Today Dolores LeVangie leaves CER to focus on completing her UPEI master's thesis in Island Studies. We expressed our appreciation for the huge contribution she made as a 10 hour /week Research Assistant. Her 'research' duties were wide ranging from her January duties to help with the CER contract to review the UPEI Global Issues course. Her RA work extended to research to develop a proposal for CER during this renewal period, and research within UPEI with many units to update the CER membership list and human as well as financial resources.
For those reading this blog, CER is slowly moving forward to become re-energized with new projects, especially to generate core funding for CER to thrive. CER is supporting two teams who are submitted funding proposals, one internal to UPEI and one to SSHRC. The CER Seminar Series is now underway for the Fall as you will see on the Events section of the website.
There is a renewed 'energy' around the CER office. We will hopefully have someone before Christmas who can help to update this website, and make it possible for CER members to contribute through Twitter or otherwise! We hope you enjoy the photo of Miles Turnbull (Interim Dean) of the Faculty of Education (far right) and Liz (left) saying 'best wishes' to Dolores in the middle!
Liz Townsend
CER Director
CER held a very positive, energetic Renewal Meeting Thursday September 22nd (2:30 - 4:30), with 14 people, including the founding CER Director and new Graduate Program Coordinator (Ray Doiron), the most recent CER Interim Director (Sandy McAuley) and the Dean (Interim) (Miles Turnbull). I am reporting these names to illustrate the commitment 'from the top' to renew CER for the Faculty of Education and UPEI overall. Regrets were sent from a number of active researchers and CER members, indicating a desire to continue their support for CER. The future of CER is with us! So thanks to those who have made their ongoing support explicit.
Brainstorming at the meeting focused on the next 'vision' and priority activities for CER. An overview is that CER is well positioned to facilitate research proposal development to include funding for CER project management where appropriate, to mentor new researchers and facilitate research collaboration within the Faculty & across UPEI, and to provide education-focused, 'services' for fees, particularly developing 'educational' approaches for knowledge translation, exchange, mobilization, and utilization.
For now, there is a lovely renewed energy around CER. CER is 'open' for consultation to mentor faculty and facilitate proposals in which future funding could support CER to play a role. We'll update the website in the next month and overall re-generate a CER presence! The Seminar Series is under development with a close link to the PhD/graduate program schedule (Tuesdays - watch for news on this). The Research Forum will be in the Spring as usual, dates and a call for presentations pending in the next month or so).
Dolores LeVangie and Liz Townsend are both part-time, and will be in the CER office Wednesdays & Thursdays or by appointment through cer@upei.ca which is checked Monday - Friday mornings.
Liz Townsend, CER Director
Hello CER members and friends:
Many thanks to Sandy McAuley for his August Update on CER in which he has thankfully been Acting Director. I am very grateful to CER members for naming me as CER Director for the next 2 years. With full awareness of the financial and other challenges of building CER, I am excited to see how we can develop CER as a strong research centre. This is where I want to convey my gratitude and respect for Ray Doiron as the founding Director and to Carla DiGiorgio and Sandy as Directors who thankfully sustained CER's actitivies, including the Seminar Series and the Research Forum, website, and many projects that were funnelled through CER. It looks like in the last year, over $47,000 in external funds, plus more in internally funded projects, were generated related to CER projects. This is from the Joint Education Research Group, managing 2 journals, the PEITF contract, a conference and various small projects that were organized by former Directors. Kudos on this! It shows promise even if we need to sort out who is doing what, how funds flow through CER and what administrative funds are left to operate CER.
By way of introduction, I have a dual background in a health profession (occupational therapy) and adult education. With an M.Ad.Ed. from St. Francis Xavier U, and a PhD in education (adult) from Dalhousie, I look at the world broadly, with teaching and learning interests focused on the social organization of knowledge in enabling or constraining (disabling) the everyday engagement of marginalized adults in creating a just society. My main concerns are with the ongoing marginalization, alienation, deprivation and exclusion from meaningful 'occupations', very broadly defined as everything people do, particularly the historic exclusion of adults with mental health issues. Some of you may be interested in my sociological background in mental health/illness and in using the theory and method of institutional ethnography developed by Dorothy Smith and her colleagues at OISE and other places. I lived mostly in PEI between the late 1960's to the early 1980s (an Islander by Choice) and love being back in my house and community in Belfast.
