Integrated Studies in Education - Education News

Sheryl Smith-Gilman Speaks to Parents on Handling the Back-to-School Rush

UUֱ�� — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:28:48 +0000

Dr. Sheryl Smith-Gilman, Faculty Lecturer in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), will be presenting an online workshop for UUֱ�� faculty and staff, offering practical advice to help parents support their children's smooth transition into the school year on September 24 at 12 p.m.

Topics include setting realistic expectations, establishing routines, managing challenges, and finding support. Offered by the UUֱ�� Human Resources Health and Wellness.

Changes to MCGILL ALERT! Mobile Device Notifications

UUֱ�� — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:04:43 +0000

UUֱ��’s Emergency Notification System allows you to opt in your mobile device to receive alerts during time-sensitive situations and disruptions in the use of various buildings on campus.

In the past, some mobile phone carriers only allowed voice messages, not SMS text messaging. Today, all carriers support SMS, so we will switch Emergency Notification System messaging to SMS for all mobile phones starting September 18.

Jenna Gibbs, KPE, and Claudia Mitchell, DISE, Awarded CFI Funding

UUֱ�� — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:35:36 +0000

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded $5.5 million in funding to UUֱ�� researchers to support cutting-edge research facilities and infrastructure across various fields, including health sciences, environmental studies, and engineering.

New Dean of Education a Man of Many Talents

UUֱ�� — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:43:20 +0000

As Dean Vivek Venkatesh settles into his role, the Faculty is exploring different outreach initiatives for the Education Community to get to know our new Dean. This August article in the UUֱ�� News alumni magazine serves as a great introduction:

35 Indigenous Students Participate in OFNIE Annual Summer Institute

UUֱ�� — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:34:46 +0000

From July 2nd to the 23rd, 35 Indigenous students from Kawawachikamach and across Nunavik and Eeyou-Eenou Ischee participated in the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) All-Partners Summer Programming at UUֱ��’s downtown campus for the OFNIE Annual Summer Institute.

Margaret Mackenzie, Samantha Nepton, and Taylor Richardson, Winners of McCall MacBain Scholarships

UUֱ�� — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:35:25 +0000

Margaret Mackenzie (BEd’23), Samantha Nepton (BEd’23), and Taylor Richardson (BFA'23 Towson University), are winners of McCall MacBain Scholarships, Canada’s largest leadership-based scholarships for master’s and professional studies.

Each finalist was chosen based on their character, community engagement, leadership potential, entrepreneurial spirit, academic strength, and intellectual curiosity:

Margaret Mackenzie

2024 McCall MacBain Scholar
UUֱ�� Faculty of Education, MA, Educational Leadership

Three DISE Graduate Students Win Prestigious Fellowship and Awards for International Research

UUֱ�� — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:58:39 +0000

Three graduate students from UUֱ��'s Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) have been honoured with prestigious fellowships and awards for their international research endeavours.

DISE Graduate Students Alexa Ahooja and Hannah Keim Win Prestigious Applied Linguistics Awards

UUֱ�� — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:36:32 +0000

DISE Graduate Students Alexa Ahooja, PhD Candidate in Educational Studies, and Hannah Keim, MA student in Second Language Education, have won the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (ACLA) Graduate Student Awards.

UUֱ�� honours its accomplished researchers in Education

UUֱ�� — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:38:59 +0000

Two members of the Faculty of Education were bestowed with prestigious internal recognition awards from UUֱ��, for outstanding scholarship and research excellence. This year's cohort includes Dean Vivek Venkatesh, receiving the James UUֱ�� Professor Award and Associate Professor Angelica Galante (Director, Pluriligual Lab) who is named as a William Dawson Scholar.

Excerpt from The UUֱ�� Reporter:

DISE Professor Philip Howard Receives the 2024 CATR Award for Best Book

UUֱ�� — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:55:36 +0000

The new book by DISE Professor Philip Howard – Performing Postracialism: Reflections on Antiblackness, Nation, and Education through Contemporary Blackface in Canada, has won the Canadian Association for Theatre Research’s (CATR) Ann Saddlemyer Award.

