TPS EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
An Ecology of Mind - April 26
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 - April 10
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 - April 5
"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" -Feb 9 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 TPS Student Workshop: Succeeding in Graduate Studies - Feb 4
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 – Jan 31
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.
TPS 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, RSVP to Joanne by November 14.
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?
TPS Open House for Prospective Students - October 19
Date: Wednesday, October 19, 1-3pm
Location: OISE Building, TPS, 6th Floor, 252 Bloor Street West
Visit TPS, find out more about our Programs, and meet faculty and staff. No RSVP is needed.
TPS Welcome (back) party – October 4, 4-6pm
Welcome and meet your colleagues. All TPS current and new students, staff and faculty are welcome.
TPS Student Association Welcome Dinner - September 28
Date: September 28, 2011 4-5:30pm
Location: OISE Building, TPS Lounge, 6th floorTPS Annual Fall Orientation - Welcome new TPS students!
Thursday, September 8, 6:30-9pm
Location: OISE Building, 5th floor, Room 5-150
All TPS 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.
TPS Orienation for new students - September 8
Date: Thursday, September 8, 6:30pm
Location: OISE Building, 5th floor
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.