TPS PAST EVENTS
2010-2011
July 25 to August 2, 2011
Events Series
"Multi-Culture Is Our Business?
This series of events started in the summer of 2011, as a graduate student initiative. The first session was held from July 25 to August 2.
The event started with Prof. John Portelli's welcoming remarks on behalf of TPS and the Centre for Leadership and Diversity, to which were added, virtually, TPS Chair Prof. Eric Bredo's appreciation and TPS GSA president Patty Cmiec's best wishes. Keynote talks, accompanied by engaging discussion, were presented by Dr. Filomena Bomfim, Universidad Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil, and doctoral researcher Yoni Van Den Eede, Vrie Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. The lively discussion also owes a lot to senior McLuhan Legacy members Dr Bob Logan, founder and University of Toronto (emeritus) and OCAD University (current) faculty, Dr Alex Kuskis, MLN blog manager and Gonzaga University faculty, Bob Scott, Ryerson professor for most of his career. The rest of the session was taken up by a Poster Exhibition on the history of Indian Cinema, co-curated by Prof. Anjali Gera Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and film maker Suhail Abbasi, and co-sponsored through MLN by Ryerson University (credit to Dean Gerd Hauk).
For more on the concept of Multi-Culture and details about the events, please visit doctoral researcher Lynne Alexandrova's blog
More events, including screening of films, presentations and invited talks during the 2011-2012 academic year are in the planning stages. The July session was in part sponsored by the Centre for Leadership and Diversity, through professors John Portelli and Reva Joshee. Future events have the full support of Jeff Meyers, President of OISE's Graduate Student Association.
Date: June 23, 2011 5-6:30pm
Philosophy Talk
"Collaging Community in Cross-Race Classrooms"
Speaker: Professor Audrey Thompson, University of Utah, and former President of the Philosophy of Education Society
After Audrey Thompson discovered that she did not have the talent to make even a thumb pot, she spent her fifth grade pottery classes putting on plays with clay figures. She forgot to worry about the grade until the course was over. Luckily, her teacher gave her a grade not for pottery but for drama. Her recent philosophical work draws on the pedagogical possibilities of indirection and shared vulnerability in the face of the unknown, using visual arts as a basis for collaging community in the classroom.
Date: May 6, 2011
Education and Global Cultural Dialogue Conference: A Tribute to Ruth Hayhoe Location: OISE Building
A day-long symposium in honour of Professor Ruth Hayhoe’s lifelong focus on higher education in China, exploration of cultural influence on higher education and contributions to comparative education thought. Directly following the 55th Annual CIES Conference in Montreal, Canada. For more info and to register visit conference website.
Conference Organizers: Karen Mundy, Associate Professor & CIDEC Co-director, OISE/UT; Qiang Zha, Assistant Professor, York University; Yeow-Tong Chia, PhD
For conference inquiries, please email Ruth Hayhoe.
Date: April 20, 2011 5:30 – 7:00 pm.
CLD Round Table Series
“Thinking the unthinkable: Teachers who engage students in poverty”
Speaker: Professor Geoff Munns
University of Western Sydney, Australia
Professor Geoff Munns from the University of Western Sydney will lead the discussion “Thinking the unthinkable: Teachers who engage students in poverty” This presentation draws on research into student engagement in low SES communities in Australia. The research has been designed to give hope to poor urban and rural communities that they might "think the unthinkable": that there are teachers who can strongly contribute to the improvement of the educational and life circumstances of their children and so positively contribute to their community's well-being. Drawing on research frameworks around student engagement developed in the Fair Go Project (Munns, 2007), the study undertook intensive case study research into the classroom pedagogies of 30 teachers, exploring the causal impact of their work on the social and academic outcomes of their students. The classroom stories of a number of teachers will be told in this presentation. Against a theoretical backdrop that shows how students are positioned within discourses of power, it will provide a clearer picture of how teachers might engage students in poverty and so help them negotiate hitherto tenuous pathways towards educational success.
