Amid the global pandemic of COVID-19, I am reminded of my time in New Orleans in 2005 experiencing Hurricane Katrina. At the time, I was a young diplomat, working in the Panamanian Consulate, thrust into one of the most formative personal and professional experiences I had ever faced.
School closures due to coronavirus have put parents in the challenging position of home-schooling their children say experts Associate Professor Tina Rake, and graduate student Cristina De Simone at 91ÑÇÉ«'s Faculty of Education
Carl James, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community, & Diaspora at 91ÑÇÉ«'s Faculty of Education is partnering with the University of Toronto to understand how the virus works, spreads, can be contained — and why it affects some populations more than others. Dr. Upton Allen's team will ensure his research includes some social science, […]
Faculty of Education professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora Carl James, is best known for his role in gathering groundbreaking data on Black experiences in sectors ranging from education and jobs to interactions with police. He has been avidly following calls to collect race-based disaggregated data on COVID-19. In a recent Toronto Star […]
Faculty of Education Associate Professor Celia Popovic has been awarded the Distinguished Educational Developer Career Award by the Educational Developers’ Caucus (EDC). The award recognizes Popovic’s 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 91ÑÇÉ« 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, Assistant Professor at 91ÑÇÉ«'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 91ÑÇÉ«, 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.