CBC News Covers 34 Cree Teacher Graduates from Community-Based Programs

UUֱ�� — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:22:22 +0000

On May 30th, 34 students from across Eeyou Istchee graduated from UUֱ��, in the first program that allows northern Quebec Cree to learn from home to become teachers in their own community.

CBC News featured an article covering the first time the Cree School Board and UUֱ�� offered programs that help students get their teaching licence from home.

OFNIE Receives $2 Million Gift to Support Indigenous-Led Teaching Programs

UUֱ�� — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:06:06 +0000

Thanks to a major gift of almost $2 million from the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF), the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) has a unique opportunity to improve its programs and grow its pool of expert First Nations and Inuit instructors.

OFNIE Receives $2 Million Gift to Support Indigenous-Led Teaching Programs

UUֱ�� — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:04:39 +0000

Thanks to a major gift of almost $2 million from the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF), OFNIE has a unique opportunity to improve its programs and grow its pool of expert First Nations and Inuit instructors.

Education Students Monica Shank Lauwo and Rasel Babu Earn Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

UUֱ�� — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:37:27 +0000

Two students from the Faculty of Education have earned a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship:

Rasel Babu, in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, received a UUֱ�� Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for their research topic: "Pedagogues' Readiness to Integrate Educational Technology for Teaching Language and Mathematics in Bangladeshi Secondary Classrooms."

Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship:

46 OFNIE Graduates in Summer 2024 Convocation

UUֱ�� — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:55:26 +0000

UUֱ��'s Faculty of Education and the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) had a total of 46 graduates (16 deferred from Summer 2023 and 30 in 2023-2024) participate in the Summer 2024 convocation in the following programs:

16 Graduates deferred from Summer 2023
1 Certificate in Aboriginal Literacy in Education from (Cree School Board)
15 Certificates in Education for First Nations and Inuit (Cree School Board)

30 Graduates in 2023-2024:

Education Professor Claudia Mitchell Receives $2.5 Million in Funding for Visual Arts-Based Initiative

UUֱ�� — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 14:40:32 +0000

Gender disparities persist glaringly around the globe with gender-based violence standing out as one of the most widespread human rights violations. Alarmingly, only 52 per cent of women who are married or in a union freely make their own decisions about sexual relations, contraceptive use, and health care. The United Nations has identified transforming harmful gender norms as a critical goal among its 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

Commentary by UUֱ�� researchers: GLOBALbookmarkInternational Students are Under Attack: What Can We Do?

UUֱ�� — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:16:26 +0000

Far from being welcomed with open arms, international students around the world are increasingly coming under both literal and metaphorical assault, write UUֱ�� Assistant Professor Emma Harden-Wolfson, PhD candidate and educator Shannon Hutcheson and Master's student Yvonne Zhang. Read more in their commentary for leading higher education news site University World News.

University World News

Welcome Message from the Dean / Message d'accueil du doyen

UUֱ�� — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:39:33 +0000

Dear members of the Faculty of Education Community,

I am so proud and excited to begin my term as your Dean (as of June 1, 2024). In this first message, I wanted to share with you my vision for our Faculty and tell you a bit about my background.

Chama Laassassy, M.A., Second Language Education, DISE, Awarded Pathy Fellowship

UUֱ�� — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:20:21 +0000

Chama Laassassy, M.A., Second Language Education, DISE, has been recognized for her leadership potential, strong ties with community, and innovative approaches to creating change, earning a Pathy Foundation Fellowship for 2024-2025.

Dr. Michael Lipset, DISE, Expanding a Creative Learning Model at SXSW EDU with 4 Learning

UUֱ�� — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:54:37 +0000

Working Nation, a US-based organization working to highlight career/technical education and vocational training across the country asked Dr. Michael Lipset (DISE) to appear on their video-based YouTube series highlighting workforce efforts in education.

Filmed at SXSW EDU 2024, the video was one of a series of guest spots they filmed throughout the week and covers 4 Learning’s approach to school change, which includes vocational training in the recording arts, business of music and media, and other creative endeavors.

