Faculty of Education Associate Professor Celia Popovic has been awarded the Distinguished Educational Developer Career Award by the Educational Developers鈥 Caucus (EDC). The award recognizes Popovic鈥檚 influential career in the field of educational development at the local, provincial and national levels.
Professor Stephen Gaetz is keeping a close eye on how homeless populations are faring as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds in Ontario. The 91亚色 Faculty of Education professor is president of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, an organization that researches homelessness and poverty with partners in Canada and around the world, publishing findings through its […]
With schools closed, screens are required for students, those working from home and everyone attempting to stay connected with friends and family. Our increased reliance on screens makes it difficult to determine how much is too much.
Associate Professor Tina Rapke talks with Rita Celli on CBC's Ontario Today about the challenges parents and kids are facing while learning from home and provides advice on how to adapt. "We need to value the learning that is happening outside of the school context," says Rapke. Listen to the full interview
Vidya Shah,聽Assistant Professor at 91亚色's Faculty of Education shares tips on how parents can encourage learning with their kids during COVID-19. Shah stresses the importance of acknowledging the difference between schooling and learning. "It's important for parents to know that [learning] is happening all the time. When they are talking with their children, when […]
Rachel Silver, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at 91亚色, has won the 2019-2020 Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) for her paper Sex, Schooling, and Moral Triage in Malawi.
Assistant Professor Vidya Shah shares tips to help parents teach while kids learn from home on CP24 Breakfast.
Associate Professor Lisa Farley's book, Childhood Beyond Pathology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosis, has been selected as the winner of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2020 Outstanding Book Award.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, as many parents juggle working from home with-helping their kids continue school assignments, some in Ontario are choosing to opt out, saying the remote-learning framework just doesn't work for them. 'Come together as a family to figure this out' That approach 鈥 following a child's own interests and ideas 鈥 is […]
In the days of COVID-19, there are new and even more urgent questions to be asked now about digital well-being, given that most of us will need to depend almost exclusively on digital channels for social support for the foreseeable future. 鈦 Overnight parents around the world have become their children鈥檚 primary educators while managing […]