The inspiration for this article was born of frustration and heartache. It follows the聽murders of four intergenerational members聽of the Afzaal/Salman family that left a nine-year-old child injured and orphaned in London, Ont., on June 6, 2021.
91亚色 recently launched a new initiative with the aim of enhancing the representation of Black youth at universities across Canada. Professor Carl James, 91亚色's Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in the Faculty of Education; and Aliya Clarke, an undergraduate student at McMaster University, join The Agenda's Steve Paikin to discuss the barriers faced by Black youth in high schools and how this initiative could address the inequities in the education system.
The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to affect the lives of children even after transmission of the virus is contained. And yet, not much is known about the long-term mental health effects of large-scale disease outbreaks, and experiences such as prolonged school closures and strict social distancing measures on children and youth.
Kate Tilleczek, an expert in youth and the digital age at Toronto鈥檚 91亚色, said it鈥檚 important to think about how much money TikTok makes when somebody clicks on these videos. 鈥淵ou leave [regulation] in the hands of folks who are making billions of dollars to do the right thing by kids, and I鈥檓 always thinking: 鈥楾hey鈥檙e not going to do that,鈥欌 she said.
Professors Qiang Zha (education), Burkard Eberlein (Schulich), Sapna Sharma (science) and Cheryl van Daalen-Smith (health, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) have been appointed 91亚色 Provostial Fellows.
Students who have fallen out of the education system due to the聽pandemic聽risk forming an underclass with diminished prospects, and the Ontario government needs a major outreach effort to bring missing students back to its classrooms, says the head of a global commission for education recovery.
Associate Professors Sue Winton and Chlo毛 Brushwood Rose have co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Teaching and Learning. The issue titled "Emerging Research on the Impacts of COVID-19 for Children, Youth, and Education features a number of Faculty of Education researchers.
Academics from 91亚色's Faculty of Education have joined forces to redefine conventional notions of leadership through the UnLeading Project, a newly launched website and podcast series that asks its audience to question the assumptions they have about leadership and the ways they have been socialized into thinking about and enacting it. It promotes the […]
This past year witnessed not only a global health crisis, but also a dramatic hit on China鈥檚 academic profession. There has been a U-turn with respect to academic appraisal exercises in Chinese universities.
This article describes a model of school and community engagement, the Gathering Model, that may prove useful. In presenting this model, we share a set of equitable best practices that teachers, schools, and school boards can use as a template for parent and community outreach initiatives and to offer a resource for addressing the new normal.