiekan Langwij: Commemorations and Critical Perspectives’ edited by Michele A. Johnson, and will celebrate Jamaica’s 60th year of independence.
This is a free event and all are welcomed to attend.
Often when discussing, researching, and framing the digital age, it is technology itself at the foreground. Contemporary issues facing society are often conceptualized and marketed as primarily technical problems with technical solutions. This panel instead centres human, social, and cultural perspectives in exploring the digital age. Focusing on how digital technology is used by, motivates, affects, and is challenged by people within social contexts, panel members will discuss their research on diverse topics including crime, wellbeing, young people, education, and new ecologies. The panel will broadly explore how human, social, and cultural factors are, and must be, central to any discussion of digital technology. REGISTER here
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