Tuesday, March 07, 2023
Top Stories
- Announcement of interim vice-president equity, people and culture – Alice Pitt, a long-serving member of the York community with demonstrated leadership and advocacy for accessible post-secondary education, will step into the role April 1. Read more
- Associate Professor Sue Winton featured on the 6th episode of the Public Good podcast – In this episode of the Public Good podcast, hosts Shannon and Stephen ask Winton what compelled her to write Unequal Benefits and what she finds fruitful about examining policies that encourage privatization in/of education. The episode invites some important questions about the impact of individual choices, and the simultaneous risk of individualizing systemic issues. Like Winton’s book, the episode ends with some ideas for advocacy. Listen to podcast
- Happening TONIGHT March 7th @ 7 p.m. – Faculty of Education lecture to highlight sustainable education – Titled “Educating for Tomorrow’s Unknown: Sustainability Front and Center,” the lecture will address how – through the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) – countries are now called upon to provide quality education that prioritizes sustainability and encourages young people to become global citizens. Learn more and register
- Black Joy: Resistance, Resilience, and What it Means to Black Canadian Youth Experiencing Homelessness – Resistance, Resilience and Joy are key to reimaging a stronger future together. This blog highlights the importance of Black Joy in our society, how it acts as a form of resistance and its significance for Black youth who are experiencing homelessness. Read more
- Inclusion Week 2023 – Reclaiming Social Justice in EDI (March 6 – 10) – The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion, in collaboration with partners across York University invites everyone to be a part of this year’s Inclusion Week series. Learn more
Program Office Updates
Academic Programs Office
- Undergraduate Retreat: Wednesday April 19th | 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. – This will be the first retreat for undergraduate programs held in the Faculty. All are welcome to attend (Instructors, TAs and support staff). Contact Celia Popovic at cpopovic@yorku.ca for the Zoom link.
Professional Learning Office
- Spring 2023 AQ session – Registration is now open for Spring 2023 Additional Qualification (AQ) courses. The spring session features the return of blended (in-person and online) AQ courses. The registration deadline is April 4 with courses running from April 11 to June 16. Learn more
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. Learn more
Research Office
Internal Deadline:
- The Call for Minor Research Grant (MRG) applications is open. The deadline to submit electronic applications online is Wednesday, March 15, 2023.
Upcoming Events:
Thinking Together about Processes and Problems in Research and Scholarship: A Workshop Series
This series of online workshops creates a collegial space in which to think about key processes and problems in research and scholarship. The series is guided by collaboration. Each workshop aims to bring people together to share experiences, problem-solve, and learn from one another, with a view to support each other’s efforts to build and showcase our work.
- What does it mean to strategize and think together about everyday processes and problems in research and scholarship?
- How can we learn from each other in supporting and expanding our own endeavours?
- Why think of each other as mentors in becoming our best selves in research and scholarship?
Please note this is an internal event. All zoom links/invites to be distributed by email.
Graduate students are welcome!
Workshop 1: Learning to Love Reviewer #2
with Professors Jen Gilbert and Rachel Silver
Date: Wednesday, March 22nd
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Workshop 2: Building Collaborations in Research
with Professors Cristina Delgado Vintimilla and Qiang Zha
Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Workshop 3: The Politics and Processes of Book Publishing
with Professors Carl James, Gillian Parekh, and Sue Winton
Date: Wednesday, April 26th
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Congress Updates:
Call for Posters! The Congress Working Group invites all faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students to contribute to the Faculty of Education poster session! The CWG envisions this event as an important opportunity to elevate the diverse, innovative, and creative research/scholarship being done in the Faculty of Education and to share with a national and international community of scholars in attendance for Congress 2023.
New deadline!!! Posters due by Friday, April 14th
To support your efforts to make a poster, please watch your email for a link to the recorded workshop, How to Make a Poster in Powerpoint.
A few important reminders:
- To indicate your intent to submit a poster, register at this link;
- You can contribute a poster if you are unable to attend the poster session;
- Printing costs of posters are generously covered by the Faculty of Education;
- All participants of the poster session must register with Congress to participate;
- Don’t miss out! 60 is the maximum number of posters for the session, and will be accepted on a first come, first placed basis using the link above;
- Posters will be on display at Congress: Monday, May 29th from 11:15am-2:45pm.
Program of Faculty-Led Events:
Monday, May 29th | 11:15 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Poster Session for faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students
Monday, May 29th | 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Fireside Chat with Hon. Jean Augustine and Professor Carl James
Tuesday, May 30th | 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Faculty Panel: Reckonings and Re-imaginings in Education
with professors Mario DiPaolantonio, Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, Molade Osibodu, and Vidya Shah
Chaired by professors Warren Crichlow and Korina Jocson
Wednesday, May 31st | 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Presenting Wüléelham: The Gifts of our People within Indigenous Programs at York
Led by professors Pam Toulouse, Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing, and Marianne Groat
New Publications
- Dunn, K., Georgiou, G., Inoue, T., Savage, R., & Parrila, R. (2023). Home and school interventions aided at-risk students’ literacy during Covid-19: A longitudinal analysis. Reading and Writing. 36, 1, 449–466.
- Popovic, C. (2023) Chapter 4. Looking from outside to the inside and from inside to the outside in Narratives of Becoming Leaders in Disciplinary and Institutional Contexts: Leadership identity in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, N. Rao (editor), Bloomsbury London, U.K.
- Popovic, C. (2023) Part IV Chapter 4. Impact of New Disruptions on Academic Leadership in International Perspectives of Leadership in Higher Education, Blair, Evans, Hughes and Tight (editors), Emerald Publishing, Bingley, U.K.
In Case You Missed It…
- Assistant professor Rachel Silver (York University) and Dr. Karishma Desai (Rutgers University) organized and moderated a society-wide inspirations session at CIES 2023 entitled, “What is Racial and Gender Justice in Comparative and International Education?” on February 20, 2023. Learn more
In the Media
- ‘The optics are terrible’: Toronto police criticized over senior officer’s role as head of internal discipline – Carl James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora at York University, weighs in on the appointment of a senior officer to lead internal investigations at Toronto Police Services despite a career that includes the on-duty shooting deaths of two Black men. “Unless that culture shifts and different questions, different programs and different practices are taken up … we’re going to have the same reproduction over and over again,” said James. Read article in the March 2 issue of the Toronto Star.
Events
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.
Guest speakers Nicole Muir and Sabrina Cicansky will be in dialogue with one another about the book Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, a novelist and short fiction writer from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations.
In this presentation, Dr. Teun Dekker will argue that the liberal arts and sciences (LAS) model of education can inspire reform across higher education to help students acquire crucial civic virtues. Based on interviews with 59 students from LAS programmes across Europe, he will show how LAS education can develop a range of citizenship skills that are central to the democratic process. The interviews provide insight into how studying LAS prepares students for citizenship by asking them to reflect on their education, what it taught them, and how it did so. Building on these insights, seven key democratic competencies are identified and linked to concrete educational practices that foster them, leading to an agenda for higher education reform.
This event is a part of the L(iberalArts) ED(ucation) Lecture series and is co-hosted by the York Centre for Asian Research.
This is a free event and all are welcome to attend.
March 29, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. EST
How one becomes who one is? Reflections on intersections and frictions in becoming an educational scholar in Latin America
with Inés Dussel, Yuri Páez Triviño & Federico Williams, Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas, Cinvestav, Mexico
This is the third and final talk of the Thinking Intersections: Research, Relations & Reconfigurations series which 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.
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