Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Top Stories
- Family creates award to honour a teacher who transformed lives – First-year Education student Saamia Hasan is the first recipient of the Savitri Ahuja Education Award – an award that honours a beloved family member and teacher who continues to inspire students. Read more
- Peel school board has a plan to dismantle anti-Black racism within it. Parents, students are cautiously optimistic - Professor Carl James is mentioned in a discussion on a new five-year strategy, the "We Rise Together 2.0: Black Student Success Strategy" by the Peel public school board that aims to improve outcomes for Black students. The strategy builds on work started in 2016 with the 'We Rise Together action plan.' James worked with staff and ran student focus groups to measure the impact of that three year plan. Read more
- Do Better Research Podcast S4 E5: Collaborative Research & Using Ethnodrama - In this episode of the Do Better Research podcast, host Suzanne Albary speaks with assistant professor Natalia Balyasnikova about collaborative research projects. The conversation offers researchers an insight into how to build relationships for collaborative research. Balyasnikova also speaks about her use of ethnodrama as a method for doing and conveying research ideas, and more generally about the opportunities that creative research methods offer. Listen to podcast
- Thinking beyond Black History Month: Wayfinding with paradox in troubled times - Ph.D. candidate Nicola Dove, co-authored an opinion piece about structures of continuing dehumanization and devaluation of Black lives in Canada, the United States, and elsewhere. "Living within often-contradictory sets of circumstances speaks to our experiences and those of our extended communities, so we offer paradox and the questions it raises... as a means of wayfinding," said Dove and co-authors. Read more
- Black excellence centre stage at Word, Sound, Power celebration - Black artistic talent was centre stage during a showcase of performances on Feb. 8 when the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora presented Word, Sound, Power: An annual celebration of Black Artistic Expression. Watch video highlights
- The York University Magazine wins gold and silver medals at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards for two education stories
Program Office Updates
Professional Learning Office
- Spring 2023 AQ session – Registration is now open for Spring 2023 Additional Qualification (AQ) courses. The spring session features the return of blended (in-person and online) AQ courses. The registration deadline is April 4 with courses running from April 11 to June 16. Learn more
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Office
- The Application Package is now available online for certified teachers interested in applying to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Education Program. Application packages are due March 21, 2023. Learn more
Research Office
- Congress Working Group Update - The Congress Working Group 2023 (CWG) is operationalizing four Faculty-led events. Events highlighted in blue are included in York’s Open Program. Further information will follow as details become available.
- Internal Awards - Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for the following awards and reach out to research@edu.yorku.ca should you have questions and/or require support
- Dean’s Impact Awards: Deadline March 1, 2023
- Emergent Scholar Stream - nominees are within 3-6 years of their first academic appointment, where 3 of these have been held at York
- Established Scholar stream - nominees have held their first academic appointment for 7 or more years, where 3 of these have been held at York
- Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Award: Deadlines (see below)
- Preliminary nominations should be sent to the Recording Secretary of the Committee on Faculty Research Awards, and Grants (dkeren@edu.yorku.ca) by February 24, 2023 with full nominations due by April 14, 2023
- University Opportunities - Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships: Deadline March 1, 2023 - Please consider inviting and supporting submissions to the Provost’s Postdoctoral fellowships for Black and Indigenous scholars. The Faculty of Education is supporting one fellowship
- Upcoming Events: Workshop Series - The Office of the Associate Dean Research (OADR) will be hosting a suite of faculty-led workshops in March and April that address key topics, processes, and strategies to support your efforts to engage, develop, and publish your research and scholarship. These sessions are designed to bring people together to share experiences, problem-solve, and learn from one another
New Publications
- Associate professor Mario Di Paolantonio’s article “The Ethical Force and Hermeneutical Impasses in Our Being with Each Other in Education Today: David Hansen’s Reimagining the Call to Teach: A Witness to Teachers and Teaching” has been published in Studies in Philosophy and Education
- Associate professor Mario Di Paolantonio’s article “La Meraviglia: Ovvero stare in guardia contro la mancanza di pensiero nell’educazione” has been published in DYNAMIS. Rivista di filosofia e pratiche educative V. 3 N. 3 Nel paese della Meraviglia
- Associate professor Warren Crichlow's essay "Prodigious Presence: After the Door of No Return" is forthcoming in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (University of Toronto Press), a special issue devoted to the twentieth anniversary of Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes on Belonging
News from the York Community
- York University Black Staff Network (YUBSN) offers networking, community building – To mark Black History Month, YUBSN has officially launched its web site and extends an invitation to Black-identifying employees from across the University to join the volunteer network governed by an elected executive committee. Read more
- Call for nominations for President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards - The President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards honour those who, through innovation and commitment, have significantly enhanced the quality of learning for York students. Learn more
- York University is transitioning to a broader approach to public health management -In alignment with the approach to public health recommended by Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, York University is transitioning from the current acute response to COVID-19 to one that takes a broader approach to community health management. Learn more
- The countdown to Congress 2023 is on – York University puts the call our for volunteers as it counts down to host the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences – North America’s largest academic conference – this spring. Read more
- Nominations open for York University Alumni Awards - Each year, the York University Alumni Awards celebrate the broad York alumni community of innovators, activists and researchers and its long-standing commitment to the public good. Nominations for the 2023 cohort are now open until February 28. Read more
- New web resources focus on Artificial Intelligence and academic integrity – Web pages dedicated to helping instructors and teaching assistants navigate Artificial Intelligence tools and academic integrity are now available. Read more
Events
March 1, 2023 | 1:00 p.m. EST
The infrathin of post-graduate scholarship: Stories of thinking with/apart/together/alongside
with Christina MacRae, Laura Trafí-Prats & Ruth Churchill Dower, Manchester Metropolitan University
This is the second talk of the Thinking Intersections: Research, Relations & Reconfigurations series which creates a public space that will highlight the generative intersections between emergent scholars’ research and that of their doctoral advisors. The series is particularly interested in the generative intersections created between professors and emergent scholars.
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and rising inequalities, whether happening locally or in other parts of the world, not only impact our individual future but are central for collective action in tackling these and other global challenges. How can we understand global issues, and their interconnectedness? How can we learn to live sustainably and ethically without the feeling of only giving up or cutting back?
United Nations member states agreed upon a plan towards a sustainable future, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Countries are called upon to provide quality education that addresses our common future by positioning sustainability as a purpose of education and encouraging young people to become global citizens.
What does this exactly mean for educators, parents, and students? Are we to add more content to an already overcrowded curriculum? This presentation addresses roles and concrete ways for educators at all levels, education professionals, students, and parents to understand the need, become engaged, and make a difference.
This is a free event and all are welcome to attend.
In this presentation, Dr. Teun Dekker will argue that the liberal arts and sciences (LAS) model of education can inspire reform across higher education to help students acquire crucial civic virtues. Based on interviews with 59 students from LAS programmes across Europe, he will show how LAS education can develop a range of citizenship skills that are central to the democratic process. The interviews provide insight into how studying LAS prepares students for citizenship by asking them to reflect on their education, what it taught them, and how it did so. Building on these insights, seven key democratic competencies are identified and linked to concrete educational practices that foster them, leading to an agenda for higher education reform.
This event is a part of the L(iberalArts) ED(ucation) Lecture series and is co-hosted by the York Centre for Asian Research.
This is a free event and all are welcome to attend.
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