My plan as incoming part-time Director (note my italics to contain expectations!) starts with sorting out finances and generating core funding. My commitment is to have a report to the Dean of Education, and to CER members on possible core funding options by October 31.
You will be wondering what a part-time Director with a background in adult education, which has not been a focus for CER to date, can accomplish as Director?
Here's what makes sense to me to start doing between August - October pending CER member engagement to shape up plans:
Of course with the full Senate review of CER pending, I would appreciate any support possible. I will also need your patience. :-)
Please watch for updates. I intend to keep you informed regularly - by e-mail to start. I tend to be at CER part of Wednesdays and Thursdays but that changes given meetings, etc.
I am excited about being Director and look forward to doing my best with your help to make CER a great success,
Liz Townsend
Hello fellow CER members:As we move from July to August, still hoping that we might get summer somewhere in the next month or so, I thought I'd take a couple of minutes to bring you up-to-date on a couple of CER issues.The most important is to welcome Liz Townsend as the new CER Director, effective August 1st as approved by the membership at our meeting on June 29. Many of you will have met Liz at CER events over the past year and I'll let her make her own formal introduction; however, I'm not going too far out on a limb to say that all of us at the CER will be able to benefit from the extensive research and administrative experience she acquired at Dalhousie University before moving to PEI. Please join with me in welcoming her to her new role with us.
I'd also like to thank all of you for your continued support for the CER and for your patience during my tenure as Interim Director from February to July. Still very much a work in progress, the CER represents a vision for new possibilities and partnerships for educational research on PEI. Over the past few months I've gained a huge appreciation for the complexity of helping that vision take shape and renewed my belief in its importance. This year, the fifth since the CER was established, will see its first full Senate review and is therefore an opportunity to consolidate our achievements so far as we continue to move ahead.
Finally, I'd like to encourage as many of you as possible to consider taking on active roles in contributing to the CER's development and helping to shape priorities over the coming year. I expect there will be seats available on the Operating Committee, for example. I also expect that the Seminar Series will continue and that the Research Forum will continue to provide a PEI showcase for our work. I am equally sure that many of you will have additional ideas and contributions to make. Please don't hesitate to share them!
All the best for a wonderful August!
Yours truly, Sandy McAuley Interim Director, CER (past)
The 2011 Education Research Forum was held on April 27, 2011, at the Rodd Royalty Inn. Throughout the afternoon, over 20 presenters shared insights and sparked discussion on more than 14 education-related topics. More information about the presentations can be found on the forum website.
Every year, the Faculty of Education at UPEI celebrates and shares the recent research activity of faculty members and students. This year the research forum was pleased to have both in-program and completed Masters and PhD students present. Hosted by the UPEI Centre for Education Research, the 2011 Education Research Forum focused on research-informed education change.
This year's keynote speech was a two-part presentation given by Dr. Jim Parsons, a professor at the University of Alberta and director of the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI), and Kelly Harding, associate director for AISI.
Dr. Liz Townsend ended the Forum with summary notes. The Centre for Education Research would like to thank all those who participated in this event, and the Faculty of Education for its' support.
Anna's research, defended on January 12, 2011, focused on the case studies of three childcare centres in Charlottetown which have adopted the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. This approach makes use of a child-centred, play based pedagogy. Her thesis highlights:
The study has been inspired by Anna's personal interest in the Reggio Emilia approach. Anna is excited to broaden completed research regarding the localization of the Reggio approach in other countries and cultural contexts, including Prince Edward Island, Sweden, New Zealand, Malta and North America to mention a few.
