LHAE Events
April 30
Student Seminar with Dr. Shruti Tambe
Tuesday, April 30th, 5-7pm followed by a potluck.
Room: 7-162
Shruti Tambe is Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology, University of Pune, India. She has published widely on issues of urban poverty, peoples’ movements for development and democracy, women’s movements and workers in the informal sector. She is a member of the editorial team of Samaaj Prabodhan Patrika, an academic journal in Marathi and is one of the editors of a forthcoming Social Science encyclopedia in Marathi. She has published her research in journals like Current Sociology, Critical Enquiry, Economic and Political Weekly and SEPHIS- Global South.
Dr. Tambe will share some of the main threads of her work, as well as her methodological approaches. She will also engage in a discussion of the work of students present.
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April 1
The Mad, the Bad, the Sad
AECD evening of entertainment and consciousness-raising
Date: April 1, 7pm
Location: Peace Lounge. 7th floor. OISE Building.
An annual and not-to-be-missed Adult Education and Community Development event is the students of Bonnie Burstow's course "Creative Empowerment with the Disenfranchised" putting on an evening of entertainment and consciousness-raising called "The Mad, the Bad, the Sad" in the Peace Lounge at OISE. In this tradition, there will be an evening of puppetry, video showing, etc in the peace lounge on Monday April 1 . Program begins at 7:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
Light refreshments will be served. RSVP at: themadbadandsad@gmail com
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April 16
Two ways of knowing, putting affect to effect.
Teaching for critical awareness with post-graduate adult educators.
Speaker: Dr. Tony Brown, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Date: April 16, 2-4pm
Location: Room 7-105
In this presentation, dr. Brown explore the use of film, music, photography and the use of story-making in teaching post-graduate students of adult education. Three subjects in the MEd program Using Film for Critical Pedagogy; Narrative and story-making in Education and Change; and Contemporary Work and Learning, are referred to.
Often radical and critical educators expect that the gradual elaboration of rational argument about inequality, discrimination, and injustice will explain, convince and win over those who they see as allies and potential supporters. However, students come together in the program with diverse social and educational backgrounds and different work experiences and practices. A pedagogic challenge is how to help students develop deeper awareness, knowledge, and feeling about the world around them? This approach accepts that there are other ways of knowing (Bruner) and so a wider range of written, visual and oral texts is utilized to work at the cognitive and affective levels.
Working with ideas from writers and educators such as Marshall Ganz, Paolo Freire, Martha Nussbaum, Francesca Polletta, Jerome Bruner, Mike Newman and Raymond Williams the teaching aims to observe and analyse depictions of the dramas of everyday life. By focusing on the representations or narratives students share a common reference point by which they can communicate with each other; develop generative themes, form ‘tools’ for analysis; and cultivate ‘narrative imagination’ and ‘empathetic awareness’.
Dr Tony Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational and Adult Learning at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He has coordinated the Masters programs in Adult Education for the past seven years. Tony’s research has focussed on learning in trade unions as a site of organisational and social movement learning, and most recently has been investigating literacy and numeracy practices of production workers in lean manufacturing companies. Tony is Editor of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning, and also active in his union, the NTEU, as UTS President, and State and National Councillor.
All students, faculty and staff are welcome.
_______________________________________________________________________LHAE Doc Talk Series, 2013
March 6, 11:30am-1:30pm. Room 6-122
LHAE students will present their research followed by a discussion. Bounce ideas off with peers and faculty in one of the largest and most multidisciplinary departments in the University of Toronto.
