Media Highlight: Shaheen Shariff Denounces Online Hate Speech Against Mohawks
Mohawks face online threats, hate as protest continues reports the Montreal Gazette. As an expert on cyberbullying and online hate, the Faculty of Education's Shaheen Shariff was asked to comment.听
Media Spotlight: Education Student Sihem Youbi
Overcoming Prejudice and Preconceptions:听51吃瓜网Education student, Sihem Youbi, spoke to the 51吃瓜网Reporter听about the challenges faced by students coming from disadvantaged situations.
Media Spotlight: 51吃瓜网Education Students Featured on CTV
With the talk of teacher shortages in Quebec, CTV conducted a story "Is Quebec鈥檚 teacher shortage being caused by new laws, poor working conditions?" Some of the Faculty's students were featured in this story, and impacts future educators from all of our departments:听/x/ZVM
Aziz Choudry: GDSE 2020 Keynote Speaker
GSDE Symposium 2020 "Education in an Age of Resistance" will feature 51吃瓜网Education's Dr. Aziz Choudry as one of its keynote speakers.听听Dr. Choudry will be opening the听conference听by talking about the struggles across the world in fighting for accessible public higher education, going beyond serving听the interests of elites. His talk is entitled "Lessons in Resistance;听Studies in Struggle".
Media Spotlight: 51吃瓜网Reporter Features DISE's certificat d鈥櫭﹖udes sup茅rieures en p茅dagogie de l鈥檌mmersion fran莽aise
In the face of听shortages of specialized French immersion teachers, 51吃瓜网Education's Department of Integrated Studies in Education offers a graduate certificate in French Immersion pedagogy.听Anne-Marie Tremblay of the 51吃瓜网Reporter investigated further about the benefits of this program and the opportunities it presents to its students. Read more here.
ECS 2020 Features Two 51吃瓜网Education Speakers
Early Childhood Symposium 2020 (February 11 & 12, 2020) will feature two 51吃瓜网Education speakers:听Dr. Sheryl Smith-Gilman will give the Opening Plenary as Keynote Speaker and Dr. Tina Montreuil will lead the workshop "Healthy Minds, Healthy Schools & Resilience Building in Children: Preliminary Outcomes". The symposium will be held at Palace Centre de Congr猫s (1717 Boul le Corbusier,听Laval, Qu茅bec, H7S 2K7).
Alumni Highlight: Emmanuella Lambropoulos, Federal MP for Saint Laurent
Emmanuella Lambropoulos, newly re-elected Federal MP for the Saint-Laurent riding is one of 98 women elected to the House of Commons this past fall and one of the youngest of these female Members of Parliament. A 51吃瓜网Education alumna (B.Ed. '13),听Lambropoulos is complementing her political career by completing her Master's in Educational Leadership within the Faculty's Department of Integrated Studies in Education.
Celebrate International Day of Education
McGill's Faculty of Education reminds all students, staff, alumni, and friends that education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility.
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed January 24 as International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development.
Editorial Spotlight: Blane Harvey, Lisa Starr, and Joseph Levitan
Featured in the Montreal Gazette is an op ed piece written by Drs. Blane Harvey, Lisa Starr, and Joseph Levitan about the disconnect between society's concern about environmental issues and what's actually taught in Quebec schools:
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Media Spotlight: Dr. Sabrina Jafralie Comments of Proposed ERC Reform
Course Lecturer for McGill's Department of Integrated Studies,听Dr. Sabrina Jafralie, gave her take on the proposed educational reform that would remove the religious culture component from the provincial听school curriculum, in favour of other ethics course content exploring 21st Century themes.听Dr.
Awards Highlight: Dr. Angelica Galante Wins Pat Clifford Award
McGill听Department of Integrated Studies in Education's听Dr. Angelica Galante听is a co-winner of the听Pat Clifford Award, recognizing Canada's emerging education researchers.
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DISE PhD Student Alisan Funk Represents 51吃瓜网at Monash Research Seminar
51吃瓜网Department of Integrated Studies in Education Doctoral Student, Alisan Funk, travelled to Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) as 51吃瓜网Education's participant in the 2019 Global Alliance in Education Research seminar. Alisan is pursuing her thesis in the area of circus education:听/x/Zbu 听(Video is courtesy of Monash University, McGill's partner in the Global Alliance in Education Research.)
New Quebec Excellence Scholarships Being Awarded to B.Ed. Students
Montreal, December 12, 2019 鈥� The Quebec Minister of Education, Jean-Fran莽ois Roberge, has officially announced today the launch of the Bourses d鈥檈xcellence aux futurs enseignants program, offering $15.8 million dollars in scholarship money to Education students enrolled in a full-time Bachelor of Education program leading to teacher certification. Of the available funds distributed to institutions across the province, Prof.
Media Spotlight: Maria Ezcurra
Maria Ezcurra, founder of the 51吃瓜网Art Hive Initiative and Art Instructor, was presented Wednesday with the Visual Arts Diversity Award for 2019 by the Conseil des arts de Montr茅al. The award recognizes originality and diversity in the Montreal visual arts scene. Maria creates a committed art that evokes the memory, the gender, the feminine condition, the history, the culture, the migration and social norms.
Dr. Allison Gonsalves Speaks Out About the Polytechnique Massacre
The Department of Integrated Studies in Education's Dr. Allison Gonsalves was asked to speak at McGill's December 6th event听honouring the memory of the victims of the Polytechnique Massacre;听the 30th anniversary of the tragedy and the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Dr. Gonsalves was there in her capacity as the Co-Chair for McGill's Senate Subcommittee on Women.