Her findings indicate that the three Charlottetown childcare centres are implementing the Reggio Emilia approach according to the needs of their children, adapting the principles to their own cultural context. With this approach, supervisors and educators maintain a positive image of the child and parents are employed as partners in their children's learning. Educators are working collaboratively to co-construct their children's learning, also using the environment as an additional teacher.
A report on the first Master of Education Program in Nunavut has recently been published by the UPEI Centre for Education Research.
Offered by the University of Prince Edward Island in partnership with the Department of Education of the Government of Nunavut, St. Francis Xavier University, and Nunavut Arctic College, the Nunavut Master of Education in Leadership and Learning is the first graduate program to be offered in Nunavut.
During a special Convocation in Iqaluit on July 1, 2009, 21 Inuit educational leaders from across Nunavut graduated with Master of Education Leadership in Learning degrees from UPEI. Most of the graduates were mature students already working as leaders in their communities.
The three-year, part-time program integrates intensive face-to-face sessions with online learning. Inuit Qaujimajautuqangit (traditional Inuit social values) and a focus on decolonizing methodologies are key components of the program. A video produced by Mark Sandiford and coordinated by Dr. Fiona Walton highlighting the program can be viewed online: upei.ca/education/nunavutmed/video-lighting-qulliq
The report details the background and history of the program, as well as its successes and challenges. Recommendations, both by students and faculty, are given as considerations for future cohorts of the program. Program evaluation and research were integral to the program with student interviews and surveys conducted at several stages and instructor feedback solicited after the program was complete. Participants and program instructors noted increased growth in confidence, voice, Inuit identity, critical thinking, and writing ability as the program evolved.
"The MEd program is acting as a catalyst in the development of Inuit educational leaders by bringing them together to discuss shared challenges and concerns as they build an educational system that responds to the needs of Inuit students and their families who constitute the 85% majority-population in Nunavut," states Dr. Walton.
UPEI and the Government of Nunavut have continued this partnership and are now offering a second cohort of the MEd in Nunavut.
Lighting the Quilliq: The First Master of Education Program in Nunavut
Charlottetown, PEI (October 14, 2010) – A study on the workload and worklife of Prince Edward Island teachers indicates that teachers are spending more time on activities that support teaching, and less time actually instructing their students. The study, “The Workload and Worklife of Prince Edward Island Teachers”, was commissioned by the PEI Teachers’ Federation (PEITF), and researched by members of UPEI’s Centre for Education Research (CER).
More than 40 per cent of teacher members of the PEITF participated in the study, which included a written survey, focus groups, a teacher log of daily tasks over a 30-day period, and a narrative inquiry (stories from the lives of teachers).
“Teachers are working just as many hours as they were in 2002 when an earlier study was conducted,” said Dr. Ronald MacDonald, an assistant professor of Education at UPEI. “But they’re working differently. They’re spending more time preparing for a more diverse mix of students in their classrooms – including students for whom English is an additional language and children with learning challenges. They’re also spending more time doing administrative tasks.”
The study shows teachers work an average of about 48 hours a week during the academic year. While this is similar to earlier studies, teachers report the importance of quality instructional time is being diminished by competition for students’ time from other activities. Teachers are also concerned about the perceptions of public and school officials regarding teachers’ dedication to PEI students.
It has been found that increased pressure to take part in professional development, learning new technologies, and addressing differentiated instructional needs are adding to teachers' concerns about the lack of time to collaborate with colleagues.
The study makes a number of recommendations, including identifying the number and kind of administrative tasks (e.g. completing forms, student modification sheets, entering attendance and grades online) to determine their effectiveness, redundancy, and importance to the enhancement of learning. The study reports that all stakeholders need to recognize that some administrative tasks are too time consuming, and need to be prioritized or eliminated. It also points out the importance of examining how the current amount of instructional hours (2.3 hours per week less than 2002) is affecting student learning.
Read an Executive Summary of the Report
Read the PEI Teacher Workload and Worklife Study
Contact: Dave Atkinson, Research Communications Officer, UPEI
(902)620-5117, datkinson@upei.ca
Contact: Bob MacRae, Executive Assistant, Staff Development Services, PEITF
(902)569-4157, bmacrae@peitf.com
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The Centre for Education Research continues to be proud of its members.
Most recently, we wish to extend a huge congratulations to one of its members, Fiona Walton, who is the recipient of this year's Janet Pottie Murray Award.
The Janet Pottie Murray Award for Instructional Leadership was created by her daughter, Dr. Shannon Murray to "an individual [who has] provided leadership among faculty [and] colleagues in developing activities that help create an environment in which teacher excellence is fostered and appreciated."(The Janet Pottie Murray Award for Instructional Leadership)
As stated in the official UPEI press release, Fiona's commitment to educational leadership not only at UPEI but also in Nunavut has served as an inspiration to many. The chair of the selection committee, Dr. Jane Magrath (Department of English), did a supurb job at summarizing how much Fiona deserves this award:
Dr. Walton is an active, committed colleague whose educational leadership has
gained prominence beyond UPEI through her role as program coordinator and
course instructor in the MEd program launched in Nunavut in 2006. The Nunavut
MEd was a groundbreaking collaboration between UPEI and the Nunavut
community, which saw 21 Inuit graduates cross the stage in Iqaluit on July 1,
2009 to accept their degrees in the first graduate program offered in
Nunavut. The MEd responded to the need for high-quality, relevant graduate
education in a geographically, socially and culturally unique area of Canada.
Fiona's passion for enhancing understanding of Aboriginal cultures is also
evident in the innovative Specialization in Indigenous Education initiated by
Fiona and her colleague Dr. Basil Favaro within the BEd program at UPEI. In
the Indigenous Specialization preservice, teachers gain an understanding of
and sensitivity to Aboriginal culture which enables them to gain experience
and personal connections with Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond.
Fiona Walton is a generous colleague whose commitment to Inuit and
Indigenous education has resulted in the development of transformative
programs within the Faculty of Education and the large expanse of Nunavut;
she inspires her students and also her colleagues - near and far - by sharing
her expertise, formally and informally, and helping others to become better
teachers and educational leaders through their own connections to Canadian
Aboriginal communities.
Congratulations Fiona!
Winners of the month long "Win with UPEI" online contest were recently announced and the Faculty of Education came out of top, narrowly beating out Veterinary Medicine (the two areas were neck and neck throughout the contest). The Faculty of Education received 2,519 of the 10,495 votes.
UPEI Integrated Communications issued a press release on the contest winners where Dean Tim Goddard was quoted as saying:
This contest was the best idea. It certainly encouraged friendly competition among the faculties and we engaged everyone to tell their good news. While it hasn't been finalized, the bursary dollars coming to the Faculty of Education will assist students interested in pursuing community projects at home and around the world.
You can read the full press release here.
Congratulations Faculty of Education!
PRESS RELEASE
June 17, 2010
The UPEI Centre for Education Research Publishes Research Monograph in Early Childhood Research in Prince Edward Island
The UPEI Centre for Education Research (CER), housed in the Faculty of Education, is pleased to announce the publication of Research in Early Child Development in Prince Edward Island: A Research Monograph (CER, 2010). The monograph details research activities undertaken by the Research in Early Child Development (RECD) Initiative team, led by Dr. Ray Doiron and Dr. Martha Gabriel from the Faculty of Education and the PEI Children’s Secretariat (PEI CS), an organization composed of 12 networks in PEI focused on a variety of issues of early child development.
The RECD team has been conducting research in the field of early child development since 2008. To date, the team has completed an extensive literature review, analyzing current research and resources in early child development throughout Canada and worldwide; developed a research framework for early child development, nesting the child at the centre of concentric layers (Child and Family, Child and Community, Child and Society, and Global Child); facilitated information sessions and collected data on existing gaps in the province in early child development; engaged in several action research projects with individual networks of the Children’s Secretariat; and developed, through consultation with the PEI CS and its respective networks, PEI Child—an online collaborative learning tool designed for those involved with the early childhood sector, provincially and nationally.
In order to document and disseminate the extensive work of the RECD Initiative, the team published a research monograph entitled Research in Early Child Development in Prince Edward Island: A Research Monograph. The monograph offers an extensive summary of this substantial piece of work and includes: an explanation of the framework used to underpin the work; a literature review situating the work in current research initiatives; an explanation of the data poster, in which the programs, services, and data collected by the PEI CS networks are presented; a summary of the action research projects conducted by the networks; a description of PEI Child; and five papers written by practitioners who have explored issues such as play and numeracy and the needs of parents with young children. Additionally, the monograph contains knowledge translation pieces developed at the CER, entitled Centre for Education Research Translations (CERTs).
The monograph is published both digitally and in hard copy. Hard copies are available through the UPEI Centre for Education Research. The online version of Research in Early Child Development has been published to allow users to download either specific sections of the monograph, or the entire publication as a whole. The digital version of the monograph is available through both the CER website (www.upei.ca/cer) and at the PEI Child digital learning commons (www.peichild.ca).
For more information, please contact the UPEI Centre for Education Research at 902.566.6784.
The 2010 Education Research Forum was held on April 14, 2010, at the Rodd Royalty Inn. Throughout the afternoon, over 25 presenters shared insights and sparked discussion on more than 15 education-related topics.
Every year, the Faculty of Education at UPEI celebrates and shares the recent research activity of faculty members and graduate students. Hosted by the UPEI Centre for Education Research, the 2010 Education Research Forum focused on research with and in communities.
Please click here to see more photos from the Research Forum.
April 14, 2010
3:00–7:30pm
Rodd Royalty Inn (University Ave)
Every year, the Faculty of Education at UPEI celebrates and shares the recent research activity of faculty members and graduate students. Hosted by the UPEI Centre for Education Research, the 2010 Education Research Forum will focus on research with and in communities. Everyone is welcome. A program is available here.
For more information, please contact 566.6784 or cgmanley@upei.ca
The CER office is pleased to announce that the official launch of The Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée will happen this Friday (February 12), at 3:00pm in Robertson Library 235 (former ITEC Theatre). Please come and celebrate with the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Miles Turnbull, members of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (via teleconference), the Dean of Education, the Director of CER, and the editorial team for the bilingual linguistics journal: Christine Gordon Manley (Managing Editor) and Anabelle Patterson (Editorial Assistant/Translator).
The journal operated on an open access system and publishes articles as soon as they are publishable.
The journal can be viewed here: http://www.cjal-rcla.ca
For more information please see the launch invitation.
The Centre for Education Research invites you to its Christmas Social. Come Celebrate the CER's Recent Activities, Share your Own Research Work, & Discuss Ideas for Future Collaborations. Coffee and Treats Provided.
When: December 17, 2009
Where: Main Faculty Lounge
Time: 930—1100
RSVP not necessary, but always appreciated! (cgmanley@upei.ca; 566-684)
The public is invited to attend the launch of a documentary video and the opening of a photography exhibition about UPEI’s Master of Education in Leadership in Learning program in Nunavut.
The event takes place on Friday, December 4, at 4 p.m., in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium and Schurman Market Square, Don and Marion McDougall Hall.
During a special Convocation in Iqaluit on July 1, 2009, 21 Inuit educational leaders from across Nunavut graduated with Master of Education Leadership in Learning degrees from UPEI—the first graduate degree program to be offered in Nunavut. Most of the graduates were mature students already working as leaders in their communities. Participants studied part-time over three years through face-to-face courses in Iqaluit and Rankin Inlet combined with online learning.
The program balanced western and Inuit knowledge of education and educational leadership. It was developed and delivered through a unique partnership between the University of Prince Edward Island, Nunavut Department of Education, Nunavut Arctic College, and St. Francis Xavier University.
