Centre for Inclusive Education Research Hour – Monday, November 26

You are invited to join the Centre for Inclusive Education for the next Research Hour presentation.

Dr. Jason Brown
will be discussing

Parenting Children with Alcohol-related Disabilities

Monday, November 26
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Stevenson-Lawson Building SLB 292

Light refreshments will be available. 

Please RSVP to Grace Howell, ghowell@uwo.ca

Visiting Researcher Presentation – Dr. Stephen Campbell – Friday, November 30

The Faculty of Education
The University of Western Ontario
is pleased to invite all faculty, staff and students to a presentation by:

Dr. Stephen R. Campbell
Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University

Educational Neuroscience: From Concept to Reality

The Educational Neuroscience Laboratory (the ENGRAMMETRON) in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University has been conceived and designed to help augment traditional methodologies in educational research with methods and tools from cognitive neuroscience and psychophysiology. This talk will report on a number of projects currently underway in the ENGRAMMETRON, ranging from studies in ESL anxiety and geometric image-based reasoning to metacognition and mathematics education in virtual environments to illustrate how these research methods can contribute to educational research in the twenty-first century.

Friday, November 30, 2007
Morning Session (for Faculty of Education only)
9:30 a.m.

Afternoon Session (open to all of UWO)
2:00 – 4:00

Both sessions will be held at:
London Hall, Room 100
(Parking available at Huron Flats or Althouse College.)

Refreshments will be served.

Dr. Stephen R. Campbell has recently received a $500,000 grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s New Opportunities Program to establish the world’s first mathematics educational neuroscience laboratory, in his efforts to establish educational neuroscience as a foundational new area of research in mathematics education. Dr. Campbell is currently an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, specializing in mathematics education, with special emphasis on interrelations and dependencies between mathematics anxiety and mathematical comprehension of preservice teachers of mathematics.

Seminar Series Continues – Next talk by Dr. George Gadanidis

The next in the series of talks by Faculty of Education researchers: 

Students as performance mathematicians:
Taking mathematics to the wider community

Presented by:
Professor George Gadanidis
Faculty of Education, UWO

Wednesday, Nov. 28
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Room 2017
Faculty, staff, and students welcome to attend
Refreshments to follow

UWO Internal – International Curriculum Fund Competition

These awards are designed to promote initiatives that support the internationalization of academic programs and/or course curricula at Western. Specifically, the International Curriculum Fund (ICF) is designed to support efforts that incorporate comparative perspectives and emphasize the development of new courses or programs with significant international content. Funds are also available in support of undergraduate or graduate student travel for courses that include an existing or newly developed study abroad component for Western students.

Amount:
Up to $5,000 to support course development or redevelopment
Up to $10,000 to support program development or redevelopment
Up to $10,000 per year for 3 years to support student travel for a Study Abroad Program

Deadlines:
Faculty of Education, Associate Dean, GPR: January 16, 2008 (2-3 weeks earlier if you wish to have extensive feedback on your application.  Consult with Karen Kueneman.)
Research & Development Services: January 30, 2008

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.

 More information, applications & guidelines…

NOTE: Applications are processed through Research Development & Services (RD&S) and must be accompanied by a completed RDAF.

Teaching Support Centre – Research on Teaching Small Grants Program

The RT Small Grants Program is administered by the Teaching Support Centre.

Description:  Research on Teaching Grants are small grants designed to support faculty members, librarians, and archivists interested in doing research on their teaching.  Proposals from any and all academic disciplines are encouraged.

Amount: from $500 to $2500 depending on the needs of the researcher(s) and the number of competitive applications. (Funds must be spent by March 31, 2008)

Deadline: The First Round deadline has passed. However, there are still funds available in the Second Round with a rolling deadline, until funds are exhausted.

Eligibility: All full-time and part-time faculty members, librarians, and archivists from any academic discipline at Western are eligible to receive funding through this award. To be eligible to hold a research account at Western, the principal investigator must hold an academic appointment with a significant research component at The University of Western Ontario at the time of the application.  For this award, a departmental chair may hold a research account on behalf of an applicant who is not eligible to hold a research account.

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 of Western’s Research Ethics Board; and
5) the proposal is clear and complete

Application Material and Procedures

For further information contact:

Dr. Ken Meadows, Educational Researcher
Teaching Support Centre
519.661.2111, ext. 81301
Email: kmeadow2@uwo.ca.

RDAF (ROLA) must also be completed. 

Transdisciplinary Research Seminar Series

Faculty of Education
PhD student group invites you to the

Transdisciplinary Research Seminar

Presenting research on educational issues,
considered from a transdisciplinary perspective.

You are invited to attend the inaugural seminar

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
10:00 am to 11:30 am
in Room 2054 (FEB)

Topic:
Mathematics Learning

Invited speakers:

Daniel Ansari, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology Department, University of Western Ontario

George Gadanidis, Ph.D.
Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario

Introductory remarks will be given by Julia O’Sullivan, Dean
Faculty of Education

Everyone welcome!  Coffee and snacks will be available.

Dr. Marianne Larsen’s Research Team unveils “global citizen” kit

As reported in the November 1, 2007 version of the Western News (page 6), Dr. Marianne Larsen and her colleagues have created a package to assist Grade 6 teachers in educating students to become global citizens.

“Larsen launched the kit last week, the culmination of a year-and-a–half project, at a professional development workshop for more than 200 elementary teachers at Althouse College.”

The project was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) through a Global Classroom Initiative grant.

More information about the kit…

Canadian Council on Learning – Aboriginal Learning

The  Canadian Council on Learning has announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) for applied research projects in Aboriginal Learning in Canada.

Deadline:  December 3, 2007 (for a decision in January 2008)

Value: maximum $70,000 (project must be completed by December 2008)

Description: The purpose of this Request for Proposals  is to solicit applied research projects from not-for-profit organizations, community-based organizations, labour organizations, and research or academic institutions on the subject of Aboriginal Learning in Canada.
CCL only supports applied research projects, the results of which hold significant promise of applicability across contexts similar to the one in which the initial research was conducted. It is equally important that all projects include partnerships with appropriate stakeholders. In particular, CCL encourages applicants to build partnerships between community-based organizations and researchers.

Research Priorities:
1. Learning from Place
2. Nourishing the Learning Spirit
3. Aboriginal Languages, Literacy, and Learning
4. Diverse Educational Systems and Learning
5. Pedagogy of Professionals and Practitioners
6. Technology and Learning

More information and applications…