Western Mentoring Micro Grant

The Western Mentoring Micro Grant is designed to maximize mentoring experiences for full-time tenure-track faculty. To enhance teaching and research and to develop solid careers, faculty often need resources to acquire new skills and new research and teaching methods, and to develop partnerships with established scholars. Micro Grants are designed to provide opportunities for tenure-stream members of faculty to choose mentoring opportunities that make good sense for their own professional development, but that may be inaccessible to them because of lack of funding.

Application deadline: November 29, 2013

Amount: up to $2,000

Eligibility: All full-time tenure-stream Western faculty are eligible to submit applications for Micro Grants.

More Information and applications…

Information Session
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013,
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Teaching Support Centre, Room 121,
The D.B. Weldon Library

Upcoming Teaching Support Centre Events for Faculty (with a Research Focus)

Designing and Administering Effective Interviews for Research on Teaching: A Session for Beginners
Thursday, November 7, 2013, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Register at:  https://www.lib.uwo.ca/tsc/calendar/view_program.php?id=566
In this interactive session, participants will discuss the basics of interviewing from a Research on Teaching (RT) perspective. Issues that will be discussed include approaches to interviewing (e.g., qualitative & quantitative frameworks), types of interviews (e.g., structured, semi-structured, focus groups), ethical concerns with interviewing as a method in RT projects, and writing and asking effective interview questions.

Research Support: Beyond the Three Councils
Friday, November 22, 2013, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Register at: http://www.uwo.ca/tsc/faculty_programs/faculty_mentor_program.html
Shrinking levels of funding call for creative thinking in finding support for research. This session’s focus is on the broader scope of programs outside the three government Councils. At Western there are Internal Grant opportunities that are especially important for new faculty. The panel will also discuss ways to locate and benefit from the many varied programs and research sponsors outside the University.

Interdisciplinary Research and the Academic Career
Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Register at: http://www.uwo.ca/tsc/faculty_programs/faculty_mentor_program.html
Your research and publications cross disciplines. What impact does this have on tenure and promotion? Experienced colleagues discuss their strategies.

Conference – Intercultural vs. Multicultural: The end of rivalries?

A multi-sited international conference in conjunction with the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Taylor’s University, Malaysia will be hosted at the Faculty of Education, Western University.  The conference, Intercultural vs. Multicultural: The end of rivalries? will take place  February 27-28, 2014. This exciting event promises to be an intellectually stimulating and highly engaging endeavour for both researchers and practitioners.

The organizers are currently accepting proposals in the form of abstracts of 200-300 words (maximum) until December 10, 2013 (extended deadline).  

All acceptance notifications will be sent out by January 10, 2014.

Please see below as well as the conference website for more information.

INTERCULTURAL VS. MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: THE END OF RIVALRIES?

•  Plenary Speakers
  • Professor Vanessa Andreotti, Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Professor Julie Byrd Clark, Faculty of Education, Western University, Canada
  • Professor Fred Dervin, Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, Finland

Teacher Education in Norway

The Human Ingenuity Research Group and Researching International and Comparative Education (RICE) present:

Teacher Education in Norway
with a focus on Telemark University College

Dr. Sørebø Gulliksen

Friday November 7th
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Room 1010
Faculty of Education Building

Refreshments provided

Supported by narratives, images and video from the daily life at teacher education institutions in Norway, Dr. Sørebø Gulliksen’s presentation will provide an overview of teacher’s college in Norway today: the types of teacher education programs offered and how they are structured within the education system. In particular she will discuss the unique positioning of arts and crafts education for subject teachers at Telemark University College as well as the importance of hands-on learning in concurrent teacher education. Drawing from the recent literature and her post-doctoral research, Dr. Sørebø Gulliksen will explore some of the main challenges that colleagues at her institution encounter when they plan and deliver this form of teacher education.

Poster

Guest Lecture – Dr. Cameron McCarthy

The Faculty of Education at Western and the Centre for Social Concern at King’s University College present:

Scholars on Their Way to Entrepreneurs: Barbadian Elite School Youth as Postcolonial Argonauts to the North American Global Higher Education Market Place

Dr. Cameron McCarthy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:00pm – 5:30pm
November 20, 2013
Community Room (1139)
Faculty of Education

This presentation will direct attention to a critical but neglected concern in the area of globalization studies: the role of schooling in transnational class formation and the preparation of highly-mobile school youth for globalizing futures.

All are welcome!
This lecture will be video-recorded.
Please RSVP to awatso62@uwo.ca.
For more information, contact Goli Rezai-Rashti.

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Consultation on Ontario Education Strategy

The Ontario Ministry of Education wants to hear from the public about their next phase in the Ontario education strategy. Below are some links and information that people might be interested in. This is an opportunity for everyone to provide input on Building The Next Phase in Ontario’s Education Strategy (PDF, 263 KB)

Feedback can be submitted via an online submission form which contains the key questions that are part of the discussion. The submission form link is: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/about/survey.html

• Additional Questions/ feedback regarding the next phase in Ontario’s education strategy can be sent to greattoexcellent@ontario.ca
• Website for additional details on in-person/ e-submissions: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/about/excellent.html

The deadline for online submissions is November 15, 2013

Visiting Scholar Applications Invited

Faculty members are invited to nominate international visiting scholar candidates for a visit of approximately one month during the 2014 year.

Deadline: October 31, 2013, 4:00 p.m. to Faculty of Education, Research Office (1163)

Amount: Honorarium $5000 maximum; Travel, accommodations & meals $5000 maximum

Purpose: The purpose of the visiting scholar fund is to help to support the research function of the Faculty by bringing an outstanding scholar and researcher to the Faculty.

Eligibility: The host faculty member(s) must be tenured or probationary faculty member(s) of the Faculty of Education.

Note: There are no restrictions as to when the visit must occur and non-summer term visits are encouraged.

Applications and Guidelines…