Researchers in the Faculty of Education are involved in a variety of research activities and projects. Below are the links to some of these projects.
Esther Fine's project revisits her original SSHRC study on conflict resolution in schools to find out what happened to the original participants.
At Joyce Public School in Toronto, Canada, elementary school children are telling old stories in new ways as a part of a school-university research liaison investigating the theory and practice of multiliteracies in the primary-junior classroom, using digital media to include their cultural worlds from popular heroes to digital genres to linguistic repertoires.
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Stephen Gaetz's Homeless Hub is a web-based research library and information centre where community services providers, researchers, government officials and the general public can access and share research, stories and best practices relating to homelessness in Canada.
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Sandra R. Schecter's project Parent Involvement AS Education comprises an intergenerational after-school language and literacy program for linguistic minority students that incorporates cultural resources and knowledge already existing within families and communities. The research surrounding this project has made a significant contribution to knowledge about the academic literacy development of immigrant students. Results have shown that the instructional innovation has yielded: improved family-school relationships; differences in students' receptivity to homework; changes in teachers' attitudes and practices, including an increased appreciation for diversity as a resource; and a significant improvement in grades of students who participated.
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Connie Mayer's project Towards Optimizing Independence and Life Skills (TOILS) addresses the dissatisfaction with the level of independence in the lives of deaf/hard of hearing adolescents, and discovered two-way text messaging as a way to increase literacy, independence and decision-making skills.
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In his research and projects, Don Dippo explores University-Community relationships. For example, the Master of Education Pilot Project at Firgrove Public School brings together teachers and principals, settlement workers, employment councilors, recreation and healthcare professionals, parents, and community activists who works in the Jane/Finch community to meet, study and learn together. The program thus addresses academic and professional development needs of members of local school staffs and community organizations.
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Studio is an on-line, international poetry journal with a focus on the cultural work of poetry in contemporary society. Peer reviewed and published twice a year, Studio seeks to present outstanding poetry and poetry criticism from Canada and abroad, while offering an innovative and unprecedented focus on the interdisciplinary relationships between poetry, education, cultural studies, and other art forms.
Margaret Sinclair's project Visual Learning for Mathematics Teachers examines the principles that underlie the development of effective visual learning for mathematics teachers, so that they are well prepared to support the development of visual reasoning in students.
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The Westview partnership originated in 1992 as a cooperative project of the Toronto District School Board's Westview family of schools and York University's Faculty of Education. The Partnership has expanded to include the original partners as well as the York University Faculty Association, Seneca College, Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, and a number of private donors. The project operates in twenty three schools in Jane & Finch community and offers programs and activities designed to promote equity in public education through increasing access to post secondary opportunities for first generation students living in the university neighbourhood.
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The York/Seneca Institute for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (YSIMSTE) is a partnership of York University (Faculty of Education and Faculty of Science and Engineering) and Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology (Faculty of Technology).