This year’s Faculty of Education Summer Institute (FESI) will have a different look due to the unprecedented times that we are in. FESI 2020 - Up Close and Personal; Conversations on Anti-Oppression will be a free 5-part webinar series with an invitation to “take action”. The first webinar in the series will take place on August 19th.
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.
This month’s graduate student profile features Diana Karolia Grimaldos, a part-time graduate student in the Master of Leadership and Community Engagement Program (MLCE). Grimaldos’ research interest lies in the intersection of community engagement and equity in education. “I pursue this area of research because of my direct experience with the non-for-profit sector, which led me to work with racialized parents who have experienced racism and discrimination within the education system,” she says.
Critics are calling on the government not to change the qualifications for directors of education, saying the person at the helm of a school board should have teaching experience. An online petition created by York University Assistant Professor Vidya Shah and Toronto principal Alison Gaymes San Vicente had almost 30,000 signatures by late Friday afternoon. The change.org […]
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 […]
As school boards across Ontario teeter on the cusp of change, with at least 14 boards looking to select a new director of education, academics, parents and community members of the country’s largest stepped forward at a trustee meeting on Thursday. “It’s fair to ask how the trustees would go about choosing a director at […]
Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Carl James, recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Conversation Canada about the Ontario Government's recent announcement to end streaming in Grade 9. "Last week, the Ontario government announced its plan to end streaming in Grade 9, something Education Minister Stephen Lecce acknowledged is a […]
Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, an assistant professor of early childhood in York University’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.
Isaac Garcia-Sitton, a doctoral student at York's Faculty of Education and director, International Education & English Language Institute at York University’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 […]
This week, the Government of Ontario announced that it would end streaming in Grade 9. Research by Carl James, York University Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, is not alone in showing that Black Canadians and especially historic Black Canadians (compared with those from the families of recent immigrants) are far more […]