Associate professor Roopa Desai Trilokekar, weighs in on the Canada-India diplomatic relations. PM Justin Trudeau announced that the Canadian government was investigating 鈥渃redible accusations鈥 of a link between India鈥檚 government and the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. In response to these allegations, the Indian government stopped processing visa applications for Canadian citizens.
This month's 'Get to know our faculty' profile series features assistant professor Natalia Balyasnikova whose research focuses on a critical analysis of the learning experiences of older adults, particularly a significant demographic in Canada鈥攖he older multilingual immigrants.
Learning math equations and solving problems can be fun for some kids and downright uncomfortable for others. But math anxiety and not feeling like "a math person" can be avoided, according to Tina Rapke, an associate professor at 91亚色 who works directly with students and teachers from kindergarten to Grade 8.
Fifteen 91亚色 researchers have been named new 91亚色 Research Chairs (YRC), an internal program that mirrors the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program which recognizes world-leading researchers in a variety of fields. 鈥淭he 91亚色 Research Chair program is an important complement to the Canada Research Chair program to advance our efforts to strengthen research […]
Welcome to the final issue of Innovatus for the 2022-23 academic year. As we move toward 2023-24, it鈥檚 fitting that we end the year with a focus on education, a field that promotes growth and change.
This month's 'Get to know our faculty' profile series features assistant professor Rachel Silver whose interdisciplinary research draws insight from critical development studies; refugee and forced migration studies; and gender, feminist and women鈥檚 studies.
The recently launched 鈥淩etooling Black Anxiety鈥 project at 91亚色 looks to examine increased anxiety among Black youth and families who have had encounters with the criminal justice system (CJS).
Jen Gilbert, an associate professor at 91亚色, weighs in on parental rights emerging as a top issue for Republicans ahead of the 2024 elections and recent school board elections in Canada showing a similar movement is growing. "The kind of spectre of parental rights often emerges in relationship to expanding conversations about sexuality and gender in schools," said Gilbert.
Black people in Canada are just as educated as the rest of the country overall but new census data by Statistics Canada is shedding light on how cultural barriers may be driving differences in education levels between different generations in Black communities.
This month's 'Get to know our faculty' profile series features assistant professor Molade Osibodu whose current field of research is situated in the sub-field of critical mathematics education and seeks to serve Black (including Sub-Saharan Africans) youth in educational contexts.