Andrew Campbell
Educational Administration Program
Title: Understanding the Teacher Performance Evaluation Process From the Perspective of Jamaican Public School Teachers
Abstract: In 2004 the Ministry of Education in Jamaica implemented the first teacher performance evaluation process for the dual purpose of teacher accountability and teacher professional development. This study is a DescriptiveResearch. Its goal is to determine the reactions and perceptions of trained public school teachers in Jamaica of their present teacher performance evaluation programme. The focus of this research will be to determine what is being done and how teachers feel about what is being done. How much has changed? What is the nature of the process? What perceptions are held by teachers? Is evaluation obstructing or promoting teachers work? How has evaluation contributed to teachers’ growth and development and teacher accountability? This research seeks to give a voice to the regular classroom teacher and capture his/her own perception about a process that impacts and influences his/her growth and development as a teacher. There is also very little literature on the topic from a Jamaican perspective. This study will get an authentic Jamaican outlook and open up the practices in Jamaica to the wider educational community.
Qin Liu
Higher Education Program
Title: The Impact of External Quality Assurance Policies on Curriculum Development in Ontario Post-secondary Education
Abstract: Ontario has relatively well-established quality assurance policies and mechanisms for post-secondary education. The system-level Degree Level Expectations, Credentials Framework, and Ontario Qualifications Framework as well various program-based accreditation standards all have an impact on the provision of post-secondary education within the province. This policy impact study intends to focus on these quality assurance mechanisms and, in particular, their impact on curriculum development practices. For this purpose, my research will be conducted in two stages mainly using qualitative methods. The study has been mainly informed by three bodies of literature: the learning outcomes approach to post-secondary education; quality assurance policies and mechanisms; and outcomes-based curriculum development. In addition, policy analysis literature has shaped the research design in multiple ways. This research will enhance understandings of the learning outcomes approach to post-secondary education. The findings will also provide insight for quality assurance policy makers in their formulation of implementation strategies, and will be valuable to educators and academic administrators in their planning of curriculum development related activities.
About the Series:
The LHAE Doc Talk Series is a monthly Brown Bag Lunch session designed to provide doctoral students with the opportunity to present their work at length; practice presentation skills in an informal and supportive space; and receive valuable feedback from fellow students and faculty. Light refreshments will be served.
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Date: TBA
LHAE Student Thesis Day + Social
Come join the discussion. Three recent Adult Ed/Community Development, Ed Admin and Higher Ed graduates will present their research. Social to follow. Light refreshments will be served.
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November 28
Student Thesis Day + Social, 2-4pm. Room 7-105. OISE Building
Come join the discussion. Three recent Adult Ed/Community Development, Ed Admin and Higher Ed graduates will present their research.
Jennifer Hann, MA
Thesis - City of Libraries: The Impact of the Urban Reform Movement on the Toronto Public Library
Jennifer Hann is currently the Communications & Research Coordinator in the Office of the President at Centennial College. She recently completed her MA in Adult Education & Community Development in LHAE and held a SSHRC Bombardier Award during her MA program. She also holds an Honours B.A. in History from York University.
Darrin Griffiths, EdD
Thesis - Promoting Inclusion in Urban Contexts: Elementary Principal Leadership
Darrin is currently an elementary school principal in Hamilton, Ontario. He also worked as an elementary principal in TDSB. Research interests include examining issues of social justice, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of elementary schooling. Darrin has a specific interest in how inclusion is grown and fostered in elementary schools.
Julian Weinrib, PhD
Thesis - South-South-North Research Partnerships: A Transformative Development Modality?
Julian Weinrib is a recent graduate of the Higher Education Program in LHAE, having defended his thesis in June 2012. Dr. Ruth Hayhoe supervised his dissertation, with Drs. Glen Jones and Creso Sa as the supporting committee members. His work has two primary focuses: the intersection of higher education and international development regimes in the post-World War 2 era, with a particular thematic focus on research policy, and a geographical focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and issues of governance and the academic profession in Canadian post-secondary institutions. Julian has worked at the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities as a policy analyst, with a focus on PSE system design, and currently works at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario as a research intern.
The presentations will be followed by a social. Light refreshments will be served.
