2010 Excellence in Teaching Award winner talks with Dean Alice PittEvery year the York Faculty of Education's Alumni Association presents an "Excellence in Teaching" award to a York graduate who "has made a significant difference to the lives of students, colleagues, schools and/or communities." ...read more.
Community Practicum placements for first year studentsThe changing reality of Canadian society and its large urban communities, point to the urgency to have teacher candidates understand the complexities of the communities that students come from. ...read more
GiiwedinGiiwedin is described as being a new breed of opera, which the Toronto Sun states is "Aboriginal opera at its best," and the Globe and Mail calls "sophisticated pastiche." Giiwedin tells the story of a 150-year old Aboriginal woman fighting for her land at the turn of the 20th century in Temiskaming, Ontario. ...read more
Connecting the Generations ProjectConnecting the Generations is a program that connects grade six students from Bloordale Middle School with retired seniors from their local community. ...read more.
Pelq'ilc: Coming HomePelq’ilc: Coming Home is a 33 minute documentary film that grew out of York University Professor Celia Haig-Brown’s 1986 groundbreaking research with former students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Collaborators Celia and Helen Haig-Brown came to the film project with a question, "What is the place of education in the regeneration of culture?” ...read more.
One Hundred MenThis 59-minute film documents the story of one hundred men who, in 1949, were recruited from the Island of St Helena in the South Atlantic to work as agricultural labourers in England. ...read more.