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We would like to invite OISE faculty, staff and students to one of our (very!) special events this semester:
e-Thesis Submission. What You Need to Know About Going Global.
As you may already know, as of the November 2009 Convocation, theses and dissertations must be submitted electronically through T-Space – University of Toronto’s research repository. Theses and dissertations submitted to T-Space are now searchable via Google and other search engines—by anyone with Internet access anywhere around the world. This means many more opportunities for graduate students' work to be found, read, and cited. OISE faculty, staff, and students are invited to this informative session about the new e-Thesis submission process. Please join us and ask your questions. We have the answers.
This special event is offered through the collaborative efforts of the Office for Teaching Support at OISE (OTSO), the Education Commons, and the OISE Registrar’s Office.
Date: November 20th, 2009
Time: 2 – 3:30
Location: KITL (3rd floor, next to the elevators)
Presenters:
Njoki Wane (Director of the Office of Teaching Support at OISE)
Sheryl Nestel (Coordinator of the Office of Teaching Support at OISE)
Julie Hannaford (Director of Information Resources and Services, OISE Library)
Meryl Greene (Academic Documentation Analyst, Education Commons)
Kristian Galberg (Academic Liaison Officer, OISE Registrar’s Office)
Flyer for this event attached
here
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Philosophy of Education Presents: The Emery Hyslop-Margison Lecture
Associate Professor Emery Hyslop-Margison from the University of New Brunswick will be presenting a lecture entitled
Title: Scientific Paradigms and Falsification: Kuhn, Popper, and Problems in Education Research
Abstract: By examining the respective contributions of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn to the philosophy of science, the author highlights some prevailing problems with the
methods and motivation of so-called scientific research in education. Hyslop-Margison
enumerates a number of reasons why such research, in spite of its limited tangible
return, continues to maintain epistemic credibility among colleges and faculties of
education. The author argues that when the identified problems are collectively
considered, they effectively reduce most claims emerging from scientifically designed
education research to the realm of deductively invalid hypotheses and hasty
generalizations insulated from academic criticism by various professional and
institutional interests.
Date - 20th November 2009
Room - 6-122
Time - 12pm
DEPARTMENTAL NEWS DEPARTMENTAL NEWS DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
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 Siefert
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.
