Recent Publication

Congratulations to Ellen Singleton and Aniko Varaplotai on the recent publication (by the Althouse Press) of their edited book, Pedagogy in Motion: A Community of Inquiry for Human Movement Studies.

Larsen Named Editor

Dr. Marianne Larsen has assumed the position of editor of the Canadian and International Education Journal. Congratulations!

Namukasa Named Editor

Congratulations to Dr. Immaculate Namukasa on her recent acceptance of the editorship of the Ontario Association of Mathematics Educator’s Gazette.  This is an honor for Immaculate and for our Faculty.

Taylor Named Convenor of Research Network

Dr. Shelley Taylor was recently named convenor of a Research Network (ReN) within AILA (the International Association of Applied Linguistics).

The multinational network includes scholars from Canada, Denmark and Ireland: Dr. Shelley Taylor and Dr. Farahnaz Faez from Western; Dr. Jim Cummins – CRC at OISE/UT; Dr. Geoff Lawrence from UT & Ryerson; Dr. Anne Holmen from the University of Copenhagen, & Dr. David Little from Trinity College-Dublin. They will hold the ReN for cross-disciplinary research in applied linguistics for three years and will present an invited symposium at the upcoming AILA World Congress in Australia in 2014. Their research focus is on L2/FL educators’ PD within supportive communities of practice.

Classroom Behaviour – Alan Edmunds

Alan Edmund’s research on classroom management is featured in this week’s Western News (pg 15).  “Faculty of Education professor Alan Edmunds is confident his Dynamic Classroom Management approach will bring much needed changes to the elementary and secondary classrooms in Ontario.”

Martino & Rezai-Rashti in the News

In Gender, Race and the Politics of Role Modeling: The Influence of Male Teachers, released in January 2012, Faculty of Education professors Wayne Martino and Goli Rezai-Rashti found the gender and race of a teacher were inconsequential to student performance, but superior teaching pedagogy – the individual strategies and styles of teaching – is the key to success. More at Western News…

Wayne Martino was also quoted in a Globe and Mail story.

Michael Kehler in the news

Michael Kehler was featured in an article in the Western News (p 8) about his research study and upcoming symposium -  An International Symposium Speaks the Unspoken: Masculinities, bodies and body images in health education.

He has also recently been interviewed by CJBK radio in London and CBC’s Ontario Today and Ontario Morning radio shows.

Recent Publications of our Researchers

1.     Suzanne Majhanovich, Shelley Taylor and Vickie W K Li (graduate student) are contributors to the most recent edition of Unica and if you read p. 8 of Tom Finken’s Editorial, you’ll see that he specifically mentions Western & our contributions to this issue of GiST!

2.     Greg Dickinson’s chapter Canadian Education Law Developments 2005-2010 is now in print in the 2010 Yearbook of Education Law.

3.     Jerry Paquette’s book co-authored with our PhD graduate, Gerald Fallon, First Nations Education Policy in Canada: Progress or Gridlock was released by the University of Toronto Press, increasing the awareness of our presence on the national stage with regard to aboriginal education.

4.     Carol Beynon has an article just hot off the press, entitled “Making the voices heard: A social constructivist study of youth and men who choose to sing in the “Journal in Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts with former graduate student and colleague, Andre-Louis Heywood.