When Cécile Santos-Ayrault’s baby son was diagnosed with hearing loss, she became intensely interested in the treatment he was receiving. In order to better understand what he was going through, she decided to attend the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Education Program in the Faculty of Education at York University. The program better equipped […]
Professor Connie Mayer has been appointed as an Honorary Professor in Human Communications, Development and Hearing with the School of Health Sciences in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. The appointment is from September 2018 to September 2021 and is in recognition of the ongoing […]
There are only three educational institutions in Canada where one can acquire qualifications to teach deaf and hard of hearing students. York University’s Faculty of Education is one of them. Sheena Vert completed her Bachelor of Education degree at York and applied to the Faculty’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Education Program (Deaf Ed). […]
The vast majority of students with hearing loss today using hearing technologies such as hearing aids, cochlear implants or bone anchored hearing aids, they use spoken language for communication and they are educated in their neighbourhood schools alongside hearing peers.
Four York University professors with the Faculty of Education have been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants—collectively totaling $570,474. Connie Mayer will receive $184,311 for her research Literacy Outcomes of Deaf Learners: Updating the Evidence Base. Theresa Shanahan will receive $151,788 to investigate Policy Enactment in Ontario Schools: Teacher Professionalism in […]
A number of our Faculty members will be presenting sessions at the CSSE Annual Conference at the University of Regina May 26 - 30, 2018. The full conference program is available online at https://bit.ly/2IV0iU5. SUNDAY MAY 27 9:45am - 11:00amLaura Wiseman (York), Karen Krasny (York), Eleanor Johnston (York)Encountering the Holocaust:Aesthetic and Ethical Questions of Representation […]
Earlier this spring Professor Qiang Zha spoke at the University of Toronto’s 12th annual Munk School Graduate Student Conference. Zha participated as a member of a panel discussion on the Unexpected Impacts of Intervention. More specifically he spoke to elements of his own research titling his talk The Trajectory of Educational Intervention in the International […]
Interested in a career as a Technological Education teacher in Ontario? Carmen Camuti, Coordinator of the BEd, Technological Education program in the Faculty of Education gives an audio interview to provide some insight into this innovative program.
Congratulations to Professor Mario DiPaolantonio on his upcoming four month visiting professorship at Soka University in Tokyo, Japan which he will take up in his 2018-2019 sabbatical. DiPaolantonio won the highly competitive award from a pool of applicants from 14 countries, who are members of the International Philosophers of Education Network (INPE). During his tenure […]
Great article in the Daily Commercial News featuring Carpenter and alumnus M-C MacPhee who became a high school teacher after obtaining a Bachelor of Education, Technological Education degree. MacPhee is qualified to teach construction technology, one of 10 subjects offered under the Faculty of Education degree program. She hopes to inspire young women and spark interest […]