The graduates’ learning is recorded in a documentary video, Lighting the Qulliq: The First Master of Education Program in Nunavut, produced by well-known Canadian filmmaker and director Mark Sandiford. Aspects of their lives as educational leaders are documented through photographs taken by renowned photographer Carlos Reyes-Manzo.
Fiona Walton and Sandy MacAuley, both members of the UPEI Faculty of Education, and Nunia Qanatsiaq, a graduate of the program, will discuss research conducted in the MEd program and speak about the complexities of engaging in ethically based, reciprocally negotiated research within the MEd in Nunavut.
Sandiford will launch the documentary video, and Qanatsiaq will open the exhibition.
This event is hosted by the UPEI Centre for Education Research. For information, please contact Christine Gordon-Manley at (902) 566-6784 or cgmanley@upei.ca
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This notice originally appeared as a media release put out by Integrated Communications, UPEI.
Contact Person: Anna MacDonald
Department: Media Relations and Communications, Integrated Communications
Phone: (902) 566-6786
Email: amacdonald@upei.ca
Please note that the Research Forum on Early Child Development presented by the PEI Children's Secretariat and the Centre for Education Research, originally scheduled to take place on December 3-4, has been postponed until the new year. As soon as we know the new date, we will update our website. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The United Nations recognized play as a specific right that children hold in addition to, and separate from, a child's right to education, leisure, and recreation. Research shows that play provides children with important learning and critical developmental opportunities that set a course for future learning (Krentz, 2008).
Read more here.
New research shows that investing in early childhood programs yields not only social benefits, but financial ones. Graduate student and research assistant on the Research in Early Child Development Initiative, Gabriela Sanchez, has discovered that for every $1 invested in early learning and childcare programs, society nets a minimum $3 return.
Read more here.
CER Member and Canada Research Chair in Child/Youth Cultures and Tranistions, Kate Tilleczek, is featured on the Office of Research and Development's Blog. You can read it here.
The deadline to register for the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, to be held in Charlottetown October 15-18, is extended until September 15. Please find additional information, along with registration options, on the conference website. For more information, please contact Christine Gordon Manley at cgmanley@upei.ca or 566-6784.
On July 1st, twenty-one students graduated from UPEI with a Masters in Education. What made this convocation extra special and unique is that it took place in Iqaluit and not on Prince Edward Island.
The Master of Education in Leadership and Learning is the first graduate degree program to be offered in Nunavut. (Source: UPEI)
While the MEd was granted from UPEI, the curriculum itself, a nice blend of both western and Inuit educational philsophy and practice, is actually the product of a partnership between UPEI, the Nunavut Department of Education, Nunavut Artctic College, and St. Francis Xavier University.
Members of UPEI Faculty of Education, including Dr. Fiona Walton (pictured above), who was instrumental in implementing this program, attended the convocation, along with UPEI President Wade MacLauchlan.
President MacLauchlan spoke highly of the Nunavut MEd program: This is a great achievement for UPEI and our Faculty of Education, in combination with the community in Nunavut, to offer this remarkable program. (Source: UPEI)
This MEd program is not only a celebration of higher education, but a promise of future development and leadership. As reporter Elizabeth Church stated in Saturday's Globe and Mail: [The program] marks a milestone for the people of Nunavut as they fashion a school system and produce leaders for their community. It also comes as many, notably Governor-General Michaelle Jean, are championing higher education for the Far North, including the need for a university of its own. (Source: Globe and Mail, July 4, 2009)
June 26, 2009
The government of Prince Edward Island announced this week that eleven research and development projects will be given funding under the Island Prosperity Strategy, "to encourage new product development through partnerships between primary resource industries, the private sector, and research institutions."
CER member, Dr. Audrey Penner, will be leading one of these eleven projects. Entitled, "Development of 'Maximum Nutrition' Snack Products: Vegetable Crisps and Nutrifying Berry Bar," Penner will use the funding to develop "healthy and nutritional fruit and vegetable snacks which will be marketed and sold in high-school vending machines and to diabetic consumers."
Dr. Penner is the Director of Adult Education, Learner Supports, and Applied Research at Holland College, Prince Edward Island.
