Greetings, My name is K.J. White. I am the Eastern Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Principals (CAP) http://cdnprincipals.org/.  As part of my role as Eastern VP, I am editor for our CAP Journal. CAP advocates for Principals and Vice-Principals at the national level. Working with other national educational groups, CAP presents the views and opinions of Principals, Assistant-Principals, Vice-Principals and […]

The UBC Library has developed a new online cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License, very similar to the current UBC Thesis Licence Agreement which students have been using up to now. The License will be applicable to theses and dissertations as well as to all non-thesis work in cIRcle, and will likely go into effect on Friday […]

Call For Papers: Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking & Making Research on hacker culture has historically focused on a relatively narrow set of activities and practices related to open-source software, political protest, and criminality. Scholarship on making has generally been defined as hands-on work with a connection to […]

Call for Papers / Proposals ————————————————- 1. Special Series Call for Manuscripts Critical Education The Media and the Neoliberal Privatization of Education Series editors: Derek R. Ford (Syracuse University), Brad Porfilio (Lewis University), Rebecca A.Goldstein (Montclair State University) Abstracts due: Dec. 31, 2013 Manuscripts due: May 1, 2014 As the neoliberal agenda for public education […]

Dear colleagues, We would like to bring your attention to our open access journal, The Online Journal of Distance Education and e-Learning. TOJDEL is an online international electronic journal that covers valuable research articles from international research agenda. The content of TOJDEL relates to distance education and e-learning studies. Colleagues interested in submitting a paper […]

Good Afternoon CATE Folks          In 2009 CATE started a book series dedicated to research and scholarship on teacher education within the Canadian context: “Canadian Research in Teacher Education: A Polygraph Series”. The Series has the purpose of supporting teacher education practices and research in teacher education in and across Canada.   1.    The publications […]

From: Hammer, Krenny – Washington State University Please share with faculty and graduate students with a focus on responsibilities, connections, and critical questions, we are especially interested in how we learn from each other and the diverse fields of education, special education, social work, indigenous studies, cultural studies, nursing, critical disability studies, post-colonialism…. Call for […]

Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot! Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about […]

Dear Member: On behalf of the CSSE Board of Directors, I would like to take this opportunity to invite faculty, staff and graduate students from your institution to submit a presentation proposal for the 2014 CSSE Annual Conference in St. Catharines, Ontario on 24 – 28 May 2014 (pre-conferences on 24 May 2014). Held in […]

The influence of Roger Simon’s calling as a teacher extends in incalculable directions. For decades, his teaching at the University of Toronto questioned status quo practices found in activism, schools, museums, media, and other sites of public memory. Simon’s influence is as subtle in these multiple directions as it is profound in specific sites where […]

Call for Submissions Historical Encounters is a new interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the empirical and theoretical study of:  historical consciousness (how we experience the past as something alien to the present; how we understand and relate, both cognitively and affectively, to the past; and how our historically-constituted consciousness shapes our understanding and interpretation of historical representations in […]

CALLING ALL SCHOLARS RE:  The International Gender and Language Association   Upcoming IGALA International Conference will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from June 5th through to June 7th, 2014.  It will be held at Simon Fraser University’s downtown campus, Harbour Centre. We hope the www.IGALA8.com website will be helpful in answering any questions […]

Did you miss the Three Minute Thesis finals?  Videos are now available for viewing at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JAfS6VQqkxCwy0FAPB5JO820KU50hCl .  Please note that the semi-finalist videos will be posted here in the next two weeks.   A congratulations to all the graduate students who presented this year for their outstanding presentations! The Mitacs Step program is running a Foundations […]

Call for papers / Appel de textes Special Issue Focus: Multimedia in/as scholarship Anila Asghar and Teresa Strong-Wilson (McGill University) invite submissions for a special issue of the McGill Journal of Education on Multimedia in/as Scholarship. This issue invites scholars from a wide variety of disciplines in education to explore the use of multimedia in/as […]

This is just a gentle reminder of the deadline, at the end of this week, to make a submission to participate in Kickstart’s next exciting, public art exhibit! In a nutshell, MAGIC / REALISM is a visual art exhibit to be presented by Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture, from August 26th to September 16th, 2013. […]