CIDEC Seminar Series: Winter 2017

Date

/ Time / Presenter/Sponsor / Chair / Presentation Title
January 11th
(Wednesday) / 11:30-1:00
Room 7-105 / Luis Ahumada, Alvaro Gonzalez, Mauricio Pino, Carmen MontecinosPontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoXavier Vanni, Juan Pablo Valenzuela & CristiánBellei,Center for Advanced Research in EducationUniversity of Chile / Stephen Anderson / An Evaluation of the School Improvement Networks Strategy in Chile
Why is it so difficult, but possible that schools improve and sustain improvement: Learning about sustainability improvement from Chilean schools.
January 23,26 and Feb TBA
3 seminars
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT DATES / Feb TBA 4-5:30 pm
(Monday)
23rd 4-5:30 pm
(Monday)
26th 4-5:30
(Thursday)
Room 7-105 / DR. MARCO SEEBER, GHENT UNIVERSITY BELGIUM
DR. JACK LEE, NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY, ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN
DR. ELIZABETH BUCKNER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK / Nina Bascia / “In search of policy inspiration: Mimicking in Higher Education”
“Higher Education Hubs in Asia: Talent Development and Regional Engagement”
“University Admissions in Comparative Perspective: The Question of Fairness, from Affirmative Action to Cheating Scandals”
February 1st
(Wednesday) / 4:30-6:00 pm
Room 7-105 / Daniela Bramwell, Joseph Flessa, Magdalena Fernandez / Stephen Anderson / Principal Leadership Development (TBC)
February 17th
(Friday) / 9:30 am-3:30 pm
Room 7-105 / Joseph P Farrell Student Research Symposium / Carly Manion
Vandra Masemann / CIDE Students present their research (MA & PhD candidates)
February 24th
(Friday)
POSTPONED / 11:30-1:00 pm
Room 7-105 / Francine Menashy, PhD
University of Massachusetts Boston / Karen Mundy / Corporate Engagement in the Education of Syrian Refugees:
“Investing in the Crisis”
February 28th
(Tuesday)
TBC / 11:30-1:00 pm / Professor Brahm Fleisch, Wits School of Education, S.A.; Rachel Ryerson, MOE, Ontario; & Santiago Rincón-Gallardo, EdD, OISE / Steve Anderson / Changing Pedagogy at Scale in South Africa, Mexico, Colombia, and Ontario
March 1st
(Wednesday) / 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Room 7-105 / Dr. Sunny Man Chu Lau, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, Bishops U / Antoinette Gagné / TBA
March 1st(TBC)
(Wednesday) / 4:30-6:00 pm
Nexus Lounge / CIDESA Sponsored event
TBC / CIDESA / Documentary and Pizza Night
CIES 2017 March 5-9, 2017 Atlanta, Georgia
March Break - March 13-17 TDSB/TCDSB – NO OISE CLASSES
March 22th
(Wednesday) / 3:00-4:30 pm
Room 7-105 / Nina Bascia, PhD, Chair and Professor, LHAE / Carly Manion
CIDE/CEPP / International Research Project
March 29th
(Wednesday) / 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Room 7-105 / MominaAfridi, PhD Candidate, CIDEC
Neil Orlowsky TBC / Carly Manion / TBA
TBA – Curriculum as Indoctrination
March 29 (TBC)
(Wednesday) / 4-7 pm
Peace Lounge / CIDESA sponsored / CIDESA / CIDE’s potluck to celebrate end of term
April 5th
(Wednesday) / 4-6
TBA / Diana Barrero
Neil Orlowsky / Kathy Bickmore / TBA
April 7th
(Friday) / 11:30-1:00 pm
Room 4-422 / Hanna Dumont, German Institute for International Educational Research, Berlin, Germany / Nina/Steve
CIDE/CEPP Sponsored / The Many Ways that Parents Game the System: Mixed-method Evidence on the Transition into Secondary School Tracks in Germany
April 12th
(Wednesday) / 11:30 – 1:00 pm
Room 7-105 / Yidan (Daisy) Zhu, PhD Candidate AECD/CIDEC
Neil Orlowsky TBC / Carly Manion / From Local to Global: The Social Organization of Motherhood Learning in Canadian Immigration Settlement Organizations
TBA – Curriculum as Indoctrination
AERA April 27- May 1, 2017 San Antonio, Texas
Congress 2017: The Next 150 May 27-June 2, 2017
May 12th
(Friday) / 11:30-1 or 4:30-6
6 TBC / Mark Evans – 6 panellists / Mark Evans / Youth Civic Activism and Engagement in Schools
May 31st
(Wednesday) / 11:30 am-1:00 pm
Room 7-105 / Romee Lee, PhD, Yonsei U, South Korea / Stephen Anderson / The Marginalized Adult Learners in Korean Lifelong Learning Policy and Practice: A Feminist Reading
Late May / TBA / Howard Stevenson, Director of Research, Professor of ELP Studies, U of Nottingham, UK / Nina Bascia
CIDE/CEPP Seminar / TBA
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Students are responsible for keeping track of seminars attended.Most seminars will be webcast live at and posted on CIDE website following the presentation at

PLEASE NOTE: CIDE seminars as Program Requirement: Students are required to attend and participate in a minimum of 5 CIDE seminars. Students must be present in person at a minimum of 4 CIDE seminars. After December 2013, for their 5th seminar requirement, students will have the option of either attending in person or visiting the CIDEC website, choosing one seminar video to watch and then write a reflective summary of 500 words on it. If you choose this option, please contact the CIDEC administrator for reflective summary guidelines at .

Other Dates to Know:

  • First day of classes for Wintersession, January 9,2017.
  • CIDESA Welcome Back Potluck January 18th4-6 pm, Peace Lounge.
  • Deadline for electronic submission of final doctoral theses in order to avoid fee charges for the 2016-17Winter Session, January 16, 2016.
  • Deadline to add Winter Session courses, January 23, 2017
  • Deadline to drop Winter session courses: February 27, 2017
  • CIES 2017 is March 5-9, 2017
  • Mid-Winter Break March 12-17, No OISE Classes.
  • CIDEC and the CIDESA presents the Joseph P. Farrell Student Research Symposium Friday February 17th, 2017. Full day attendance counts as 2 CIDE seminars toward CIDE program requirements.
  • Please note that CIDESA Events do not count toward CIDE program Requirements

Please note that presenters, dates and times are subject to change.

1 / All CIDEC Seminars are held in 7-105, unless otherwise indicated.
THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR UP TO DATE INFORMATION, PLEASE CHECK THE CIDEC WEBSITE: