Graduate Program in Education

May 2020 issue of 'Innovatus' highlights teaching and learning innovation in the Faculty of Education

Welcome to the May 2020 edition of Innovatus, a special issue of YFile devoted to teaching and learning innovation at York University.

This month, I am delighted to partner with the Faculty of Education on this special spotlight edition. Together with Dean Lyndon Martin, we are sharing with you many of the exciting endeavours that the Faculty of Education has undertaken to enhance teaching and learning for its students.

York research explores refugee participation in Kenyan camps

York University doctoral student Mohamed Duale documents the dilemmas faced by refugees in extended exile in his recent report for the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), a team of researchers and practitioners committed to promoting protection and solutions with and for refugees. Mohamed Duale Duale spent the summer of 2019 in a research placement […]

Lessons from Katrina: Conducting ‘Learning as Usual’ in Unusual Times

Amid the global pandemic of COVID-19, I am reminded of my time in New Orleans in 2005 experiencing Hurricane Katrina. At the time, I was a young diplomat, working in the Panamanian Consulate, thrust into one of the most formative personal and professional experiences I had ever faced.

Upcoming talk will explore the politics of queer safer sex technologies

An upcoming talk featuring assistant professor Chris Barcelos (University of Wisconsin Madison) will explore the politics of queer safer sex technologies. The talk is sponsored by the Faculty of Education at York University. Queer Barriers: Safer Sex Technologies and The Politics of Risk will combine archival and interview-based research with the lens of feminist science […]

“Left Behind:” The importance of remembering refugee stories during Black History Month

“When it comes to African refugees, and the ways they have contributed to Canadian society, that story is yet to be fully documented and to be visible,” comments Mohamed Duale, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education who spent years working with refugees navigating the asylum process.

Educating for return: Somali refugees in Dadaab

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.

Research seminar explores post-structural critiques of science

Guest speaker Patti Lather, professor emerita in educational studies at Ohio State University, will present a seminar at York University’s Keele campus on March 19 on the topic of “Science After Critique or Towards Post-Critical Methodologies.” Over the past 35 years, Lather has opened research in education to the theory wars, feminist pedagogy and post-structural […]

Children's Literature Symposium opens space for interdisciplinary collaborations at York

Faculty members and graduate students from the Faculty of Education convened on Jan. 22, 2018 to re-present their papers from the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) held in the summer of 2017 at York. The congress attracted 300 presenters and attendees from more than 30 countries. From York, there were 20 presenters from […]

Graduate Student Profile - Hawa Sabriye

Second year MEd student Hawa Sabriye’s diverse research interests include Education in emergencies; Afrocentric education; diasporic histories and environmental & sustainability education. One of the highlights of Hawa’s time in the program thus far has been the opportunity to work as a Teaching Assistant for the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project in Dadaab, […]

Celebrating our spring 2017 graduating class

Spring convocation was amazing! From Governor General David Johnston receiving an honorary doctorate to Education Minister Mitzi Hunter surprising grads, it was a wonderful celebration of our 2017 graduating class here in the Faculty of Education.