Education's Award-Winning Academics this Convocation Season

UUֱ�� — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:08:25 +0000

Education’s inspiring mentors are being honoured for teaching and research this Convocation Season, with awards given by the Faculty of Education and UUֱ��:

Faculty of Education’s 2024 Award for Distinguished Teaching

Dr. Janine Metallic (Assistant Professor, DISE)

The Therapeutic Value of Clowning Around

UUֱ�� — Mon, 27 May 2024 20:35:30 +0000

UUֱ�� News recently published an article featuring Faculty of Education Alumni, Melissa Holland, BEd’98, the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Dr. Clown Foundation.

Her troupe of trained therapeutic clowns bring comfort, compassion, and plenty of laughs to hospitalized children and seniors in care facilities.

Faculty of Education's Kevin Ah-Sen and R. Nanre Nafziger Presented with Equity and Community Building Awards

UUֱ�� — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:56:33 +0000

On May 15, 2024, Thomson House Ballroom hosted the annual Equity and Community Building Awards Ceremony. The awards highlight the work of students, faculty, and staff committed to advancing equity, diversity and community building at UUֱ��.

Education Welcomes Two New McCall MacBain Scholars

UUֱ�� — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:09:31 +0000

Two members of the Fall 2024 cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars will begin their funded Master’s studies at UUֱ��’s Faculty of Education. Designed to encourage purposeful leadership, the scholarships enable students to pursue a funded degree while participating in mentorship, coaching, and a leadership development program.

Recipients were chosen based on exceptional character, community engagement, leadership potential, entrepreneurial spirit, academic strength, and intellectual curiosity.

Appointment of a New Education Dean

UUֱ�� — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:35:58 +0000

From the Office of the President:

(Français a suivre.)

Campus garden initiatives can help grow the next generation of environmental change-makers

UUֱ�� — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:50:40 +0000

(The following article was published by the UUֱ�� Newsroom.)

Researchers at UUֱ�� found student-led initiatives can transform students’ mindsets and develop their skills and confidence as agents of larger-scale change.

Congratulations to Iona Amico, Recipient of the Jackie Robinson Undergraduate Award

UUֱ�� — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:37:27 +0000

Iona Amico, a 3rd-year B.Ed. K/Elementary Student, recently received the Jackie Robinson Undergraduate Award from the Black Academic Scholarships Fund.

DISE Student Andrea Brazeau Continues to Lobby for Internet Services for Inuit Communities

UUֱ�� — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:31:43 +0000

UUֱ�� Student Urges Legault to Follow Up On High-speed Internet Campaign Promise

Inuit communities still lack access to high-speed internet

by Catey Fifield of The UUֱ�� Daily

Statement on Racial Injustice and Systemic Discrimination

UUֱ�� — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:56:06 +0000

Dear UUֱ�� DISE Community,

Video Première: Students on Ice 2019

UUֱ�� — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:30:13 +0000

OFNIE (Office of First Nations and Inuit Education) premièred a video emphasizing the revitalizing Inuit culture in the classroom and bringing teacher education outside! Watch this heartwarming video capturing the educational activities of the Students on Ice (SOI) Arctic Expedition 2019. Many thanks to OFNIE partner Kativik Ilisarniliriniq and to the Students on Ice Foundation for producing this important video.

DISE Releases Statement on Bill 21

UUֱ�� — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 15:21:12 +0000

Statement on Bill 21, An Act respecting the laicity of the State (Loi sur la laïcité de l’État), from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and the Internships and Student Affairs Office in the Faculty of Education at UUֱ�� adopted on April 18, 2019

Dr. Aziz Choudry in Manchester

UUֱ�� — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:11:51 +0000

DISE's Dr. Aziz Choudry will take part in a panel discussion presented by the Northern Police Monitoring Project in Manchester, UK.

Activists, State Surveillance and Political Policing

The panel discussion will take place Friday March 8, 2019.

Dr. Choudry will also be attending the launch of his new book: Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression on March 11, 2019 at the University of Westminster.

New book from DISE's Aziz Choudry, "Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression", is now available

UUֱ�� — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:37:46 +0000

A new publication edited by Aziz Choudry, Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression, is now available for purchase from Pluto Press.

