Upcoming Events
CLD Seminar: Interrogating Mindfulness, Conditions of Indigenous Postsecondary Education, and Conventions of Admissions Policy as Borderless Spaces for Higher Learning
Past Events
Panel: Seans Coutts, Andrea Jenkins, and Virginia Stead
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:00-1:15 pm, OISE/UT Rm 6-122
CLD Seminar: Creating the Conditions for Pedagogy: Life at Inner City High
Joe Cloutier and Alexina Dalgetty
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, OISE/UT Rm 6-122
CLD Seminar: Critical Pedagogy, Peace and Collaboration: Preliminary Learnings from Lucknow, India
Presenters: Reva Joshee, Karen Sihra, Bryan Gopaul, and Melodie Wilson, OISE/UT
2 April 2008, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Room 6-122
CDL Seminar: Critical pedagogy as praxis: Teaching and researching as social activism
12 February 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1.30 p.m., room 6-122
Dr. Mary Breunig, Brock University
CDL Seminar: Governmentality and Higher Education: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
Anita Arvast, Georgian College and Laurentian University at Georgian
29 January 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1.30 p.m., room 6-122
CDL Seminar: Democracy of Hypocrisy, A Divided State of Embarrassment: Schools, Student Participation, and Democracy
Dr. Jason Price, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction of the Faculty of Education, University of Victoria
28 November 2007, 12-1:30, Location TBD
CLD Seminar: Reclaiming and centering the sacred in social justice: Toward a spiritual praxis
Dr. Riyad A. Shahjahan
6 December 2007, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Based on a qualitative study on spiritually-minded activist scholars in the Canadian University context, this seminar introduces the concept of spiritual praxis and provides examples of how scholars evoke a spiritual praxis in the face of hegemonic structures thus revealing the role of spirituality in social transformation within and outside of the academy. It will end with a discussion of the scholarly and social implications of a spiritual praxis in the context of education.
CLD Seminar: Investing in Diversity: Changing the Face and Heart of Leadership
Rosemary Campbell-Stephens, Director of the Investing in Diversity Programme, London Centre for Leadership, Institute of Education at the University of London
14 November 2007, 5:00 to 6:30 pm (OISE/UT Room 2-281)
This seminar will explore the values underpinning Investing in Diversity Programme, what it means to be a 'global majority' leader in London, and why the looming crisis of a shortage of school leaders in one of the most cosmopolitan cities on the planet opens up opportunities for radically different ways of leading learning. Investing in Diversity is a bespoke one-year leadership development course for experienced Black and minority ethnic middle leaders in London schools who aspire to senior leadership positions. Far from simply creating more BME leaders, the programme seeks to carve a space for new leadership paradigms to emerge and for the authentic voices of global majority leaders to be heard at a strategic level as they change not only the face - but the heart of school leadership in London and beyond.
Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Teach: A Conference on Academic Freedom
Sponsored by Educators for Peace and Justice and CLD
Saturday, November 10, 2007
8:30 a.m. 140 St. George Street , room 205, Claude T. Bissell Building
To view the conference schedule in PDF format, click here.
CLD Seminar: Educational leadership and implications for social justice practices: An examination of the Australian Context
Professor David Zyngier, Faculty of Education, Monash University
5 November 2007, 12:00 to 1:30 pm (OISE/UT Room 6-259)
CLD Seminar: Investing in Diversity: Changing the Face and Heart of Leadership
Rosemary Campbell-Stephens, Director of the Investing in Diversity Programme, City London Centre for Leadership, Institute of Education University of Place London
14 November 2007, 5:00 to 6:30pm (OISE/UT Room 2-281)
This seminar will explore the values underpinning Investing in Diversity Program, what it means to be a 'global majority' leader in London, and why the looming crisis of a shortage of school leaders in one of the most cosmopolitan cities on the planet opens up opportunities for radically different ways of leading learning. Investing in Diversity is a bespoke one-year leadership development course for experienced Black and minority ethnic middle leaders in London schools who aspire to senior leadership positions. Far from simply creating more BME leaders, the program seeks to carve a space for new leadership paradigms to emerge and for the authentic voices of global majority leaders to be heard at a strategic level as they change not only the face - but the heart of school leadership in London and beyond.
CLD Seminar: Teachers’ Perceptions of Sexual Orientation Prejudice in Saskatchewan Secondary Schools
Professor Donald Cochrane, Professor emeritus, University of Saskatchewan
11 October 2007, 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (OISE/UT room 6-122)
This seminar is based on a study that explores the extent to which secondary school teachers hear homophobic comments in their schools, their willingness to intervene, and the reasons they give for intervening or not intervening. Efforts are made to determine demographic factors that influence their decisions about whether to intervene.
