As part of the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Technology and Learning Fund, Dr. Ron Owston, a professor in the Faculty of Education, was commissioned by the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) to lead a strategic research study titled: Transforming Learning Everywhere: A study of the second year of implementation. Collaborating with him were Education professor […]
Dr. Deborah Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor and York Research Chair in Pedagogy and Psychosocial Transformations at York University, was appointed as a visiting lecturer in residence at the University of Alberta this past October 2-6, 2017. Over the week, Britzman presented the following three university-wide lectures, under the themes of Psychoanalysis and Education as a […]
The Faculty of Education is thrilled to welcome assistant professor Gillian Parekh. “We are excited to have Gillian join us,” said Faculty of Education Dean Lyndon Martin. “Her research addresses current issues in education and will add to the ways in which the Faculty is making a difference in the lives of young people in […]
Congratulations to professor Naomi Norquay who was awarded the Hugh Taylor Prize earlier this summer for her article, “An Accidental Archive of the Old Durham Road: Reclaiming a Black Pioneer Settlement,” which appeared in Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016). The citation for professor Norquay’s article reads written by an “accidental archivist,” this article is a fascinating, personal investigation of a […]
A new book co-edited by professor Heather Lotherington examines multimodal approaches to teaching. Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World: Multimodal Approaches and Perspectives, documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington’s Pedagogy […]
From late May to mid-June, Professor Qiang Zha travelled to Mainland China, where he visited Tianjin University, Peking University, Anhui University, Anhui Normal University, and Fudan University. In Tianjin University, China’s first modern institution of higher learning (founded in 1895), professor Zha was engaged as a Distinguished Research Fellow in its Institute of University Culture […]
Professor Carl James is one of the researchers behind a groundbreaking new study that sheds light on being black in Toronto. Read his interview in the Globe & Mail about the Black Experience Project here.
Professor Karen A. Krasny has been appointed 2017-18 York Visiting Scholar to Massey College at the University of Toronto. While at Massey, Dr. Krasny will be engaged in a special project dedicated to the advancement of book history titled The autonomy of the child reader: The impact of 18th and 19th century developments in illustration […]
Professor Aparna Mishra Tarc was awarded the prestigious 2017 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award for her book Literacy of the Other at the recent 2017 AERA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX. The award was presented at the AERA Division B Business Meeting, Still We Rise on the evening of April 28th. Literacy of […]
A new report titled 'Toward Race Equity in Education' by Professor Carl James, finds that black students face an achievement and opportunity gap in GTA schools. James is the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora at York University. View the story on the CBC website.