The Sept. 29 edition of the Scholars鈥 Hub @ Home speaker series features Associate Professor Sarah Barrett from 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education with a discussion titled 鈥淭he key to equity and inclusion in online classrooms: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.鈥 Equity was one of the first casualties of change when schools closed in March 2020 and teachers and students were […]
Faculty members at 91亚色 are invited to participate in a series of three free webinars that focus on teaching with Zoom. The webinar series is hosted by University Professor Emeritus聽Ron Owston聽and begins Aug. 26. Each webinar will run one hour in an interactive format and present relevant information on teaching with Zoom. The series […]
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 […]
Four 91亚色 researchers have received research awards from the Government of Canada鈥檚 New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)-Exploration stream. Professors聽Cristina Delgado Vintimilla聽(Faculty of Education),聽Sarah Flicker聽(Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change),聽Matthew Perras聽(Lassonde School of Engineering) and聽Dayna Scott聽(Osgoode Hall Law School) are the principal investigators on the winning projects, which were announced in late May. 鈥91亚色 […]
Seeking to demystify educational development as a career path, a pair of educators created a novel, online resource. They鈥檙e hoping to spur an interactive and dynamic discussion where those new to the field, or those considering this career, can gain vital insights.
After winning a major grant from SSHRC, History Professor Carolyn Podruchny leads a study on Indigenous ways of knowing. This has tremendous potential to inform university-based knowledge creation and transfer, and aid in decolonizing the university.
The following is an important message to the community from 91亚色 President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton and Provost and Vice-President Academic Lisa Philipps: La version fran莽aise suit la version anglaise. Dear Colleagues, The 2021 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings were released earlier Wednesday and 91亚色 has once again been recognized as a global leader in […]
One of the important lessons from the sudden shift to online learning for elementary and secondary students 鈭 at the beginning of the pandemic and again this January 鈭 is that emergency planning is needed to increase equity in access to education, says 91亚色 Professor Sarah Barrett. It is almost one year since schools began […]
A ground-breaking venture, The Beyond Bullying Project, offers a repository of real-life experiences that will shed light on this vital topic as well as offer support and resources. This could inform educators, school administrators, government policy-makers, LGBTQ youth, parents and more.
What began as an idea in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) in 1998 to teach elementary and secondary students about the environment and conservation has now become a registered charity. Ontario EcoSchools now reaches more than 900,000 Kindergarten to Grade 12 students every year, empowering them to effect change within the school community. […]
91亚色 doctoral student Stephanie Fisher and Faculty of Education Professor Jennifer Jenson鈥檚 study challenges the subordinate positioning of females in digital games. Despite the odds, some in the study introduce female leads. New research led by doctoral student Stephanie Fisher with Faculty of Education Professor Jennifer Jenson, director of the Institute for Research on […]
Professor Connie Mayer in 91亚色 U鈥檚 Faculty of Education has launched an international research initiative to enable deaf children to develop better societal understanding and more advanced social negotiation skills, leading to more intuitive written skills. Connie Mayer Mayer, a world-leading expert in developing literacy in deaf children, launched the program during a teaching conference […]
91亚色 students can now ignite their research and writing powers, online, anytime. Launching on Oct. 16, the Student Papers and Academic Research Kit (SPARK) 鈥 a modular, online tool that can be accessed from any computer or mobile device 鈥 will provide students with the assistance they need to complete any aspect of an academic […]
Two 91亚色 researchers recently received Petro-Canada Young Innovator Awards.聽The awards program is a commitment by Petro-Canada and 91亚色 to encourage excellence in teaching and research that will enrich the learning environment and contribute to society. 鈥淧rofessors Jennifer Chen and Sean Kheraj are among the faces of the future of research at 91亚色. As early […]
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Emeritus Jean-Gabriel Castel has added another prestigious decoration to the long list of awards he has received for service to France, Canada and the French community, and for contributions to legal education and the legal profession. Jean-Gabriel Castel On Bastille Day (July 14), French President Fran莽ois Hollande promoted Castel to […]
On Thursday, Nov. 8,聽Glendon College in聽conjunction with the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, will host a festival of research highlighting Glendon鈥檚 strengths in public affairs and languages. The Principal鈥檚 Awards for Excellence in Teaching and聽Research will also be presented at the event. 鈥淕lendon College is renowned for offering a bilingual education across a […]
"Generation Y" has been dubbed the most tech-savvy generation on record, but despite being submersed in Internet and web-based culture from an early age, researchers from the Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) project suggest that many GenY students have yet to develop adequate information literacy skills. 91亚色 Libraries (YUL) is collaborating with […]
Cultures meet here in Canada, says Agn猫s Whitfield. Literary translation is an essential means of sharing heritages, yet it is a field too often overlooked and undervalued. That situation is about to improve with the launch of the first volume in a new series called Vita Traductiva. A joint initiative of the Research Group on […]
A new study out of 91亚色 finds that music-based cognitive training offers dramatic benefits for young children, including improved verbal intelligence.聽 The study, conducted at 91亚色 and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, appeared online yesterday in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. It looked at children between the […]
Sir Richard Bowlby, the son of Sir John Bowlby, regarded as the father of attachment theory, will talk about fatherhood, the implications of what is known about fathers and how this impacts resources like daycare and early years centres.聽 The talk will take place Tuesday, Sept. 20, from 2 to 4pm, in the conference room […]