Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Top Stories
Associate Professor Sarah Barrett awarded 2022 Dean’s Research Impact Award – Associate professor Sarah Barrett is the recipient of the 2022 Faculty of Education Dean’s Research Impact Award (Established stream). Barrett was recognized and presented with the award at an internal Faculty event this past December. Read more
Best of Education 2022 – Celebrating some of the top highlights and moments in the Faculty of Education for 2022. Read more
Congratulations to associate professor Kurt Thumlert whose research project Designing Sound Futures: Inclusive Design and Transdisciplinary STEAM Learning received funding from York University through the Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (CIRC) program. Read more
Alumna Collette Murray earns two awards for work advancing diasporic dance styles – Education alumna Collette Murray was named among six recipients of the 2022 Women Who Rock Awards and one of six changemakers for racial equity as the recipient of the 2022 Award for Racial Justice in Creative Arts presented by the Urban Alliance on Race Relations. Read more
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 are in contact with
Research Office
Please join us tomorrow Wednesday, January 25 from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. for an information-packed, in-person session on Organized Research Units (ORUs) at York! The session will feature insights from ORU directors, Dr. Lorne Foster of the Institute for Social Research and Dr. James Orbinski of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health on how ORUs can support your research and how you can get involved
Where: 283 Winters College
York Research Leadership Awards: Deadline January 26, 2023
Dean Robert Savage and Lisa Farley (Associate Dean Research) are pleased to receive your nominations for York University’s Research Leadership Awards/Celebration. All nominations that meet the criteria will be forwarded to the Vice-President of Research and Innovation (VPRI) for consideration. An email invitation for nominations was sent to all faculty on January 5, 2023
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships: Deadline March 1, 2023
Please consider inviting and supporting submissions to the Provost’s Postdoctoral fellowships for Black and Indigenous scholars! The Faculty of Education is supporting one fellowship.
Dean’s Impact Awards: Deadline March 1, 2023
- Emergent Scholar Stream – nominees are within 3-6 years of their first academic appointment, where 3 of these have been held at York, and;
- Established Scholar stream – nominees have held their first academic appointment for 7 or more years, where 3 of these have been held at York
Student Services Office
The Office of Student Services would like to welcome:
Kharishma Chand to a full-time continuing position as a Student Service Representative. Kharishma joined the team on January 17
Rosa Berdejo-Williams to a full-time continuing position as a Student Advisor & Assessor. Rosa joined the team on January 9
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Office
The Application Package is now available online for certified teachers interested in applying to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Education Program. Application packages are due March 21, 2023. Read more
New Publications
Assistant Professor Molade Osibodu has a new publication titled Challenging “Dem European Teachings in My African School”: Burna Boy’s Music as Resistance published in The Comparative Education Review. Read more
Course Director Elena Rakitskaya’s chapter titled Collaborative Learning in the Online Environment: Cultivating Students’ Interpersonal Relationships has been published in The Handbook of Research on Facilitating Collaborative Learning Through Digital Content and Learning Technologies, IGI Global. Read more
In Case You Missed It…
The Israel & Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, Jewish Teacher Education and Hillel hosted a dinner program on January 21st titled Recognizing & Dismantling Antisemitism on Campus – The event featured Human Rights Educator Dr. Karen Mock who built a program based on scenarios and questions that the students shared in questionnaires and worked with students on tools for countering Antisemitic remarks that they encounter on campus in formal and informal situations
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. Read more
The lost treaties of Lithuania: priceless diplomatic treasures found in Toronto – Charles Hopkins, the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education toward Sustainability at York University, rescued some of Lithuania’s most important diplomatic treasures from a Toronto landfill. Read more
News from the York Community
Countdown to Congress 2023 Launch Event
Lisa Philipps, Provost and VP Academic and Amir Asif, VP Research & Innovation invite all students, staff, faculty members and course instructors to the Countdown to Congress Launch Event on Wednesday, January 25. The event will feature musical and dance performances which will be part of the Arts@Congress programming and light refreshments will be served.
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Venue Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre
RSVP by Monday, January 23, 2023
For those who can’t attend in-person, the event will also be live-streamed at https://youtu.be/G5JshK418eI
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Workshop Series (Winter 2023) – A series of one-hour workshops launches on January 25 with five online workshops sharing ways in which educators can infuse the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into teaching and learning. Read more
Year in Review 2022: Top headlines at York University, September to December. Read more
York faculty, staff and course instructors invited to engagement sessions for University’s new Well-being Strategy – York faculty, staff and course instructors are invited to join any of the online engagement sessions offered until the end of January
Consent Action Day events focus on knowledge, self-advocacy and care – York University community members are invited to join The Centre for Sexual Violence Response, Support & Education (The Centre) for a full day of events that focus on consent. Read more
Events
The 2023 lecture series presented by York University’s Disrupting Early Childhood Series and Western University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Curriculum, creates a public space that will highlight the generative intersections between emergent scholars’ research and that of their doctoral advisors. The series is particularly interested in the generative intersections created between professors and emergent scholars. Its guiding questions include: What is unique to the relation between emerging scholars and their supervisors? How do such vibrant intellectual intersections of research and thought enable different engagements with/in the world? What forms of care do these intersections give to thinking and to the possibility for otherwise or alternate ways of thinking? What kinds of possibilities for reconfiguring and perhaps even rupturing dominant structures of interpretation might be cultivated at this intersection, and how ought we to talk about them?
JAN 25 – 3pm EST
Preeti Nayak & Dr. Fikile Nxumalo (OISE University of Toronto)
Co-theorizing climate justice pedagogies: Intersections and generative departures
Visit icrc.uwo.ca to register for today’s session and for more information on upcoming sessions.
The Jean Augustine Chair is proud to announce this year’s Black History month showcase. The showcase is an opportunity for the amplification of cultural and artistic expression as we spotlight Black oral narratives and musical expression.
Performances include the York R&B and Oscar Peterson Ensembles, the York University Gospel Choir, Griots to Emcees, Coco Murray, Dwayne Morgan and students from the Toronto District and Peel District School Boards.
This is a free event and all are welcome to attend. GET TICKETS
Please join us for a welcome reception from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the lobby outside of the Tribute Communities Recital Hall.
Registration is now open for Harmony Movement’s Educator’s Anti-Racism Conference taking place February 15, 2023, online and in-person at York University. Focused on supporting K-12 educators and student teachers this conference will build knowledge of anti-racist and decolonial theory in the education sector. Conference participants will learn ways to practically apply data, evidence, and community insights to create anti-racist classroom spaces.
The theme of the conference is Shifting the System from Within: Empowering educators to embed anti-racism practices in the classroom with guest speaker Dr. George Dei.
REGISTER AND SEE MORE DETAILS HERE
See conference website in French
Conference partners include the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, ETFO, Scholar’s Choice, the Mosaic Institute, and the OISE Center for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies.
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising inequalities, whether happening locally or in other parts of the world, not only impact our individual future but are central for collective action in tackling these and other global challenges. How can we understand global issues, and their interconnectedness? How can we learn to live sustainably and ethically without the feeling of only giving up or cutting back?
United Nations member states agreed upon a plan towards a sustainable future, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Countries are called upon to provide quality education that addresses our common future by positioning sustainability as a purpose of education and encouraging young people to become global citizens.
What does this exactly mean for educators, parents, and students? Are we to add more content to an already overcrowded curriculum? This presentation addresses roles and concrete ways for educators at all levels, education professionals, students, and parents to understand the need, become engaged, and make a difference.
This is a free event and all are welcome to attend.
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