Statement on Racial Injustice and Systemic Discrimination
Dear McGill DISE Community,
Video Première: Students on Ice 2019
OFNIE (Office of First Nations and Inuit Education) premièred a video emphasizing the revitalizing Inuit culture in the classroom and bringing teacher education outside! Watch this heartwarming video capturing the educational activities of the Students on Ice (SOI) Arctic Expedition 2019. Many thanks to OFNIE partner Kativik Ilisarniliriniq and to the Students on Ice Foundation for producing this important video.
DISE Releases Statement on Bill 21
Statement on Bill 21, An Act respecting the laicity of the State (Loi sur la laïcité de l’État), from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and the Internships and Student Affairs Office in the Faculty of Education at 㽶Ƶ adopted on April 18, 2019
Dr. Aziz Choudry in Manchester
DISE's Dr. Aziz Choudry will take part in a panel discussion presented by the Northern Police Monitoring Project in Manchester, UK.
Activists, State Surveillance and Political PolicingThe panel discussion will take place Friday March 8, 2019.
New book from DISE's Aziz Choudry, "Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression", is now available
A new publication edited by Aziz Choudry, Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression, is now available for purchase from Pluto Press.
McGill Sustainability Faculty Feature | Professor Blane Harvey
Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education discusses climate change knowledge and how to develop tomorrow’s sustainability leaders
Partnership between Cree School Board, McGill Faculty of Education featured in CBC article
"'A huge class': McGill graduates 40 students from Indigenous language and literacy program", gushed a recent CBC article by Susan Bell and Betsy Longchap, posted November 26, 2018.
DISE student Fatima Ahmad featured in CBC article about proposed religious symbol ban
CBC recently published an article on the topic of Quebec's proposed ban on religious symbols for civil servants, including teachers: "Aspiring teacher may leave Quebec if CAQ follows through on religious symbol ban", by Benjamin Shingler and Jaela Bernstien.
DISE students and alumni establish Canadian non-profit
Students and alumni from McGill's Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) have co-founded the non-religious non-profit Centre for Civic Religious Literacy (CCRL) to promote civic religious literacy through educational programming.
New issue and call for papers from J-BILD (Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity)
J-BILD (Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity) have announced the publication of Volume 2(2), now available to read or download via their website.
DISE's Jayne Malenfant is La Presse "Personality of the Week"
Jayne Malenfant, doctoral student with our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, has been chosen as La Presse's Personality of the Week.
New book co-edited by Claudia Mitchell and Relebohile Moletsane: "Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speaking Back Through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence"
Claudia Mitchell has co-edited a new book:Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speaking Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence (Brill Publishers). The book is co-edited with Relebohile Moletsane of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The book is now available online through Brill.
"D’itinérante à doctorante": DISE doctoral student Jayne Malenfant featured in La Presse
Jayne Malenfant, doctoral student with our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, was featured in a recent La Presse article, "D’itinérante à doctorante", published October 26, and written by Suzanna Colpron.
Prof. Limin Jao speaks to CBC about REDress project honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women
Prof. Limin Jao, of our Department of Integrated Studies in Education, spoke with the CBC this week regarding the recent REDress exhibition held at Montreal's Trafalgar School for Girls.