• Advancing Black Inclusion and Addressing Anti-Black Racism in the Faculty of Education: A Reflection on Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities 

  Barrett, Sarah; Dove, Nicola (2022-06-09)

  This report, written by the Special Advisor to the Dean on Black Inclusion and Anti-Black Racism (2021-2022) and Research Assistant to the Special Advisor provides a snapshot of the ways in which our Faculty has worked to ...

• Increasing the Representation of Black Faculty Members at York: Report and Recommendations by the Joint Subcommittee of Employment Equity and Inclusivity. 

  Barrett, Sarah; Dua, Ena; Fallah, Mazyar; Idahosa, Pablo; James, Carl; Pillai Riddell, Rebecca (2020-01-09)

  The Joint Sub-Committee on Employment Equity and Inclusivity has been charged with providing recommendations to the JCOAA on how best to increase the number of Black faculty members at York University. As an outcome of the ...

• Evolution of new teachers' beliefs about teaching STSE: Report to school boards 

  Barrett, Sarah Elizabeth (2013-08)

  This longitudinal multi‐case study followed four new science teachers over the course of five years. Its purpose was to examine the ways in which new science teachers integrate science‐technology‐society-environment (STSE) ...

• School and community engaged education (S.C.E.E.): Final Report 

  James, Carl; Barrett, Sarah Elizabeth; Barkaoui, Khaled; Dippo, Don; Ford, Donna; Gormley, Louise (2014-09)

  Situated within a collaborative approach for supporting schools, the School and Community Engaged Education (SCEE) project was a three-year university/school board partnership (2008-2011, culminating in the TDSB/YCEC 2012 ...

• Emergency Distance Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Final Report 

  Barrett, Sarah Elizabeth (2021-01-31)

  The report summarizes the findings of a mixed methods study of teachers’ experiences transitioning from face-to-face to emergency distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic school closures in Ontario Canada. Teachers ...

• Social Implications of Adolescents Engaging with Racist Trends on TikTok 

  Liu, Helen (The Media Education Research Journal, 2021)

  This article examines a racist TikTok trend titled “How’s My Form” in order to understand the possible motivations behind adolescent users and their engagement with the social networking platform, TikTok. Guided by uses ...

• A whole-institution approach towards sustainability: a crucial aspect of higher education’s individual and collective engagement with the SDGs and beyond 

  Kohl, Katrin; Isabel, Toman; Abidin Bin Sanusi, Zainal; Abdul Razak, Dzulkifli; Hopkins, Charles; Barthand, Matthias; Michelsen, Gerd; Dlouha, Jana (Emerald Insight, 2021-10)

  Purpose – Higher education and its leadership are not yet using their potential impact for a sustainable future. This paper aims to focus on UN developments and the long history of university involvement in sustainability ...

• Tips for making Zoom accessible for students who are deaf or hard of hearing 

  Millett, Pam (2021)

  On the left side of the screen, you will find the video "Tips for making Zoom accessible for students who are deaf or hard of hearing" as well as the powerpoint slides

• Tips for using Zoom with a sign language interpreter 

  Millett, Pam (2021)

  On the left hand side of the screen you will find the video and powerpoint slides for "Tips for using Zoom with a sign language interpreter"

• Overview of challenges in online learning for students who are deaf or hard of hearing 

  Millett, Pam (2021)

• Educating from Difference: Black Cultural Art Educators' Perspectives with Culturally Responsive Teaching 

  Murray, Collette (2020-08)

  The 2009 Ontario Ministry of Education’s Equity Action plan called for school boards to implement culturally relevant teaching in their strategic plans. As senior administration and educators work towards inclusive classrooms, ...

• Early adolescents' perceptions and attitudes towards gender representations in video games 

  Liu, Helen (Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2020-07-21)

  This study investigated adolescents’ perception and attitudes towards gender representation in video game covers, and the degree to which these depictions may influence their notions on gender and identification. Seventeen ...

• How Armenian Syrian Millennial Refugees use Social Media to Facilitate Integration into Canadian Society 

  Racco, Alyssa (2018-07)

  Using a conceptual framework that builds on the constructs of community of practice (Homles & Meyerhoff, 1990; Lave & Wenger 1998; Wenger 1998) and superdiversity (Blommaert, 2013; Blommaert & Rampton, 2012; Jørgensen, ...

• Creating spaces: testimonio, impossible knowledge, and academe 

  Haig-Brown, Celia (International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2003)

  This article examines what it means to engage seriously with speech and writing events, such as testimonio, articulated by people whose theoretical base lies primarily in experience outside the walls of academe. I argue ...

• “Returning the Dues:” Community and the Personal in a University-School Partnership 

  Haig-Brown, Celia; James, Carl E. (Urban Education, 2001-03-01)

  This study uses interviews to explore students’ perspectives of a university path program, one initiative of a university-school partnership. Responses show that the abstraction of the program lives in concrete and personal ...

• Continuing Collaborative Knowledge Production: Knowing when, where, how and why 

  Haig-Brown, Celia (Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2001)

  This paper questions assumptions about conducting research based in programs developed to serve communities which have traditionally had restricted access to the university. Grounded in an off-campus Master of Education ...

• Culturally Responsive Teaching: Stories of a First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Cross-Curricular Infusion in Teacher Education 

  Vetter, Diane; Haig-Brown, Celia; Blimkie, Melissa (Leading English Education and Resource Network (LEARN), 2014-08-01)

  This paper explores how the work of the infusion of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit traditions, perspectives, and histories at York University’s Faculty of Education Barrie Site unfolds in practice. It also highlights the ...

• Shifting Perspectives and Practices: Teacher Candidates’ Experiences of a First Nation, Métis and Inuit Infusion in Mainstream Teacher Education 

  Blimkie, Melissa; Vetter, Diane; Haig-Brown, Celia (Brock University, Faculty of Education, 2014-10-09)

  This exploratory case study shares teacher candidates’ perspectives and experiences of an Aboriginal infusion at York University’s Faculty of Education field site in Barrie, Ontario. For this initiative, Aboriginal content ...

• Toward a Pedagogy of Land: The Urban Context 

  Styres, Sandra; Haig-Brown, Celia; Blimkie, Melissa (Canadian Society for the Study of Education, 2013)

  This article examines the possibilities when shifting what we have come to call a pedagogy of Land from rural to urban contexts. The authors explore some persisting questions around what it means to bring a pedagogy of ...

• Indigenous Thought, Appropriation and Non-Aboriginal People 

  Haig-Brown, Celia (Canadian Society for the Study of Education, 2010-01-04)

  In this article, I explore the question, “What is the relationship between appropriation of Indigenous thought and what might be called ‘deep learning’ based in years of education in Indigenous contexts.” Beginning with ...

View more