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RESEARCH: Focus on building community to improve education
Read our 2007-2008 Annual Research Report for detailed information about OISE research, sources of and recent trends in research funding, faculty awards and honours, the impact of OISE research, and especially eight featured researchers who are working on the issues that matter in education. Come out to our Annual Research Celebration on Tuesday, March 31, 2009! Meet the researchers, talk to them about their projects, experience the diversity of research and people in the OISE community!
GRADUATE STUDIES: Rumeet Toor recognized as future leader
Rumeet Toor, an MEd student in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies program in Higher Education and Leadership, was honored by the Women's Executive Network at their annual Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 awards event on November 25. Rumeet is president of Jobs in Education, a successful online HR business connecting jobseekers and employers in the education field. She is also a social entrepreneur who donates a portion of her company's profits to Free the Children.
TEACHING EXCELLENCE: Governor General's Award for history
Alumna Nancy Hamer Strahl of Port Perry, Ontario received a Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History on November 17. The awards recognize teachers who have inspired and challenged students about Canadian history. Nancy Hamer Strahl emphasizes student achievement through connecting students with their local and global Canadian wartime history...More
RESEARCH: University Day celebrates new Ontario Research Chairs
Glen Jones is one of eight new Ontario Research Chairs, including three from the University of Toronto, announced November 6 at a Queen's Park reception as part of University Day. Glen's research focuses on system-level policy issues in postsecondary education, including accessibility and system coordination. Find out more about the impact of Glen's work and that of OISE's other innovative researchers in our 2007-08 Annual Report, Issues that Matter.
RESEARCH: OISE Research Centres event attracts scholar-activists
Wahu Kaara, a Kenyan champion for women's rights and social justice, is this year's Dame Nita Barrow fellow. She gave a public lecture, Women, Power and Politics on November 5 at the Ignatieff Theatre. Ms Kaara is a long-time political activist and leader who brings a range of feminist analysis and women-and-justice centered perspectives to her work. Ms Kaara is pictured here at the OISE Research Centres Information Session on October 6 with Angela Miles of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education. Over 100 new and returning students came to meet some of OISE's leading innovators in research and check out the centres in more depth...More
TEACHING EXCELLENCE: 2 OISE faculty make the grade in TVO Best Lecturer contest
Holistic. Empowering. Passionate. Engaging. OISE students say these qualities and more are what matter in excellent teaching. See what it takes to get nominated for TVOntario's Big Ideas Best Lecturer Competition and how OISE faculty Suzanne Stewart and Njoki Wane measure up.
Suzanne Stewart
What the students say: "Dr Stewart values equanimity between students and professors, encourages open debate & discussion, values diversity in thought and learning style among her students, and teaches using a holistic framework, engaging students cognitively, emotionally, spiritually and kinaesthetically."
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Njoki Wane
What the students say: "Dr Wane has proven herself to be an outstanding professor who organizes her classes and lectures from a holistic perspective. Her lectures have empowered and inspired many students. She is passionate and immerses herself in her work. Prof Wane motivates students to critically engage with her lectures and to see how her lectures are directly related to our lives."
GRADUATE STUDIES: OISE student wins 2008 William E Taylor Fellowship
Second-year doctoral student Katherine Madjidi has more than a decade of practical experience to inform her award-winning research into how indigenous groups are influencing programs and policies at international development organizations like the World Bank and UNESCO...More from SSHRC. Read also U of T in Spotlight at SSHRC awards
Katherine Madjidi
"There is a worldwide search right now for different and more sustainable approaches to development, education and global governance. My research aims to identify how indigenous groups are influencing and redefining the way in which we pursue global development." -Katherine Madjidi, 2008 William E Taylor Fellowship award winner
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