UUֱ�� Sustainability Faculty Feature | Professor Blane Harvey

UUֱ�� — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:27:39 +0000

Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education discusses climate change knowledge and how to develop tomorrow’s sustainability leaders

Partnership between Cree School Board, UUֱ�� Faculty of Education featured in CBC article

UUֱ�� — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:08:35 +0000

"'A huge class': UUֱ�� graduates 40 students from Indigenous language and literacy program", gushed a recent CBC article by Susan Bell and Betsy Longchap, posted November 26, 2018.

The article centers on graduates of the certificate in Indigenous language and literacy education, a 30-credit program offered in the Cree communities over three years through a partnership between the Cree School Board and the Faculty of Education's Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE).

DISE student Fatima Ahmad featured in CBC article about proposed religious symbol ban

UUֱ�� — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:18:41 +0000

CBC recently published an article on the topic of Quebec's proposed ban on religious symbols for civil servants, including teachers: "Aspiring teacher may leave Quebec if CAQ follows through on religious symbol ban", by Benjamin Shingler and Jaela Bernstien.

DISE students and alumni establish Canadian non-profit

UUֱ�� — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:17:34 +0000

Students and alumni from UUֱ��'s Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) have co-founded the non-religious non-profit Centre for Civic Religious Literacy (CCRL) to promote civic religious literacy through educational programming.

New issue and call for papers from J-BILD (Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity)

UUֱ�� — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:58:12 +0000

J-BILD (Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity) have announced the publication of Volume 2(2), now available to read or download via their website.

DISE's Jayne Malenfant is La Presse "Personality of the Week"

UUֱ�� — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:10:47 +0000

Jayne Malenfant, doctoral student with our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, has been chosen as La Presse's Personality of the Week.

New book co-edited by Claudia Mitchell and Relebohile Moletsane: "Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speaking Back Through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence"

UUֱ�� — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:30:26 +0000

Claudia Mitchell has co-edited a new book:Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speaking Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence (Brill Publishers). The book is co-edited with Relebohile Moletsane of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The book is now available online through Brill.

"D’itinérante à doctorante": DISE doctoral student Jayne Malenfant featured in La Presse

UUֱ�� — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:58:09 +0000

Jayne Malenfant, doctoral student with our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, was featured in a recent La Presse article, "D’itinérante à doctorante", published October 26, and written by Suzanna Colpron.

Jayne Malenfant's doctoral research explores educational access for youth experiencing homelessness in the context of precarious labour markets, with a focus on youth activism and autonomy.

New book edited by Aziz Choudry, "Activists and the Surveillance State", now available for pre-order

UUֱ�� — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:11:59 +0000

Prof. Limin Jao speaks to CBC about REDress project honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women

UUֱ�� — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:31:51 +0000

Prof. Limin Jao, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, spoke with the CBC this week regarding the recent REDress exhibition held at Montreal's Trafalgar School for Girls.

International Cellphilm Festival: Submission Deadline: Monday, October 22, 2018.

UUֱ�� — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:57:54 +0000

How can your group use Cellphilm production to make community?

Prof. Naomi Nichols' blog, "Access to Justice for Youth in the Public Sphere," appears in Social & Legal Studies

UUֱ�� — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:10:15 +0000

A recent blog entry by Naomi Nichols, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, has appeared in Social & Legal Studies: An International Journal.

Please click here to read the blog, titled "Access to Justice for Youth in the Public Sphere".

Special themed issue of Education As Change journal co-edited by Prof. Aziz Choudry

UUֱ�� — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:38:28 +0000

A special themed issue of Education As Change journal, 22 (2) "Learning from, in, and with independent community and activist archives: The past in our present and future", is co-edited by Prof. Aziz Choudry (UUֱ�� - Department of Integrated Studies in Education) and Prof.

Maria Ezcurra's "Personal Belongings" at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

UUֱ�� — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:14:52 +0000

Personal Belongings, a piece made by Maria Ezcurra, Art Mediator with the Faculty of Education, in collaboration with Nuria Carton de Grammont, will be on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until June 23, 2019 as part of Connections: Our Artistic Diversity Dialogues with Our Collections.

