February 14, 2019
Friday Seminar Series
Thursday, February 14, 2019
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
PCOH 2012
The Teacher and Student as Such – Dr. Sam Rocha, Assistant Professor
This paper will make the claim that “the study of education is imperiled by the institutional study of education,” followed by a brief philosophical sketch.
Thinking With Literary Philosophy: What is it and Why is it? – Addyson Frattura-Kampschroer, PhD student & Rabia Mir, MA student
In this talk, we engage with questions of style and form within philosophical writing in education. To do so, we play with the idea and essence of “literariness” in literary philosophy, as a form. We do not seek to convince, but rather to question what literary philosophy is, why it is, and in what ways might it be interesting within the field of education.
Student Labor, Student Strikes, Student Power – Jonathan Turcotte-Summers, PhD student
While post-secondary education in Ontario is under attack, students in Quebec are planning a strike and fighting back. What makes this strike so different? Why isn’t it called a “walkout” or a “boycott”? And why do some think it’s so revolutionary to consider study as a form of labour, and students as workers?
2018 ALE Awards
Nasim Peikazadi
Kari Grain
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2018 Adult Learning and Education Awards, EDST students Kari Grain and Nasim Peikazadi!
Kari has been awarded the Coolie Verner Prize in recognition of her consistent work in innovative aspects of adult education in ethically sustainable ways.
Nasim has been awarded the Gordon Selman Award for her work and research towards understanding the social and historical foundations of Adult Education in Canada.
Congratulations again on this achievement!
Congratulations, Paulina Semenec!
We are pleased to announce that Paulina Semenec is a winner of the 2018-2019 Graduate Student Endowed Awards and recipient of the Jimmar Memorial Scholarship in Education.
Congratulations, Paulina, on this significant achievement!
Congratulations, Claudia Diaz-Diaz!
We are pleased to announce that Claudia Diaz-Diaz is a winner of the 2018-2019 Graduate Student Endowed Awards and recipient of the Dean of Education Scholarship.
Congratulations, Claudia, on this significant achievement!
Congratulations, Stéphanie Black!
EDST PhD Student, Stéphanie Black, receives the J. Korczak Association of Canada Graduate Scholarship in Children’s Rights and Indigenous Education
Stéphanie’s doctoral research explores whether children in Vancouver have equity of access to highly trained school-based sexuality education (SBSE) instructors in Vancouver. During her M.Ed., she learned first-hand about the disparities in SBSE instruction across Vancouver, particularly the challenges faced by children in government care, including Indigenous and marginalized children, in accessing SBSE. This award recognizes the importance of Stéphanie’s research. Well done, Stéphanie!
Dr. Jo-ann Archibald appointed to the Order of Canada
Congratulations to EDST Emerita Dr. Jo-ann Archibald (Q’um Q’um Xiiem) on being appointed as an Officer to the Order of Canada. Governor General Julie Payette made 103 new appointments on December 27, honouring Canadians who have helped shape and innovate societies across the country. This is one of Canada’s highest honours.
Dr. Archibald is an Indigenous scholar, author, and pioneer in the advancement of Indigenous education, as well as the former Associate Dean for Indigenous Education and Director of the Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP).
CBC interviewed Dr. Archibald about her appointment and her work in Indigenous education, which can be read here.
EDST Welcomes Dr. Sharon Stein
The Department of Educational Studies is pleased to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Sharon Stein. Dr. Stein joined the department January 1, 2019 as an Assistant Professor!
January 17, 2019
Against purity and for a politics of responsibility
Sponsored by the CRC in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change
Seminar with Dr. Alexis Shotwell, Carleton University
Thursday, January 17th | 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. | PCOH 2012
Often there is an implicit or explicit idea that in order to live authentically or ethically we ought to avoid potentially reprehensible results in our actions. Since it is not possible to avoid complicity, we do better to start from an assumption that everyone is implicated in situations we (at least in some way) repudiate. This presentation investigates that category of complex or big problems toward which we bear impossible responsibilities. Although these responsibilities arise from our particular and situated context — our individual lives — they are not resolvable individually. But most ethical systems on offer posit and return to an individual knower, willer, and actor, enjoining them to aim for personal ethical purity. An ethical approach aiming for personal purity is inadequate in the face of the complex and entangled situation in which we in fact live. Individualism, in the context of relations perceptible through considering embodiment, is an ethical problem because it constitutes ethical success as personal purity. Such personal purity is simultaneously inadequate, impossible, and politically dangerous for shared projects of living on earth. While personal purity may be a winnable aim in some ethical situations, is impossible in situations such as energy use and eating. We do better to aim for different sorts of ethical practice more consonant with the entangled and complex situations we meet. I explore the idea of a “politics of responsibility” as one way to practice this sort of ethics.
Alexis Shotwell is an associate professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin territory. She is the co-investigator for the AIDS Activist History Project, and author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. Her website is alexisshotwell.com
January 18, 2019
EDST FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES
Friday, January 18, 2019 | 2:00 – 4:00 P.M. | PCOH 1302
Northrop Frye’s writing on geography and space in the Canadian imagination: Universities and Colleges as
scholastic ‘garrisons’
Jed Anderson, PhD candidate
I intend to discuss the unique way higher education in Canada conforms to a certain spatial pattern with historical roots. I will draw primarily on the works of Northrop Frye, who argued that a “garrison mentality” exists in the non-indigenous Canadian imagination. I may draw from additional works by Margaret Atwood, and other Canadian literary figures to further this discussion. I will also refer to Henri Lefebvre’s Production of Space as part of a discussion about the implications of Frye’s theory. This presentation represents research for a paper I intend to submit to the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education conference in 2019.
A Phenomenology of Utterance, the Threshold of Teaching
Adi Burton, PhD student, and Dr. Sam Rocha
In this paper, Adi Burton and Sam Rocha explore the relation between the utterance—the Call and the Response—and the Prophet who stands between the utterances in the threshold of teaching. This phenomenological exploration is inspired by texts and commentary by Augustine, Ricouer, Marion, Rosenzweig, and Buber, along with Burton and Rocha’s personal experience reading the Book of Samuel.
