NEWS & EVENTS

MARCH 2008 

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. This has taken many institutional forms at the University over the past century...More

ISSUES THAT MATTER: Second language learning
Esther Geva addresses the question "What's so special about learning to read in a second language?" in a cross-country lecture tour in May, sponsored by the Minerva Lecture Series, which is a travelling, national forum designed to share the work of prominent Canadian learning researchers with Canadians from all walks of life. Each lecture is recorded and posted on the Minerva website, and a papers prepared by the lecturers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Applied Research on Learning early next summer. 

PEOPLE THAT MATTER: Excellence takes patience, cheerfulness, dedication and humanity
NAME: Ms. Kristine E. Pearson
JOB: Liaison Officer
DEPARTMENT: Sociology and Equity Studies
WHAT: Inaugural Recipient of 2008 Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Staff Excellence Award
FOR: Ouststanding contributions to her department and to the institute...More

STUDENT PROFILE: Tonya Callaghan's Research Addresses Homophobia in Schools
NAME: Tonya Callaghan
DEGREE: PhD
DEPARTMENT: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
FACULTY ADVISOR: Heather Sykes
PhD student Tonya Callaghan has had her Master's thesis published as a book with German press VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. This press specializes in niche subjects of the social sciences...More.

ALUMNI WHO INSPIRE: Gail Regan
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. Gail Regan, Alumna of OCE and OISE, President of Cara Holding Ltd., serves the community through her volunteer work for Energy Probe and Women’s College Hospital...More

EVENT: Diversity-themed conference inspires grad students
OISE graduate students pariticipated in their very own annual  conference, Diverse Perspectives in Education on Friday February 29 & Saturday March 1 at the 8th Annual Dean's Graduate Student Research Conference. Featured keynote speaker Fazal Rizvi of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, talked about about Research Ethics and Transnational Spaces.

TVO UPDATE: OISE Alum Finney Cherian Best Lecturer Top-Ten
OISE grad Dr. Finney Cherian is a finalist in TVO's Best Lecturer competition for 2008. He completed his BEd, MEd and PhD at FEUT/OISE/UT and is now a faculty member in the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor. What his students say: "Inspirational, exhilarating, influential, thought-provoking, touching and invigorating are only few words that capture the light and awe that is Finney. Every single class is awe-inspiring, attitude altering and a serious pleasure ride."...More

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