On June 19, three education experts — York University assistant professor Vidya Shah, former Toronto school board education superintendent Jeewan Chanicka and Herveen Singh, an assistant professor at Dubai’s Zayed University — spoke in a brutally frank session titled “Brown Complicity in White Supremacy.”
Tina Rapke, an Assistant Professor York University's Faculty of Education, is thrilled to see that curriculum reforms focus on “mental math” and that there is a mention of the “emotional” aspect -- the anxiety students can experience. “I'm very happy to see the focus on mental math,” says Rapke.“We have research that has recommendations ... […]
Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, an Assistant Professor of early childhood in the Faculty of Education, is providing a few tips for parents to help their children transition back to daycare.
Eight emerging and four established researchers across the University will join the York Research Chairs (YRC) program, York University’s internal counterpart to the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which recognizes outstanding researchers. Two of these appointments are renewals.
This month’s "Meet a Grad Student" profile features Ixchel Bennett, a 2nd year student in the Indigenous Education PhD Cohort. Ixchel is interested in Indigenous teacher education programs that support communities in obtaining a Bachelor of Education degree and becoming OCT (Ontario College of Teachers) certified.
Across Canada, some provinces have either opened or are looking at opening their child-care centres again following pandemic closures. But all families do not have the same opportunity to participate in early childhood education and care. To simply expand what we now have would not serve all families equally writes Gillian Parekh, Assistant Professor and […]
The Ontario government has unveiled its plan to get math grades up in schools across the province. But a new curriculum to be delivered in September is something that experts say is a tall order considering the current circumstances. Assistant Professor Tina Rapke at York University's Faculty of Education says, "I am a little bit […]
Faculty of Education and the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora Prof. Carl James was on CBC Radio to discuss what systemic racism can look like in education and to highlight the importance of changing the culture of schooling itself.
York University Professor Deborah Britzman, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Tier One York Research Chair in Pedagogy and Psycho-social transformations, was awarded a 2020-21 visiting scholar position at Massey College, University of Toronto.
People advocating to change the names of municipalities signal how individuals are moving toward not accepting what was previously considered appropriate, according to the Faculty of Education Prof. Carl James.