Dr. Shirley Steinberg to Speak at Faculty of Education

Media and Islamophobia:
It’s Not OK

A talk by:
Dr. Shirley Steinberg
McGill University

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Community Room 1139
Faculty of Education Building

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Shirley R. Steinberg is the co-founder and director of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. At present, she teaches at McGill University.  She is the author and editor of many books in critical pedagogy, urban and youth culture, and cultural studies.  Her most recent books include:  Teaching Against Islamophobia (2010); 19 Urban Questions:  Teaching in the City (2010); Christotainment:  Selling Jesus Through Popular Culture (2009); Diversity and Multiculturalism:  A Reader (2009); Media Literacy:  A Reader (2007); the award winning Contemporary Youth Culture:  An International Encyclopedia; Kinderculture:  The Corporate Construction of Childhood (2010, 2004); and The Miseducation of the West:  How Schools and Media Distort Our Understanding of the Islam World (2004).  She is currently finishing two books:  Writing and Publishing (Fall 2010) and The Bricolage and Qualitative Research (Fall 2010).  A regular contributor to CBC Radio One, CTV, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and Canadian Press, she is an internationally known speaker and teacher.  She is also the founding editor of Taboo:  The Journal of Culture and Education, and the Managing Editor of The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy.  The organizer of The Baeza Congress, she is committed to a global community of transformative educators and community workers engaged in radical love, social justice, and the situating of power within social and cultural contexts.

Centre for Inclusive Education – Research Hour

The next Centre for Inclusive Education Research Hour:

Dr. Jacqui Specht

will discuss the participation of children in elementary schools

Wednesday February 17, 2010
12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Elborn College, Seminar Room 1440
(at the north end of the building)

Bring your lunch.  Pop, water, juice and snacks will be provided.
All are welcome.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Grace Howell at ghowell@uwo.ca.

Information Session – Research on Teaching & Fellowship in Teaching Innovation

An information session on the Western Research on Teaching Small Grants program and the Fellowship in Teaching Innovation will be held on Thursday, February 11, 2010, at 1:30 pm in the Teaching Support Centre, room 122 in Weldon Library.  This session is designed for researchers preparing applications for either of these programs in the current cycle, as well as for researchers who are contemplating applying to these programs in the future.

The Fellowship in Teaching Innovation is a program sponsored by the Teaching Support Centre and The Western Research on Teaching program is conducted by Research Western.  As these two programs both focus on the area of responsibility in teaching, the information session will help to clarify the mandates of each program. For more information about this session, please contact Allen Pearson at apearson@uwo.ca.

Academic Development Fund – Small Grant Competition

The University of Western Ontario Academic Development Fund (ADF) New Research and Scholarly Initiatives Award, Small Grants Competition applications and instructions are now not yet available but if you are planning to apply you should begin preparations soon.

Deadlines:
Faculty of Education Assoc Dean’s Office: March 1, 2010 (if you wish feedback on your application please submit 2-3 weeks early to Karen Kueneman)
University Secretariat: March 15, 2010

Value: $8,500 maximum (for up to 2 years)

Description: The ADF’s Small Grants Competition supports the cost of research projects of modest scope. Applications may be made for new research initiatives. Preference will be given to applications that offer a clear rationale for the proposed research, exhibit innovation, and contain a budget explaining fully how the money requested will be spent. In addition, preference will be given to those faculty members striving to get programs of research established and to those who, during the past three years, have not received funds through the SSHRC Internal Research competitions or the Academic Development Fund (ADF).

Eligibility: Researchers in all disciplines are eligible. At the time of application, the principal applicant must be a regular, full-time faculty member at Western OR be a Professor Emeritus at Western with a casual appointment at the rank of Adjunct Research Professor – Independent Research Required.

Full Applications are to be accompanied by a completed ROLA proposal.

LastThis year’s guidelines and application forms are available at: http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/senate/adf.pdf

Updated versions should be available soon.

NOTE: Applications must be submitted electronically in pdf format to the Secretariat’s Office. Please submit your electronic application by March 1/10 to Karen Kueneman, kueneman@uwo.ca, along with a hard copy of the signature page bearing your signature.  All applications will be forwarded by the Associate Dean’s Office to the Secretariat by the submission deadline of March 15/10.

New Journal Announcement

Dr. Ellen Singleton, Faculty of Education is the English Language Editor of a new open-access, peer-reviewed, on-line academic journal sponsored by Physical and Health Education (PHE) Canada and the Council of University Professors and Researchers (CUPR). The PHENex/phenEPS is available at www.phenex.ca.

