NEWS & EVENTS
DECEMBER 2007
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DEAN'S MESSAGE: Welcome to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Since 1907, our community of students, alumni, faculty, and staff has helped build the University of Toronto’s reputation as one the leading centres in the world for the study of education...More
NEWS: TVO Announces Best Lecturer Nominees
Karen Mundy, Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Comparative Educational Change made TVOntario's top 38 nominees list for the 2008 Big Ideas Best Lecturer Competition. A panel of independent judges will review video submissions of lectures to come up with a shortlist of 10 finalists who will deliver complete lectures on Big Ideas over five weeks beginning March 1, 2008. See what it takes to be nominated and who else from U of T is on the list...More
ISSUES THAT MATTER: Early learning
Charles Pascal has seen firsthand through his children and grandchildren the value of early learning. And it's not all about education. "It's about opportunity and equity," he said after Premier Dalton McGuinty appointed him special adviser on full-day learning for 4- and 5- year-olds. More...
Charles Pascal, PhD, Executive Director, Atkinson Charitable Foundation, teaches in the Higher Education program at OISE.
CREFO 30TH ANNIVERSARY: The Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne (CREFO) celebrates its 30th anniversary. This year, four students successfully defended doctoral dissertations on the theme of francophone Ontario. This extraordinary moment highlights the history of scholarly work toward creating a permanent space for research in francophone issues in education, and the promise of future generations of scholars to continue examining equity issues and the construction of social difference within the francophone minority context. More on TFO's Panorama.
EVENTS: Robbie Case Memorial Lecture
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University, spoke on the subject of his new book, Five Minds for the Future, to a sold-out audience at OISE auditorium on December 5. The webcast of his lecture will soon be posted in this space.
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ABORIGINAL STUDENT HONOURS: Candace Brunette was presented with a President’s Award for outstanding native student of the year. Brunette, this year’s undergraduate winner, recently graduated with a BA (hon), with a specialist in aboriginal studies and a major in equity studies and is currently pursuing an MA in education at OISE. She is focusing on improving aboriginal peoples’ access to education, and native theatre, oral tradition, embodiment and decolonizing the body...More
STUDENT RESEARCH PROFILE: Anthony Folino
Name: Anthony Folino
Degree & Year: PhD, Second Year
Program: School and Clinical Child Psychology
Department: Human Development and Applied Psychology
Supervisor: Dr. Joseph Ducharme
Thesis: The errorless classroom: A success-focused, non-intrusive approach to intervention for severe behaviour...More
ALUMNI WHO INSPIRE: Steve McDonald
OISE's Inspiring Alumni--who are they? Accomplished leaders who have had a profound impact on education, literature, politics, the arts and communities around the world. Steve McDonald, PhD, FEUT alumnus, is a passionate teacher and facilitator, working with human rights activists around the world...More
EDUCATION PARTNERS: Paul Kay
Paul Kay’s involvement in the partnership between OISE and Northlea Elementary and Middle School has taught him to value the "energy and the influx of new ideas" that OISE teacher candidates bring into his classroom, and the opportunities it affords him for reflection on his own teaching...More
JUST PUBLISHED: Aide-Mémoire, by Ruth Roach Pierson
Author of "They’re Still Women After All: The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood (McClelland & Stewart 1986) among other academic studies, Ruth Roach Pierson published her first book of poems, Where No Window Was, with BuschekBooks of Ottawa in the spring of 2002, a year after retiring from thirty-one years of teaching as historian and feminist scholar first at Memorial University of Newfoundland and later at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto...More
On December 11 Barbara Bodkin, manager of Programs and Services for Continuing Education, was one of the guest experts in an episode of Your Voice (TVO's online parenting series at tvoparents.com). The program looked at the topic of gender and learning.
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