PAST EVENTS
2012-2013
March 20
Educational Administration Program is pleased to present a lunch-and-learn with Patricia Langford:
School Management in Extended Schooldays in Mexico: Implications for the Principalship
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 1pm
Location: Room 6-122
Please join us for a conversation with visiting doctoral student Patricia Langford. She will be presenting new empirical research from Mexico, where she investigates the way a new educational policy—the extended school day—has changed the work that principals do. Patricia is currently working on her dissertation with the same title at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes in México.
All students, faculty and staff are welcome. Sandwiches and salads will be provided.
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Learn more about LHAE Research
February 27, 12-2pm. Room 12-199
LHAE Research Smorgasbord + Social
Come hear faculty from Adult Ed/Community Development, Ed Admin and Higher Ed programs present the findings from research in which they are engaged and have published, or are in the process of publishing. Social to follow. Light refreshments will be served.
Peter Dietsche: "A Perfect Storm: Public Policy, Access and Student Success in Ontario Colleges"
Glen Jones: "Academic Careers and National Systems of Higher Education"
Linda Muzzin: "Mapping Curriculum and Equity in Canada's Community Colleges"
Shahrzad Mojab: "Re-organization of educational services and social services in response to policy mandates emphasizing the security and securitization of youth"
Jean-Paul Restoule: "Deepening Knowledge and enhancing instruction through incorporation of Indigenous worldviews in Initial Teacher Education program at OISE
Kiran Mirchandani: "Phone Clones: Identity, learning and work in the international call centre system with special attention to India"
Jim Ryan: "The Micropolitics of Social Justice Leadership in Organizations"
Joe Flessa: "Streaming in Ontario schools"
Carol Campbell: "Leading with evidence for educational improvement through education system change, professional capacity and student learning"
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February 6, 2013 5:45 - 7:15pm, Room 7-105
Workplace Learning and Social Change Collaborative Program Winter Colloquium
Made in Lesotho: Examining clothing workers’ perceptions of compliance with labour standards
Speaker : Kelly Pike
The evolution of labour standards enforcement can be understood as a response to a ‘global governance deficit’ whereby each layer serves to provide further protection to vulnerable workers. The current leader in the field of social regulation – the ILO’s Better Work programme – is different in that it engages buyers with the manufacturers, unions, and governments of the supplying countries, facilitating social dialogue around how to improve compliance without negatively impacting competitiveness. It also takes a more systematic approach to include workers in the monitoring and evaluation process, and focuses heavily on remediation through training and education. Though many studies have documented the successes and failures of enforcement efforts – for example, national law, international labour standards, consumer campaigns and codes of conduct, etc. – the research on Better Work is relatively new and, furthermore, none have focused solely on workers’ feedback in evaluating their impact. This study contributes to filling that gap by (1) presenting research findings from 17 focus group discussions with 149 clothing workers in Lesotho, a small country in southern Africa with an entirely export-driven clothing industry, and (2) discussing what implications this might have for Better Work Lesotho’s monitoring and evaluation practices. Findings indicate that supervisor‐worker relations play a critical role in shaping workers’ perceptions of their work, as do OSH policies that are sustained beyond buyer visits. Workers suggest that human rights awareness, supervisor training, OSH improvements, and flexibility regarding doctors and sick leave will make their work better.
About the Speaker: Kelly Pike did her PhD in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Her dissertation focused on examining the factors that lead to variation in workers’ perceptions of compliance in Lesotho’s clothing industry. As part of her fieldwork, she spent two years living in Southern Africa and, a Canadian, has recently returned for post-doctoral research with Leah Vosko at York University. There, she is working on building a global employment standards database, comparing employment standards enforcement across Canada, the US, UK and Australia. Kelly also teaches the Negotiations course at Woodsworth College, and works as a part-time consultant for the World Bank, doing comparative research on labour standards compliance in Lesotho and Kenya’s clothing industries.
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LHAE Doc Talk Series, 2013
January 24, and 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.
