The Homeless Hub, the research arm of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) at York University, is knowledge mobilization at its best. This organization undertakes trail-blazing research that informs policy and affects meaningful change. Most recently, the Homeless Hub released a report, Child Welfare and Youth Homelessness in Canada: A Proposal for Action (2017), published […]
Professors Jen Gilbert and Gillian Parekh have been awarded Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grants totaling approximately $250,000. The grants were announced in the Insight Development Grants and Insight Grants Competition categories. “We are extremely delighted and would like to congratulate Jen and Gillian on these awards which are a testament […]
A new book co-edited by Professor Emeritus Esther Fine examines the unique phenomenon of public alternative schools in Toronto and other large urban areas. Alternative Schooling and Student Engagement, Canadian Stories of Democracy within Bureaucracy provides a history of the alternative school movement in Canada and examines the ways in which the movement meets the […]
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.