TPSSA is hosting our first Works-In-Progress Lecture Series event this Friday at 2pm in TPS. For more information here
Resources for Feminist Research (RFR/DRF)* and the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE)**, University of Toronto are calling for submissions to an edited feminist collection.
The collection editors, Lorena M. Gajardo (RFR/DRF) and Jamie Ryckman (CWSE) are looking for submissions that address the question, “How did you become a feminist and how has feminism shaped your worldview?”
The idea is to bring together stories from feminists from a variety of backgrounds, ages and experiences. We encourage submissions from academics and non-academics, students, researchers, advocates, artists, authors and women from across Canada. If you think you have a story to tell about becoming a feminist, we encourage you to submit to this collection.
The collection will be published in PDF format and distributed online. A limited number of print copies will be made available upon request through CWSE.
Student Services, the Academic & Cultural Support Centre and the Centre for the Study of Students in Postsecondary Education are offering a series on the Professional Development of Graduate Students. The three-part series begins Thursday, January 28, 2010. For more details click here
Sustainability Fund for Environmental Projects
The University of Toronto's Department of Facilities and Services is pleased again to announce an exciting opportunity for students, staff and faculty to put their environmental ideas into action. For more details click here
DEPARTMENTAL NEWS DEPARTMENTAL NEWS DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
Professor Tricia Seifert
Wins Oracle Research Article of the Year from the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (AFA)
Professor Seifert co-authored an article with Ashley Asel and Ernest Pascarella entitled 'The effects of Greek affiliation on college experiences and outcomes: A portrait of complexity' which won the Oracle Research Article of the Year from the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (AFA).
Congratulations Professor Seifert
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg
TOXIC TRESPASS wins an important award!
Professor Goldin Rosenberg is the Executive Producer of the documentary 'Toxic Trespass' which won the award for "Best Health and Safety Documentary" from the Ontario Workers Health and Safety Centre at the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLIFF).
Our Congratulations go to Dorothy and Director, Barri Cohen
For more information about 'Toxic Trespass' please go to http://www.toxictrespass.com/
Professor Blair Mascall
Jiangsu International Forum for School Principals
Professor Mascall was invited to give the keynote address by the Province of Jiangsu Ministry of Education. Professor Mascall's speech was about Shared Leadership in a Hierarchical System.
Dr Laura Pinto
Receives Odyssey Award for Young Alumni Achievements
Congratulations to Dr Laura Pinto on her award from the University of Windsor. The Odyssey Award recognizes alumni who are in the early years of their career path, having distinguished themselves through successes in career endeavours, notable achievements in their local community or the University of Windsor, or through a significant or innovative achievement in their professional or personal life
Congratulations Dr Pinto
Professor John Portelli
Postmodernism: Risk and New Educational Challenges Seminar
University of Verona, Italy
John Portelli was the guest speaker at the University of Verona, Italy where he discussed the subject of Postmodernism: Risks and new educational challenges. For a full report on the seminar (a translated PDF of the website page) please click the link here
Professor Kenneth Leithwood
Presents Grand Lecture in Santiago, Chile
On October 3rd, Ken Leithwood presented a grand lecture in Santiago, Chile, to over 1000 Chilean educators on the topic of educational leadership and its influence on student learning (“¿Cómo influye el liderazgo directivo en el aprendizaje de los alumnos?”). The lecture and panel discussion with national experts is annual event organized and co-sponsored by the Fundación Chile and the Fundación CAP with selected international experts in educational leadership. In conjunction with the lecture, the Fundación Chile prepared, published and distributed 2000 copies of a book featuring translated selections of Ken’s writing on leadership and learning (¿Cómo liderar nuestras escuelas?: Aportes desde la investigación). The Chilean Minister of Education, Mónica Jiménez, also spoke at the event and announced a government initiative focused on leadership training for new and future school principals. The Fundación Chile is deeply involved educational leadership development and research in Chile, and has a partnership agreement with the TPS Department’s International Centre for Educational Change to collaborate in areas of mutual interest over the next three years.
Professor John Portelli
Book Launch - Leading for Equity: The Investing in Diversity Approach
Leading for Equity: The Investing in Diversity Approach (Edphil Books, September 2009) by John P. Portelli and Rosemary Campbell-Stephens (Institute of Education, University of London) was launched on 24 September 2009 at the National College for School Leadership Conference on Improving Children’s Lives through diverse School Leadership. The book presents a dialogue about issues of educational leadership and equity, including conceptions and styles of leadership and social justice, “the achievement gap” and equity, moral purpose and leadership, and alternative views on educational leadership.
TPS STUDENT NEWS TPS STUDENT NEWS TPS STUDENT NEWS.
Dr Ann Wong
Dr. Anne Wong has been awarded the 1st Annual CIES Higher Education SIG Best Dissertation award for her recently completed dissertation titled Anesthesia in
Thailand and Canada: A Comparative Case Study of Two Residency Training Programs.
The award will be presented to her at the upcoming CIES conference in Chicago, on Tuesday, March 2
Peter Constantino
Congratulations to Peter Constantino on the completion of his Ph.D degree in Higher Education. Peter defended his thesis entitled "Government Relations in the Post-Secondary Education Sector in Ontario".
Holly Catalfamo and Agostino Menna
Receive Awards from the International Society for Educational Planning
Two of our doctoral graduates received awards for their theses from the International Society for Educational Planning: Holly Seebach Catalfamo and Agostino (Gus) Menna. Holly received the “Distinguished Dissertation Award”, while Gus received an “Honor” for his thesis. These prizes were awarded at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Educational Planning held in Savannah, Georgia in October 2009. Their thesis titles were:
Holly Seebach Catalfamo (2008). An Examination of Leadership Development within Ontario’s Colleges: Building Personal, Interpersonal, and Organizational Capacity.
Agostino Menna (2008). Quality of Life and Standard of Living: Administrator, Trustee & School Board Values.
Both graduates presented papers on their theses at this conference, which were very well-received.
Congratulations Holly and Gus
SCHOLAR PROFILE VISITING SCHOLAR PROFILE VISITING SCHOLAR
Professor Sonia Lawrence
Professor Sonia Lawrence is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University). She joined Osgoode’s faculty in 2001 after graduating from the University of Toronto's joint LLB/MSW program, and went on to serve as law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada. With the help of Fulbright and SSHRC Fellowships, she then attended Yale Law School where she focused on constitutional equality issues and welfare administration.
A past member of the Board of Parkdale Community Legal Services, Professor Lawrence has also provided expertise to the African Canadian Legal Clinic, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), and the Court Challenges Program. She is a member of the Executive of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers and the case comments editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.
Her work centers on questions of equality and includes examinations of the Supreme Court of Canada’s equality jurisprudence, the influence of feminism in Canadian law, sentencing regimes for 'drug mules', and section 28 of the Charter.
She has served as Assistant Dean, First Year, and worked on Admissions and Curriculum Reform at Osgoode. She is currently on sabbatical from Osgoode, and her sabbatical research focus is on how conceptions of equality, including legal equality, are deployed in the debate over schools targeted to or restricted to specific demographic groups, with a focus on recent developments in the TDSB.
Professor Lawrence office at OISE is 6-174 and she is here until Summer 2010.
Selected publications can be seen here: http://osgoode.yorku.ca/osgmedia.nsf/research/lawrence_sonia
Dr. Alice Botler
Dr. Alice Botler, Associate Professor of Education in the Department of School Administration and Educational Planning, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Her master’s is in educational policy and planning, and her doctorate is in sociology with a focus on school organization and democratic leadership. She has conducted research on:
· Ethics in School Management,
· Participatory school management,
· School communicative organization: collective management,
· Organizations and educational contexts: rationalities and practices.