UKZN Press publishes South African edition of Aziz Choudry's co-edited book, "History's Schools: Past Struggles and Present Realities"

UUֱ�� — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:28:46 +0000

A new South African edition of History's Schools: Past Struggles and Present Realities, co-edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally, has been published by University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

DISE's Jayne Malenfant featured in UUֱ�� News: "The barriers to education for homeless youth"

UUֱ�� — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:17:26 +0000

by Daniel McCabe, BA’89 | UUֱ�� Alumni News Magazine

Jayne Malenfant is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education and she has earned two of Canada’s most prestigious awards for graduate students – a Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. That all might come as a surprise to some of the people who knew her in high school – especially if they remember that Malenfant was expelled from the school.

OFNIE partners with Kahnawà:ke Education Center to launch Bachelor of Education program

UUֱ�� — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:33:21 +0000

The Mohawk community of Kahnawà:ke and UUֱ�� launched the first-ever Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) First Nations and Inuit Education (FNIE) program to be given in the community of Kahnawà:ke, on August 20.

It’s a labour of love between UUֱ��’s Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) in the Faculty of Education, and the Kahnawà:ke Education Centre (KEC). It’s also in line with UUֱ��’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education.

Combining traditional values with western science at the Eagle Spirit Science Futures Camp

UUֱ�� — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 18:09:12 +0000

Lisa Starr receives SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant in support of her collaborative project, NEXTschool: Innovative systems change for Québec High Schools

UUֱ�� — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:05:41 +0000

Recently, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announced the recipients of its latest round of Partnership Engage Grants, including a UUֱ��-led grant totalling around $25,000 over one year. One UUֱ�� researcher will also collaborate with a grant led by Ryerson University.

Prof. Ratna Ghosh, alumnus Patrick Elbaz honoured at Order of Excellence in Education in Quebec (OEE) ceremony

UUֱ�� — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:53:33 +0000

Ratna Ghosh, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, has been named as a Membre émérite of the Order of Excellence in Education in Quebec (OEE). Prof. Ghosh received the medal at a ceremony in Quebec City on Friday, June 15th.

The Perils of ‘Dropping Knowledge’: Aziz Choudry interviewed by Erika Massoud for CARFMS Notes from the Field

UUֱ�� — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:48:18 +0000

Aziz Choudry was interviewed by Erika Massoud for Notes From The Field, on behalf of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), for an article titled "The Perils of ‘Dropping Knowledge’".

DISE PhD student Michael Lipset selected for Jeanne Sauvé Public Leadership Program, starts new podcast called RUDE

UUֱ�� — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:07:54 +0000

Every two years, the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation runs a Public Leadership Program that brings together 12 Fellows from around the world to live and work with one another in Montreal.

Urban arts at James Lyng High: Melissa Proeitti, Jimmy Baptiste interviewed

UUֱ�� — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:38:40 +0000

DISE's Jayne Malenfant speaks to CBC's Michael Enright: "Why are so many young Canadians homeless?"

UUֱ�� — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 20:29:41 +0000

Jayne Malenfant, PhD student with our Department o

Montreal Gazette article praises partnership between DISE, James Lyng Urban Arts School: "High School Rocks!"

UUֱ�� — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 20:14:25 +0000

"It’s not often you’ll hear a teen saying, 'High school rocks!'," wrote Montreal Gazette reporter T'Cha Dunlevy this week, "But it’s hard to think of a better way to describe what’s going on at James Lyng." The feat

Three Education students to intern with ATTSVE in Ethiopia this summer

UUֱ�� — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 18:33:06 +0000

The ATTSVE project is pleased to announce their interns for the summer of 2018. For the first time each of the Faculty of Education's three departments are represented by the interns in the cohort.

Summer 2018 Teacher Training on Ice participants announced

UUֱ�� — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:36:38 +0000

This summer, six Inuit Faculty of Education student-teachers from Nunavik will have the opportunity to participate in Teacher Training on Ice, a two-week Arctic sea expedition up the Greenlandic coast, across Davis Strait, and around the northern edge of Baffin Island to Resolute Bay.

New Enriched Education Opportunity will augment B.Ed. and MATL student teachers’ competencies in Disability/Diverse Learning Needs and provide valuable resources

UUֱ�� — Mon, 28 May 2018 20:31:09 +0000

Commencing in late fall 2018, fifteen B.Ed. and MATL students are engaging in a funded Enriched Education Opportunity (EEO), the first of its kind in the Faculty of Education.

