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April/May 2009
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Dr. Tricia Seifert, has accepted a position with the Higher Education program in Higher Education Policy and Measurement, effective July 1, 2009. Tricia is coming to us with a wealth of knowledge in the areas of student experience, higher education policy, and measurement. She has a strong commitment to collaborative work. Please join us in welcoming Tricia to the department.
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The Educational Administration Program is pleased to announce that Dr. Lyn Sharratt has joined the faculty as a Sessional Lecturer. As of April 2009 and for the upcoming academic year, Dr. Sharratt is taking responsibility for the delivery of TPS3044: Internship/Practicum in Educational Administration. Dr. Sharratt is a former Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Services in the York Region District School Board, and presently a Senior Advisor: System and School Improvement to the Board. She is herself a graduate of the Educational Administration Program, has previously taught graduate courses in the Program, and has approval from the School of Graduate Studies to participate in the supervision of Masters and Doctoral thesis candidates. Doctoral students interested in communicating with Dr. Sharratt about the Internship/Practicum course can contact her at lsharratt@oise.utoronto.ca. She is planning a meeting on May 28th at 4:00 pm in room 6-196, for those who have expressed interest in the Practicum in the coming months.
Steve Anderson recently returned from a trip to Chile. Over the next three years he will be collaborating in a national investigation of school leadership and education quality with a team of researchers from la Fundación Chile and the Centro de Estudios de Política y Práctica en Educación (CEPPE) of La Pontífica Universidad Católica de Chile. While in Chile, in addition to working with the research team on the design of the study, Steve was invited to make two keynote presentations, one “Medios de Mejoramiento Escolar al Nivel del Sostenedor” School Improvement Strategies at the School District Level) to a group of 500 school, municipal, government, and university education professionals at a regional seminar on education quality in Copiapó, Chile (sponsored by the Programa Mejor Escuela of la Fundación Chile and by la Fundación CAP). The second (“Liderazgo Directivo: Claves para una Mejor Escuela” School Leadership: Keys to a Better School) took place as part of a regional seminar on effective school leadership prácticas for 200 school and municipal education leaders organized by the Ministério de Educación de Chile and the Universidad Católica de Valparaiso in Valparaiso, Chile. Steve also had the opportunity to visit two schools participating in the Programa Mejor Escuela, a comprehensive school reform program of la Fundación Chile that is currently operating in 50 high poverty public elementary schools in central and northern Chile.
Steve Anderson with Jose Weinstein (Manager, Education Area, Fundacion Chile) and members of Fundacion Chile School Leadership Team (Santiago, Chile,
May 2009)
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Retirement has offered him the possibility, so writes Dieter Misgeld (mandatory retirement in 2003) to pursue his interest in Latin America more systematically. After several visits to Mexico and Colombia he has also begun to teach in Argentina. In Argentina he taught a month-long seminar last year, together with a young Argentinian philosopher, in the doctoral program in philsosophy at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, in La Plata, capital of the state of Buenos Aires, one hour away from the national capital. They discussed the Frankfurt School of Social Research and other West European philosophies in relation to South American issues. This year, in April/May they will again offer a seminar, this time on " Violence, Democracy and Human Rights." Their focus will be on left-wing Latin American thinking, its internal critique of armed revolutionary movements, the weaknesses of the traditional human rights paradigm and of its North American interpretation and other related themes (classes in Spanish).
Misgeld will also give a major lecture at an education conference in Gudalajara , Mexico, followed by two seminars. In Leon (Guanajuato), Mexico, he will offer a minicourse on "comunidad, convivencia y sociedad". In Colombia he gave talks last year at 2 universities, on "human rights and social theory, a critical view".
He also participated in the fourth annual meeting of the "Movement of Victims of Crimes by the State", and reported about it to a Canadian human rights organisation.
Dieter Misgeld
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Congratulations to Dwight Boyd on his retirement from Theory & Policy Studies in Education, Philosophy of Education Program. A celebration was held on March 24, 2009, at the Faculty Club, to commemorate this event. Colleagues past and present, shared memories while photos of friends, fishing trips and past social events were projected in the background. Although officially retired, Dwight can still be found in the Department, yes it's that OISE commitment to research !
Conferences and Presentations
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, held in San Diego, California in April 2009, was well attended by Theory and Policy Studies faculty and students. The following is a list of presentations:
Joe Flessa and Lynda Tredway, "Urban School Administator Preparation: Learning from Program Evaluation".
Joe Flessa, Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker, Kelly Gallagher-Mackay and Heather Becker, "Narratives of Success in Challenging Circumstances: Case Studies of Schools in Ontario Canada".
Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker, Joe Flessa, Kelly Gallagher-Mackay and Heather Becker,"Success Stories of Schools in Challenging Circumstances: Case Studies of School Community, Climate, and Culture".
Jane Gaskell, "Informed Consent Meets Critical Analysis".
