OISE, partners to receive $1 million over 5 years for early learning

June 3, 2011

by Jennifer Sipos-Smith

Early this week, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto co-hosted the 8th Annual Summer Institute on Early Childhood Development. One hundred and twenty administrators, policy-makers, agencies, researchers, and educators attended the event co-hosted by partners OISE, the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, the George Brown College’s School of Early Childhood and the Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development.   

The event featured keynote addresses by researchers from Rutgers University, and former policy-makers in the Department of Education in Prince Edward Island as well as talks by OISE’s Professor Jennifer Jenkins, who holds the Atkinson Chair in Early Child Development and Education and other members of the OISE, Jackman ICS and George Brown communities.

For more than a decade, the Atkinson Charitable Foundation has provided financial support to partnerships like these that support low income communities, particularly children and their families. At the event this week, executive director Olivia Nuamah (above left) announced that the Atkinson Charitable Foundation would extend its support and contribute more than 1 million dollars over 5 years to further the work of the Atkinson Centre, OISE, the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study and George Brown College. 

“Together, they will build capacity to communicate policy, research and practice related to children and their families,” Olivia said.

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is an international leader in the teaching, learning and research of Early Childhood Development.  For more information, visit the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study or the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology.