CIDEC Seminar Series
Spring 2012
Meet and Greet/ Q&A for New students
Karen Mundy and CIDE faculty will be available for new students to ask questions about the CIDE program.
Monday, January 16, 4:00 - 5:00 pm Rm. 7105
"Reflections on Doing Youth Participatory Action Research with Latino Students in Toronto Schools: Dilemmas and Possibilities"
Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez, Assistant Professor, OISE, and Cristina Guerrero, PhD Candidate, OISE
Wednesday, January 18, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Rm. 7015
"Social Integration as Key to Quality Education: Lessons from Refugee Education"
Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Post-Doctoral student, OISE
Roundtable discussion on education and conflict
Karen Mundy, Associate Professor, facilitator
Thursday, February 9, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Rm. 7105
Student Research Symposium & Book Launch
Nine student presentations in three sessions:
Friday, February 10, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Rm. 7105
1. Higher Education
Linda Tung,MA-TPS, Pragmatist Ethics of Education: Influence and potential for North American higher education
Julian Weinrib-PhD, TPS, Interrogating the "South" in South-South-North development modalities: A case study of one trilateral research network
Patricia Gaviria - PhD, TPS - Self-determination and Postsecondary Education in Greenland and Nunavut: The Inuit and the Circumpolar World
2. Advocacy, democracy & literacy
Yasmin Lalani - PhD, CTL - Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education: Women Activists' Work in the Peruvian Amazon
Sally Hooper - PhD, AECP - Small Spaces for Meaningful Participation in Democratic Life?: A South African Community's Perspectives of Their Involvement in an Early Childhood Education and Care Program
Arif Anwar - PhD, CTL - "I can send a text. I just don't know how to write.": Inspiring literacy through mobile phones in rural Bangladesh
3. Citizenship
Leigh-Anne Ingram - PhD, CTL - Subjects, objects, citizens?: Exploring girls' perspectives on gender, civic participation and school
Karen Pashby - PhD, TPS - Global Citizenship Education in a Multicultural Context: Theory and Policy Analysis of Educating for the Twentieth-First Century
Syeda Rufeeda Bukhari - MA, CTL - The role of the school culture in the integration of immigrant teachers in public schools in Ontario
"Promoting Learning for All: reflections on recent innovations and the state of play in the field"
Lynn Murphy, Program Officer, Hewlett Foundation
Monday, February 27, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
"Proverbs, Indigenous Philosophies, and the Lessons for African Schooling, Education and Development"
George Dei, Professor, OISE
Wednesday, February 29, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
"Privatisation, Education, and Development: Discourse and New Research Directions"
Prachi Srivastava, Associate Professor, Ottawa University
Tuesday, March 6, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Rm. 7105
"Conversations with Dr. Jacinta Muteshi"
Dr. Jacinta Muteshi, former Chair of the National Commission for Gender and Development, Kenya
Wednesday, March 7, 3:30 am - 5:30 pm Rm. 7105
Preparatory meeting for CIES presenters
Karen Mundy, CIDE Co-Director
Wednesday, April 4, 3:00 - 4:00 pm Rm. 7105
CIDEC End of Term Potluck
Wednesday, April 4, 4:00 - 6:00 pm Peace Lounge
"Education policy as numbers"
Bob Lingard, Professor, Professorial Research Fellow, University of Queensland
Tuesday, April 10, 10:00 - 12:00 pm, 7105
"Proverbs, Indigenous Philosophies and the Lessons for African Schooling, Education and Development"
Jadie McDonnell, MA student, AECP, OISE, University of Toronto
Wednesday, April 18, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, 7105
"How teachers view their profession in Chile: Some results from a national study"
Beatrice Avalos, Associate Researcher, Center for Advanced Research in Education, University of Chile
Thursday, April 19, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, 7105
"A Comparative Study of Elite-English-medium Schools, public Schools and Islamic Madaris in Contemporary Pakistan: Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory Employed to Understand Inequalities in Educational/Occupational Opportunities"
Akhtar Hassan Malik, Ph.D. Candidate
Thursday, May 17, 11:30 - 1:00 pm, 7105