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Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Education Publications
This study involves the program evaluation of the Conversations About Education pilot, developed as a community collaboration to offer professional development involving participants from a Faculty of Education, local school partners, and community organizations offering programming to Newcomers to Canada. The program sought to provide a collective forum where educational issues could be examined and discussed through a multi-epistemic lens. During the program events participants were encouraged to share their personal perspectives of the classroom experience, and together discuss the implications that lived/life experience has on confronting bias in teaching. The evaluation of the pilot program employed a qualitative approach …
Creating A Knowledge Community: Embedded Professional Practice, Karen Roland
Creating A Knowledge Community: Embedded Professional Practice, Karen Roland
Education Publications
The Faculty of Education at a Southwestern Ontario, Canadian University appointed an Experiential Learning Specialist (ELS) as a member of the Faculty in 2007. The Experiential Learning Specialist acts as an impartial resource for all members of the educational community (teacher candidates, faculty, staff, school partners), by providing counselling, collaboration and mediation to promote social justice and equity in teacher education. In this regard, the Experiential Learning Specialist has developed professional resources, provided confidential counselling, guided conflict resolution through mediation processes, and endeavoured to build a knowledge community. The continued focus has been to contribute to the development and implementation, …