For full press release, click here.
June 22, 2009
Our new Canada Research Chair, Kate Tilleczek, is currently on the National Advisory Committee of the Canadian Mental Health Commission's Evergreen Project for a Framework for Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada. Since Canada does not have a national strategy for child and youth mental health, and since the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for "a national address of child and youth mental health concerns," the work of this committee has important national significance. Canada needs a national framework to support health decisions that tend to be made nationally, despite whatever provincial supports are put in place.
This framework, called Evergreen, will "compliment and may provide child and youth context to the Mental Health Strategy for Canada currently being developed by the MHCC" (Mental Health Commission of Canada). Funding for Evergreen has come from MHCC and the IWK Children's Health Centre.
Evergreen comprises over 100 worldwide experts from various aspects of child and youth mental health, as well as parents and youth who have been directly affected by mental health issues. Evergreen representatives also plan on soliciting opinions and information from the general public.
A statement from the framework committee reads as follows:
We have called the project Evergreen to evoke the image of an ever-evolving framework that can be updated to remain relevant to the changing needs of Canadians. We hope that Evergreen's process will be self-sustaining and that within 3 to 5 years of completion, the framework will be reengaged by interested parties, this time to incorporate new research, new evidence, and new perspectives on child and youth mental health. We hope that this process will then continue in 3 to 5 year cycles into the foreseeable future. Thus this process will be "evergreen."
Full story and source: Kutcher, S.&A. McLuckie. "Evergreen: Towards a Child and Youth Mental Health Framework for Canada." Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 18(2): May 2009. Online.
The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) recently held their annual research conference (May 23--26) at Carleton University, Ottawa. This event was part of the 78th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This conference provides an opportunity for the discussion of educational issues among educational scholars from across the nation, and again this year, the University of Prince Edward Island was proud to have both members from the Faculty of Education and the Centre for Education Research represented. Below you will find the names and presentations of UPEI faculty members who attended this conference.
Fiona Walton Lighting the Qulliq: Inuit Educational Leadership in Nunavut
Martha Gabriel New Learners, New Learners @UPEI (Chair)
Use of Wikis in Teacher Education in Canada
Ron MacDonald How New Learners Learn: Matching University Teaching with Net Generation Learning
(Chaired by Martha Gabriel)
Teacher Support for Data Logging Technologies: Integrating Communites of Practice
Data Logger-Supported Student Inquiry in Physics: Are We Disadvantaging Girls?
Ray Doiron Exploring New Learning Leadership in Tertiary Education
On the Ground in Ethiopia
New Resources, New Practices: Discovering Users' Perspectives (Chair)
Tess Miller Teachers' Instructional Practices and Students' Performance on the Grade 9 Assessment of
Mathematics
Carla DiGiorgio Implementing the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in an Inclusive School System: Issues
and Negotiations
Sean Wiebe New Teaching Practices for a Technological Society
Fierce, Tender, Mischievous: An arts-based Inquiry
Fixated on Fixing the Curriculum: A Mythopoetic and Hermeneutical Inquiry
Critical Thinking and Learning to Teach (Chair)
Tim Goddard Lighting the Qulliq: Inuit Educational Leadership in Nunavut (Chair)
Research Presentations
We were very excited to have been able to showcase a great depth of research areas and interests this year. In three concurrent sessions, we had 18 presentations by over 30 different presenters. Topics ranged from school health to early childhood education; from aborginal health and education to technologies and learning. Since it was impossible to attend every presentation, we are including a brief summary of the research sessions here.
Poster Presentations:
Research in Early Childhood Development: A Framework for Prince Edward Island (G.Sanchez, C.Wartman, R.Doiron, & M.Gabriel)
"Authentic" Research Relationships to Improve Aboriginal Health? (J.Bull)
Train the Trainer : A Family Literacy Program for Aboriginal Families in Atlantic Canada (N.McCarthy)
Click on the photo to see Video Slideshow of the Research Forum
Centre For Education Research
