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Redéfinir ensemble l’espace inclusif en éducation, en milieu minoritaire francophone: pistes de réflexion, par Marie-Noël Shank, pour le cours EDU5752 Enseignement en milieu minoritaire Dans son article sur l’assimilation, l’intégration et l’inclusion[1], Dalley (2015) tente d’élaguer ce « nouveau » vivre ensemble que nous connaissons dans...
Accepted: Education created for students, by students a final paper written by Emily Carter for EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education Upon cursory glance, the motion picture Accepted seems to be just another feel-good teen comedy. While this may be an...
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PUZZLE LIKE ‘O CANADA’? by Ashley Reaume for EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education Official ‘O Canada’ Lyrics English version O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we...
Including Thomas Moore in the Curriculum by Stephanie McCann for EDU 5101 Canada is often portrayed as a very welcoming and hospitable country with an extremely noble and honorable past. However, what...
Us vs. them: Deconstructing dominant narratives of otherness by Amina Jama for EDU 5101 Perspectives In Education Throughout our lives, we interact with people from various cultures, racial and ethnic backgrounds, belief systems, and age groups. Part...
The Racialized Formation of Canada: Coming to Terms with this Difficult Knowledge By Myka Caluyong For EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education Timothy Stanley (2016) defines racism as “the active process of structuring social relations around racialized differences” that is purposefully done...
The very thought of education, indeed! A Reader Response by Heather Romanow for EDU 5101 In “The Very Thought of Education,” Deborah Britzman (2009) suggests that psychoanalysis can be used to provide insight into the...
Colonizing for decolonization: implications of textbook selection for Indigenous Community Service Work Education in Career Colleges by Lindsey Kirby-McGregor for EDU 5101 For most of my educational experience I was exposed to the largely unobstructed, high quality teaching of well-renowned high school...
Beyond Bunnies: Poetry, Psychoanalysis, and Pedagogical Potential A Reader Response by Kelly Quinn For EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education Mirroring Farley (2015), I’m beginning with a confession. At the risk of copying Winnicott’s patient with an overly mimetic attachment...
Inuit learning in the traditional western classroom: Does it work? Reader Response by Joseph Georgekish for EDU 5101 Inuit education has seen a recent paradigm shift. Since the 1970s the Inuit of Nunavut have taken a self-governance role...
Caught Between Integration and Preservation a Reader Response by Stephanie McCann The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (v 2) (2015) puts forth the following eminent question...
Financial Literacy, is it for Everyone? a Reader Response by Krista Hembruff for EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education Financial Literacy, is it for Everyone? Many of us are not comfortable making financial decisions. Some of us often feel that...
Making something out of nothing: A response to Flinders, Noddings and Thornton’s (1986) article on the null curriculum by Christina Sguazzin for EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education Making Something Out of Nothing Is there value in investigating what is not taught in the school curriculum? What do...
“Quiet! What do you think you’re all playing at?!”: Marginalization, epistemological racism and unjust stereotyping in Mind Your Language by Jessica Brown EDU 5101 for Perspectives in Education Abstract Mind Your Language was a British comedy show shown on the ITV network in Britain from 1977-1979. The show centred...
Addressing the Marginalization of School-Aged Youth by Using a Responsive Curriculum by Md Mohsin Ali for EDU 5101 Educational Perspectives Ng-A-Fook, Radford, & Ausman (2012) explained how youth are marginalized in schools. They identify immigrant students as marginalized youth with...
Hacking Education in a Digital Age: Teacher Education, Curriculum, and Literacies Editors: Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Sarah Pratt, Bryan Smith, and Linda Radford Storying A Call for Chapter Proposals: The institutional winds that once...
A Letter to My Children: A Reader Response by Elissa Sivel for EDU 5260 An Introduction to Curriculum Studies As children, learning difficult truths comes with growing up. A truth is something that is in accord with fact or...
Attacking Curriculum by Souad Salem for EDU 6460: Curriculum, Culture, and Language While the airplane was in the air between my country Egypt and USA, I reflected on how lucky it was...
Place and colonization in Tomkins’ curriculum history by Jesse Butler for EDU 5260 Introduction to Curriculum Studies Growing up in the Yukon, the curriculum I experienced had a deeply colonial character. It consistently gave us the impression...
Call for Papers: Oral History and Education CFP: Oral History and Education CALL FOR PAPERS Edited by Dr. Kristina R. Llewellyn and Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook Deadline for Abstracts: September 30th,...
International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies Call for Papers International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies The 5th Triennial Conference Call for Presentations May 26-29, 2015 All educators attempt to shape...
Normal. What is it and how does it affect society and curriculum? by David Dalton Normal is a concept that I have always had some difficulty with. This difficulty stems from my younger years, as...
KNAER Sponsored Project: Mobilizing A Global Citizenship Perspective with Educators: Curriculum Development, Equity, and Community Partnerships OVERALL PROJECT OBJECTIVE To extend and mobilize evidence-based research, curriculum design and assessment, critical pedagogy and resource development on global citizenship, environmental sustainability and social...
Developing A Global Perspective for Educators: Special Issue of Education Review Globally, we continue to face critical environmental, social and economic challenges such as poverty, climate change, infectious diseases, depletion of...
Reader Response by Crysta Balis for Dr. Linda Radford in EDU 5260: Introduction to Curriculum Studies Wabi Sabi and the Pedagogical Countenance of Names (Seidel & Jardine, 2012) is a highly abstract and philosophical article; and...
Silent Voices: A reader response by Ginan Meerwali for Dr. Linda Radford in EDU 5260 Introduction to Curriculum My mother grew up in Baghdad, Iraq during one of the worst regimes in the history of the Middle East. ...
R. I. Simon: A pedagogy of public possibility: A Call for Special Issue of Canadian Social Studies R. I. Simon: A pedagogy of public possibility An invitation to publish in Canadian Social Studies Editor: Kent den Heyer Guest editors: Lisa...
EMPOWERING MARGINALIZED YOUTH: CURRICULUM, MEDIA STUDIES, AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, Linda Radford, Shenin Yazdanian and Tracy Norris University of Ottawa ABSTRACT Students are bombarded daily with print, visual, and digital media....
Looking for multi-sciences : A reader response on multiple perspectives in curriculum by Cassandra Waldon for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, Language My Grandfather never went to school past Grade 8. He grew up in a small town, in rural Caledon, Ontario....
Mobile Language and Culture: Unfreezing Teacher and Student Identity within the School Culture by Cassandra Waldon for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, Language Why do people say she is broken? Last time I checked it’s the bird with the broken wing in the...