Date: April 6, 2011 4-6pm
TPS SPRING Party
Come for the food, fun and all around good time to celebrate the end of the term. All TPS students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Please RSVP to vesna.bajic@utoronto.ca
Date: March 24, 2011 4-6pm
Academic Callings: Universities we have had, now have, and could have
Speakers:
Jan Newson, Sociology, York University
Allison Hearn, Communications and Media Scholar, University of Western Ontario
George J. Sefa Dei, Social Anthropologist and Sociologist, OISE
Jamie Magnusson, Critical Theorist, OISE
John P. Valleau, Chemist, University of Toronto
Paul Adonis Hamel, Biomedical Scientist, University of Toronto
Frank Cunningham, Philosopher, University of Toronto
"The Academic Callings Project is the work of two Canadian sociologists, Janice Newson of York University and Claire Polster of the University of Regina. The idea for this project came to us three years ago in a moment of discouragement about the speed with which universities were acquiring an increasingly corporate face and acceding to pressures to commercialize their endeavours. Although our own attempts to challenge these changes seemed to not have had much effect, they led us to colleagues scattered throughout Canadian universities who, in the face of these developments, were actively engaged in a variety of efforts to preserve the distinct intellectual and educational mandate of the public-serving university. Their voices joined together, we thought, could inspire and encourage others, especially the new generation of academics who will soon assume leadership of these institutions, to engage in these efforts as well. We created The Academic Callings Project for this purpose. We invited twenty-nine of these colleagues to write a reflective essay about their life in the university, focusing on how they have responded to the changes that have taken place over the course of their careers, and how they have attempted, and are attempting to shape the university according to their vision of the university as a public-serving institution. "
For more info visit the book webpage.
Date: Friday, March 4, 2011 12:30-2:30pm
Philosophy Brown Bag series
Revising Philosophical Rules of Engagement: Situated Knowledges and Rhetorical Argumentation
Speaker: Jim Lang, Associate Faculty TPS, Philosophy
Location: OISE Building, 6-259
Dr. Jim Lang will present a distilled version of a paper recently published by Informal Logic, entitled: Feminist Epistemologies of Situated Knowledges: Implications for Rhetorical Argumentation It is part of special IL issue that includes the paper presented by Phyllis Rooney, earlier this semester, at York University. Jim has published several papers on the epistemological implications of situated knowledge and he will be pleased to send copies electronically to anyone interested in reading in this area before the presentation on March 4. For more info email: jim@jlang.com
Date: Monday, February 28, 2011 7-8:30pm
World University Network Virtual Seminar
Turning the crisis into opportunity: Educational development and social harmony in China
Speaker: Professor Ka Ho Mok, Associate Vice President (External Relations), Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Location: OISE Building, MEK Room, 12th Floor
Abstract
Realizing the difficulty to sustain its economic growth simply by engaging the whole country in exploiting its ‘cheap labour’ to attract overseas capital for investment, the Chinese government has made serious attempts to transform the county from ‘economic power’ into ‘power of human capital’. Like other Asian countries, the Chinese government sees higher education not only as part of nation-building but also an extension of their national ‘soft power’. It is against this context that the Chinese government has adopted various measures like the ‘211’ and ‘985’ projects to inject additional funding to transform the university sector. This paper critically examines the newly published Outline for National Educational Development by 2020, with particular reference to discuss how the Chinese government has tried to turn the crisis into opportunity to further transform its higher education sector to cope with the growing pressures for internationalization of university education. This paper also examines the policy implications of the proposed reforms on social and educational development in China mainland.
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:00 pm
Centre for Leadership & Diversity Round Table Series
Administrative Passages: Rites, Resistance, and Responsibilities
Speaker: Denise Armstrong, Brock University
Location:OISE Building, TPS Room 6-259
More than five decades ago, Arnold van Gennep used the term rites of passage to describe the ceremonial and ritualistic behaviors that marked the passage between social roles in traditional societies. This seminar focuses on the modern day rites that new administrators encounter and how these challenges impact individual and organizational leadership and change.
