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Dr. Shaheen Shariff Comments on Women Front Line Workers (CTV News)

Dr. Shaheen Shariff, DISE, was recently interviewed on CTV News on the women who work in the front-line jobs in the fight against COVID-19 and how they have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

污污草莓视频 Education Ranks 26th in the World!

According to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the world鈥檚 largest international higher education network, 污污草莓视频鈥檚 Faculty of Education has ranked 26th in the world for the organization鈥檚 2021 university subject rankings. Each of the subject rankings is compiled using four sources.

Nancy Heath Tells CBC How to Help Kids Build Resilience

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听study听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.

Media Spotlight 鈥� Dr. Angelica Galante, DISE, Op-Ed in the EdCan Network

Dr. Angelica Galante, DISE, Assistant Professor in Second Language Education, Assistant Professor in Language Education, and Director of the Plurilingual Lab, wrote an Op-Ed in the EdCan Network: Much More Than a Bilingual Country: A call for plurilingual education in Canada.听 In it she speaks of the importance of a multilingual education in the classroom and her experiences with bilingualism.

Media Spotlight 鈥� Dr. Ross Andersen, KPE, on CityLife

Dr. Ross Andersen of 污污草莓视频 Education's Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education talks with CityLife host, Richard Dagenais, about the importance of fitness and health during COVID. Dr. Andersen discusses strategies for incorporating more movement into a sedentary lifestyle and how increased movement benefits both physical and mental health.

Call for Research Participants: Children for a Language Study

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.

污污草莓视频 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.

Call for Research Participants: University Course Instructors Supporting International Students who are Non-Native English Speakers

Participants needed for research in 鈥淔aculty instructors鈥� academic literacy support for international students鈥� 鈥�

污污草莓视频 University researchers are looking for volunteers to take part in a study examining鈥疷niversity Course Instructors鈥� experience with and support for international students who are non-native English speakers.

Kin Clinic keeps 污污草莓视频 Community Moving

When pandemic restrictions brought physical classes to a halt, program supervisors quickly rallied to transition the classes to Zoom.

Call for Submissions: Survey on Children's Language Development

Researchers from 污污草莓视频 and Concordia, including Faculty of Education's Dr. Susan Ballinger (Department of Integrated Studies in Education) are seeking parent insights for research into children's language development in babies and toddlers being raised in bilingual and multilingual families.

Learn more and take the survey here.

Dr. Celena Scheede-Bergdahl Promoted to KPE Senior Faculty Lecturer

Congratulations to Dr. Celena Scheede-Bergdahl who was recently promoted to Senior Faculty Lecturer within the Faculty of Education鈥檚 Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education!

Marie-H茅l猫ne Pennestri, ECP Assistant Professor, Conducts Study on Parents and Sleep

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.

Media Spotlight 鈥� Nancy Heath, ECP, Interviewed on CBC Radio

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.

Faculty of Education Infrastructure News

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.

Media Spotlight 鈥� Philip S. S. Howard, DISE, Interviewed in CTV News Article

Philip S. S. Howard, from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, was recently interviewed in a CTV News article about Canadian Black history and the importance of adding it into the school curriculum, but warns that it should not be a way to avoid confronting what needs to be changed.听

鈥淭hat takes actually identifying and really owning up to the anti-Blackness that is within the founding logics of these entities.鈥�

Media Spotlight 鈥� Dr. Tina Montreuil, ECP, Article in The Conversation

Dr. Tina Montreuil, from the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, recently wrote an article in the national online newspaper The Conversation on parenting in a pandemic and how to develop stronger family relationships during COVID-19.

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