Faculty of Education News Bulletin

Top Stories

• Associate Professor Sue Winton wrote an article titled ‘Vertical school’ in a Toronto condo raises questions about public-private education partnerships that was published in The Conversation Canada. Read article
  
  
• Making the Shift’s Demonstration Projects 2021 Research Highlights – Making the Shift’s demonstration projects have been working to identify, develop, test, evaluate, and mobilize innovations in policy and practice that support the prevention and facilitation of sustainable exits from homelessness. This blog explores their research highlights from the past year. Read blog
  

In Case You Missed It

• Have you seen the Winter 2022 issue of the York U Magazine? The issue features Faculty of Education alumni Colleen Russell-Rawlins, Farkhunda Muhtaj and Jonathan Clodman. Check out the issue
  
  
• The Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora hosted its annual Black History Month event “WORD SOUND POWER: A celebration of Black Artistic Expression” last Wednesday evening. The event featured thought-provoking spoken word, R&B and gospel music performances. Watch the broadcast on Youtube
  
  
• The February 2022 issue of the Faculty of Education Alumni newsletter is now available on our website. Read the issue
  
  
• The Reciprocal Learning Beyond Crisis BHER Speaker Series 2021-2022 hosted a talk and film screening on February 16^th titled “Together for Peace in Somalia Film Screening and Rebuilding Somalia Panel”. If you were unable to attend, you can access and watch the talk here

New Publications

• Dean Robert Savage and co-authors Janet I. Vousden, Anna J. Cunningham, Helen Johnson, Sam Waldron, Sabrina Ammi, Claire Pillinger and Clare Wood have published a paper titled “Decoding and comprehension skills mediate the link between a small-group reading programme and English national literacy assessments” in the British Journal of Educational Psychology. Read the paper

News from the York Community

• Call for nominations: Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Award – Do you know an outstanding undergraduate or graduate student who has made significant contributions to the York community? Why not nominate that student for a Robert J. Tiffin Student Leadership Award? The nomination package deadline is Sunday, March 13. Learn more

Events

Faculty Events

Critical Approaches Toward a Cosmopolitan Education: The York Collegium

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
online via Zoom

Faculty and alumni from York University’s Faculty of Education will come together on March 9 for a virtual symposium to discuss a new edited collection “Critical Approaches Toward a Cosmopolitan Education” (Routledge, 2021) that aims to reconceptualize teaching and learning in spaces with diverse, multi-racial populations of young people. 

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Higher Education in Comparative Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
online via Zoom

Global access to postsecondary education has expanded significantly over the past two decades, growing from 100 million tertiary education students in 2000 to 250 million in 2020 (World Bank, 2021). International higher education has also become an increasingly connected, and competitive, sector. In other words, public and private universities have become spaces for transnational engagement, as well as hubs through which people, knowledge, technologies, and money flow. Despite the global growth in post-secondary enrolment, there remains significant disparities in who can access higher education within and across national borders. This BHER Speaker Series event will feature a panel of academic administrators and higher education experts involved in a range of internationalization efforts. They will discuss the opportunities and challenges to expanding higher educational access across borders, and consider the possibilities for, and constraints to, transnational higher education partnership.

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York University Events

Laying the Foundation for a Complexity-Informed Synthesis of Evaluations of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Unintended Consequences and System Adaptations

2 March 2022 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research invites you to a special seminar titled Laying the Foundation for a Complexity-Informed Synthesis of Evaluations of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Unintended Consequences and System Adaptations, with Miriam Alvarado.

In this seminar, Miriam Alvarado will discuss the challenges in evaluating large-scale population health interventions and how a combination of methods, including process tracing, qualitative comparative analysis, and systems thinking, may be used together to address these challenges. In particular, Miriam will focus on how these methods can be applied to consider the case of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation, a policy with growing international interest and part of broader prevention strategies for non-communicable diseases.

Miriam Alvarado is the Wellcome Trust Sir Henry David Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on the prevention of non-communicable disease through population-level policies such as sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. She is interested in the integration of multiple types of evidence in policy evaluations, taking a systems thinking approach and developing complexity-informed methods to synthesize policy evidence from diverse settings. 

Register here to attend the event