“You need to learn a lot about your own culture”: Addressing culture and language through humour in The Office curriculum by Scott Reid a Final Conference Paper for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language Abstract The US mockumentary sitcom The Office is a satirical series that uses humour to address issues of culture and language. ...
Curriculum Theorizing: Discovery through Autobiographical Narration A Reader Response by Jessica Berces For EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language It’s a slushy February morning and after navigating the busy streets of Toronto I board a train headed to Ottawa....
Living Love: Confessions of a Fearful Teacher a reader response by June Myles for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture and Language Life writing has opened my eyes to new possibilities, new ways of understanding the world and myself.  I have heard...
Entering Spaces in Anishinàbeg Knowing Through Currere A Response to Kanu and Glor by Robin Milne for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language I arrived in the harbour at quarter to eight, ready to pick up my fellow crewmembers; I was the captain...
Life Writing as a Migrant Act: A Mother Gains Voice from Her Son by Shuo Zhang for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language At first, I got lost in Ng-A-Fook’s navigation as a migrant act. However, after going through the whole narrative journey...
Defining and Implementing an Aboriginal Curriculum by Scott Reid for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language I should begin this reading response by noting that I am a young white male from Ontario.  I have never...
Exploration: Rediscovering Voices A Reader Response By Mackenzie Risk for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language A while back, I had my ESL students do some group work to learn about stating opinions appropriately.  When the...
“Who has the Voice? Who has the Power?” by Laura McArthur for EDU 6460 Curriculum, Culture, and Language The Patriarchal Power in Curriculum Development Chambers’ (1994) essay shares her experiences of living in small northern communities and in doing...
Complicated Composition and the Path with Art by Robin Milne for EDU 5260 Introduction to Curriculum Studies FINDING ART THROUGH COMPLICATED COMPOSITION With 5 minutes to spare and frantically pushing through the excited bodies on our way to...
Reconsidering Canadian Curriculum Studies Reconsidering Canadian Curriculum Studies invites us to ponder, pay attention, and to ask more, as we study the tensionality of...
A Reader Response by James Hunter for EDU 5260 Introduction to Curriculum Studies I’m actually part Indian … I’m enough percent that in Canada I can get free gas. Justin Bieber in Rolling Stone...
Death of the Computer Lab A Curriculum Artifact Paper by Deborah Kealey for Introduction to Curriculum Studies EDU 5260 Death of the Computer Lab Before I started high school my mother made my brother and me take a summer school...
Listening to the Echoes – The Reverberations of Historical Narratives and Agency a Reader Response by Leslie Rafferty Yesterday I started my class with the following question: “What is the significance of the residential school system?” My students looked at...
Curriculum content vs. methodology: An autonomous or symbiotic relationship? A Reader Response by Deborah Kealey I was a child who loved everything about school. I was fortunate enough to navigate through elementary school with...
International Curriculum Scholar Report on Noel Gough by Stephanie Cesario and Alishia A. Valeri Located at La Trobe University in Melbourne Victoria, Australia, Noel Gough has a long history in the field of education...
Henry Giroux A Curriculum Scholar Review by Patricia Lychak for EDU 5265 Internationalization of Curriculum Studies What follows is a brief historical and intellectual review of the curriculum scholar Henry Giroux. I was first introduced to...
Hongyu Wang A Curriculum Scholar Review by Ge Gao for EDU 5265 Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Hongyu Wang, a famous scholar in curriculum studies, now works at the School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadership in Oklahoma...
Debbie Sonu an International Curriculum Scholar Review by Jodi M. Baine for EDU 5265 Internationalization of Curriculum Studies “You speak English so well!”  This phrase was one that Debbie Sonu had become all too familiar with growing up...
Michael Apple a Curriculum Scholar Review by Carrie Engelbrecht Learned, Nisha Gupta, Jessica Hand, and Kristen Haslett for EDU 5265 Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Michael Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He describes...
Jasone Cenoz: Advocate for Multilingual Education a Curriculum Scholar Review by Liam Trimm The increase in international economic and political interests has created a need for a common language among nations. The European...
Living a Curriculum of Hyph-e-nations: Diversity, Equity, and Social Media Living a Curriculum of Hyph-e-nations: Diversity, Equity, and Social Media The movement of peoples across national boundaries is as old...
Call for Book Chapter Submissions Framing Peace: Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum as “Radical Hope.” Framing Peace: Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum as “Radical Hope.” Editors: Hans Smits and Rahat Naqvi University of Calgary Provoked by Judith Butler’s question...
The 13th Annual Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference The 13th Annual Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference November 7-10, 2012 New Orleans, LA www.curriculumandpedagogy.org Priority Deadline for Proposal Submissions: JUNE 30, 2012 Proposals received by...
JCT Bergamo Conference Call for Papers 2012 Call for Papers 33rd Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice Bergamo Conference Center, Dayton, Ohio October 18 – 20,...
Canadian Curriculum Scholar Report: Cynthia M. Chambers by Alishia A. Valeri for EDU 6102 Seminar in Curriculum Research Situated at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, Cynthia M. Chambers has a long history of working and living...
Searching for and Researching a Canadian Curriculum Scholar: Stephanie Springgay A Curriculum Scholar Review by Beverly Papove for EDu 6102 Seminar in Curriculum Studies Research In an effort to find a curriculum scholar for my research paper, I typed some prominent names into the Google...
Chloe Brushwood Rose A Curriculum Scholar Review by Deborah Kealey for EDU 6102 Seminar in Curriculum Studies Research It’s the end of the day and I return to my office to deal with the paper part of my...
Rita Irwin: An A/r/tographic Inquiry a Curriculum Scholar Review by Rachel Poff for EDU 6102 Seminar in Curriculum Studies Research When I began researching for this assignment I knew I wanted to find a scholar I was interested in, not...
A Curriculum Scholar Report on Celia Haig-Brown by Ann Manderville for EDU 6102 Seminar in Curriculum Studies Celia Haig-Brown grew up in Kamloops and Campbell River, British Columbia. Her father, an author, wrote about a river in...
Patricia Palulis: A curriculum Scholar Review by Alison Gurr for EDU 6102 Seminar in Curriculum Studies Research The labour of knowing. (Palulis & Low, 2008) In order to be able to begin reading what it means to read,...
  • Redéfinir ensemble l’espace inclusif en éducation, en milieu minoritaire francophone: pistes de réflexion, par Marie-Noël Shank, pour le cours EDU5752 Enseignement en milieu minoritaire0April 12, 2017