DISE's Fatima Ahmad featured on CBC The National's "Seeing Fatima: wearing the niqab when the law doesn’t want you to"

UUֱ�� — Tue, 22 May 2018 20:00:47 +0000

Fatima Ahmad, B.Ed student with our Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), was recently featured on CBC The National for a video titled "Seeing Fatima: wearing the niqab when the law doesn’t want you to".

Professor Ratna Ghosh receives Order of Montreal

UUֱ�� — Fri, 18 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Professor Ratna Ghosh, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, received the Order of Montreal at the city's annual ceremony yesterday.

Website launched for UUֱ�� Symposium on the University's Role in Supporting Indigenous Languages

UUֱ�� — Mon, 07 May 2018 20:03:25 +0000

Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally featured on FreshEd Podcast with Will Brehm

UUֱ�� — Mon, 07 May 2018 19:24:30 +0000

Aziz Choudry, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, and Salim Vally, co-editor with Dr. Choudry of the recent book Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools, joined Dr. Will Brehm this week as guests on FreshEd Podcast with Will Brehm. Please click here to listen to the podcast, "Radical histories and social movements".

Aziz Choudry & Salim Vally book chapter, "History's Schools: Past Struggles and Present Realities", available via South African History Online

UUֱ�� — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:30:05 +0000

The website of South African History Online has made the first chapter of Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally's recent co-edited book, Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools, available online at no cost.

Report | Jeanne Sauvé Foundation Fellows leadership encounter with Aziz Choudry

UUֱ�� — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 20:13:44 +0000

Jeanne Sauvé Foundation Fellow Semuhi Sinanoglu prepared a brief report for the foundation's website, summarizing a recent leadership encounter with Aziz Choudry of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education.

Carolyn E. Turner named recipient of the 2018 Cambridge English Language Assessment/ILTA Distinguished Achievement Award

UUֱ�� — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:01:56 +0000

Carolyn E. Turner has been named as the winner of the 2018 Cambridge English Language Assessment/ILTA Distinguished Achievement Award.

Carolyn Turner completed her PhD in Second Language Education at UUֱ�� in 1988 with a dissertation on the factor structure of cloze test performance in francophone university level students. She went on to work as Assistant then Associate Professor at UUֱ��'s Department of Integrated Studies in Education.

DISE's Allison Gonsalves, Dawn Wiseman present "Teaching Science in Homework Zone" pilot project at local schools

UUֱ�� — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:09:55 +0000

Allison Gonsalves and Dawn Wiseman, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, presented their Teaching Science in Homework Zone pilot project at two Montreal-area schools this year. These workshops, presented to elementary school students in an after-school setting, have the goal of showing science-based materials in an engaging and accessible fashion. The project recruited 14 volunteer students from Science Education with DISE and from the Faculty of Science to work together and design three workshops, each about 45 minutes in length.

Ratna Ghosh to receive CIES Honorary Fellows Award

UUֱ�� — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:24:01 +0000

Dr. Ratna Ghosh, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, will be named an Honorary Fellow of The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). The decision was announced at the 2018 Annual Meeting of CIES, held this week in Mexico City. The award will be conferred at next year’s conference.

Training the next generation of Indigenous teachers

UUֱ�� — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:41:05 +0000

Students and educators in the new B.Ed. program offered by the Faculty of Education in Listuguj.

by Katie Mullen [view original article on UUֱ�� Giving website]

OFNIE alumna Ulaayu Pilurtuut interviewed by Kativik Ilisarniliriniq

UUֱ�� — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 20:15:24 +0000

Kativik Ilisarniliriniq (Kativik School Board) recently posted an interview with Ulaayu Pilurtuut, who received a B.Ed for Certified Teachers in December 2017 through the Teacher Training program offered by Kativik Ilisarniliriniq in conjunction with our Office of First Nations and Inuit Educ

Prof. Ghosh and PEER team launch new website

UUֱ�� — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:01:57 +0000

Preventing Extremism through Educational Research (PEER), a research team headed by Professor Ratna Ghosh of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), have launched a new website at www.mcgill.ca/peer.

