All OISE faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff are welcome to attend. Registration details will be emailed to OISE community members.
2025-26 Focus on Research Lecture Series
November 12, 2025 - Silence in adult education research and practice
Speaker: Katharine Entigar, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
January 22, 2026 - Off-campus wellness, foodbanks & temples: identifying and strengthening community supports for international students in Canada
Speaker: Grace Karram, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
February 19, 2026 - Studying wicked policy problems: a critical inquiry into school surveillance and safety discourses in education
Speaker: Beyhan Farhadi, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
April 16, 2026 - Title TBA
Speaker: Brendan Andrade, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
May 28, 2026 - Title TBA
Speaker: Julie Garlen, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Previous Lecture Series
November 7, 2024 - Emergence of the dark triads in early childhood: How children learn to lie, cheat, and steal
Speaker: Kang Lee, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
December 10, 2024 - University access and social justice in Brazil: a tridimensional approach
Speaker: Maíra Tavares Mendes, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
January 23, 2025 - Emotions and professional positioning in research
Speaker: Miglena Todorova, Department of Social Justice Education
May 20, 2025 - Education Experiences of Canadian High School Students with Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds: Perspectives of the stakeholders from students and families from independent post-Soviet countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
Speakers: Sarfaroz Niyozov, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning, and research team members Stephen Bahry and Max-Anthony Newman
November 23, 2023 - Introducing the Critical Action Learning Exchange (CALE): An international teacher community for design and peer support
Speaker: Jim Slotta, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
December 14, 2023 - Separate but together: Bridging education activities for democratic participation in South Korea
Speaker: Hye-Su Kuk, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
January 18, 2024 - Effective methods to curb academic cheating on exams: Recent advances
Speaker: Kang Lee, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
February 22, 2024 - Politically agentive communicative silence in adult newcomer education
Speaker: Katie Entigar, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
May 9, 2024 - Why Some English Language Learners Experience Persistent Difficulties in Developing Adequate Language and/or Literacy Skills in English
Speaker: Esther Geva, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
October 20, 2022 - Partnering with school systems to understand factors impacting French immersion students’ academic performance
Speakers: Becky Chen and team members Diana Burchell, Krystina Raymond, and Steve Songtao Wang, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
November 17, 2022 - African elders and Indigeneity
Speakers: Nana Dei, Department of Social Justice Education
December 8, 2022 - Northern oral language and writing through Play (NOW Play): a partnership supporting children’s Indigenous language, cultural knowledge and writing
Speakers: Shelley Stagg Peterson, Nicola Friedrich, and Nazila Eisazadeh, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
January 12, 2023 - Promoting reading development in Côte d’Ivoire with public-private academic partnerships
Speakers: Kaja Jasinska, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
February 16, 2023 - Mathematical literacy and digital technology: are they reconcilable?
Speakers: Alex Calvacante, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
March 23, 2023 - Changing Nature of Research Partnerships for Critical Studies of Work and Learning
Speakers: Peter Sawchuk, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
November 11, 2021 - The Power of Diagnostic Scaffolding in Technology-Rich Learning-Oriented Assessment Environments
Speakers: Eunice Jang, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
January 13, 2022 - Beyond the Toolkit: Virtual Community-Engaged Facilitation during COVID-19
Speakers: Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez (Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning), Andrea Vela-Alarcón
(PhD candidate, School of Fine Arts, McMaster University), and Sarah Switzer (Senior Research Officer, Centre for Community-Based Research)
February 10, 2022 - Rethinking Internationalization: Using ‘Collage’ to Understand a Moving Target
Speakers: Elizabeth Buckner, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
March 3, 2022 - "COVID taught me...": Examining Child-Radio Productions in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Speakers: Cassie Brownell, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
April 7, 2022 - Capturing self-injurious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in real-time: Opportunities, challenges, and potential applications of experiential sampling
Speakers: Chloe Hamza, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
February 3, 2022 - Asian educators’ experiences during COVID-19: How the surge in anti-Asian hate impacted Asian Canadian teachers and leaders
Speakers: Mary Reid and Kien Nam Luu, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
February 24, 2022 - Teachers' work during the COVID era
Speakers: Nina Bascia, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
March 31, 2022 - Filling the learning gaps caused by the pandemic: Supporting teachers and their diverse students with digital technology
Speakers: Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
May 5, 2022 - Coping with COVID-19: using quasi-experimental study of the effects of the pandemic on low-income children and their mothers
Speakers: Michal Perlman, Samantha Burns, Calpanaa Jegatheeswaran, and Sumayya Saleem, Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development
May 12, 2022 - Supporting online language education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a mixed-methods study on the use of action-oriented, plurilingual scenarios in Northern Italy
Speakers: Enrica Piccardo, Karam Noel, Andrea Scholze, and Rebecca Schmor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
October 22, 2020 - LGBTQ Families Speak Out: Ethical Principles and Practices for Arts-Based Testimonial Research
Speakers: Tara Goldstein and Yasmin Owis, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
December 10, 2020 - “She walked the writing path clearing the brush for us to follow”: Advancing Indigenous Maternal Methodologies to inform Pathways for Liberatory Praxis
Speakers: Jennifer Brant, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
January 21, 2021 - Trends in Socio-economic Segregation between Schools in Canada, 1980-2018
Speakers: Katyn Chmielewski and Sachin Maharaj, Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
March 4, 2021 - Supporting collective inquiry: New roles for the physical classroom environment
Speakers: Jim Slotta, Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
April 8, 2021 - Using marketing research methodologies to study parents' preferences and understanding of early childhood education and care services
Speakers: Michal Perlman (Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development), Samantha Burns (Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development), Adrienne Davidson (Department of Political Science, McMaster University), Delaine Hampton (Rotman School of Management), Sumayya Saleem, (Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development), and Linda White (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)