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Schedule - 2024 OISE Graduate Student Research Conference

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March 22, 2024

9:00 - 9:30am

Opening Ceremony

OISE Auditorium
  • Dean Dr. Erica N. Walker

    Dr. Erica Walker is Dean and Professor at the ޾ֲ Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. An award-winning former public high school mathematics teacher from Atlanta, Georgia, she earned her doctorate in education from Harvard University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural factors as well as educational policies and practices that facilitate mathematics engagement, learning, and performance, especially for underserved students. Recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and by the National Association of Mathematicians and the Association for Women in Mathematics for her scholarship, leadership, and practice, she collaborates with teachers, schools, districts, organizations, and media outlets to promote mathematics excellence and equity for young people.

  • Iehnhotonkwas Bonnie Jane Maracle

    Iehnhotonkwas Bonnie Jane Maracle, Wolf Clan, Mohawk Nation at Tyendinaga Territory, holds a B.A. in Indigenous Studies from Trent University, a B.Ed. & M.Ed. from Queen’s University, and is a Ph.D. Candidate, Indigenous Studies, at Trent University. Bonnie is a Traditional Teacher in Residence at First Nations House.

  • something no one owns

    In our efforts to collaborate despite and because of difference, we often reproduce relational dynamics that are marked by possession and the collapsing of complex identities. “something no one owns” considers the stakes of refusing oppressive relational dynamics as we work in and beyond the university. It also calls us to consider the liberatory possibilities that can emerge from our work to develop and enact critical, expansive forms of belonging.

    Kai Butterfield

    Kai Butterfield is an artist, ޾ֲ Certified Teacher, and PhD student in the Department of Social Justice Education at the ޾ֲ Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto). They live intentionally as a reverberation of their Guyanese, Grenadian, and Bermudian ancestors’ will, which continues to stretch across time and space.

    Through their academic and artistic work, Butterfield critically examines Eurowestern understandings of the human to imagine life beyond destructive ways of being. Their doctoral research is focused on theorizing an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist approach to restorative justice that does not reproduce anti-Black notions of the human. Similarly, Butterfield uses poetry to explore the ways that Black women and queer people refuse the systems that seek their death, opening possibilities for Black liberation.

9:30 - 10:30am

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan

OISE Auditorium
Nimmi Gowrinathan
Pullling from the narratives of fighters in Sri Lanka, Palestine, Kashmir and others, this lecture re-imagines what safety looks like for those under constant threat of state violence, re-politicizing gender-based violence through the frame of self-determination.

10:30 - 11:00am

Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15am

Coffee Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Student Research Session 1

    • Rubby Nwaluka, Redefining Messy Solidarity as Humanness
    • Soula Gountouvas, Alternative Education: Opportunities for Equity
    • Naheed Mukhi, Struggles, Strengths, and Hopes: Journey of Ethnocultural Families through the Early Learning and Childcare
    • Chair: Rubby Nwaluka
    Room
    OI 2296
    • Samra Sheikh: Ensuring Quality Education in Emergencies (EIE) and Post-Conflict Areas.
    • Tien Pham: Climate change impacts on education in lower- and middle-income countries.
    • Tavila Haque: INGO vs NGO: Dismantling Colonial Power through Education in Rohingya Refugee Camp.
    • Youngbeen Ahn: Technological Landscape of Refugee Education: Opportunities and Challenges Through a Technocolonial Lens.
    • Chair: Tien Pham
    Room
    OI 8170
    • Nia Spooner: Empowerment and Agency: The Role of Identity in Educational Leadership Practice
    • Alison Starkey: Emotion practice (EP) – Explicitly implicit and implicitly explicit
    • Marvic Pascual: Conflict Education for Pre-Practicum Nursing Students in a Post-Pandemic Context
    • Chair: Nana Gulic
    Room
    OI 8220
    • Daniyal Rahim: Integrating skilled migrants in Australia and ޾ֲ: Examining foreign credential recognition and the stakeholders involved.
    • Shabnam Mammadova: Unveiling Challenges and Strategies: Immigrant Non-native ESL Teachers’ Experiences in Educational Settings.
    • Chair: Abigail Fisher
    Room
    OI 8214
    • Duaa Al-bao: Unveiling Educational Leadership and Policy Dynamics through a Distributed Lens
    • Pirasanya Gnanasuntharam: An Exploration of Cognitive Dissonance Theory’s Influence on Educational Leaders’ Sensemaking of ޾ֲ’s Equity Policies
    • Ruth Tate: A Critical Policy Analysis of the International Baccalaureate’s conception of Equity, Access, and Inclusion
    • Lincoln S. Smith: Teacher-Driven Teacher Development: A Case Study
    • Chair: Lincoln S. Smith
    Room
    OI 2295
    • Jocelyn Yu: The Role of Practitioner Research in Centering Multilingual Language Learners in Teaching and Learning
    • Lu Xi: Cultivating Critical Language Awareness and Plurilingual Competence through a Translanguaging Pedagogy in Graduate-Level L2 Writing
    • Rana Haidar: A Friend or A Foe? Multilingual Language Learners’ Perceptions of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education (online)
    • Chair: Jasmine Rice
    Room
    OI 5170 (Hybrid)
    • Ashley Yim: From Equitable Access to Equitable Success in STEM Programs at Canadian Universities
    • Liah Yared: Wrong Side of the Tracks: Impacts of Transit Disparities on Black University Participation in Scarborough
    • Linfeng Zhao: Critical Review of the Effects of Educational Policies and Legal Frameworks on K12 International Students
    • Qichun Zhang: Sexual Violence Prevention in Sun Yat-Sen University Before and After China’s #MeToo Movement
    • Tao Lin: China’s Quality-Oriented Education: A Comparative Study with Sweden and Reflections on Policy Impact
    • Tin Yuet (Tiffany) Tam: Multilingualism vs. language insecurity: Building multilingual English teachers’ holistic teacher identity with belonging and agency
    • Sophia Banez, Victoria Gotcheva, Ada Karakoc, Steve Songtao Wang: Evaluating and Validating Early Literacy Screening in Diverse Bilingual Settings: A Kindergarten and Grade 1 Study
    Room
    OI 5240