Her present research focuses on issues of justice and fairness in school organizations. Her teaching and research interests include: Ethical issues in school leadership, Violence and tolerance in schools, Educational policy, and Comparative education.
Visiting scholar in TPS until February 2010.
My term here is supported by a research grant from the Brazilian Government.
OISE office: room 6-175.
Websites:
http://www.ufpe.br/ppgedu/
PRESENTATIONS PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS PUBLICATIONS
Creso Sa
Sá, C. M. (in press). Canadian provinces and public policies for university research. Higher Education Policy.
Oleksiyenko, A. & Sá, C. M. (in press) Resource asymmetries and cumulative advantages: Canadian and US research universities and the field of global health. Higher Education. DOI 10.1007/s10734-009-9254-5.
Geiger, R. & Sá, C. M. (2009). Technology transfer offices and the commercialization of university research in the United States. In Patrick Clancy & David Dill (eds.) The Research Mission of the University: Reforms and Response (pp.177-196). Rottedam, Boston, Taipei: Sense Publishers.
Sá, C. (2009). 'Entrepreneurial Behaviors and the Research Cultures and Practices of Academic Departments in Canadian Universities'. Paper presented at the 22th Annual Conference of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) “Public Vices, Private Benefits? - Assessing The Role of Markets in Higher Education” Porto, Portugal, September 10-12, 2009.
Sá, C., Tu, Y., & Li, S. (2009). 'Research Productivity and Technology Transfer Activities of Foreign-Born Faculty in Canadian Universities'. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Vancouver, British Columbia, November, 2009.
Sá, C., & Li, S. & Faubert, B. (2009). 'Strategies of Schools of Education to Disseminate Research: Preliminary Findings from an International Study'. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Vancouver, British Columbia, November, 2009.
Sá, C. (2009).'American Universities, Innovation, and the Promise Economic Growth', Invited Address, Policy Issues in Post-Secondary Education Series, Green College, University of British Columbia, March 19th, 2009.
Sá, C. (2009). 'Interdisciplinary Institutions: Incentives and Disincentives for Collaboration'. Invited Address, Workshop 'Institution Building for Climate Change Solutions: Strategies for Universities' , York University, March 16th, 2009.
Sá, C. (2009). Getting it “just right”: What’s the right combination of values for universities as they adapt to changing social, economic, and political circumstances? Academic Matters: The Journal of Higher Education.ss, Senate Meeting on the Study on the accessibility of post-secondary education in Canada, Ottawa
Ben Levin
Panel member, 'The Future of School Reform in the United States', sponsored by Harvard University and Pew Charitable Trust
Keynote, British Education Research Association, Manchester, Setp 3
Keynote, Australian Council for Education Leadership, Darwin, Sept 26
Presentation, Sick Kids symposium on research mobilization, Sept 23
Presentation, Leading Student Achievement (secondary school principals) Toronto Oct 16
Publication
Piece with Michael Fullan in Education Week, The fundamentals of whole system reform, June 17
New contract with Canadian Education Association to produce short research summaries for parents for schools to include in their school newsletters
Continuing to write 'In Canada' column for Kappan magainze -most recent, Sept, 2009, was on public confidence in public education (
www.pdkintl.org)
Tricia Seifert
Recent publications:
Asel, A., Seifert, T., & Pascarella, E. (2009). The effects of Greek
affiliation on college experiences and outcomes: A portrait of
complexity. Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of
Fraternity/Sorority Advisors, 4(2), 1-15.
Seifert, T., & Holman-Harmon, N. (2009). Practical implications for
student affairs professionals' work in facilitating students' inner
development. New Directions for Student Services, 2009(125), 13-21.
Invited presentation:
Structuring Faculty Work to Support Student Learning presented to the
Midwestern Alliance for Learning in the Liberal Arts at Illinois
Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois.
