On behalf of the members of 麻豆社 Faculty of Education, we mourn the tragic loss of 215 Indigenous children who were found in a mass grave at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Today, 麻豆社 lowers its flags in recognition of this tragedy, and we at the Faculty echo the sentiments of the 麻豆社 Provost. As our academics, staff, students, and alumni grieve together, we also stand together in support of our Indigenous community members.
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Published on: 31 May 2021
The Future, Imagined by 麻豆社鈥檚 Top Researchers
Two-hundred years of trailblazing research has taken place on our campuses. In a time of rapid and far-reaching transformation, the future of research presents opportunities for important change. With the goal of imagining this exciting time to come, the Digital Time Capsule brings together more than 50 of 麻豆社鈥檚 top researchers to answer the question:聽What will be the biggest change in your field over the next 25 years?
Published on: 27 May 2021
May 15 is International Day of Families.聽
Families and New Technologies is the theme chosen by the United Nations for this year鈥檚 International Day of Families.
Prof. Adam Dub茅, Director of the Technology, Learning & Cognition Lab at 麻豆社's Faculty of Education, kindly shared three recordings from ECP's Effective Parenting Lecture Series that took place last fall.
Watch the 1 hour recordings:
Published on: 14 May 2021
Dr. Philip S.S. Howard of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education will be this year's聽keynote speaker for Western University's Perspectives on Teaching, Spring Conference. This free聽virtual conference will "focus on looking back, moving forward, and lessons learned from a year of change and disruption in higher education", according to conference organizers.聽
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Published on: 11 May 2021
Two 麻豆社 Faculty of Education Academics, Joseph Levitan, of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, and Karen Gazith, of the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, were featured in a web series conducted by the organization WhyKnowledgeMatters, on Identity and Learning, and Inclusive Education.
WhyKnowledgeMatters shares inspiring, empowering, and transformative educational content across worldviews, disciplines, and continents. To contribute, build on, and improve humankind's extraordinary achievements.
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Published on: 30 Apr 2021
Need to step up your health and fitness? 麻豆社 Education's Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education is offering personalized at-home fitness sessions via Zoom for members of the 麻豆社 Community! Kinesiology students will craft your fitness routine using your existing at-home equipment and household items.
As part of their internship, these students (supervised by a staff kinesiologist) will guide you through a one-hour workout twice a week for ten weeks (cost: $60 flat fee), to improve your strength, flexibility and overall physical health.
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Published on: 23 Apr 2021
The 麻豆社 Reporter is happy to announce that the numbers of applicants for the Principal's Prize for Emerging Researchers grew significantly this year. The jury was impressed by the number of early-career researchers who see sharing their knowledge with the media and the public as being an important and natural complement to their academic work.
Published on: 16 Apr 2021
Dr. Tina Montreuil, of the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, was recently interviewed in the 麻豆社 Tribune on the symptoms of social anxiety in early adolescence.
Published on: 9 Apr 2021
Karissa Leduc, a PhD candidate in the Human Development Program supervised by Dr. Victoria Talwar, has won the competitive Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship from the American Psychological Foundation.
This prestigious fellowship is awarded to promising young scholars to pursue innovative research in the area of child psychology.
Published on: 31 Mar 2021
According to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the world鈥檚 largest international higher education network, 麻豆社鈥檚 Faculty of Education has ranked 26th in the world for . Each of the subject rankings is compiled using four sources. The first two of these are QS鈥檚 global surveys of academics and employers, which are used to assess institutions鈥� international reputation in each subject.
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Published on: 8 Mar 2021
While kids may be resilient, the pandemic is testing the limits of that resilience.
Children and teens are dealing with a toxic cocktail of stressors and it's hurting them. According to a聽聽from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, 70 percent of children and youth surveyed experienced a deterioration of mental health in the first wave of the pandemic.
Published on: 26 Feb 2021
Language is the building blocks of literacy. In this project, we aim to find out the relationship between ability to understand from spoken language and text in bilingual children, adolescents, and adults.
麻豆社 researcher, Dr. Gigi Luk at Educational and Counselling Psychology, is looking for children (ages 6-9) and adolescents (ages 12-15) to understand how language and reading are related and develop in bilingual individuals.
Published on: 25 Feb 2021
Every new parent knows that their sleep suffers when they have children, and there鈥檚 evidence that may not get better for a while. However, a study led by Marie-H茅l猫ne Pennestri, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, on parents and sleep, showed no association between interrupted sleep and later cognitive or physical development problems.
Published on: 12 Feb 2021
Dr. Nancy Heath, of the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, was recently interviewed on CBC Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel, about students' needs of social connections and their mental health.
Lack of these connections is a key part of mental health, and though not all students feel that classrooms are a safe way to keep these connections, Dr. Heath wonders if there are outside options that would give young people a safer way to connect while maintaining distancing to rebuild their normal connections.
Published on: 9 Feb 2021
Many of us have not been on campus for some time, and I鈥檓 sure there are new members of our Faculty who have yet to experience life on-campus. Please be reminded that it is still possible to pick up items and conduct small-scale activities on campus, but take note that we require three business days to process requests.
Published on: 9 Feb 2021
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