Aziz Choudry publishes review of Irene Watson's "Indigenous People as Subjects of International Law"

UUֱ�� — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:57:47 +0000

Aziz Choudry has published a review of Irene Watson's recent book Indigenous People as Subjects of International Law (Routledge, 2017).

Cree School Board Chairperson, Education alumna Kathleen J. Wootton looks back at 2017, and her hopes for 2018

UUֱ�� — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:36:59 +0000

Kathleen J. Wootton (BEd (Elem) 1985, MA (Ed. Leadership) 2002), Chairperson of the Cree School Board, was among four Cree leaders featured in a recent article written by The Nation Magazine's Amy German.

DISE’s Lucia De Luca contributes article to John Dewey Society’s Journal of School & Society

UUֱ�� — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:17:06 +0000

Lucia De Luca, second-year student with our Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), has published an article with the John Dewey Society’s Journal of School & Society.

DISE doctoral students win prize at IVSA conference

UUֱ�� — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 20:56:40 +0000

Congratulations to Hani Sadati and Milka Nyariro, doctoral students in the Department of Integrated Studies for Education, for their award-winning poster “Picturing Change Through Photovoice: Participatory Evaluation of a

Artist-in-Residence invites students, faculty to Wednesday workshops

UUֱ�� — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:15:07 +0000

Maria Ezcurra, Artist-in-Residence with the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), invites faculty and students to weekly art workshops each Wednesday.

Faculty and students are invited to the library space on the 1st floor, between 10 am and 3 pm, to develop art projects. Art materials will be provided. Participants are encouraged to donate a piece of unused clothing for a series of textile portraits.

Anne Ashton's Tiburón installation to open at OBORO

UUֱ�� — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:57:16 +0000

Montreal's OBORO gallery presents Anne Ashton's Tiburón from September 12, 2015 until October 17. Anne Ashton currently teaches painting with the Faculty of Education.

The Tiburón installation "deals with the great white shark," reveals OBORO's promotion for the exhibit, "in danger of extinction due to human impact. The artist's intention is not to romanticize or demonize this animal, but rather to emphasize the uniqueness, as well as the primeval and mystifying beauty of this rare species..."

Annual Pow-Wow and Indigenous Awareness Week, September 2015

UUֱ�� — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:29:56 +0000

During the month of September UUֱ�� will host the 14th Annual Pow-Wow (September 18) and the 5th annual Indigenous Awareness Week (September 21-25). UUֱ��’s Indigenous Awareness Week is designed to increase awareness at UUֱ�� about Indigenous peoples in Canada. The week honours the many Indigenous cultures across the country including First Nations, Métis and Inuit.

Multiliteracies Lab for Faculty of Education

UUֱ�� — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:30:04 +0000

UUֱ��'s Faculty of Education has received funding to create a dedicated laboratory space that will serve as a hub for multiliteracies practices in the Education building.

In Memoriam: Agus Nuryatno (1970-2014)

UUֱ�� — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:48:16 +0000

The Faculty of Education mourns the loss of Agus Nuryatno, alumnus of our Department of Integrated Studies, who passed away suddenly on December 16 of 2014. Agus Nuryatno, who is survived by his wife Ani Dama Swari and children Fariz, Angga and Putri, was teaching and researching in Japan, as a Visiting Scholar, at the time of his tragic passing.

DISE's Amélie Lemieux receives SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Award

UUֱ�� — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:12:42 +0000

Congratulations to UUֱ�� Department of Integrated Studies in Education PhD student Amélie Lemieux on being awarded a prestigious Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Fellowship.

Amélie’s research explores the ways in which high school students’ reading practices evolve through an investigation of arts-related meaning making strategies.

Scarf Ceremony at First Peoples' House

UUֱ�� — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:33:51 +0000

On October 28th, 2014, First Peoples' House held a celebration to honor the Fall Graduates. It was a Scarf Ceremony followed by a dinner. It was held at the UUֱ�� Faculty Club. Jim Howden, the Director, and Tina Schiavone, one of the Student Advisors attended. It is always a special occasion sharing this moment with the graduates, members of their community as well as their partners and families.

First Nations and Inuit Education is proud to announce that there are five graduates this Fall.

DISE Department Independent Awards Winners

UUֱ�� — Wed, 07 May 2014 14:25:37 +0000

The Department of Integrated Studies in Education would like to congratulate the 2014 winners of the Department Independent Awards (the “Indies”)

Amy Cole, Dominic Manuel, Lerona Lewis, Sarah Mostafa-Kamel , Rosalind Hampton, Desirée Rochat, and Manuel Salamanca Cardona.

For full details, please see "The Indies."

DISE PhD grad Miranda Campbell short-listed for the 16th annual Donner Prize

UUֱ�� — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:09:54 +0000

Miranda Campbell, DISE PhD 2010 graduate and now professor of English at Dawson College has been short-listed for the prestigious 16th Annual Donner Prize. Her book "Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy is one of five books vying for the 2013/2014 Donner Prize, the award for the best public policy book by a Canadian. Dr. Campbell's book was based on her dissertation which was supervised by Dr. Bronwen Low.

DISE Welcomes New Faculty Member Dr. Lisa Starr

UUֱ�� — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:12:15 +0000

The Department is excited to welcome Dr. Lisa Starr to UUֱ��. Dr. Starr moved to DISE from the University of Victoria, and is going to be strongly focused on teacher education. She is experienced in this area and completed her PhD on the topic, so will be well-placed to help us think about how to evolve our programs.

Faculty of Education undergrad Jennifer Looi recognized with prestigious international award

UUֱ�� — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:48:01 +0000

Congratulations to Faculty of Education undergraduate student Jennifer Looi for her outstanding achievement in the Teacher Education category at The Undergraduate Awards 2013 Global Summit. Jennifer, who is in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), was invited to Dublin earlier this month to accept her award, and meet similarly accomplished students from around the world to exchange ideas.

Making an impression: Inuit artist and DISE student's art to be featured on five-dollar coin

UUֱ�� — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:52:36 +0000

UUֱ��’s First Nations and Inuit Education (FNIE) celebrates Nunavik artist Ulaayu Pilurtuut, whose design “Mother and Baby Ice Fishing” has been selected by the Royal Canadian Mint to be featured on the new five-dollar silver coin. To find out more, visit http://ow.ly/n8GrU. Ulaayu is a graduate of the Certificate in Education for First Nations and Inuit program and is currently working towards her BEd for Certified Teachers.

How to change the world through sports? Lysanne Rivard, DISE Ph.D. candidate, explains in three minutes

UUֱ�� — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:17:35 +0000

Girls, Sport and Physical Education in the Global South, a presentation by Ph.D. candidate Lysanne Rivard

Faculty of Education Ph.D. candidate Lysanne Rivard, from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE), researches the quality of girls’ physical education programming in the global south. Using photovoice and the participatory process, she brings forward girls’ voices to key policy makers in Rwanda.

Dr. Aziz Choudry of DISE co-edits new book entitled "NGOization"

UUֱ�� — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:10:55 +0000

Edited by Dr. Aziz Choudry and Dr. Dip Kapoor, NGOization - Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects, examines the growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) through a collection of richly detailed international and local case studies.

DISE's Dale Boyle PhD a winner in International Songwriting Competition

UUֱ�� — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:44:54 +0000

The Faculty of Education's arts-based education researcher Dale Boyle PhD has won second place in the Americana category of the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) for his song “You Might Come Around” from his recent album "Throwback".

Dr. Beverly Baker and Dr. Aziz Choudry of DISE recently awarded SSHRC Connection Grants

UUֱ�� — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:13:23 +0000

Dr. Baker and Dr. Choudry were recently awarded SSHRC Connection Grants to fund knowledge mobilization activities, aiming to facilitate the multidirectional flow of knowledge between universities and the community.

The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal awarded to four members of the Faculty of Education community

UUֱ�� — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:10:43 +0000

This medal is awarded to citizens or permanent residents of Canada who have made significant contributions to Canada or for an outstanding achievement abroad that has brought great credit to Canada.

In order of medal presentation our four Faculty of Education recipients are:

1. Prof. Ratna Ghosh, DISE, medal presentation June 2012

2. LCol Michael Canavan, DISE, medal presentation August 2012

3. Prof. Shaheen Shariff, DISE, medal presentation November 2012

4. Prof. Peter McNally, SIS, medal presentation February 2013