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The
Higher Education Group of the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education at the University of Toronto would like to invite you and any interested colleagues to the third seminar presentation of the 2009/2010 academic year, entitled:
Subjugated Knowledges in Canadian Post-Secondary Education
Presented by Dr. Linda Muzzin, Associate Professor, OISE-UT
Abstract: It has been argued that while much is known about research, teaching and governance in postsecondary education, little is known about the faculty who people these institutions. Between 1995 and 2010, various research teams and I have visited Canadian universities and colleges to investigate the faculty experience, with our interviews including Aboriginal and other racially minoritized faculty. Their biographies and the substantive literature on equity and knowledge production allows me to frame our minoritized participants’ challenging commentary about their academic work within the context of Eurocentric thought. I will argue that day to day academic practice reproduces Eurocentrism in minute detail, effectively subjugating or making very difficult the practice of Aboriginal and other ways of knowing. I will also identify a few areas of success in opening up the academy to these parallel paths as well as make suggestions for an academy more aware and supportive of faulty with non-Eurocentric approaches to teaching, research and governance.
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Board Room, 12-199
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West
The Higher Education Group offers an open invitation for the event and registration is not required.
DEPARTMENTAL NEWS DEPARTMENTAL NEWS DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
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. My speech was about Shared Leadership in a Hierarchical System.
Dr Laura Pinto
Recieves Odyessy 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.
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. Oractle: 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.