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November 21, 5 pm to 7 pm, Room 11-164
Using provincial assessment results to measure school quality:
What can and cannot be done
Speaker: David Johnson, Education Policy Scholar, C.D. Howe Institute & Professor of Economics, School of Business Wilfrid Laurier University
Panelists:
Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Research Director People for Education
Ruth Childs, Profesor and Associate Dean, Innovations and Opportunities, OISE
Marianne Mazzorato, Chief Assessment Officer EQAO
This event is a panel discussion about EQAO. Ontario is one of a few provinces where results, by school, of provincial assessments of elementary school students are made public. The usual measure of school success is the percentage of students at a school that pass the assessment. To pass means to meet or exceed provincial expectations. Schools vary widely in the pass rate of their students and school pass rates can vary substantially from year to year. The C.D. Howe Institute has provided, every 2 to 3 years, a rating of schools in these provinces. The rating is a percentile from 1 to 100 that compares each school to others with similar social and economic characteristics. For example, a value of 90 indicates that this school has results better than 90 percent of similar schools and worse than 10 percent of similar schools. About half the variation in results across schools can be explained by variation in social and economic background of students. A large difference in ratings between schools, for example a value of 90 and a value of 10, is a situation in which two schools, where large group of students come from similar backgrounds, achieve very different results.
Dr. Johnson will describe the methods used to produce these comparisons and outline their implications, followed by discussion from the other panellists and the audience.
Joseph Flessa, Acting Director at the Centre for Urban Schooling and Associate Professor at OISE will moderate the discussion. This lively and interactive session will offer multiple perspectives, from experts in the field, on the role and use of EQAO data and the impact on student success.
For more information, or to RSVP, contact: Sofya Malik sr.malik@mail.utoronto.ca
See the poster
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October 11, 25, November 8
Research Seminars on Learning: How to Understand and Explain Learning and Development: Conceptual and Philosophical Issues
Speaker: Professor Christina Erneling, Lund University, Sweden
You are cordially invited to the following seminars which are open to all:
October 11, 5-8pm Room 6-259
Seminar I: A Biologizing of Education?
This seminar presents the problem situation and focuses on locating biological approaches to learning in their historical and contemporary intellectual context. More specifically it includes a critical discussion of Jean Piaget’s theories, but the main focus is on evolutionary educational psychology and its place in the philosophical and scientific tradition.
October 25, 5-8pm Room 6-272
Seminar II: Learning: Shaped by social life?
This seminar will locate alternatives to the biological approach like discursive psychology and various kinds of social constructivism in their intellectual traditions, and present their underlying assumptions and guiding principles, including a discussion of the role of social institutions.
November 8, 5-8pm Room 6-272
Seminar III: Learning: The Domestication of Biology: A Synthesis of Biological and Social Factors?
The last seminar will consist of a discussion of a possible synthesis of the different approaches and present tentative models for cognitive growth, relevant for varying forms of learning. The implications for actual classroom instruction and educational policies will be addressed.
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October 24
Book Launch: "Making A Difference in Urban Schools: Ideas, Politics and Pedagogy" by Jane Gaskell & Ben Levin
Date: October 24, 5-7pm
Location: OISE 12th floor, NEXUS Lounge
The Centre for Urban Schooling at OISE and LHAE invite you to a book launch and a conversation with authors: Jane Gaskell and Ben Levin along with Gen-Ling Chang, Chief Academic Officer, Teaching and Learning, TDSB; Jeff Kugler, Executive Director, Centre for Urban Schooling; and Penny Milton, former CEO of the Canadian Education Association. They will discuss a timely question: Are we any further ahead in education today than we were in 1972?
Please RSVP to cusinquiries@utoronto.ca or call 416-978-0146.
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October 25
Book Launch: "Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy" by Kiran Mirchandani
with guest lecture on transnational service work by Carla Freeman, Winship Distinguished Research Professor at Emory University
Date: October 25, 5-7pm
Location: Peace Lounge, 7th Floor, OISE Building
Sponsors : AECD, LHAE, Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies Institute, Caribbean Studies Program, Center for Women's Studies in Education (UT). Center for Feminist Research (York U).