News and Events Archive - 2011
Monday, November 28th
AECP
End of Term & Holiday Potluck!
4:00 - 7:00pm,
OISE, 7th Floor Peace Lounge
Wednesday, November 30th
Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE)
'I will be a Hummingbird' Celebrating the life of Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai
The Canadian Academy for Diversity Leadership (CADL)
12:00-1:30pm,
OISE, Room 2-227
Wednesday, November 30th
CIDEC
End of Term Potluck
4:30 – 6:00 pm
OISE, Peace Lounge
Wednesday, November 23
Social Economy Centre
Lunchbox Speaker Series
Inspirations Studio - An art-based microfinance incubator for low-income women.
Time: Noon - 1:30 pm.
Where: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. West, (St. George Subway Station) Room 3-104
Bring your lunch and a mug. Water, coffee, tea, and fresh-baked snacks from Lemon & Allspice will be provided.
For more information, please contact Andrea at secspeakerseries@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 23rd
CIDEC Seminar Series
Nation-states, educational traditions and the global patterning of higher education
Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education and Australian Professorial Fellow Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
11:30-12:55pm,
OISE, Room 7-105
Thursday, November 17th
Workplace Learning and Social Change Program
Race, Culture and Pedagogy in the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program
A seminar led b y Arlo Kempf
6:30-8:30 pm
Room: 4-422
Arlo Kempf is a Banting Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.
His work and research interests include multiculturalism, the sociology of race and ethnicity,
race and teachers' professional lives, teachers’ work, race and educaton in comparative
perspective, and the sociology of education. His research project, titled 'Pedagogy, Race, and
Racelessness: A Comparative Analysis of Colorblindness in Teacher Praxis in the US and Canada',
is being conducted at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (UCLA).
Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Education and Work
Tuesday, November 15th
CIDEC Seminar Series
A Critical Inquiry into Indigenous Knowledge Claims
Elizabeth Rata, Associate Professor, School of Critical Studies in Education, University of Aukland
1:00pm-2:30pm,
OISE, Room 7-105
Tuesday, November 15th
Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE)
Sensual Vantages on Relationships to the Environment
Susan Aaron
12:00-1:30pm,
OISE, Room 2-227
Wednesday, November 16th
CIDEC Seminar Series
Consuming schools: Commercialism and the end of politics
Trevor Norris, Assistant Professor, Philosophy of Education, TPS, OISE
11:30-12:55pm,
OISE, Room 7-105
Wednesday, November 16th
Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE)
Clashing Temporalities: Gender, Generation and the New Corporate Glass Ceiling
Dr. Csilla Kalocsai
12:00-1:30pm,
OISE, Room 2-227
Wednesday, November 16th
Social Economy Centre (SEC) Workshop Series
Overcoming the 5 Greatest Threats to Non-Profit Board Effectiveness
Vic Murray
9:30 - 4:30pm
OISE, Room TBA
http://socialeconomycentre.ca/
Tuesday, October 25th
The Indigenous Education Network (IEN)
But we don't have any Aboriginal students in our school!
Susan D.Dion, Associate Education, Aboriginal Education, York University
5:30 - 7:30pm
Room 5-280, OISE
Friday, October 14th
Social Economy Centre Workshop Series (SEC)
Financial Management in Community Organizations
Eric Plato, Director of Finance, Frontier College
9:30 - 4:30pm
OISE, Room TBA
http://socialeconomycentre.ca/
Wednesday, October 12th
CIDEC Seminar Series
Opening Minds, Improving Lives: Education and Women's Empowerment in Honduras
Erin Murphy-Graham, Assistant Professor of International Education, New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
11:30 – 12:55pm
OISE, Room 7-105
Wednesday, October 5th
CIDEC Seminar Series
Educational change as social movement in Mexico: Reconfiguring the relationship between practice and policy
Santiago Rincon Gallardo (PhD candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education) Visiting Scholar, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE
5:00 – 6:30pm
OISE, Room 7-105
Thursday, October 6th
Counselling Psychology & School & Clinical Child Psychology Program(s) Colloquium Series
Psych Services in Correctional Services: An Unfortunate (but highly rewarding) Growth Industry
Dr. Dorothy Cotton, C. Psych., Regional Treatment Center, Kingston
OISE, Room 7-162,
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Wednesday, September 28th
Social Economy Centre (SEC) Lunchbox Speakers Series
Running a Social Purpose Business: Lessons from Furniture Bank
OISE, Room 3-104,
12:00 - 1:30pm
http://socialeconomycentre.ca/
Wednesday, September 28th
CIDEC Seminar Series
North-South-South Research Linkages: A case study of Norwegian support for African Universities
Julian Weinrib (PhD candidate, TPS)
Understanding Race & Power: A comparative education approach to language politics
Cristina S. Jaimungal (MA candidate, CTL)
OISE, 7 - 105,
11:30 - 1:00pm
Tuesday, September 20th
CIDEC
Orientation & Pot Luck!
