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Continued Expansion of Online and Blended Learning

Sixth Annual State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning Reports Continued Expansion of Online and Blended Learning in Many Provinces and in First Nations, Metis and Inuit (FNMI) Programs MONTREAL, QUEBEC—(Marketwired – Feb. 20, 2014) – The recently released sixth annual State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada report finds the total number…

Launch of SSHRC’s 2014 Impact Awards competition

We are pleased to inform you that SSHRC has launched the 2014 Impact Awards competition. Announced last year, SSHRC’s Impact Awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture. The awards recognize outstanding researchers and students and celebrate their achievements in research, research training, knowledge mobilization and outreach activities funded partially or…

SLLS2014conference

Please mark your calendars for the fifth annual conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS). Although the overall conference theme will focus on social policy this year, we welcome conference submissions from all areas of longitudinal and life course studies: physical, psychological, social developmental and ageing processes and functioning within and…

News from StatsCan 20140204

News release: Longitudinal and International Study of Adults http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140130/dq140130f-eng.htm  

Roger Simon Special Issue

R. I. Simon: A pedagogy of public possibility An invitation to publish in Canadian Social Studies Editor: Kent den Heyer; Guest editors: Lisa Farley, Aparna Mishra Tarc 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…

AJER book reviewers

Greetings: I am the book reviews editor for the Alberta Journal of Educational Research. “The Alberta Journal of Educational Research (AJER) is a quarterly journal, published in Canada, devoted to the dissemination, criticism, interpretation, and encouragement of all forms of systematic enquiry into education and fields related to or associated with education” (as cited at…

Envisioning Reciprocal Learning Between Canada and China

Dear Professors and Graduate Students, You are invited to attend and/or present at the The Public Conference on Envisioning Reciprocal Learning Between Canada and China , on April 7-8 2014, sponsored by SSHRC Partnership Grant and the University of Windsor (UWin), UWin Faculty of Education and in partnership with the Greater Essex County District School…

Gender Summit 4 – EU 2014

Gender Summit 4 – EU 2014 June 30th and July 1st 2014 in Brussels Theme “From Ideas to Markets: Excellence in mainstreaming gender into research, innovation, and policy” The GS4 – Europe will, again, bring together experts from research, industry and policy to jointly establish practical and effective ways of improving quality and impact of…

Educational Research as Craft – Data, Theory and Analyses

EERA e.V. and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim are pleased to announce the 2014 doctoral research student Seasonal School. This year’s EERA invited Seasonal School will invite 70 European research students to a five day Summer School on Educational methodology at NTNU, Trondheim from June 10 – 14, 2014. Aims of…