A unique visual ‘mapping’ assignment for teacher candidates provided a deeper understanding and perspective of how they can use their own personal experiences to imagine the possibilities of place-based learning in their future classroom practice. Students in the Faculty’s Arts and Social Studies: Integrating Curriculum in the Primary/Junior division course, were tasked with making connections […]
New research led by doctoral student Stephanie Fisher with Faculty of Education Professor Jennifer Jenson, director of the Institute for Research on Digital Learning, examines some of the ways in which girls are set up as subordinate, in relation to boys and men, by and within the digital games industry. Doctoral student Stephanie Fisher (pictured […]
You are cordially invited to submit a proposal for Visions, Collaborations, and Transformations: The First Annual York University Graduate Student Research Conference in the Social Sciences & Humanities. This conference is a special multidisciplinary event that aims to connect participants within the social science communities at York University and beyond. DEADLINE: February 1, 2017 To […]
Second year Master’s student Sanja Vujinovic’s research interests are cross-listed to linguistics and centre on language education. She is presently conducting an auto-ethnographic feminist study that examines the impact of perceived foreign accents on the professional career of adult immigrant women in a Canadian context. The study addresses the question, what role does accent play […]