Presenter: Zeenat Janmohamed
Adult Education and Community Development Program
Title: Queering Early Childhood Studies
Abstract: The Canadian early childhood landscape has changed substantially across the nation, pushing early childhood from a private family responsibility into the greater public policy discourse. At the same time typical understandings of family and childhood are being challenged through legal and social policy reforms. This presentation reports on the findings of a study that analyzes the inter-connection between the professional education of early childhood practitioners and the experiences of queer parents using services for their children. Informed by a queer theoretical lens, the presentation highlights how early education in Ontario appears to take a monolithic view of child development and parenting in the context of newly defined family units that can include single or multiple parents of varying sexual identities that may consist of but are not limited to lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans parents.
Presenter: Rachael Nicholls
Educational Administration Program
Title: The Place of Identity, Equity and Inclusion in a Rural Ontario School Board
Abstract: Current literature written by teachers and researchers often conceptualizes rural classrooms as homogeneous, while urban school classrooms are described as being diverse (Corbett, 2006; Dei, James, Karmanchery, James-Wilson & Zine, 2003; Solomon & Sekayi, 2007). Because the majority of Ontario citizens live in urban centres, teachers are not specifically educated to think of their student population in rural areas as diverse; nor do education policy makers take into consideration the lives of rural students as shaped by their natural and cultural landscapes. My doctoral research analyses how a rural school board takes up equity related policies exploring the barriers to this work. It delves into how teachers’ social and cultural experiences and identifications influence the implementation of provincial equity policies and programs in an effort to enhance their schooling and educational performance of students in rural settings. This qualitative study sheds light on teachers’ organized work in school boards.
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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Learn more about LHAE Research
January 22, 12-2pm. Room 12-199
Getting impact from our research: How to connect research to policy and practice
Presenter: Professor Ben Levin
This practical session will review the steps researchers can take to maximize the value of our work for policy and practice. Among the topics to be covered will be effective reporting of research, building relationships for research impact, and effective use of the internet. Light refreshments will be served.
February 27, 12-2pm. Room 12-199
LHAE Research Smorgasbord + Social
Come hear a dozen faculty from Adult Ed/Community Development, Ed Admin and Higher Ed programs present the findings from research in which they are engaged and have published, or are in the process of publishing. Social to follow. Light refreshments will be served.
March 27, 12-2pm. Room 5-210
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 26
JOIN US FOR A Conversation with Selma James (Brownbag lunch session)
DATE: MONDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2012, 12-2pm
LOCATION: PEACE LOUNGE, 7TH FLOOR, OISE/UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, 252 Bloor Street West
Public Lecture: Sex, Race and Class: The New Terms of Unity will be held the same evening, Monday Nov 26, at 7pm. Location: George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, 15 Devonshire Place (the poster is attached) It is free and open to public.
For more information contact: Kiran.Mirchandani@utoronto.ca; and Shahrzad.Mojab@utoronto.ca
SPONSORED BY:
Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto Centre for Feminist Research, York University CUPE 3902, University of Toronto Equity Studies, New College, University of Toronto Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE/University of Toronto CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University
October 22
Educational Administration Program Information Session for Prospective Students
Date: Monday, October 22, 4-6:00pm
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-210, 252 Bloor Street West
October 23
Higher Education Program Information Session for Prospective Students
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 4-6:30pm
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-210, 252 Bloor Street West
Visit the Department, find out more about our programs, and meet faculty and staff. Please RSVP to vesna.bajic@utoronto.ca
October 3 and October 10
AECD Program Information Sessions for Prospective Students
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 5-7:30pm - For Doctoral students
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 5-7:30pm – For Masters students
Location: Peace Lounge, Adult Education and Community Development (AECD), 7th floor OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
October 4
LHAE Welcome (Back) Party
Date: Thursday, October 4, 4-6pm
All current and new students, staff and faculty are welcome.
September 27, 12-1:30pm. Room 6-272
“Doing Critical Policy Work in Uncritical Times”
With Professor Gerardo Lopez
Professor Gerardo Lopez is a Professor and Associate Director for Research/Loyola Institute for Quality and Equity in Education, Loyola University, New Orleans. Gerardo Lopez's research interests surround issues of parent involvement, migrant education, and school/community relations. His research focuses primarily on communities of color, particularly Latina/o populations and their school experiences.
