The coronavirus pandemic has revealed inequities throughout society. However, the pandemic also provides the opportunity for change in Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Rewarding knowledge: Shifting constructions of merit at the University of London during the twentieth century

In this SRHE funded study, Emma will examine how certain types of knowledge have been recognized and thus how merit has been determined and rewarded over time. This will be examined by using the University of London (UoL) archives on scholarships from 1903 to 1993.

Listen to Amelia Merrick, AECD PhD student, speaking on CBC Radio about rolling out of the Canada Service Grant

Yasmine Hassen, PI, Jann Houston and Ian Liujia Tian, co-applicants, titled their research: False Freedom: biocarding, bio-surveillance and pedagogies for community care in the world of Covid-19.
They will highlight the potential impacts of biocarding and explore the ways immunity passports for Covid-19, as a solution to enable people to move about their communities, could disproportionately affect certain members of our society including queer, trans, disabled, Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Colour communities.

In this conversation, Professor Pasi Sahlberg, Professor Carol Campbell and Andrea Stringer discuss various global approaches to professional learning and how these can empower educators.

Dr. Grace Karram Stephenson and Jacqueline Beaulieu, PhD Candidate show why post-secondary student services are 'essential services'

Dr. Valerie Damasco and team will use the Toronto COVID-19 Action Initiative grant to help universities understand and respond to the mental wellness needs of students and communities.

The International Symposium on Transformative Leadership and Decolonial Praxis is an educational leadership meeting for practitioners, community members, faculty, both local and international and graduate students to network and share their research. We invite scholars, practitioners, community members, faculty and graduate students to share their research and insights in educational leadership.
Please note the deadline for submission is April 04th, 2020.
Learn more and submit a presentation: https://tinyurl.com/vfkd7rd

Profs Marcelo Vieta, AECD/OISE and Fiona Duguid, Cape Breton University, explain how co-operatives can and should be key to Canada's economic rebuilding and rethinking - now and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congratulations to Jason Brennan, Entisar Yusuf, Emma Sabzalieva and Susan He for their outstanding student leadership, service, and commitment to LHAE/OISE and the University of Toronto.

ELP Professor Carol Campbell discusses Ontario's Teaching Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP) and the role it plays in promoting knowledge exchange and innovative teaching practices.

Caroline Alphonso is The Globe and Mail's education reporter, covering issues in kindergarten through to Grade 12. Caroline joined the LHA 6008: Special Topics - Current Issues and Controversies in Ontario Educational Policy class to share an inside look at the relationship between news media and educational policy.

OISE Dean Glen Jones provides update on OISE COVID-19, remainder of term plans, Central Support Services, OISE Wellness, and UTQAP reviews.

Please check regularly the message from the University regarding Coronavirus.

QS World University Rankings has placed the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) as the 5th best educational institution in the world - its highest ranking to date.

Learn more about Dr. Joelle Rodway and her teaching and research interest.s

Dr. Alex Abramovich on CBC Radio on causes of LGBTQ2S youth homelessness.

Dr. Sachin Maharaj discusses the impact of the ongoing teachers' strike.

Professor Jennifer Wemigwans is a Co-Investigator on a Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation research grant, Mapping Toronto: Engaging Indigenous Knowledge

Professor and LHAE chair, appeared on CBC Radio's Ontario Today to talk about class sizes with host Rita Celli.

Amani Hitimana, Adult Ed PhD student, firmly believes that volunteering is imperative to improving society. He is the newly appointed chair of the national advisory committee for Canada's Volunteer Awards.

The OISE community is mourning the loss of Professor Bonnie Burstow, an exceptional scholar, author and activist.

In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, AECD Professor, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina's worker-recuperated enterprises. Grounded in class-struggle Marxism and a critical sociology of work, the book situates the ERT movement in Argentina's long tradition of working-class activism and the broader history of workers' responses to capitalist crisis.

Professor Leesa Wheelahan has been reappointed to the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership
for a second five-year term. The Davis Chair was established in 1999 to support and recognize distinguished and relevant expertise in Community College Leadership in OISE's Higher Education program,
and has been held by Professor Wheelahan since she joined OISE in 2014.

With his fellowship, McCready plans to organize a Queer of Color Analysis in Education Research Institute, with details coming soon.

Dr. Karen Mundy, Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, has been appointed to the UNESCO International Commission on the Futures of Education. Launched on September 26 at the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York, the initiative aims to re-imagine how knowledge and learning can shape the futures of humanity in a context of increasing complexity, uncertainty and precarity.

7 university leaders contemplate the future of higher education in Canada. They affirm that universities have a vital role to play in helping society navigate through the deepest challenges of our time, from climate change to the dangers of misinformation and rising intolerance.

Digitizing sacred knowledge: Professor Jennifer Wemigwans teams up with Indigenous communities in South and North America to bring their traditional calendar systems online

In the TDSB Beginning Teacher Equity Conference in downtown Toronto. Sharla Falodi and Farah Rahemtula, both learning coaches at the Toronto District School Board, focus on learning about microaggressions and the difference between intention and impact.

Hiro Hiratsuka, a PhD candidate in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, has been awarded a Massey College Junior Fellowship for 2019-20.

The specialized EdD cohort in International Educational Leadership and Policy will start in Fall 2020.

The National Advisory Council on Poverty (Advisory Council) brings together persons with lived experience, leaders, experts, academics, and practitioners that work in the field of poverty reduction to advise the Government of Canada on its strategy and produce a report on the Government's progress toward meeting poverty reduction targets every year.

Wemigwans, who specializes in the convergence of Indigenous knowledge and new media technologies, says tech companies could be doing more to preserve and revitalize endangered tongues.

Edited by Anila Zainub, LHAE doctoral student, presents interdisciplinary research on contemporary forms of decolonization and anti-colonialism in practice based in education.