OISE, 7th Floor Peace Lounge,
4:30 - 6:30pm
Wednesday, September 21st
CIDEC
Information Session
OISE, 7th Floor Smart Room,
4:00 - 6:00pm
Thursday, September 8
SOS (Students on Seven) Orientation
We will be reviewing the role of SOS in student life, discussing upcoming events and plans for the 2011-2012 year and going over all the services students have at their disposal (e.g. lockers, office space). We'll also have upper year mentors on hand to help answer your program-specific questions. Come out and meet some new people, learn about SOS, get a tour of the department, and enjoy some free food!
Please RSVP to studentson7@gmail.com or via our facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=252301141462992
OISE, Peace Lounge,
2:00 - 4:00pm
Sunday, June 12 - Saturday, July 2
Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)
Summer Institute, 2011
For more information visit http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/tlc/
June 9 to June 12, 2011
AERC / CASAE Joint Conference 2011
The deadline for poster submissions, the Book Launch reception and conference paper submissions have now passed.
Information for Presenters now available on program page below.
More Info
Wednesday, June 1
OISE/ Indigenous Education Network (IEN)
Inaugural Mental Health Conference
'Indigenizing Psychology Symposium: Integration of Teachings & Practice'.
Various keynote speakers
Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Road
Contact suzanne.stewart@utoronto.ca for more information
Friday, May 27
Social Economy Centre - Workshop Series
Managing Human Resources in Non-Profit Organizations (Certificate)
Kunle Akingbola
OISE, Social Economy Centre, 5th Floor,
9:30 - 4:00pm
Wednesday April 20
Adult Education and Community Development
Celebrating Recently Completed Student Research in AECD
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Room 7-105
Presentations from 1 to 3 pm
Reception to follow.
Opening Remarks from Dean Julia O’Sullivan, Panel Moderator
View the poster
Friday, March 25
Social Economy Centre - Workshop Series
Strategic Planning for Non-Profits, Co-Operatives and Other Community Organizations
Jane Garthson
OISE, Room TBA,
9:30 - 4:30pm
http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/workshops.php
Friday February 25, April 22 and May 27
Social Economy Centre - Workshop Series
Managing Human Resources in Non-Profit Organizations (Certificate)
Kunle Akingbola
OISE, Social Economy Centre, 5th Floor,
9:30 - 4:00pm
Monday, February 28th
OISE & The Centre for Womens Studies in Education (CWSE)
The 13th Annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture 'Prostitution - Abolition? Regulation? Decriminalization?'
Teresa Ulloa Ziaurriz
Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place,
7pm - Reception to follow at OISE Library - 252 Bloor St. West
Thursday, Febuary 24
Department of Adult Education and Community Development
Workshop with Dr. Richa Nagar
For more information contact Dr. Kiran Mirchandani kiran.mirchandani@utoronto.ca
OISE, Room 5-250,
2:00 - 4:00pm
Thursday, Febuary 24
CIDEC Seminar Series
Kenyan Civic Education: A source of Empowerment?
Wangui Mburu, Ph.D. CTL
&
Recapturing spiritual and cultural values into science education: The case of Ethiopia
Solomon Belay, Ph.D. CTL
OISE, Room 7-105,
5:30 - 7:00pm
Wednesday, February 23
Social Economy Centre - Speakers Series
Community Foundations
Rosalyn Morrison & Betsy Martin
OISE, Room 12-199,
12:00 - 1:30PM
Tuesday, February 15
Workplace Learning and Social Change Collaborative Program - Winter Colloquium
Turning Health and Safety Training on its Head: Moving to a Systems Approach
Joanna Faulk
OISE, Room 5-250,
6:30 - 8:30pm
Tuesday, February 1
Centre for Womens Studies in Education (CWSE) & WIAprojects
Knowing Bodies: A Visual and Poetic Inquiry into Gender, Dress and the Professoriate
Fiona Blaikie, PhD
OISE, Room 2-214,
6:30 - 8:30pm
Friday, January 28
CIDEC Seminar Series
Constructing the Self and the Other : A comparison of history textbooks in India and Pakistan
Ratna Ghosh, James McGill & Professor William C. MacDonald
OISE, Room 7-105,
3:00 - 4:30pm
Friday, January 28
Social Economy Centre - Workshop Series
Marketing in Non-Profit and other Social Purpose Organizations
Sharon Wood and Trish Krause
OISE, Room TBA,
9:30 - 4:30pm
Monday, January 24
CIDEC Seminar Series
Changing modes of Governance and regulation in Education systems: European and Belgian Education systems
Christian Maroy, Universite de Montreal
OISE, Room 7-105,
11:30 - 1:00pm
Thursday, January 20
CIDEC Seminar Series
Education in Afghanistan: Between an uncertain past and a more uncertain future?
Sarforoz Niyosov, Steven Bahry, Spogmai Askeer
OISE, Room 7-105,
11:30 - 1:00pm