ROLA Training Offerings

In case you missed ROLA training or would like a refresher:

RD&S is providing ROLA II Training labs in the Support Services Building (Rm 4230). There will be two separate training sessions offered in this series.

1. Individual PI Focus

• • These PI focused sessions are intended for individuals who hold eligible faculty appointments and will be completing their own ROLA Proposals.
  • This session will show you as a PI how to complete your own proposals, how to navigate the submit and approve proposal functions, how to search for your own granting information, and how to extend access to individuals who may be supporting you in your research program in ROLA.

2. Administrative Support Focus

• • These Administrive Support sessions are presented for individuals who will are not eligible PI’s but will be supporting someone who is listed as a PI or Co-PI on a sponsor applciation.
  • This session will show you how to complete a proposal for an eligible PI, how to search for granting information you have security access to view, how to navigate the submit and approval functions, and to explore what other information you can find in ROLA.

Both sessions will provide documentation and touch on both ROLA and Peoplesoft quick tips for our users.

• • Each Lab will begin with an introductory presentation and visual overview of the system, and then continue to the lab portion allowing users a hands on location where they can bring an actual sponsor application and complete a ” ROLA Proposal” with knowledgeable Systems staff in the room.
  • Please register early for labs so we can ensure you have the proper access to the system available on the day of the session.

NOTE: During these sessions you will be working directly in production and ask that you not use the lab to complete test Proposals. Contact rolahelp@uwo.ca if you wish to make arrangements in this regard.

Thursday February 4 (INDIVIDUAL PI FOCUS)
10:00am-12:00noon
Support Services Building Room 4230

Friday February 5 (ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT FOCUS)
9:00-11:00am
Support Services Building Room 4230

Monday February 8 (INDIVIDUAL PI FOCUS)
1:00-3:00pm
Support Services Building Room 4230

Wednesday February 10 (ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT FOCUS)
10:00am-12:00noon
Support Services Building Room 4230

Thursday February 11 (INDIVIDUAL PI FOCUS)
1:00-3:00pm
Support Services Building Room 4230

Tuesday February 16 (INDIVIDUAL PI FOCUS)
10:00am-12:00noon
Support Services Building Room 4230

Thursday February 25 (INDIVIDUAL PI FOCUS)
9:00-11:00am
Support Services Building Room 4230

To Register …

Research Day – Call for Posters

Research Day

a joint effort between the Faculties of Arts and Humanities, Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and Education

will be held on
Wednesday, March 24th
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Great Hall, Somerville House, UWO.

Generously supported by Research Western.

This is a unique opportunity for faculty, staff and students of the Faculty of Education to present your research, make connections and interact with researchers from the other faculties.

We are providing you with several formats to facilitate participation. A general description of each format posted on the Research Day website. Regardless of which format you choose, we are asking that you please submit the ‘Intent to Present’ form by Tuesday, February 16, 2010*. Please use the form below or available on the website.

Please send your ‘Intent to Present’ form by Tuesday, February 16, 2010* to edu-researchday@uwo.ca or by hard copy to the Graduate Programs and Research Office, Room 1163. 

If you have any questions about this call, please contact Karen Kueneman, x88561.

Intent to Present Form 2010

* Monday, February 15 is the Family Day holiday. The deadline has been revised to reflect this.

UWO – Research on Teaching Grant

Overview
Research Western, in cooperation with the Teaching Support Centre, has established the Western Research on Teaching Grant program to facilitate research on teaching and learning at Western.  The purpose of the Research on Teaching Grant program is to support the work of all faculty, librarians and archivists to conduct research on teaching developments, innovations and practices that faculty members, librarians and archivists are engaged in.  The aim of this program is not to fund the introduction of new teaching strategies, technologies or programs; rather it is to support research on such developments in order to examine their effectiveness and to contribute to the literature in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Amount: up to $3000

Deadlines:
Assoc. Dean’s Office- March 17, 2010 (if you wish feedback on your application please submit 2-3 weeks early to Karen Kueneman)
Research Development & Services- March 31, 2010

Eligibility: A Principal Investigator (PI) must hold an academic appointment with a significant research component at The University of Western Ontario at the time of the application. In order to be named as PI on an internal grant, the applicant must be eligible to hold a research account at Western.

Selection Criteria
1) the project is clearly research on teaching and learning at Western;
2) the project uses an appropriate qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method to assess the teaching and learning issue proposed;
3) the project must make a novel contribution to the teaching and learning literature;
4) the project meets the requirements for research involving human subjects;
5) the proposal is clear and complete; and
6) the final research project should be of publishable quality.

Guidelines and Applications

Applications must be accompanied by a ROLA Proposal.