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Faculty and Grad student presentations at AERA 2021 virtual annual meeting

A number of faculty and graduate students will be presenting at this year's AERA virtual annual meeting.

Ontario's Postsecondary Cooperative Education

Associate Professor Qiang Zha explores the status and characteristics of Ontario's PSE co-op in the national and global contexts through the knowledge map analyses on a recent podcast on the Faculti web site.

The Conversation Canada: The coronavirus pandemic provides an opportunity to address homelessness

Doctoral student Timothy Martin wrote an article for the Conversation Canada about how the coronavirus pandemic provides an opportunity to address homelessness.

In the media: Online school will still be around post-pandemic, so what have we learned?

When COVID-19 hit a year ago, countless students from kindergarten through post-secondary were thrown into virtual schooling for the first time.

The Conversation Canada Podcast: How to spark change within our unequal education system

Carl James, professor of education at York University and Kulsoom Anwer, a high school teacher who works out of one of Toronto's most marginalized neighborhoods, Jane and Finch, were on The Conversation Canada Podcast episode 3 to discuss the injustices and inequalities in the education system – and the way forward.

Fear and discomfort shouldn’t block anti-racism efforts in schools

Addressing racism in the classroom requires educators to ask hard questions of themselves, white discomfort, and the discarding of old traditions.

Report outlines need for emergency planning to increase equity in access to education

A new report by Faculty of Education Professor Sarah Barrett highlights the need for emergency plans for teaching to increase equity in access to education.

In the Media: Career Switch

Assistant Professor Vidya Shah spoke with Stuart McGinn (680 News) about the Faculty’s Master of Leadership and Community Engagement (MLCE) degree program in relation to a new study which found that more than half of Canadians have been thinking about switching careers since the start of the pandemic.

In the media: 'I couldn't let it go': How the expulsion of a Black student led a former vice-principal to quit

For 13 years, Paul Raso experienced different challenges working as a teacher and vice-principal in one of Toronto's most marginalized communities, but it was the way his school board handled the expulsion of one Black student — and the departure of that student's brother, as well — that Raso says finally pushed him to leave.

March 10 virtual colloquium discusses impacts of COVID-19 for mobile populations across Africa

The next virtual colloquium in York University’s ‘Reciprocal Learning in Times of Crisis’ monthly series will feature a discussion from two international experts on the impacts of COVID-19 for mobile populations across Africa.