Geoffrey Reaume

Professor Geoffrey Reaume to unveil memorial wall plaques at CAMH dedicated to patient labourers

Just months after the reissue of York Professor Geoffrey Reaume’s book Remembrance of Patients Past, documenting 19th- and early-20th-century life from the viewpoint of psychiatric patients at the former Toronto Insane Asylum, he will help unveil nine memorial wall plaques at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH). The unveiling of the memorial wall plaques […]

Grad student Gillian Parekh receives Human Rights Prize for research paper on international education systems

Despite good intentions, education systems can still succumb to the influence of flawed perceptions of meritocracy, says York PhD candidate Gillian Parekh (BEd '02, MA '09) in a recent winning paper. That means, in at least two parts of the world, governments' prioritization of economic returns can trump students' rights to equitable and quality educational opportunities. […]