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Faculty of Education Public Lecture TONIGHT – A friendly reminder about this evening’s free online public lecture featuring associate professor Sue Winton who will give a talk entitled “Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada”. In this talk, critical policy scholar Sue Winton will draw on her book, Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada, (University of Toronto Press), to explain how growing education privatization is undermining public education and democracy. Specifically, she will show how policies, such as fundraising, fees, and specialized schools and programs among others, enable some kids to accumulate more advantages from public education than other children, often reproducing patterns of social inequality that exist outside schools. All are welcome to attend. Register here

Associate Professor Qiang Zha was successful in the 2022 SSHRC Partnership Grant Stage 1 competition for his project, “Reimagining Liberal Arts Education with a Trans-Continental Partnership,” and was invited to Stage 2 –  Zha and his team will be launching the L(iberalArts) ED(ucation) speaker series as a part of this project. The three speakers are: Marie Battiste (Cape Breton University in Canada), Teun Dekker (University College Maastricht in the Netherlands), and Ka-Ho Mok (Lingnan University in Hong Kong). Stay tuned for details

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Rachel Silver and Molade Osibodu on being awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grants for their respective projects “Borderless Graduate Education and the Politics of Knowledge Production” and “Fostering Critical Financial Literacy with Black Youth” Learn more

Introducing the 2022-23 Faculty of Education Student Association (FESA) Executive – The Faculty of Education Student Association (FESA) is a student council made up of undergraduate education students. In addition to representing education students, the members of FESA also plan a variety of events and services throughout the academic year including conferences, workshops, selling merchandise and producing their own student newsletter. Read more

Sustainability on the Go 2022 (SOTG 2022) – The theme of this year’s conference, co-organized by York International, the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability and International Partners, is “Navigating the New Normal in Higher Education.” The conference seeks to bring together participants from around the world with an interest in student mobility in post-secondary education with an eye toward making it more inclusive and sustainable. Learn more

York UNESCO Chair Newsletter November 2022 – The theme of the issue is “Higher Education for Sustainable Development” – Read more

ED Alumni Newsletter October 2022 issue – The October 2022 issue of the ED Alumni Newsletter is now available. This quarterly digital publication is sent to alumni and friends of the Faculty during the fall, winter and spring terms to keep them informed of the many vibrant and relevant activities that are happening in our Faculty. Read issue

In the Media

Change the system, not the students: Sociologist on Black lives in Canadian education – Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Carl E. James was interviewed on CBC Radio’s IDEAS October 28.
Listen to interview

New Publications

Assistant Professor Gabrielle Moser and co-editor Adrienne Huard (University of Manitoba) have co-edited a special double issue of the Journal of Visual Culture on “Reparation and Visual Culture” – The culmination of a 2019 SSHRC-funded conference, the special issue features the work of 15 scholars and artists from across the globe whose writing and creative practice examine the reparative potential of aesthetic encounters, including: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Susan Best, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Peter Morin, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Jade Nixon, Sefanit Habtom and Eve Tuck, Dylan Robinson, Nishant Shahani, Karen Strassler, Maya Wilson-Sanchez, and Nataleah Hunter-Young. Read Journal

News from the York Community

President Rhonda Lenton outlines York University’s sustainability goals – The University will expand the Office of Sustainability to help achieve net-zero sooner, and a significant reduction of direct and indirect emissions by 45 per cent by 2030. Read more

November is Community Safety and Crime Prevention Month – The Canadian Safety Council has designated November as Community Safety & Crime Prevention Month. Every fall, the University promotes and recognizes campus safety services and efforts. Read more

York community members invited to engagement sessions for University’s Well-being Strategy – York is hosting a series of engagement sessions, November 17 to January 31, 2023, to provide an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to share input and feedback that will help shape the University’s Well-being Strategy. Read more

Put your creativity to work in the classroom, scholarship – 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

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