September 26, 3pm
LHAE Student Organization Meeting
Location: Peace Lounge, 7th floor
The Transitional Team for the new LHAE Student Organization invites you to attend a very important meeting on Wednesday, September 26th at 3pm in the 7th floor Peace Lounge.
At this meeting we will discuss the proposed mandate and structure for the new student group and lay the groundwork for a ratifying vote in October. This is a great opportunity to get involved and make sure your input is included as we move toward solidifying our new student association.
If you are interested in attending via webcast (either skype or Adobe Connect), please email Joe Curnow and the transitional team will do our best to make that happen. Looking forward to seeing you there.
September 13
Orientation for OISE/Peel Masters in Educational Administration
Location: OISE Building, Room: 2 –296
The OISE/Peel Masters in Educational Administration orientation session will introduce students to the program. Faculty members will be on hand to answer questions, as well as provide details of the first class. OISE staff will be available to answer questions and provide information about using the Library and Education Commons.
For further information please contact Dr. Ann Lopez
September 12, 4-6:30pm
LHAE Orientation for new students
Location: OISE Building, 7th floor - Peace Lounge
4:00 Meet and Mingle, 7th floor - Peace Lounge
4:15 Welcome and Introductions, Peace Lounge
4:30 Program Breakouts
Adult Education and Community Development - Peace Lounge
Educational Administration, Room 5-170
Higher Education, Room 4-422
Meet and mingle - OISE info will be available: talk to representatives from the Registrar's Office, Student Services, Education Commons, Librar y, and SGS. A short series of introductions of faculty and staff is scheduled for 4:15pm, followed by breakout sessions of the three LHAE programs. Please plan to arrive early, as this is an excellent opportunity to meet other new and returning students, the faculty across the Department and in your respective program, as well as the LHAE staff. Faculty members will talk about their teaching and research interests. Also, you will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Philosophy Brown Bag Series: "Citizenship and the Education of Equality"
Speaker: Dr. Claudia Ruitenberg
Date: Thursday, May 31, 12-2pm
Location: 5-160
Claudia Ruitenberg has a doctorate in philosophy of education from Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include:
• Philosophical approaches to educational questions, including (but not limited to) questions in the areas of ethics, political philosophy, and epistemology
• Politics, democracy and citizenship in education
• Queer theory and education; anti-homophobia education
• Aesthetic theory and education; museum education; art interpretation and hermeneutics
CEPP Seminar Series - May 16
"Reflections on Teamwork, Partnerships, and Assessing the Quality of Evidence"
Speakers: Ruth Childs, Susan Elgie, Christie Fraser, Jayme Herman, Susan Palijan, and Greg Rousell
Date: May 16, 3-4:30pm
Location: OISE Building, 5-250
The "Evaluating research about education programs for students with special needs" project began with a query about one educational program and developed into a year-long collaboration between researchers at OISE and at the Association of Educational Researchers of Ontario (AERO) to refine a flexible framework for evaluating evidence. In this session, members of the team will discuss their experiences collaborating as new or experienced researchers on an evolving project.
An Ecology of Mind
A screening and discussion of Nora Bateson's new film portrait of
Gregory Bateson
celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist and systems theorist
Thursday, April 26, 2012
3:30 – 5:30pm
George Ignatieff Theatre
15 Devonshire Place, Toronto
Gregory Bateson's youngest child, Nora, depicts him as a man who studied the interrelationships of the complex systems in which we live with scientific rigor and caring integrity. The critically acclaimed film, which is being presented to sold-out audiences in many countries, includes footage from Bateson’s own films shot in the 1930s in Bali (with Margaret Mead) and New Guinea, along with photographs, filmed lectures, and interviews.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Nora Bateson and Peter Harries-Jones (anthropology, York University), Katja Neves-Graca (ecological anthropology, Concordia University), Dorion Sagan (science writer, essayist and theorist), and Eric Bredo (philosophy of education, University of Toronto).
Admission is free but space is limited: first come, first served. For more information visit: www.anecologyofmind.com
Higher Education Group Seminar
Assessing Student Learning for Policy and Planning
Presenter: Dr. Hamish Coates
Date: 4:00 – 5:30 pm, April 10, 2012
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-240
Dr. Hamish Coates will discuss work underway in Australia and internationally to assess student learning outcomes. Located within a quality assurance frame, the talk explores rationales for such assessment, the involvement of stakeholders, initiatives underway, and prospects for R&D.