Reva Joshee, Laurie Johnson, and Karen Pashby, "Our Cherished Ideal of Democracy": Citizenship Education Discourses in Canada and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s".
Kenneth Leithwood and Tiiu Strauss, "Turnaround School Leadership".
Ben Levin,
"Using Knowledge to Change Policy and Practice"
"Increasing Research Utilization, Contribution and Mobilization in Educational Policy Making"
"How to Change 5000 Schools".
Jian Liu, "Between Elitism and Populism: The Changing Eudcational Equality in Chinese Higher Education Since 1949".
Mary Nanavati and Joanne Robinson, "Mentoring and Coaching School Leaders in Ontario".
Karen Pashby and Erin Irish, "Deliberation Without Debate? The Dialectic of Global Citizenship Education and Controversial Issues.
Jim Ryan and Cindy Rottmann, "Struggling for Democracy: Administrative Communication in a Diverse School Context".
Cindy Rottmann, "Social Justice Teacher Unionism: Unifying Organizational Identity or Fragmenting Organizatinal Process".
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Jeff Stickney presented a paper at the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain at Oxford University in April 2009. Jeff's paper was entitled: "Foresight toward educational aims and resources: Dewey, Ranciere and Foucault confront Cyclopean Professional Development".
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Meggan Madden, presented a paper at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference (CIES) in March 2009. Meggan's paper was entitled: "UNESCO and Higher Education: Opportunity or Impass?". It was a joint paper written with Karen Mundy.
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Jennifer Bonnell and Alison Norman will be presenting papers at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, at Carleton University in May 2009. Their papers are entitled:
Jennifer Bonnell, OISE, University of Toronto
"Imagined Futures and Unintended Consequences: Toronto's Don River Improvement Project, 1880-1920".
Alison Norman, OISE, University of Toronto
"A New Patriotism: How Six Nations Soldiers and Women Experienced and Challenged the Authority of the Six Nations Council".
Achievements and Awards
Congratulations to Ruth Hayhoe, Higher Ed., on receiving a lifetime contribution award from the Higher Education SIG (Special Interest Group) of the Comparative International Education Society, at their annual meeting. "For a lifetime of profound contribution, leadership and research in comparative and international higher education, CIES 2009 Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 22, 2009.
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Congratulations to Megan Youngs, Ed. Admin., on hosting the first ever Deaf Canadian Graduate Student Conference here at OISE, in April 2009. The conference drew deaf graduate students, both local and out of province via videoconferencing. The conference gave students the opportunity to discuss their research with others who are well seasoned in Deaf education and research, using ASL (American Sign Language).
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Congratulations to Fei Wang, Ed. Admin., on receiving the first Berta Vigil Laden Travel Award in the amount of $750.00. Fei presented a paper at the American Educational Research Association Conference in April 2009, entitled: Teachers' Perspectives on Inclusive Leadership in Schools of Diversity".
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Congratuations to Jennifer Bonnell, History Program, on receiving the Canadian Federation for University Women Margaret Dale Philp Award for 2009-2010, in the amount of $3,000.00. This award is given for graduate studies in the humanities or social sciences, with special consideration given to study in Canadian History. Jennifer's research explores the social and environmental history of Toronto's Don River.
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Congratulations to Terezia Zoric, ITE, on being promoted to Senior Lecturer.
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Each year, the American Educational Studies Association, AESA, (the major educational foundations association in North America), chooses a number of new and recent books in the foundations of education, or related fields, that it considers worthy of particular merit and notice. This year's AESA Critics Choice Award included a co-edited book by Dr. Reva Joshee, Chair of TPS, and another co-edited book by Dr. John P. Portelli, Associate Chair of TPS. Reva and John are also co-directors for the Centre for Leadership and Diversity.
The books are entitled:
Hare, William, and John P. Portelli (eds.), (2007). Key Questions for Educators. San Francisco: Caddo Cap Press.
Joshee, R. and L. Johnson (eds.), (2007). Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States. Vancouver, BC: The University of British Columbia Press.
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Virginia Stead, Ed. Admin., attended the 2009 EPI National Capitol Summit on Education and the New Administration in Washington, DC. It was a great opportunity to showcase Ontario's public education system and advocate for high levels of teacher compensation, smaller class sizes, and diversification of the teacher workforce.
(Senator Mike Enzi (D-Wyoming), winner of EPI's 2009 Leadership in Education Award and Virginia Stead)
Publications
Litwin, J. "The Efficacy of Strategy in the Competition for Research Funding in Higher Education," Tertiary Education and Management, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2009, pp. 63-77.
Skolnik, M.L. (2008). Community Colleges in Canada. In P.A. Elsner, G.R. Boggs, J.T. Irwin (Eds.). Global Development of Community Colleges, Technical Colleges, and Further Education Programs. Washington, DC: Community College Press, 41-50.
Skolnik, M.L. (2009). Theorizing about the Emergence of the Community College Baccalaureate, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Vol. 33, No. 2, 125-150.