12:30 - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:00 - 3:00pm

1:05 - 1:25pm

"To Be" is to Inter-Be: Mindfulness Practice Sessions

OI 8280
Ann Dugan
Alana Rodger Jacobson
Yishin Khoo
This is a space for conference participants to pause in the middle of the busy conference schedule, ground themselves, take care of their minds and bodies, and connect with each other at a deeper level.

1:30 - 3:00pm

Faculty Conversations

OISE Library
rosalind hampton, PhD
Dr. Qui Alexander
Dr. Beyhan Farhadi
Shanna Peltier
Sewsen Igbu
This OISE faculty session will explore how scholars understand the construction, debate, and embodiment of difference in relation to neoliberal and capitalist definitions of difference that homogenize and dispossess.

3:00 - 3:15pm

Coffee Break

3:15 - 4:45pm

Student Research Session 2

  • Room
    This will be a new room
    • Xun Ril Li: Rhymes Beyond Borders—Unveiling Dialogic Meaning-Making and Defiant Spaces through Hip-Hop Literacies
    • Paddy T. Watson: Figured World of the Fantasy Writers’ Room: Analyzing Secondary-Level Critical Literacy Teaching through Screenwriting
    • Shari Thompson: Identifying Purpose in Research: Imagining New Roles
    • Chair: Blessing Digha
  • Room
    OI 8180
    • Abigail Fisher: Implementation of Mental Health Services in ޾ֲ Schools
    • Shukri Hilowle: De-Stigmatizing Mental Health in the Somali Community
    • Steve 4. Tu: Eco-Anxiety on the University Campus: A Multispecies Duoethnography
    • Chair: Shukri Hilowle
  • Room
    OI 5170
    • Jasmine Rice: Kanien’ké:ha in the City: An Overview of Mohawk Language Learning in the Urban Context
    • Sara McDowell: Can non-Indigenous people contribute to Indigenous language revitalization?
    • Christopher Gradin: Heritage Language Learning in Light of Japanese Canadian Internment: Developing an Oral History Informed Pedagogy
    • Fiona Cheuk and Cristina Jaimungal: Unsettling Tongues and Tones: Fleshing Out the Colonial Reproduction of English Language Education
    • Chair: Gayatri Thakor
  • Room
    OI 2296
    • Jennie Kim: Teacher Crisis: Early-Career Teachers (ECTs) Leave Professions in the Face of Neoliberal Forces in Schools
    • Ekta Bhatia-Bromley: Building Community and Raising Consciousness: Social and Solidarity Economies as Exemplars of Critical Feminist Pedagogy
    • Mahassen Ramadan: Feminist Participation: A Certainty To Build Commons Or An Illusion Of Community Engagement?
    • Chair: Mahassen Ramadan
  • Room
    OI 2279
    • Dongzhao Chen: Global Citizenship Education Principles and Ruism Ethics: An Analysis of Zhuge Liang Accomplishing Tianxia Citizenship (online)
    • Obiagu, Adaobiagu N.: The challenges of teaching civic education in an illiberal democracy: Towards a participatory critical pedagogy for humanizing democracy
    • Johanna Helin: Global Citizenship Education in a post-Soviet Context – Attitudes of Estonian Educators and Policymakers towards Transformative Education
    • Chair: Obiagu, Adaobiagu Nnemdi
  • Room
    OI 2295
    • Kanza Tariq: Exploring the Complexity of Immigrant Students’ Educational Trajectories
    • Alison D’Cruz: Spreading a Message: A Critical Discourse Analysis of International Student Offices in ޾ֲ (online)
    • Kruti Patel: Relationships as Opportunities for Resistance in Education
    • Chair: Wendy Pope
  • Room
    OI 5240
    • Emily Dobrich: Embodied Learning in the Praxis of Feminist Self-Defense Collective Organizing (online)
    • Natasha Gilani: Resilience in the Shadows: Navigating Identities and Resistance Strategies of Queer Women in Pakistan (online)
    • Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan: “Get married before being forced to marry a Talib!”: Female students’ challenges in Taliban-run universities
    • Chair: Qichun Zhang