Associate Professor Coates is Foundation Director of Higher Education Research at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), and a Program Director with the LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, based at the University of Melbourne. He is leading a consortium of international agencies to run OECD’s Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes Feasibility Study (AHELO).
Knowledge Mobilization Speaker Series
"Managing the Complex Process of Policy Implementation"
Presenter Marc-André Deniger, Professeur titulaire
Groupe de recherche sur l'éducation en milieux défavorisés, Université de Montréal, Faculté des sciences de l'éducation, Département d'administration et fondements de l'éducation
Date: April 5, 2012, 11:00 am
Location: OISE Building, Room 12-199
Marc-André Deniger (BSW, MSW, PhD. Sociology) is a professor at Université de Montreal, Faculty of Education, Department of School Administration (Département d’administration et fondements de l’éducation). He is the Director of the Research Center on Academic Success and the founder of the International Observatory on Academic Achievement. For many years he has studied education policy, school change and underprivileged schools and students. His most recent work focuses on the role of school districts in the implementation process. Since the early 1990s much has been written about the challenges in implementation of education policies . Many studies in this field are of a prescriptive nature (What Works? How to?), but do not fully address the complex factors involved and neglect the dynamic relationships among these factors. Our team has attempted to fill these gaps by building up an analytical model of implementation that moves back and forth between theory and practice using an inductive conceptualization. We have used this model in several research projects involving various educational actors (policy makers, school district leaders, school principals, teachers, etc.). The seminar will discuss the key elements at the heart of the complexity of managing implementation, including vision, context, planning, information and communication, supervision and support, resource management, evaluation and follow-up, leadership and actors’ sense making.
Hosted by the Knowledge Mobilization Team. Space is limited.
Book Launch: Putting Faces on the Data: What great leaders do!
By Lyn Sharratt and Michael Fullan
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 4:30 – 6:30pm
OISE Community Lounge (12th floor) 252 Bloor St. West
CEEP Seminar Series - April 4
"Building Capacity for Anti-Poverty Policy Making from the Bottom-Up: A focus on Activist Learning in Toronto"
Speakers: Sue Carter, PhD Candidate - OISE, SESE
Cutty Duncan, Project Coordinator - Mount Dennis Action for Neighbourhood Change (ANC)
Joseph Sawan, PhD Candidate - OISE, SESE
Peter Sawchuk, Professor - OISE, Adult Education Program
Date: April 4, 2012, 3-4:30pm
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-250
The goals of the "Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning" SSHRC-CURA Project (APCOL, 2009-2014: see www.apcol.ca) is to study the role of activist learning and development in the Toronto area through detailed, Participatory Action Research using both intensive community case study and survey methodologies. It offers an ideal opportunity for better understanding the process of capacity-building in some of Toronto's at-risk neighbourhoods for the purposes of policy-making "from the bottom-up". The speakers will discuss the project, provide some examples of analysis that are emerging and outline the dynamics and impact of the work from the perspective of communities.
CEPP Seminar Series - March 29
"Society and Security: Policy as Social Relations"
Speakers: Dr. Shahrzad Mojab and Dr. Sara Carpenter (AECD)
Date: March 29, 2012, 3-4:30pm
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-250
This talk is an examination of the re-organization of educational services and social services in response to policy mandates emphasizing the security and securitization of youth. By securitization we mean post-9/11 policies responding to interrelated crises of national and economic security that affect the political, cultural, economic, and social security of youth. Our primary focus of this research is to investigate how young people learn to live and participate in a world increasingly characterized by matters of security and conditions of insecurity.
CEPP Seminar Series - Feb 29
"Evidence In the Activation of Health Policy"
Speaker: Richard Volpe, PhD
Life Span Adaptation Projects
Laidlaw Research Centre
OISE/University of Toronto
Date: February 29, 3-4:30pm
Location: OISE Building, 5-250
This session reviews the use of best practices to reduce complexity and facilitate policy making in the prevention of severe injuries. The foundation of this work has been established in the generation of 90 case studies of effective injury prevention programs and the implementation evaluation of five of them in Ontario. These successive initiatives have culminated in a multi-faceted project aimed at fostering ways to increase community participation after acquired brain injury.
