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PhD candidate Mohamed Duale awarded African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellowship at Boston College

Congratulations to Mohamed Duale, a PhD candidate at Faculty of Education, on being awarded the African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) Dissertation Fellowship at Boston College for 2020-21. As one of the most competitive fellowships in the social sciences and humanities in the United States, the fellowship with a $30,000 stipend recognizes students who pursue innovative and interdisciplinary projects within the field of African and African Diaspora Studies.

Recent BEd grad Kim Tran wins OSSTF award

Congratulations to Kim Tran, a recent graduate of the Faculty’s Concurrent Bachelor of Education program who was selected as one of the recipients of the 2020 OSSTF/FEESO Faculty of Education Award for this past school year. Valued at $1,000, the annual award is presented to one graduating Intermediate/Senior or Technological Education teacher candidate at each […]

IN THE MEDIA: Transitioning back to daycare after COVID-19

Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, an assistant professor of early childhood in 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Education talks about how to transition back to daycare after COVID-19. “Daycare will look a little different than what we were used to, classrooms will be smaller, children won’t be able to mingle with children from other groups” says Vintimilla.

Doctoral student Isaac Garcia-Sitton shortlisted for RBC Canadian Immigrant Award

Isaac Garcia-Sitton, a doctoral student at 91��ɫ's Faculty of Education and director, International Education & English Language Institute at 91��ɫ’s School of Continuing Studies, has been named a finalist for RBC’s Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. Isaac Garcia-Sitton For more than 12 years, the Canadian Immigrant Awards, organized by Canadian Immigrant Magazine, has recognized […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario to ban suspensions for children in Grade 3 and below in efforts to rid education system of racism

Ontario will stop suspending children from junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students. A 2017 study by Carl James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community, and Diaspora at 91��ɫ's Faculty of Education, reported Black students were more than twice as likely as other racialized […]

Aparna Mishra Tarc interviewed by Black Agenda Report about her book "Literacy of the Other"

Associate Professor and Graduate Program in Education Director Aparna Mishra-Tarc was recently interviewed by Black Agenda Report (BAR) about her book "Literacy of the Other: Renarrating Humanity".

91��ɫ grants master's degrees to first cohort of refugees in Kenya

Mark Okello Oyat and four of his fellow students at the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya are waiting for the pandemic to wind down before celebrating their new master’s degrees in style, but the thrill is still present among the members of the first cohort of Dadaab students to earn 91��ɫ graduate degrees, which were awarded this past June. 

91��ɫ announces 12 91��ɫ Research Chair appointments

Eight emerging and four established researchers across the University will join the 91��ɫ Research Chairs (YRC) program, 91��ɫ’s internal counterpart to the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which recognizes outstanding researchers. Two of these appointments are renewals.

Associate Professor Aparna Mishra Tarc appointed Graduate Program Director

Dean Lyndon Martin is pleased to announce the appointment of professor Aparna Mishra Tarc as Graduate Program Director in the Faculty of Education effective July 1, 2020. Mishra Tarc is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and is a former elementary school teacher. She received her doctoral degree from the Graduate Program in […]

Faculty of Education Impact Report 2016 – 2020 highlights accomplishments over the past four years

Guided by our mission to reinvent education for a diverse, complex world, the last four years have seen the Faculty of Education advance in a wide range of ways.