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• 2020 -2021 BHER Speaker Series kicks off with book launch – The Faculty of Education, Centre for Refugee Studies and Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project, kicked off the 2020-2021 BHER Speaker Series: Reciprocal Learning Beyond Crisis with a book launch for Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps on October 6^th. The book is co-edited by York University Professor Emerita Wenona Giles and Lorrie Miller. Watch the webinar (You will need to be logged in to the York Zoom environment using DUO to view the webinar)
• York University with funding from RBC launched Securing Black Futures on October 6^th. If you missed the national, pan-university conversation, tune in here. In celebration of RBC's donation and launch of the project, Professor Carl E. James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, was joined by University Presidents, VPs, friends, and colleagues from across the country to kick start the discussion and pan-university projects focused on advancing the academic and career success of Black youth. Learn more about Securing Black Futures
• 1980’s book on residential school experiences was rejected by first publisher who didn’t believe it – Professor Celia Haig-Brown’s book Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School was one of the first texts to describe the experiences of residential school survivors from their perspectives, particularly those who had been forced to attend the Kamloops Indian Residential School. But when Haig-Brown set out to write her book more than three decades ago, there was very little to compare it with — and that presented its own challenges, including pushback from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers. Read the full article on the CBC News website
• Fall Convocation - The Fall 2021 Online Graduation Celebration will be held on November 2, 2021. The Faculty of Education celebration will take place from 3:00-4:00 p.m.  A Graduation Reception will be held following the official ceremony and will run from 4:15-4:45 p.m. To register for the Reception, please RSVP: Staff, Faculty, Students and their guests must register to attend. Please leave a message of congratulations or well wishes for graduates, on our Kudoboard

New Publications

• Dean Robert Savage and his colleagues Marie-France Côté and Yaacov Petscher published an article in the Journal of Scientific Studies of Reading titled Cross-linguistic transfer of reading between English and French among Grade 1 students attending French Immersion programs
• A new article Manifesting living knowledges: A pedagogist’s working manifesto by Assistant Professor Cristina Delgado Vinimilla was published in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
• Charles Hopkins (UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education Towards Sustainability) and Katrin Kohl in collaboration with colleagues from Czechia, France, Germany and Malaysia, published an article titled A whole-institution approach towards sustainability: a crucial aspect of higher education’s individual and collective engagement with the SDGs and beyond in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
• Dean Robert Savage, Jack M. Fletcher and Sharon Vaughn recently published an article A commentary on Bowers (2020) and the role of phonics instruction in reading in the Educational Psychology Review

In Case You Missed It

• Associate Professor Celia Popovic recently participated in the Treasure Island Pedagogies Series at the University of Liverpool. In this series, 3-4 guests share what they would take to their ‘Treasure Islands’: a lightbulb moment (when you feel your students 'are getting it'), a teaching prop or a pedagogy, and a luxury item. Listen to Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 12 - the one with the Mushrooms featuring Dr. Popovic, Dr. Phillip Moffitt and Dr. Richard Osborne
• Assistant Professor Cristina Delgado Vintimilla received a research award from the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)-Exploration stream for her project Ecological Devastation in Extractive Zones: Resistance, Recuperation and Regeneration. Working with a multidisciplinary team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, artists and activists from across Canada and Ecuador, including Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies sociology Professor Denielle Elliott, the research team will explore what it takes to recuperate the devastation of the “Capitalocene” Read more
• Assistant Professor Cristina Delgado Vintimilla recently presented a keynote with her colleague Sylvia Kind for the University of Arkansas’ Centre for the study of children’s art titled Choreographies of Practice: Mutualities & Sympoetic Becomings in Early Childhood Education. Based on collaborative work done for over more than a decade, the presentation elucidates what becomes possible for teacher education when artistic and pedagogical situations are designed and proposed at the intersection between pedagogista and atelierista work. Listen to the podcast

A Few Reminders

• To ensure compliance, internal community members need to be familiar with all University policies and procedures that are relevant to finance-related activities. These related How to Services are developed to help you with achieving this.
• The Faculty is currently hiring for the following Full Time positions:
  • Assistant Professor, Digital Futures in Education
  • Associate Professor, Digital Futures in Education

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News from the York Community

• York University’s Communications & Public Affairs department has added some new Fall Zoom Background options for you to use! Visit the brand website to download them: https://www.yorku.ca/brand/py_staff_area/brand-assets/zoom-background/
• Student Equity & Diversity Census Survey - The Student Equity & Diversity Census is open until October 29! The Census is a short self-identification survey developed in consultation with students to better meet their needs and reduce barriers to access. By completing the Census, students will help us provide better targeted services, resources and supports designed specifically for equity-seeking student populations. Help us encourage students to complete the Census at go.yorku.ca/student-census

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