Education researchers awarded close to $50,000 in SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants

Associate Professor Naomi Norquay and Associate Professor Pamela Millett have been awarded the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada’s (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grants totalling approximately $50,000. The grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. […]

Research Minute - Professor Vidya Shah on Race, Identity and Power in Educational Leadership

My research focuses on race, identity and power in educational leadership. At a macro-level, my work disrupts the ways in which racism, whiteness and white supremacy function in educational leadership. I explore tensions, contradictions and possibilities in anti-racist approaches to leadership that exist in communities, in schools and districts, and in discourse.

IN THE MEDIA: Search for school board leaders presents opportunity in face of racism discussions, say experts

As several Ontario school boards search for new directors of education, some experts say the situation presents an opportunity to kick start a much-needed reform of the education system. "It's a very interesting time," said Carl James, Faculty of Education Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora

The Conversation: Children’s books share refugees’ experiences and offer hope for the future

"The COVID-19 pandemic provides parents with an opportunity to select books that address issues confronting children around the world and to engage children in discussions about children’s lives," writes Associate Professor Aparna Mishra Tarc in her recent op-ed for the Conversation Canada. In our efforts to protect children from political strife in the world, adults […]

PhD candidate Mohamed Duale awarded African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellowship at Boston College

Congratulations to Mohamed Duale, a PhD candidate at Faculty of Education, on being awarded the African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) Dissertation Fellowship at Boston College for 2020-21. As one of the most competitive fellowships in the social sciences and humanities in the United States, the fellowship with a $30,000 stipend recognizes students who pursue innovative and interdisciplinary projects within the field of African and African Diaspora Studies.

Meet a Grad Student: Diana Karolina Grimaldos

This month’s graduate student profile features Diana Karolia Grimaldos, a part-time graduate student in the Master of Leadership and Community Engagement Program (MLCE). Grimaldos’ research interest lies in the intersection of community engagement and equity in education. “I pursue this area of research because of my direct experience with the non-for-profit sector, which led me to work with racialized parents who have experienced racism and discrimination within the education system,” she says.

The Conversation: Ending ‘streaming’ is only the first step to dismantling systemic racism in Ontario schools

Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Carl James, recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Conversation Canada about the Ontario Government's recent announcement to end streaming in Grade 9. "Last week, the Ontario government announced its plan to end streaming in Grade 9, something Education Minister Stephen Lecce acknowledged is a […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario made the right call on streaming. A student’s future should not be decided in Grade 9

This week, the Government of Ontario announced that it would end streaming in Grade 9. Research by Carl James, York University Professor and Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, is not alone in showing that Black Canadians and especially historic Black Canadians (compared with those from the families of recent immigrants) are far more […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ontario to ban suspensions for children in Grade 3 and below in efforts to rid education system of racism

Ontario will stop suspending children from junior kindergarten to Grade 3, a practice that has been shown to disproportionately impact Black students. A 2017 study by Carl James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community, and Diaspora at York University's Faculty of Education, reported Black students were more than twice as likely as other racialized […]

IN THE MEDIA: Ending Academic Streaming in Schools

Faculty of Education Professor Carl James led research on streaming back in 2017 and found it disproportionately affected Black students. “The ways in which teachers perceive Black students’ abilities in the context of systemic racism means that we have assumptions about the potential of Black students.”