CLD PANEL: UNDERSTANDING EQUITY AND ENGAGEMENT - Feb 27
Date: Monday, February 27th, 2012 , 5-7pm
Centre for Leadership & Diversity invites you to a panel on “Understanding Equity and Engagement”. World leading researchers will share recent research findings and engage participants in discussions on issues related to culturally relevant pedagogy, policy related to minority students, democratic practice and intersectionality.
Location: OISE Library, Ground Floor, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Reception to follow in the TPS Lounge 6th floor
Guest Speakers:
Prof. Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. She is currently President of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and previously served as Vice President of Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research Association. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education and teacher education, and currently she is developing a new area, critical family history.
Prof. Gerardo Lopez, Professor and Associate Director for Research/Loyola Institute for Quality and Equity in Education, Loyola University, New Orleans. Gerardo Lopez's research interests surround issues of parent involvement, migrant education, and school/community relations. His research focuses primarily on communities of color, particularly Latina/o populations and their school experiences.
Prof. Heidi Safia Mirza, Emeritus Professor of Equalities Studies in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is known internationally for her pioneering research on race, gender and identity in education. She publishes and speaks extensively on multiculturalism, ethnicity and educational attainment, and human rights for Muslim, black and minority ethnic women.
Prof. Rodney Hopson, Professor at the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the School of Education, and faculty member in the Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Hopson’s research interests lie in social politics and policies, foundations of education, sociolinguistics, ethnography, and evaluation.
Philosophy Talk: "Looking at Teaching Through Humanities-Coloured Glasses"
Presenter: Professor Lynn Fendler, Michigan State University
Date: Thursday, February 9, 12:00 noon
Lynn Fendler is an associate professor of teacher education. Her internationally oriented research explores what it means to be educated in particular historical and political contexts. She examines critical and genealogical relations among knowledge, reason, discipline, and power. Lynn’s talk will be based in part on a course she teaches on Humanities-based research in education.
Book Launch: "Inspiring the Future: A New Teacher’s Guide to the Law"
By Nick J. Scarfo and Marvin A. Zuker
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012 4:30-6:30pm
Location: OISE Community Lounge (12th floor) 252 Bloor St. West
Introductions by Professor Elizabeth Campbell.
Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to vesna.bajic@utoronto.ca by February 1.
Co-sponsored by Carswell publishers and the Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education.
Annual Student Workshop: Succeeding in Graduate Studies
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:15am-2pm
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-170
Presenters: Glen Jones, Jim Ryan, Tricia Seifert, Amanda Cooper, Bryan Gopaul, Julia Lalande and Meggan Madden.
See the Program.
Come and explore: thesis-related topics; networking and publishing; building and implementing knowledge mobilization plans; and preparing for careers in academia and outside academia.
Dr. Allan Luke: Educational Research, Social Justice and School
Location: OISE, Room12-199
January 31, 10am-12pm
CEPP seminar series - Jan 11
"Some suggestions on how schools can best respond to fiscal pressures"
Speaker: Dr. Ben Levin, Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership & Policy,
Professor, Department of Theory & Policy Studies, OISE and affiliated faculty member of the Collaborative Educational Policy Program
Date: Wednesday, January 11, 3pm
Location: OISE Building, Room 5-250
Come join us to hear Dr. Levin speak about his recent report to the Nova Scotia Department of Education titled Steps to Effective and Sustainable Public Education in Nova Scotia, released in May 2011. Nova Scotia’s Education Minister, Ramona Jennex, says, “This is a good report, it mixes innovation with the kind of practical, strategic and sound advice that will help us to improve an already sound education system.”
Dr. Levin’s presentation will be followed by an interactive Q&A session and discussion. Read the overview of the report, including related video and audio clips.
Retrieve a full copy of the report.
