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November 09
Professor Karen Mundy is blogging weekly about education and international development, and also about education futures
Professor Mundy teaches Comparative and International Education
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October 29
ELP Professor Marvin Zuker comments on tighter restrictions considered for former judges
Prof. Marvin Zuker,a former judge of the Ontario Court of Justice, says the consent of both the judge and opposing counsel and party should be obtained before a judge could appear as counsel.
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October 12
AECD Prof McCready is a co-author of a study: Crossing Places: A Review of Urban Youth Policy 1960s-2010s
Prof Lance McCready authored the "Youth Employment" section of the report: Crossing Places: A Review of Urban Youth Policy 1960s-2010s, first authored by Dr. Dirk Rodricks and Dr. Kathleen Gallagher.
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October 10
ELP Professor Carol Campbell is one of the authors of the new report, Ontario: A Learning Province
Read Findings and Recommendations from the Independent Review of Assessment and Reporting, Ontario: A Learning Province
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October 08
Read Prof Burstow's article on OISE conference "The Psychiatrization of Indigenous People as a Continuation of Genocide"
Rabble online article reviews OISE conference "The Psychiatrization of Indigenous People as a Continuation of Genocide". Watch the keynote address by Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, Indigenous Scholar, member of the Oneida Nation and professor at St. Thomas University.
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September 25
Dr. Bonnie Burstow establishes new scholarship for research into violence against Indigenous women
A new scholarship has been established at OISE by Dr. Bonnie Burstow. Burstow's Scholarship for Research into Violence Against Indigenous Women: In Memory of Helen Betty Osborne will be directed to a graduate student whose thesis focuses on violence against Indigenous women. Priority will be given to students who are themselves Indigenous women.
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August 13
Dr. Shahrzad Mojab appointed to lead Equity Studies at New College
AECD Professor, Shahrzad Mojab is scholar, teacher and activist internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement and violence on women's learning and education; gender, state, migration and diaspora; Marxist feminism and anti-racism pedagogy.
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July 29
Sara Asalya, newly admitted Higher Ed Student, aims to improve university experience for new Canadians
In the six years that she's been in Canada, Sara Asalya has been making a mark within the student immigrant community.
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July 12
AECD Prof. McCready appointed Interim Director of U of T's Transitional Year Program
AECD Professor Lance McCready has been appointed Interim Director of the University of Toronto's Transitional Year Program. This important program helps adults without a high school diploma qualify for university admission.
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July 10
Dr. Angela Hildyard on new program designed to close gender gap in higher education leadership roles
A new program by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Development seeks to address the gender gap in university leadership and encourage women to pursue higher academic administrative roles. The first of its kind in Canada, the program will operate out of Winnipeg, Manitoba this fall. Higher Ed Professor Angela Hildyard weighs in.
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July 10
ELP PhD student Sachin Maharaj on elite specialized schools in the public system
In a recent op-ed, OISE doctoral student Sachin Maharaj argues that eliminating elite specialized public schools may help reduce racial disparities in school systems. "Policies and programs that have the effect of dividing students along lines like race and socioeconomic status, and that create exclusive benefits for small groups of students, should have no place in a publicly funded education system," said Maharaj.
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May 25
ELP Alumnus, Dr. Daniel Hamlin, receives 2017 Leithwood Award for Outstanding Thesis of the Year
Established in 2003, this award is granted to one graduating doctoral student annually whose work demonstrates research excellence and advances knowledge in the field of education in an impactful way.
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May 10
Read Professor Bonnie Burstow's article on Three Antipsychiatry Scholarships: The Revolution Continues
An important context for this article are battles in which Professor Burstow partook from 2006 until a couple of years ago which led to the creation of the world's first antipsychiatry scholarship at University of Toronto.
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May 09
Find out how our alumni impact society
Last spring, the University of Toronto undertook its first ever Alumni Impact Survey. The goal was to measure the ways our diverse and multitalented alumni contribute to society.
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May 01
Professor Creso Sa explores why Canada excels in science, but not so much in innovation
Earlier this month, the Council of Canadian Academies released a report - Competing in a Global Innovation Economy: The Current State of R&D in Canada, the latest installment in this tradition.
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April 12
Claudia Diaz Rios, dissertation selected for the 2018 LASIG Award
The LASIG Dissertation Award at CIES highlights outstanding doctoral dissertations that address the analysis of educational reforms, policies or practices in Latin America under a comparative / international perspective. Claudia Diaz Rios dissertation, titled, "When Global Ideas Collide with Domestic Interests: The Politics of Secondary Education Governance in Argentina, Chile and Colombia", was selected by the Outstanding Dissertation Award committee for the 2018 award.
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April 11
Major change to ELP EdD program approved
In the Educational Leadership and Policy EdD program, "the highlights of the changes include streamlined courses and focus on a cohort-based model to provide a more structured academic experience, sense of community and enhanced access to student support," said LHAE Associate Chair Professor Peter Sawchuk.
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March 29
Professor Creso Sá on how universities handle "hot topics"
The nature of universities as organizations helps explain why so much symbolic management takes place when they are faced with thorny subjects.
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March 14
Higher Ed professor Stephanie Waterman receives ACPA Senior Scholar Award
Congratulations to professor Stephanie Waterman for winning the 2018 Senior Scholar Award from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA).
This award recognizes senior members of their profession who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to ACPA's mission of generating and disseminating knowledge and who have committed to further advance research and theory.
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March 12
Good leaders make good schools
Research from the University of Minnesota and ELP's professors Kenneth Leithwood, Stephen Anderson and Blair Mascall, shows the impact of school leadership.
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March 08
TRACING THE STEPS OF NEARLY 10,000 UofT PHDs AFTER GRADUATION
In a first-ever survey of PhD graduates from the University of Toronto, the School of Graduate Studies found that alumni who graduated between 2000 and 2015 are working in 97 different countries, with careers ranging from neurosurgeon to user-experience researcher.
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February 02
AECD students, Annie Luk and Judy Perry, write about volunteer tutors
Volunteer Tutors: Agents of Change or Reproduction? An Examination of Consciousness, Ideology and Praxis
Volunteer tutors play a significant role in delivering adult literacy programs. It is estimated that up to 60% of all instructors in adult literacy programs in the United States are volunteers (Ziegler, McCallum, & Bell, 2009). However, volunteer tutors' work or experience are rarely the subjects of research.
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January 26
ELP student, Chizoba Imoka, speaks on the meaning of education for black people
Chizoba Imoka,ELP PhD student, delivered the Hancock lecture at Hart House, titled: What does it mean for Black people to be educated?"
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January 19
AECD student, Sidrah Ahmad, researches impact of Islamophobic violence on women in the GTA
New qualitative study, "Invisible Violence Against Hypervisible Women", shows prevalence of unreported Islamophobic incidents against Muslim women in the GTA.
