The R.W.B. Jackson Lecture Series
The R.W.B. Jackson Lecture Series was set up as a tribute to the founding director of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, R.W.B. Jackson who served as the director of the Institute from July 1, 1965 - June 30, 1975. This annual event brings outstanding speakers from around the world to OISE in order to discuss major social and educational issues. The event is sponsored by a fund to which friends, colleagues, educational associations and charitable institutions contribute.
To contribute to the fund contact Ina Hupponen
Jackson
2008 - Professor Jim Cummins, Canada Research Chair
Brave New Schools: Identity and Power in Canadian Education
2007 – Professor Rosemary Tannock, Canada Research Chair
Special Education: Past, Present, and Future Views
2006 – Professor Kenneth Leithwood,
Seven strong claims about educational leadership
2005 – Professor Michael Fullan, OISE/UT
Achieving large scale reform
2004 – Professor David Livingstone, OISE/UT
The learning society: Past, present, and future Views
2003 – Professor Keith Stanovich, OISE/UT
The world turned upside down: Decentred thought as a goal of education
2002 – Dr. Marlene Scardamalia, Chairholder, the Presidents' Chair in Education and Knowledge Technologies
Education and knowledge technology: Which way to the revolution?
2001 – Professor Daniel P. Keating, Atkinson Charitable Foundation Chair in Early Child Development and Education
Society and Early Child Development
2000 – Michael Skolnik, the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership
In praise of polarities in postsecondary education
1999 – The Hon. Monique Bégin, P.C., O.C., Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
Conflicting approaches to educational reform: The Royal Commission of Learning revisited
1998 – The Hon. William G. Davis
Untitled speech in support of the concept of public education
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