Date: Friday, February 18, 2011 11am - 12:30
World University Network Virtual Seminar
Crisis? What Crisis? Canadian Higher Education, Internationalization, and Preparing for the Inevitable Cuts
Speaker: Professor Glen Jones
Location: OISE Building, Room 3-387
The Higher Education Group at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education would like to invite you and any interested colleagues or students to attend the World Universities Network Virtual Seminar. The Ideas and Universities initiative explores the way in which ideas have found institutional expression in universities from the emergence of the earliest European universities in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries until today. The project considers ideas about how the mind works, how people learn, how people generate new knowledge, how we divide knowledge into different subjects or disciplines, how the lifestyle of intellectuals shapes their thinking, and what relationship intellectuals should have with the societies in which they live. It also looks at the governance of universities (their constitutional structures and where the power to make decisions is located), their internal structures (departments, schools, faculties, etc.), curriculum, teaching methods, and the relationship between teaching and research. Crucially, the project explores the relationship between these ideas and institutional aspects of universities in different places at different times.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10-11:30am
TPS Seminar
Creating Organizational Cultures of Family and Community Engagement: The Impact of District Policies and Practices on School-Level Leaders
Speaker: Dr. Molly Gordon
Center for Applied Research & Educational Improvement
College of Education and Human Development
University of Minnesota
Location: OISE Building, Room 12-199
Following the seminar there will be a tea at which students can meet the candidate. All are welcome.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 1-2:30pm
CLD Seminar
Implementing a Curriculum for Excellence in a Knowledge-Based Society-Economy, the Bahrain Policy
Speaker: Dr. Faten S.M. Abdel-Hameed
Associate Prof. at the Math, Science and ICT Academic Group, Bahrain Teachers College, University of Bahrain
Location: OISE Building, Room 6-259
The Kingdom of Bahrain has taken initiatives and steps towards reforming its educational system and implementing a curriculum for excellence. These efforts will be shared. All welcome.
Monday, February 7, 2011 2:30 p.m.
TPS Seminar
Evidence for an Educational Change: Leading Systemic Improvement Through Professional Capacity to Support Student Opportunity, Learning and Equity
Speaker: Dr. Carol Campbell
Executive Director, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, Stanford University School of Education
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-170
All are welcome. Following the seminar there will be a tea at which students can meet the candidate.
Saturday, February 5, 2011 9:15am-3pm
Annual TPS Student Workshop
Succeeding in Graduate Studies: Research, Publishing and Careers
Speakers: Professors: John Portelli, Eric Bredo, Reva Joshee, Trevor Norris; Marian Press, Elena Pizzamiglio, Michelle Goldberg and others.
Please see the Program
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-280
Monday, January 17, 2011 2:00-3:30 pm
Leadership & Educational Change Candidate Seminar
Effective School Contexts: A Research Agenda to Inform School Leadership
Speaker: Kristy Cooper
Education Policy, Leadership, and Instruction Practice, Harvard UniversityLocation: OISE Building, Room 12-199
STUDENT TEA – 3:30 pm – Room 12-199
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 11:00 - 12:30pm
TPS Faculty Seminar Series
New Directions for Research in Education
Speakers:
Prof Ben Levin: How Educators Access and Evaluate Research
Prof Ruth Hayhoe: The implications of Canada's historic university linkages with China for the present and future.
Prof Glen Jones: University Governance and Institutional Autonomy
Moderator: Prof Blair Mascall
Location: OISE Building, Room 4-160 (New Location)
The TPS faculty seminars are a continuing series of panels featuring faculty reporting on their proposals for research to be funded by SSHRC. This is a chance to hear about the current work your TPS colleagues are involved in across the Department.
Come hear about the newest research before it happens!All TPS students and faculty are welcome.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 3:30-5:00 pm
The Collaborative Educational Policy Program (CEPP) Seminar
How Policy Affects the Work People Do
Speakers:
Nina Bascia (Educational Administration, TPS)
Jamie-Lynn Magnusson (Higher Education, TPS)
Peter Sawchuk (Centre for the Study of Education and Work, SESE)
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-160
Friday, November 26, 2010
Philosophy Talk and Social: “Dilemmas of Ignorance: Exploring Dynamics of Difficult Knowledge in Social Justice Education”
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Logue. Dr. Logue is Assistant Professor at the Southern Illinois University.
“How can Science help us care for Nature: Hermeneutics, Fragility, and Responsibility for the Earth”
Speaker: Dr. Clarence Joldersma. Dr. Joldersma is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Calvin College in Michigan, and will speak about his recent publication in “Educational Theory”.
Talk: 4-6pm, OISE Room 5-150
Social: 6-8pm, Bedford Academy on Prince Arthur
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 3:30-5:00pm
The Collaborative Program in Educational Policy (CEPP) Seminar
"Allocating Educational Resources under Conditions of Scarcity"
Panelists: Norton Grubb (University of California at Berkeley); Nina Bascia (Educational Administration); Dan Lang (Higher Education); Kenneth Leithwood (Educational Administration); Ben Levin (Educational Administration); Creso Sá (Higher Education)Location: OISE Building, Room 5-150
November 10, 2010 :30-7pm
Education Reform: where next?
A major public Policy Forum discussing transatlantic education reform: the triumphs, the failures and the lessons to be learned.
Location: OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St West, Toronto, Room 5-150
Presenters: Prof Julia O’Sullivan Dean, OISE, University of Toronto; Prof Geoff Whitty Director, Institute of Education, University of London; Prof Ben Levin Former Deputy Minister of Education, Ontario, Prof TPS; Prof Carol Campbell Stanford University, California; and Mary Jean Gallagher, Chief Student Achievement Officer of Ontario.
Lively and controversial exploration of education policy in Ontario and the UK. Opportunity to engage with leading academics and practitioners from Canada and the UK. A collaboration between OISE, University of Toronto and the Institute of Education, University of London, RSVP to c.price@ioe.ac.uk
Thursday, November 11, 2010 11am-12.30pm
Policy Borrowing and Policy Tourism: Why does it happen and what good does it do?
A major public lecture by Professor Geoff Whitty
Director, Institute of Education, University of London
Chaired by Professor Ben Levin
former Deputy Minister of Education for OntarioLocation: OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St West, Toronto, – Room 12-199
An exploration of the sharing of education policy between the UK and Canada; Which education reforms have crossed the Atlantic? Did they succeed? Did they fail? Why and how do countries borrow policy? Entry is free. To register email c.price@ioe.ac.uk
November 4, 2010 12-1:30pm
TPS Faculty Seminar Series: New Directions for Research in Education <New>
Location: OISE Building, 5-170
Speakers:
Prof Nina Bascia: Teacher-driven curriculum reform
Prof Tony Chambers: Preparing Canadian postsecondary students to live and work in a multicultural society
Prof Tricia Seifert: Student Affairs and Services Divisions in Ontario Postsecondary Institutions
Moderator: Prof Blair Mascall
Bring your lunch and come hear about the newest research before it happens! All TPS students and faculty are welcome. Read more...
October 27, 2010 11:30am - 1:00pm
Learning Exchange: Doctoral students and a future in academe? From the iceberg to the shore
Presenters: Professor Sandra Acker, OISE/UT and Professor Eve Haque, York UniversityLocation: OISE/UT, Room 6-238
In light of arguments in the literature that doctoral studies can be conceptualized as the initial stage of the early academic career, this seminar addresses the question of whether continuity or disjuncture is to be expected between doctoral studies and the work of new academics.
Organized by the Centre for the Study of Students in Postsecondary Education.
RSVP at css.info@utoronto.ca. Space is limited.
October 12, 2010 1-2pm
The Tasks of the Critical Scholar/Activist in Education
Guest Speaker: Dr. Michael W. Apple
John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison
September 29, 2010 5-7pm
The Politics and Public Pedagogies of Humor in Media
Presenters:
Dr. Megan Boler, OISE/University of Toronto: "Satire and Truthiness: politics of media and dissent"
Dr. Cris Mayo, University of Illinois, Urbana: "Better thinking through humor"Location: OISE Building, Room 2-295
This event will be followed by the MEWG meeting.
September 20, 2010 5-6:30pm
Intro to Philosophy of Education class: "Manifesto for Education in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism: Freedom, Creativity and Culture"
Guest Speaker: Michael Peters
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-260
September 16, 2010 3-6pm
TPS Welcome (Back) Party
Location: Hart House, The Courtyard
University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H3All TPS current and new students, staff and faculty are welcome.
September 17, 2010 11:30am
Philosophy Brown Bag Series: "The collapse of the university in post neo-liberal capitalism"
Guest Speaker: Emery Hyslop-Margison
University of New Brunswick
Location: TPS, OISE Building, 6th floor
September 8, 2010 3-6pm
Orientation for New Students
An introduction to faculty, staff and an orientation to the department. All new and current students are welcome.
Location: TPS Lounge, OISE Building, 6th floor
Program
3-4 Welcome and Introductions (TPS Lounge)
4-4:30 Program breakouts, Faculty Portion
Ed Admin (Room 5-230)
Higher Ed (Room 5-150)
History & Philosophy (Room 6-272)
4:30-5:30 Student Q&As - (same rooms as above)
5:30-8:30 TPS GSA Meet and Greet (The Bedford Academy, 36 Prince Arthur