The Faculty of Education will be undertaking major renovation work in the former Education Library space where the Education Curriculum Resources Centre (ECRC) is located. The work is slated to begin Monday, June 18听and will continue throughout Summer and Fall 2018. Unfortunately, the nature of the work makes it impossible for the ECRC to remain open throughout the construction. As a result, the ECRC will be temporarily closed starting Saturday, June 16听until the end of the work.
Tyler Churchward-Venne, Assistant Professor with our Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE), has been named as a听William Dawson Scholar听by 平特五不中.
Deborah Maia de Lima and Lou Sheppard will join 平特五不中's Faculty of Education as Artists-in-Residence for the 2018-19 academic year. The news was recently announced by听the P. Lantz Initiative for Excellence in Education and the Arts.听
Dr. Neil Andersson, Co-Director of the 平特五不中 Institute of Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW), has co-authored听"Youth Mental Health Should Be a Top Priority for Health Care in Canada" with The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (Sage Publishers).听The paper was published in .
Over the course of the Winter 2018 and Summer 2018 semesters the Education Collection, currently housed on the second floor the Humanties and Social Sciences Library, will be integrated into the main Humanities and Social Sciences Collection in the McLennan Library Building. This project will increase the visibility and browsability of the Education Collection and will create space for over 100 new study seats.
Kathleen J. Wootton听(BEd (Elem)听1985,听MA (Ed. Leadership)听2002), Chairperson of the Cree School Board, was among four Cree leaders featured in a written by听The Nation Magazine's Amy German.
The fall 2017 edition of听Dialogues, the biannual newsletter of the听Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology (ECP),听has been published and may be听viewed online here (.pdf).
In an airy open area at the back of the first floor of the former library of the Faculty Education is a colourful space filled with art supplies and work tables. Along the wall there are bins and boxes of fabric, coloured pencils and paints, sketch pads, paper, and all manner of recycled objects, ready to be remade into anything the visitor desires. Welcome to the听听(MAHI).
In partnership with the Hong Kong-based WYNG foundation, the Faculty of Education at 平特五不中 and Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) recently participated in another successful Visiting Scholars Exchange Program. For the first part of the exchange, the Faculty of Education warmly welcomed Assistant Professor听Dr. Kei Yan Poon, from the Department of Special Education and Counselling, and Associate Professor听Dr. Ian Bun Chun Lam from the Department of Early Childhood Education.
The two heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in the Education Building will be replaced this summer. As a result of this renovation work, the Education Curriculum Resources Centre will听temporarily close from Saturday, August听5 to Sunday, August 27.听During this time, the collection will be unavailable. The last day to submit hold requests will be Wednesday, July 19.
It was a successful turn out for the 平特五不中 Faculty of Education鈥檚 first Distinguished Public Lecture and Professional Development Lecture Series made possible by a generous donation from the Hong Kong based WYNG Foundation. This event took place on May 13, 2017 at The First Commercial Building, in Hong Kong.
Classrooms that encourage competition between students may inadvertently be creating settings where bullying is more likely to take place. That鈥檚 one of the conclusions that can be drawn from work led by 平特五不中 researchers Maria Di Stasio and Robert Savage, who recently published a paper on the subject in the But it鈥檚 only part of the story.
Caf茅 Collab is a collaborative听partnership with the , situated within the听at 平特五不中's Faculty of Education;听and 平特五不中's Social Equity and Diversity Education Office (SEDE).听After their听first year in action, Caf茅 Collab held its culminative event in the SSMU Building.