NEWS & EVENTS
NOVEMBER 2007
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DEAN'S MESSAGE: OISE faculty and students have been very engaged in debates about the future of public education this fall. During the provincial election, the merits of faith based schools were discussed in the press by several faculty members, in a workshop organized by the Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning and in our halls and classrooms by almost everyone. The start up of Ontario’s Higher Education Quality Council has engaged our higher education group, and especially our new Centre for the Study of Students in Postsecondary Education... More...
THANK YOU! Centennial Celebrations Concluded
OISE's centennial year concluded on November 16 with a moving tribute to 100 years of inspiring education at the University of Toronto. We are grateful to the many volunteers, including faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends and sponsors for their support in making our Centennial year celebrations an outstanding success. The 100 Years web site will soon feature post-event pictures and more...
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ISSUES THAT MATTER: Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS
Seodi White, social development lawyer, socio-legal researcher, writer on women's issues and OISE's 2007-08 Dame Nita Barrow Distinguished Visitor presented the 11th annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture on Thursday November 8. Womens Rights: HIV/AIDS and the Appropriateness of the Response (lived realities from Malawi and Southern Africa), highlighted women's experience of and response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa, particularly Malawi.
Photo of Seodi White: WLSA (Malawi)
ISSUES THAT MATTER: Focus on Students
Tony Chambers says that there are very few direct ways of assessing what really happens when students learn in higher education. The Centre for the Study of Students in Postsecondary Education is a new intiative at U of T that supports students learning, development and success in post-secondary education and is contributing to the pool of usable scholarship and knowledge about student learning, development and success in post-secondary education. More...
BEST OF TORONTO: Helen Lenskyj
NOW Magazine's first annual "Toronto's Outstanding People Awards" have been bestowed upon several citizens who have made a difference in their neighborhoods. Helen Lenskyj got recognition for being a "tireless critic of Olympic propaganda, homophobia and the tyranny of professional/high ranking sport, for demanding social justice and for always climbing twelve flights of stairs to work," says her nominator, Marie Vander Kloet.
CANADIAN MUSLIM WOMEN WHO INSPIRE: Salima Bhimani
Salima Bhimani, student of Sarfaroz Niyozov, received a Canadian Council of Muslim Women Women Who Inspire Award for "making a difference in other peoples' lives, and her outstanding contributions to Muslim communities and Canadian Society. Salima is an educator, author, artist and activist. Through her involvement with a wide range of activities, she has contributed to a deeper understanding of Canadian Muslim women. More...
THINKING ABOUT: Non-native English-speaking teachers' beliefs about first language use in the second language classroom
Name: James Corcoran
Degree/Year: Second year Master’s
Program & Department: CTL (SLE/CIDE)
Supervisor: Jim Cummins. Second Committee member: Antoinette Gagne
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship... More
A MOMENT OF SILENCE, by Peter Elson
For the most part we see the world of teaching and learning as a safe place. And so we should. Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world participate in the ritual of teaching and learning with the well-founded assumption of safety in their class, their school and their community. Incidences of violence are seen as an anomaly, a breech of this foundation of public safety. So when these tragedies do occur... More...
GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING CANADIAN HISTORY: Rose Fine-Meyer
OISE Alumna Rose Fine-Meyer, of Humberside Collegiate Institute in Toronto, recipient of Canada's top teaching prize, makes history come alive for her students. She developed an interdisciplinary studies course called "Archives and Local History" that gives students the opportunity to study their community and local history using primary historical documents, broadening into study on a provincial and national level. And that's not all... More
OTF TOP TEACHER AWARD: Danielle Corsini
OISE Alumna Danielle Corsini has received the Ontario Teachers' Federation top teaching award in the beginning teacher category for her innovative and inspiring mathematics teaching at St Mary Catholic Secondary School. That's no surprise to OISE top teaching award winner Ron Lancaster, her mathematics prof at OISE, "Danielle was in one of my I/S Math classes during my first year at OISE...I remember Danielle as being very innovative and I am glad to see she has received this award so early in her career." See why OTF thought she deserved their highest honour ...More
JUST PUBLISHED: Inspiring Education: Annual Report 2006-07
OISE is known for research and international leadership in all areas of education. From understanding how children learn to view the social world around them, to developing literacy in adult and immigrant students, to engaging the power of new technology to enable learning, our work has an impact on the important issues in education, here and around the world.
IN THE MEDIA: Black-focused schools
Admitting it is failing some students of colour, the Toronto public board could open a black-focused school as early as next fall. George Dei, top researcher on black achievement, says the idea of an experimental black-focussed school is "long overdue." Not all teachers would have to be black, he noted but black teachers are important role models and would be less likely to have lower expectations for black students - a problem he says is "huge" in mainstream schools. "Let's try it and see if it works, and if it does, let's transfer those lessons to mainstream schools." More...
TVO UPDATE: OISE Research and Expertise
TVO and OISE partner to bring research expertise to a wider audience on TVOParents.com, where you will see OISE's presence through expert opinions and research summaries. This month TVO Parents features a web cast of OISE researcher Rosemary Tannock, R.W.B. Jackson lecturer, talking about special education.
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