UNESCO Chair DCMÉT Symposium: Peace, Culture & Social Justice (Oct 25-27 ’23)
The UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education (DCMÉT) has announced a three-day online symposium under the theme of Peace, Culture & Social Justice. Now in its third...
A Call Of Our Time: Awakenings to Nonviolence in Curriculum and Education (Mar 8-10 ’24)
How do we in the field of education respond to today’s social, cultural, international and environmental crises, with mass shootings, war, racism, gendered violence, censorship, polarization and climate disasters relentlessly challenging us in this “post”-pandemic era…
Book Talk: Blackface in Canadian Educational Institutions by Prof Philip S.S. Howard (Oct 17 ’23)
A lecture discussion on blackface in Canadian Institutions based on Professor Howard`’s book Performing Postracialism: Reflections on Antiblackness, Nation, and Education through Contemporary Blackface in Canada…
Turn the Tide: A Pathway to Healing
“Turn the tide: Refugee education in crisis” is a report published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, 2018b). It shares the stories of refugee students who fall...
EDI in Medicine
I came across a very recent news piece that shows what’s happening generally with women in medicine and medical education here in Canada. The Ontario Physicians College has failed to...
Marvel did it…now it’s Science Education’s turn!
My whole life, I’ve either been too white for some people, or tooethnic for others. And it’s been this very uncomfortable, sucky inbetween. - Nakia, Ms. Marvel Now, if you...