Skolnik, M.L. (2009). Gilles Paquet’s Contributions to the Study of Higher Education. In C. Andrew, R. Hubbard, and J. Roy (Eds.). Gilles Paquet: Homo Hereticus. Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press, 269-283.
Jones, G.A. and Skolnik, M.L. (2009). Degrees of opportunity: Broadening student access by increasing institutional differentiation in Ontario. Toronto, ON: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.
Student / Alumni News
transSimulacra Launch Call for Papers
Interested in stepping up from writing course papers and posts? The TPS online journal transSimulacra, launching its inaugural issue in September 2009, is an excellent venue to shape up your manuscripts and add a publication to your CV. Contributions are welcome from any area of theory and policy academic programs and may range from upgrades of course papers to responses to and reviews of official publications, as well as thesis abstracts/synopses. Manuscripts for the September 2009 issue are invited to join the journal online forum, where, subsequent to an open discussion March-May 2009, they will be finalized for publication by July 31. Proposed area(s), with the option to expand, depending on received submissions: philosophy and philosophy/history of education, cultural studies. You can email the issue editor at lynne.alexandrova@utoronto.ca and find out more about the journal at
http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/transsimulacra
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Congratulations to:
Robert Bernhardt, on the completion of his Ph.D. degree in Higher Education, Community College Leadership. Robert defended his thesis entitled, "The Potential for Engaging Part-time Faculty in Community Colleges in Additional Roles: Perceptions and Attitudes of Part-time Faculty and Administrators".
(L-R, Peter Dietsche and Robert Bernhardt)
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Warren Estridge, on the completion of his Ph.D. degree in Educational Administration. Warren defended his thesis entitled, "School Influence on Student Attendancce and Engagement in Learning".
(L-R, Reva Joshee, John Portelli, Warren Estridge, Paul Bitting and Njoka Wane)
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Louis Florence, on the completion of his Ph.D. degree in Higher Education, Community College Leadership. Louis defended his thesis entitled, "The Value of the MBA: Personal and Organization Contributions - An Ontario, Canada, Based Study of MBA Alumni's Perceptions".
(Louis Florence)
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Philip Howard, on the completion of his Ph.D. degree in Educational Administration. Philip defended his thesis entitled, "The Double-Edged Sword: A Critical Race Africology of Collaborations between Blacks and Whites in Racial Equity Work".
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Glenys Lafrance, on the completion of her Ph.D. degree in Higher Education. Glenys defended her thesis entitled, "Stakeholders' Views of Ontario College Boards' Decision-making Roles".
(L-R, Peter Dietsche, Glenys Lafrance, Dan Lang and Glen Jones)
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Brenda Pander-Scott, on the completion of her Ph.D. degree in Higher Education. Brenda defended her thesis entitled, "Factors Influencing the College Choice Behaviour of Ontario College Applicants".
(L-R, Katharine Janzen, Tony Chambers, Dan Lang, Brenda Pander-Scott and
Peter Dietsche)
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Laura Pinto, on the completion of her Ph.D. degree in Educational Administration. Laura defended her thesis entitled, "Curriculum Reform During Ontario's 'Common Sense Revolution': A Critical Democratic Explanation of Policy Formulation".
(L-R, Reva Joshee, John Portelli, Laura Pinto, Megan Boler and Michael Apple)
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Larry Vezina, on the completion of his Ph.D. degree in Educational Administration. Larry defended his thesis entitled, "The Inflluence of Habitus and Cultural Capital on the College Choice Decisions of Postbaccalaureate Students Enrolled in a Canadian Community College".
(L-R, Wayne Seller, Larry Vezina and Nina Bascia)
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Anne Wong, on the completion of her Ph.D. in Higher Education. Anne defended her thesis entitled, "Anaesthesia in Thailand and Canada: A Comparative Case Study of Two Residency Training Programs".
(Anne Wong)
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Sabrina Zuniga, on the completion of her Ph.D. degree in Higher Education, Community College Leadership. Sabrina defended her thesis entitled, "The Perceptions of Students in One Ontario College as to the Efficacy of Participating in Applied Research".
(L-R, Dan Lang, Sabrina Zuniga, Peter Dietsche and Katharine Janzen)
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ALUMNI NEWS !
OISE Alumni Association 2009 Spring Reunion Brunch
Honoured Years (4s and 9s)
May 30, 2009
10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
OISE Education Commons (Library) Ground Floor
252 Bloor Street West, 1st Floor
Toronto, Ontario
Guest Speaker
Gary Rabbior, OISE Bed, 1977
Did Financial Ignorance Get Us Into This Mess? Can Financial Literacy Get Us Out?
Gary Rabbior, BEd., OISE 1977, President, Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE)
RSVP by calling 416-978-1133
or
email Sema Donna Kenan, OISE PhD 1989 at sdkenan@gmail.com
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EVENTS
Congratulations to Zahra Bhanji, on the birth of Zafira, weighing in at 7 pounds 10 ounces.
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