Centre for Leadership and Diversity Celebrates Publications
September 24, 2007
Join us for a reception to launch some recent publications by its co-directors and associate members in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies’ lounge on the 6th floor from 3pm to 4.30 p.m. on September 24. The publications to be launched are:
Inclusion in Urban Educational environments: Addressing issues of Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice By Professor Denise E. Armstrong (Brock University) and Professor Brenda J, McMahon (Nipissing University), IAP-information Age Publishing, 2006.
Inclusive Leadership by Professor James Ryan ( OISE ), Jossey-Bass, 2006.
Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States by Professor Reva Joshee (OISE) and Professor Lauri Johnson (University of Buffalo),UBC Press 2007.
Urban Teacher Education and Teaching: Innovative Practices for Diversity and Social Justice by Professor R. Patrick Solomon ( York University ) and Dia N. R. Sekayi (Walden University), Erlbaum 2007.
Toward an Equitable Education: Poverty, Diversity, and Students at Risk – National Report by professor John P. Portelli (OISE), Professor Carolyn M. Shields (University of Illinois), and Professor Ann B. Vibert (Acadia University), 2007
Key Questions for Educators by Professor William Hare ( Mount St. Vincent University ) and John P. Portelli ( OISE ). U.S. edition by Caddo Gap Press, 2007.
Beyond PD Days: Teachers' Work and Learning in Canada by Clark, R., Antonelli, F., Lacavera, D., Livingstone, D., Pollock, K., Smaller, H., Strachan, J. & Tarc, P. (2007). Toronto : Ontario Teachers' Federation/The Work and Lifelong Research Network.
Click here to see the flyer with additional details.
On Building Activist Urban School Leaders
Pedro Noguera, Professor, Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
20 April 2007 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. OISE/UT Library
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Leadership and Diversity and the Centre for Urban Schooling.
CLD Seminar: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND WHITENESS IN EDUCATION: COLOR-BLIND POLICYMAKING AND RACISM
Paul Carr, Assistant Professor, Youngstown University
5 March 2007 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Room TBD, OISE/UT
CLD Seminar: Leadership, Power and Gender
Bob Bahlieda
13 February 2006 5:30 – 7:00pm, Room 6-272, OISE/UT
CLD Seminar: Rhetoric of Character Education Policy & Implications for Democratic Education
Susan Winton, OISE/UT
7 February 2006 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Room 6-122, OISE/UT
CLD Seminar: School Leadership, Parent Involvement, and Deficit Thinking: Lessons from Recent Research in Ontario
Joe Flessa, Assistant Professor, Department of Theory & Policy Studies, OISE/UT
4 December 2006 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Room 2-289, OISE/UT
CLD Seminar: Multiculturalism, Identity and Cultural/Ethnic Diversity in a Time of Uncertainty: Contemporary Australian Discourses on a Cultural Difference and Inclusion in the Nation
Siri Gamage, University of New England, Australia
6 November 2006 12:00 – 1:30 Room 6-122, OISE/UT
CLD Seminar: Constitutions, public Schools and queers: A question of citizenship?
Catherine Lugg, Rutgers University in New Jersey
19 October 2006, 12:00 – 1:00 Room 6-122, OISE/UT
CLD Lecture, in conjunction with The Mahatma Gandhi Foundation for World Peace: Education Against Extremism
Lynn Davies, University of Birmingham
28 September 2006, 6:00 - 7:30 Room 2-296, OISE/UT
Paper available here
The department of Theory & Policy Studies In association with CLD Presents:
Diversity Policies and Practices: Conversation with the Field
Monday May 15, 2006
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Featuring internationally renowned scholars:
David Gillborn: London Institute of Education, University of London. He has written extensively on antiracist education and has consulted with the government of the U.K. on the development of antiracist policy.
Catherine Lugg: Rutgers University in New Jersey. She has written a number of scholarly and policy oriented publications examining the politics of education, the impact of conservatism in the U.S. and queer issues in the U.S.
Ed Taylor: University of Washington. He has been involved with the teacher education, principal preparation, and graduate programs. His research uses Critical Race Theory to examine policy and programs serving disenfranchised groups in the U.S. and South Africa.
Four papers are available in preparation for this event:
Download A brief introduction to inclusion, inclusive schools and barriers to inclusion by Sabrina E. Redwing Saunders & Yvette DeBeer
Download Policy: Values, Diversity, and Implementation by Katina Pollock & Sue Winton
Download Hiring and Recruitment by Herveen Singh & Garrett Whittick
Download Integrating Equity and Social Justice into Teacher Preparation by Jill Goodreau & Eric Fredua-Kwarteng
CLD Seminar: Preparing to Publish Thinking about What and Why
David Gillborn, Head of Policy Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
11 May 2006, 2:00-3:30 p.m., OISE/UT room 6-122
CLD Brown Bag Seminar: Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing there is a Field… Beyond Epistemic Beliefs and Values - Implications for Leadership
Dr. Heesoon Bai Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, B.C.