    Redéfinir ensemble l’espace inclusif en éducation, en milieu minoritaire francophone: pistes de réflexion, par Marie-Noël Shank, pour le cours EDU5752 Enseignement en milieu minoritaire

    Dans son article sur l’assimilation, l’intégration et l’inclusion[1], Dalley (2015) tente d’élaguer ce « nouveau » vivre ensemble que nous connaissons dans...
  • Accepted: Education created for students, by students a final paper written by Emily Carter for EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education0January 20, 2017

    Accepted: Education created for students, by students a final paper written by Emily Carter for EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education

    Upon cursory glance, the motion picture Accepted seems to be just another feel-good teen comedy. While this may be an...
  • HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PUZZLE LIKE ‘O CANADA’? by Ashley Reaume for EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education0December 12, 2016

    HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PUZZLE LIKE ‘O CANADA’? by Ashley Reaume for EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education

    Official ‘O Canada’ Lyrics English version O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we...
  • Including Thomas Moore in the Curriculum by Stephanie McCann for EDU 51010December 2, 2016

    Including Thomas Moore in the Curriculum by Stephanie McCann for EDU 5101

    Canada is often portrayed as a very welcoming and hospitable country with an extremely noble and honorable past. However, what...
  • Us vs. them: Deconstructing dominant narratives of otherness by Amina Jama for EDU 5101 Perspectives In Education0November 30, 2016

    Us vs. them: Deconstructing dominant narratives of otherness by Amina Jama for EDU 5101 Perspectives In Education

    Throughout our lives, we interact with people from various cultures, racial and ethnic backgrounds, belief systems, and age groups. Part...
  • The Racialized Formation of Canada:  Coming to Terms with this Difficult Knowledge By Myka Caluyong For EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education0November 21, 2016

    The Racialized Formation of Canada: Coming to Terms with this Difficult Knowledge By Myka Caluyong For EDU 5101 Perspectives in Education

    Timothy Stanley (2016) defines racism as “the active process of structuring social relations around racialized differences” that is purposefully done...
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