Faculty of Education PhD candidate Lois Kamenitz has been awarded the Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging Scholarship by the Canadian Association on Gerontology. The award recognizes academic success and community involvement with older adults and supports doctoral students whose programs of study relate to gerontology.
Holiday party hosts need to ensure everyone can take part in the celebrations, says Pam Millett, an audiologist and an associate professor in the Faculty of Education with more than 30 years of experience working with children and adults with hearing loss. Senior citizens, for example, may experience hearing loss due to the natural aging […]
This past academic term, professor Mario Di Paolantonio was invited by the Philosophy and Education program at Columbia University's Teachers College, to give a talk titled “Education in Abject Conditions: Survival, Survivance and Education in Spite of it All.”
The vast majority of students with hearing loss today using hearing technologies such as hearing aids, cochlear implants or bone anchored hearing aids, they use spoken language for communication and they are educated in their neighbourhood schools alongside hearing peers.
Earlier this spring Professor Qiang Zha spoke at the University of Toronto’s 12th annual Munk School Graduate Student Conference. Zha participated as a member of a panel discussion on the Unexpected Impacts of Intervention. More specifically he spoke to elements of his own research titling his talk The Trajectory of Educational Intervention in the International […]
Congratulations to Professor Mario DiPaolantonio on his upcoming four month visiting professorship at Soka University in Tokyo, Japan which he will take up in his 2018-2019 sabbatical. DiPaolantonio won the highly competitive award from a pool of applicants from 14 countries, who are members of the International Philosophers of Education Network (INPE). During his tenure […]
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 […]
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 […]