12 April 2006, 12:00-1:30 p.m., OISE/UT room 6-122
CLD Brown Bag Seminar: Critical pedagogy and leadership from a southern European perspective: Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana
Dr. Peter Mayo associate professor, University of Malta
13 October 2005, 12:00-1:30 p.m., OISE/UT room 6-122
Dr. Peter Mayo's research areas include: Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire, Workers´ Education, Museum Education, Anti-Racist Education and issues concerning multi-ethnicity, Schools as Community Learning Centres, and the Debate around Lifelong Learning. He has published The National Museum of Fine Arts (Midsea Publ., 1997); Beyond Schooling: Adult Education in Malta (Mireva, 1998,co-edited with G. Baldacchino); Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education (Zed Books, 1999); Possibilities for Transformative Action:Gramsci and Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002,co-edited with C.Borg & J. Buttigieg); Liberating Praxis: Paulo Freire’s Legacy for Radical Education and Politics (Praeger, 2004). He is co-editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Education.
CLD Brown Bag Seminar: School Leadership and Diversity in Norwegian Schools
Gunn Vedoy, Hedmark University College in Hamar, Norway and visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo
27 October 2005, 12:00-1:30 p.m., OISE/UT room 6-122
Currently 8% of the school population in Norway is comprised of recent immigrant students who represent 200 different countries and 150 different language groups. Gunn Vedoy reflects on the findings from her research project using discourse analysis and ethnography to examine the roles and functions of school leaders as they work to develop inclusive schools for linguistic and cultural minority students in Norway.
CLD Seminar: Troubling the Waters of Education: Re-radicalizing Notions and Visions of School Leadership and Social Justice
Michael E. Dantley, Ed. D., Professor and Interim Associate Dean, School of Education and Allied Professions, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
29 September 2005, 5:00 pm. OISE/UT room 5-185
Book talk: Urban Education with an Attitude (Johnson, Finn, and Lewis, SUNY Press, 2005).
Lauri Johnson, Mary Finn and special guest Patrick Finn
8 June 2005 OISE/UT Room 6-122, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
This book profiles real programs in real urban schools that have developed policy initiatives that promote educational equity, community-based curricula, and teacher education and parent empowerment programs that emphasize democratic collaboration among universities, urban teachers, parents, and community members.
International Education Conference
May 29, 2005, during CSSE at the Althouse Faculty of Education, London, Ontario.
This conference is the result of a successful proposal by CLD members Valentyna Kushnarenko and Virginia Stead in a CIDA-CFHSS competition.
CLD Seminar: "Reclaiming Democracy: Talking Back to the Euromonologue!"
Jason Price, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Nipissing University
16 February 2005, 5:30- 7:00 p.m., OISE/UT Rm 6-238
CLD Panel Seminar: "Limitations of and Prospects for Democracy in Education: From Theory to Practice"
9 March 2005, 15:30- 7:00 p.m., OISE/UT Rm 6-238
Panelists:
* Melissa Hagen, OISE/UT: Autonomy as a liberal justification: Three objections
* Cindy Rottmann, OISE/UT: Seducative leadership: Enabling or disabling of equity education?
* Laura E. Pinto, OISE/UT: Textbook publishing, textbooks, and democracy: A case study
* Teresa Placha, OISE/UT: My struggle in the danger zone
CLD Seminar: "Students at Risk: Educators' Moral Obligation to Care"
Brenda McMahon, PhD, OISE/UT
19 January 2005, OISE/UT Rm 6-122
CLD Seminar: "Reflections on Authority and Leadership in Education"
Eva Sancho, University of Barcelona
17 November 2004, 12:30- 2:00, OISE/UT Rm 6-122
CLD Panel Seminar: "Principals Talk About Diversity and Social Justice"
Lindy Zaresky, Darrin Griffiths, and Mike Deangelis
9 December 2004, 12:00 -1:30, OISE/UT, Rm 6-122
"Preparing new teachers as change agents in urban schools: A proposal"
A presentation by Sonia James-Wilson, University of Rochester
21 October 2004
"'Making Her Community a Better Place to Live': Towards a Model of Culturally Responsive Urban School Leadership"
A presentation by Lauri Johnson, University at Buffalo
23 September 2004
"Transformation and Activism Through Reflective Accountability"
A presentation by Martha Dow, University College of the Fraser Valley
16 September 2004
"Feminist poststructural approach to leadership - with a focus on superintendency"
A presentation by Dr. Margaret Grogan, Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia
10 May 2004
"Issues of leadership and diversity: perspectives from the field."
A presentation by Denise Armstrong, Allison Clinton and Kirk Mark, TDSB, OISE/UT, PDSB and TCDSB
10 June 2004
"Working with school-based administrators on issues of equity and social justice."
A presentation by Dr. David MacKinnon, Associate Professor, School of Education, Acadia University
13 April 2004
"Institutional ethnography: the analysis of 'micro' work organization and 'macro' institutional action."
A presentation by Dr. Susan Turner, Colleges of Arts and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph.
24 March 2004