This seminar is the first in a series of regular seminars by the Collaborative Educational Policy Program (CEPP), open to the public and a required part of CEPP for enrolled masters and doctoral students. CEPP is an option for OISE students enrolled in almost all OISE academic programs who are interested in understanding educational policy development, implementation and impact. For more information, please contact Professor Nina Bascia
Philosophy Talk: Environmental Philosophy and Education – December 2
Speakers: Dr. Doug Karrow, Brock University, and Craig Perfect, McMaster UniversityPlease join us for our holiday season potluck. All students, staff and faculty are invited to bring their favourite food to share with others.
Date: Friday, December 2, 4-6pm
Location: Oise Building, TPS 6-259
Dr. Doug Karrow Borrowing from the philosophical tradition of hermeneutic-phenomenology and his dissertation, "Educating-within-place: Recovering from Metaphysics as Technicity", Dr. Douglas Karrow will explore what the mystery-knowledge continuum has to offer socio-ecologically minded educators.
Craig Perfect will begin by discussing a brief history of Western views of nature. Next he will look at how Martin Heidegger showed that modern technology has its own peculiar view of nature, and then how Heidegger's student, Hans Jonas, used that insight to develop a groundbreaking set of environmental ethics. If there is time, he would also like to hear whether the technologies and gadgets the students use come with any undesirable politics, ethics, and views of nature.
Holiday Season Open House, Thursday December 1, 12:15 to 3:30pm
Philosophy Talk: The Security State and the Fate of Education - December 1 - Cancelled
Robin Goodman: “The New Taylorism: Hacking at the Philosophy of the University’s End”Kenneth Saltman: "Smart Drugs & Entrepreneurial Selves: Public and Anti-Public Pedagogies of Intelligence in Post-Fordism"Date: Thursday December 1, 3:00-4:30pm
Location, OISE Building, TPS 6-259
Higher & Adult Education Seminar Series, November 28
"The Year of the Tall Rains: From Access to the Social and Academic Integration of Refugees in Canadian Universities"
Speaker: Martha K. Ferede
Moderator: Professor Jamie Lynn-Magnusson
Time: Monday November 28, 2-3pm
Location: TPS 6-122
Martha K. Ferede is a doctoral student and presidential fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education in the Higher Education Policy concentration. Her primary fields of interest are access to and success in higher education for refugees and immigrants. Martha’s dissertation research, currently in data collection phase, is a national study of the social and academic integration of refugees who entered Canada through the World University Service of Canada’s (WUSC) Student Refugee Program (SRP). Martha is advised by Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and is funded by Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Martha is a former Toronto District School Board teacher. She taught predominately immigrant and refugee children in the Jane & Finch community.
This seminar is co-hosted by the Higher and Adult Education programs. All students, staff and faculty are welcome.
Dr. Cicely Watson 90th - November 17, 2011
Date: Thursday, November 17, 5-8pm
Location: OISE Building, Rm 5-220
Come and celebrate professor emerita Cicely Watson's 90th birthday.
Join us for a reception celebrating Cicely’s 90th birthday. If you would like to write a note or film a short video for Cicely, please send it to joanne.bacon@utoronto.ca Also,
Philosophy Talk: Friday November 4, 2011
"Catholic Schools and the Ecclesial Construction of the Laity: Consequences for the Future Church"
Speaker: Dr. Graham McDonough
The recent controversy over gay-straight alliances in Ontario's Catholic schools raises not only raises questions about how non-exclusively heterosexual persons seek justice in these institutions, it also raises questions about how these institutions imagine students as members in the Church. How does the school imagine (A) LGBTQ students who want to establish GSAs, (B) female students who dispute the male-only ordination policy, or even (C) students who think that Catholic schools are "not rigorously Catholic enough" to be "ecclesial agents" of the future Catholic Church? These questions are all of the public interest, but I maintain that Catholic schools will be most receptive to an argument from "within the Catholic tradition" if they are to better serve the needs of dissentient students. This talk will show how the way in which the Catholic Church conceptualizes lay persons as "agents" in the Church has a great influence on the way in which Catholic schools imagine themselves responding to dissentient students. It ends by proposing that it is in the interest of its students, and the public interest generally, that Catholic schools explicitly confront this question of "agency" as the foundation of responding to the justice questions it faces today.
