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.
Media Spotlight on ECP's "Game Over" Event With Guest Speaker Cam Adair
The upcoming event, Game Over: When Video Games Become a Problem featuring guest speaker Cam Adair, is getting some media buzz. Co-hosted by McGill Education's Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and the Montreal non-profit, Agence Ometz, Game Over is a one-night only free parenting masterclass that discusses gaming addiction.
Media Spotlight: Education Student Sihem Youbi
Overcoming Prejudice and Preconceptions: McGill Education student, Sihem Youbi, spoke to the McGill Reporter about the challenges faced by students coming from disadvantaged situations.
Media Spotlight: McGill Education Students Featured on CTV
With the talk of teacher shortages in Quebec, CTV conducted a story "Is Quebec’s 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: https://www.mcgill.ca/x/ZVM
Aziz Choudry: GDSE 2020 Keynote Speaker
GSDE Symposium 2020 "Education in an Age of Resistance" will feature McGill Education's Dr. Aziz Choudry as one of its keynote speakers. Dr. Choudry will be opening the conference by talking about the struggles across the world in fighting for accessible public higher education, going beyond serving the interests of elites. His talk is entitled "Lessons in Resistance; Studies in Struggle".
Media Spotlight: McGill Reporter Features DISE's certificat d’études supérieures en pédagogie de l’immersion française
In the face of shortages of specialized French immersion teachers, McGill Education's Department of Integrated Studies in Education offers a graduate certificate in French Immersion pedagogy. Anne-Marie Tremblay of the McGill Reporter investigated further about the benefits of this program and the opportunities it presents to its students. Read more here.
ECS 2020 Features Two McGill Education Speakers
Early Childhood Symposium 2020 (February 11 & 12, 2020) will feature two McGill Education speakers: 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 Congrès (1717 Boul le Corbusier, Laval, Québec, 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 McGill Education alumna (B.Ed. '13), 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.
Matt Slopecki Receives Award from GESTE
Congratulations to Matt Slopecki who received an award from GESTE (CIHR Team on Gender considerations in knowledge transfer interventions) for “Modelling an approach to gender-conscious participatory action-oriented research and knowledge transfer favouring equality, equity and occupational/environmental health”.
Emma Balazs Receives a 2020 FRQSC Award
Congratulation to Emma Balazs on receiving a 2020 FRQSC Award for her research project titled Sparring with Femininity: An Urban Ethnography of Mixed Gender/Martial Arts Youth Programming.
Hariata Tai Rakena Awarded Teionkwaienawa:kon Masters Scholarship
Congratulations to Hariata Tai Rakena, one of the successful recipients of the Teionkwaienawa:kon Masters Scholarships, which is awarded by the Quebec Indigenous Mentorship Network (Teionkwaienawa:kon). The network is dedicated to the support and mentorship of Indigenous students engaged with research related to Indigenous health.
Hariata's Master's Research Project: Exploring an Onkweho'n:we approach to physical activity health resource development with Kahnawakehró:non.
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:
