Awards for children who never miss a day of school are commonplace in Canadian schools, but now, some experts worry it might be teaching children the wrong lesson. John Ippolito, an associate professor in the faculty of education at York University in Toronto, believes it’s the responsibility of teachers and administrators to determine reasons students […]
Faculty of Education PhD candidate Lois Kamenitz has been awarded the Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging Scholarship by the Canadian Association on Gerontology. The award recognizes academic success and community involvement with older adults and supports doctoral students whose programs of study relate to gerontology.
“The elementary teachers’ union has identified addressing classroom violence as a key concern, in addition to maintaining smaller class sizes, more supports for students with special needs and preserving full-day kindergarten.”
Trustees in Winnipeg are asking Winnipeg School Division officials to break down 2018-19 suspension data by race, inspired by an eye-opening 2017 study that revealed nearly half of all expelled students in a Toronto school board are black, even though they make up around 11 per cent of the student body.
"Sometimes we miss the point about what the problem is and what we should be doing about it,” says Stephen Gaetz, president of the York University-based Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, one of the largest research institutes on the issue in the country. “We make all this investment in warehousing people, yet we know from research that it creates pathways to worsening life conditions.”
As a lead up to the United Nations International Day of Education on January 24th, three professors from the Faculty of Education will be participating on a panel and will give talks at a commemoration event taking place at York University on January 22nd. The event will take place from 12 - 2 p.m. in […]
Every week, I am motivated and excited to come to my community practicum placement in the Teaching Commons. One of my principal duties as a Student Consultant on Teaching at York (SCOTAY) involves acting as a liaison between instructors and their student population.
This past term, the Faculty of Education Students’ Association (FESA) welcomed the Honourable Phoebe Asiyo and her daughter Atieno from the Wikondiek School in Kenya to speak at their council meeting.
Master of Education students Abdikadir Abikar, Ochan Leomoi and Project Program Administrator HaEun Kim, who are all a part of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project, wrote an article titled “Educating for return: Somali refugees in Dadaab” that was published in the latest issue of the Forced Migration Review.
A few of the top highlights in the Faculty of Education for 2019.