/smerg/articles/rss en /smerg/article/reflections-sshrc-application <p>I just submitted my first <a href="http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/fellowships/doctoral-doctorat-eng.aspx">SSHRC application</a> to the <a href="/dise/">Department of Integrated Studies in Education</a> here at <a href="/">McGill</a>. Sitting with a celebratory beer in my hand, I want to reflect back on the process before, like with the blissful amnesia that creeps in after childbirth, I forget the horror and start to romanticize the experience.</p> Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:39:11 +0000 Rebecca Pearce 2425 at /smerg /smerg/article/reflection-racialethnic-identities-and-learning-mathematics <p align="center"><strong>Reflection on “Racial/Ethnic Identities and Learning Mathematics” by Mahtab Nazemi</strong></p> Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:58:12 +0000 Maria-Josee Bran Lopez and Rebecca Pearce 2240 at /smerg /smerg/article/practice-based-pedagogy-smerg <p>Five of our SMERG faculty members recently published an article on their use of practice-based pedagogy in the mathematics and science teacher preparation programs. You can find the full text here: <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42330-018-0009-0?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42330-018-0009-0?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst</a></p> <p>The abstract is below:</p> Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:21:31 +0000 christopher.gosling@mail.mcgill.ca 2179 at /smerg /smerg/article/first-steps <p>This week for <a href="/dise/anila-asghar" target="_blank">Dr. Anila Asghar’s</a> MA/PhD <a href="/study/2017-2018/courses/edec-709" target="_blank">Seminar in Math and Science Education course</a> we read ‘“Science Capital”: a conceptual, methodological, and empirical argument for extending Bourdieusian notions of capital beyond the arts.’ (Archer et al., 2015).</p> Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:35:58 +0000 Rebecca Pearce 1890 at /smerg /smerg/article/switching-it <p>This year I started my class differently than I ever have before. We did the same goofy opening day exercises and name game that I always do, but I didn't hand out a syllabus. Instead I told my Financial Math students that we'd get to it the next day.</p> Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:50:59 +0000 Chris Gosling 1761 at /smerg /smerg/article/egss-student-speaker-series <p>On January 30th I had the opportunity to present a talk for the <a href="https://egssmcgill.wordpress.com/">EGSS</a> <a href="/education/channels/event/annual-egss-student-speaker-series-283657">speaker series</a>. Being a first-year PhD student, this kind of forced me to get my thoughts together in an organized way in a very short period of time. It was also an opportunity to present the background to my future research, and to get some feedback from other grad students in the <a href="/education/">Faculty of Education</a>.</p> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 21:04:38 +0000 Rebecca Pearce 1742 at /smerg /smerg/article/reflections-after-first-term <p>People have asked me why I wanted to go back to school, especially when it meant taking a leave of absence from a stable teaching position. My answer was that while I thought the things I was doing were effective, I wanted to figure out whether I was doing them the best way I could and also the long-term effects that these activities had on my students. </p> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:24:36 +0000 christopher.gosling@mail.mcgill.ca 1380 at /smerg /smerg/article/cmesg-report <p><strong>EDITOR'S NOTE:</strong> SMERG is proud to be hosting this year's CMESG conference to be held at �㽶��Ƶ from June 2-6, 2017. In anticipation of the event, one of our SMERG members has shared his experience at the 2016 conference.</p> <p style="text-align:center">***</p> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:18:21 +0000 Dominic Manuel 1379 at /smerg /smerg/article/csse-conference-report <p>T<span>he <a href="http://www.csse-scee.ca/">Canadian Society for the Study</a></span><span><a href="http://www.csse-scee.ca/"> of Education (CSSE)</a> conference took place in May, 2016. For those of you do not know or have not heard of CSSE, CSSE is the largest educational conference in held in Canada, in conjunction with the Congress of humanities and social science. For more information, please visit: </span><a href="http://www.csse-scee.ca/conference/">http://www.csse-scee.ca/conference/</a></p> Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:59:40 +0000 Eun-Ji Amy Kim 1251 at /smerg