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IN THE MEDIA: Professor thrilled with new math, but wonders what it will look like in classroom

Tina Rapke, an Assistant Professor York University's Faculty of Education, is thrilled to see that curriculum reforms focus on “mental math” and that there is a mention of the “emotional” aspect -- the anxiety students can experience. “I'm very happy to see the focus on mental math,” says Rapke.“We have research that has recommendations ... […]

IN THE MEDIA: 5 tips to prepare your child for going back to daycare

Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, an Assistant Professor of early childhood in the Faculty of Education, is providing a few tips for parents to help their children transition back to daycare.

York University announces 12 York Research Chair appointments

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

Meet a Grad Student: Ixchel Bennett

This month’s "Meet a Grad Student" profile features Ixchel Bennett, a 2nd year student in the Indigenous Education PhD Cohort. Ixchel is interested in Indigenous teacher education programs that support communities in obtaining a Bachelor of Education degree and becoming OCT (Ontario College of Teachers) certified.

IN THE MEDIA: Dear brown people: I’m about to wash some dirty linen in public. Consider this an overdue act of tough love

On June 19, York University Assistant Professor Vidya Shah and education experts Jeewan Chanicka and Herveen Singh spoke in a brutally frank session titled “Brown Complicity in White Supremacy.” While anti-Blackness is also rampant among Hispanics, East Asians, Middle Eastern people and any people who are neither white nor Black, “brown” here refers to people of South […]

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 […]

The Conversation: Child care after the coronavirus pandemic should be more inclusive of children with disabilities

Across Canada, some provinces have either opened or are looking at opening their child-care centres again following pandemic closures. But all families do not have the same opportunity to participate in early childhood education and care. To simply expand what we now have would not serve all families equally writes Gillian Parekh, Assistant Professor and […]

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.

IN THE MEDIA: Timing of Ontario’s new math curriculum questioned

The Ontario government has unveiled its plan to get math grades up in schools across the province. But a new curriculum to be delivered in September is something that experts say is a tall order considering the current circumstances. Assistant Professor Tina Rapke at York University's Faculty of Education says, "I am a little bit […]

IN THE MEDIA: What does anti-Black racism look like in schools?

Faculty of Education and the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora Prof. Carl James was on CBC Radio to discuss what systemic racism can look like in education and to highlight the importance of changing the culture of schooling itself.