Check theToronto Start for Graham's Article: Are GSAs really contrary to Catholic thinking?
Open House for Prospective Students
Date: Wednesday, October 19, 1-3pm
Location: OISE Building, TPS, 6th Floor, 252 Bloor Street West
Visit the Department, find out more about our Programs, and meet faculty and staff. No RSVP is needed.
Welcome (back) party – October 4, 4-6pm
Welcome and meet your colleagues. All current and new students, staff and faculty are welcome.
Student Association Welcome Dinner
Date: September 28, 2011 4-5:30pm
Location: OISE Building, Lounge, 6th floor
Annual Fall Student Orientation - Welcome new students!
Thursday, September 8, 6:30-9pm
Location: OISE Building, 5th floor, Room 5-150
All new students are invited to the TPS Student Association Welcome Dinner. Come learn about the great social and academic events planned for this year. Let's hear from you - what events and resources do you need? Bring your questions and ideas, TPS SA will provide the food.
6:30 Meet and Mingle, Room- 5-150
7:00 Welcome and Introductions, Room 5-150
7:15 Program Breakouts
Educational Administration, Room 5-150
Higher Education, Room 5-160
History and Philosophy, Room 5-170
Meet and mingle at 6:30pm - OISE info will be available. A short series of introductions of faculty and staff is scheduled for 7:00pm, followed by breakout sessions of the four TPS programs. Please plan to arrive early, as this is an excellent opportunity to meet other new and returning students, the faculty across the Department and in your respective program, as well as the TPS staff. Faculty members will talk about their teaching and research interests. Also, you will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Thursday September 16, 3-6pm
TPS Welcome (Back) Party
Location: Hart House, The Courtyard/Great Hall
University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
All current and new students, staff and faculty are welcome.
Friday September 17, 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
Dr. Hyslop-Margison is a highly respected philosopher of education and author of two recent books: "Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and Human Capital Learning: Reclaiming Education for Democratic Citizenship" and "Scientism and Education: Empirical Research as Neo-Liberal Ideology"
6th February 6, 2010 10am-2:30pm
Student Workshop
TOPICS FEATURED
Conferences and Networking - Karen Sihra and Professor Reva JosheAcademic Writing - Professor Stephen Anderson
Supervisors and Thesis Commitees - Professors Jamie Lynn Magnusson and Reva Joshee
The Ethical Review - Michelle Goldberg
Lunch will also be provided
November 20, 2009, 12pm
Emery Hyslop-Margison Lecture
Associate Professor Emery Hyslop-Margison from the University of New Brunswick will be presenting a lecture entitled
Title: Scientific Paradigms and Falsification: Kuhn, Popper, and Problems in Education Research
Abstract: By examining the respective contributions of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn to the philosophy of science, the author highlights some prevailing problems with the
methods and motivation of so-called scientific research in education. Hyslop-Margison
enumerates a number of reasons why such research, in spite of its limited tangible
return, continues to maintain epistemic credibility among colleges and faculties of
education. The author argues that when the identified problems are collectively
considered, they effectively reduce most claims emerging from scientifically designed
education research to the realm of deductively invalid hypotheses and hasty
generalizations insulated from academic criticism by various professional and
institutional interests.
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF STUDENTS
On November 17th CSS (The Centre for the Study of Students in Post Secondary Education) are proud to present the 3rd Fall lecture featuring Lee S Shulman, President Emeritus, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Shulam will be presenting a lecture called 'Where Routine and Surprise Collide' , lessons about teaching and learning from pedagogies of the professions.
LHAE SA Visiting Scholar Series presents Dr Grazia Angeloni presenting a lecture on School Organisations and transformative reculturing: A Culture Based approach to the Teachers in Service Education.
October 26th 2009
CLD SEMINAR SERIES
On October 5th as part of the CLD Seminar Series we have the grandson of the iconic figure Mahatma Gandhi, Rajmohan Gandhi presenting a talk entitled The Gandhi You May Not Know at the OISE Library at 12pm. There is no RSVP for this event so we suggest you arrive early to what will no doubt be a wonderful insight into Mahatma Gandi.
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF STUDENTS
3RD FALL LECTURE FEATURING DR LEE S SHULMAN