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Alternative models of education in the Greater Toronto area \u2013 from their early roots in the late 1960s to present day \u2013 will be the focus of a conference Nov. 17 and 18\u00a0hosted by York University.<\/p>\n

Publicly Funded Alternative Schooling in the GTA: A First Ever Conference<\/a> will bring together approximately 280 teachers, administrators, parents, students and other interested members of the educational community, showcasing decades of discoveries made within alternative programs and schools.<\/p>\n

Keynote speaker, writer and teacher, Herbert Kohl<\/a>, will kick off the event with a video presentation providing a context and frame for all of the sessions in the conference.<\/p>\n

Highlights include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vern Harper, a Canadian First Nations Cree Elder, speaking about the need for cultural survival schools, and about challenges faced by First Nations students in the TDSB \u2013 including its alternatives. (Nov.17, 12:50pm)<\/p>\n

Teresa van Neste, Alternative School Advisory Committee (ASAC) Co-Chair, speaking about how an arts-based Waldorf education addresses democratic leadership, meaningful work, community spirit and academics, and how public education can begin to take up radical Waldorf practices. (Nov. 17, 1:55pm)<\/p>\n

Esther Sokolov Fine (Faculty of Education, York University) and filmmaker Roberta King (King Squire Films Ltd.) presenting their feature documentary, Life at School: The DAS Tapes <\/em>(2001), edited from video footage collected at Downtown Alternative School (DAS) in the 1990s over a three-year period. They will also screen video material from a second three-year study conducted 12 to 15 years later with the same students, reflecting on the effects the alternative schooling experience and peacemaking had on their lives. (Nov. 17, 3pm)<\/p>\n

The conference will take place at Oakham House, Ryerson University Conference Centre, 55 Gould Street, Toronto & OISE 6th Floor, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto. Presentations from 10am to 4pm.<\/p>\n

Co-sponsors include: \u00a0Faculty of Education York University (and York Centre for Community and Education - YCEC), Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, and Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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