3:30 - 5:00pm

Student Research Session 6

  • Room
    This will be a new room
    • Xun Ril Li: Rhymes Beyond Borders—Unveiling Dialogic Meaning-Making and Defiant Spaces through Hip-Hop Literacies
    • Paddy T. Watson: Figured World of the Fantasy Writers’ Room: Analyzing Secondary-Level Critical Literacy Teaching through Screenwriting
    • Shari Thompson: Identifying Purpose in Research: Imagining New Roles
    • Chair: Blessing Digha
  • Room
    OI 8180
    • Abigail Fisher: Implementation of Mental Health Services in ޾ֲ Schools
    • Shukri Hilowle: De-Stigmatizing Mental Health in the Somali Community
    • Steve 4. Tu: Eco-Anxiety on the University Campus: A Multispecies Duoethnography
    • Chair: Shukri Hilowle
  • Room
    OI 5170
    • Jasmine Rice: Kanien’ké:ha in the City: An Overview of Mohawk Language Learning in the Urban Context
    • Sara McDowell: Can non-Indigenous people contribute to Indigenous language revitalization?
    • Christopher Gradin: Heritage Language Learning in Light of Japanese Canadian Internment: Developing an Oral History Informed Pedagogy
    • Fiona Cheuk and Cristina Jaimungal: Unsettling Tongues and Tones: Fleshing Out the Colonial Reproduction of English Language Education
    • Chair: Gayatri Thakor
  • Room
    OI 2296
    • Jennie Kim: Teacher Crisis: Early-Career Teachers (ECTs) Leave Professions in the Face of Neoliberal Forces in Schools
    • Ekta Bhatia-Bromley: Building Community and Raising Consciousness: Social and Solidarity Economies as Exemplars of Critical Feminist Pedagogy
    • Mahassen Ramadan: Feminist Participation: A Certainty To Build Commons Or An Illusion Of Community Engagement?
    • Chair: Mahassen Ramadan
  • Room
    OI 2279
    • Dongzhao Chen: Global Citizenship Education Principles and Ruism Ethics: An Analysis of Zhuge Liang Accomplishing Tianxia Citizenship (online)
    • Obiagu, Adaobiagu N.: The challenges of teaching civic education in an illiberal democracy: Towards a participatory critical pedagogy for humanizing democracy
    • Johanna Helin: Global Citizenship Education in a post-Soviet Context – Attitudes of Estonian Educators and Policymakers towards Transformative Education
    • Chair: Obiagu, Adaobiagu Nnemdi
  • Room
    OI 2295
    • Kanza Tariq: Exploring the Complexity of Immigrant Students’ Educational Trajectories
    • Alison D’Cruz: Spreading a Message: A Critical Discourse Analysis of International Student Offices in ޾ֲ (online)
    • Kruti Patel: Relationships as Opportunities for Resistance in Education
    • Chair: Wendy Pope
  • Room
    OI 5240
    • Emily Dobrich: Embodied Learning in the Praxis of Feminist Self-Defense Collective Organizing (online)
    • Natasha Gilani: Resilience in the Shadows: Navigating Identities and Resistance Strategies of Queer Women in Pakistan (online)
    • Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan: “Get married before being forced to marry a Talib!”: Female students’ challenges in Taliban-run universities
    • Chair: Qichun Zhang

4:45 - 5:00pm

Break

"To Be" is to Inter-Be: Mindfulness Practice Sessions

OI 8280
Ann Dugan
Alana Rodger Jacobson
Yishin Khoo
This is a space for conference participants to pause in the middle of the busy conference schedule, ground themselves, take care of their minds and bodies, and connect with each other at a deeper level.

5:00 - 6:30pm

Learning, dialectics and subjectivity: Jean Lave in Conversation with Peter Sawchuk

OISE Library
Jean Lave
Peter H. Sawchuk
The Centre for Learning, Social Economy and Work (CLSEW) is delighted to welcome Jean Lave for a sit down conversation with OISE Professor Peter Sawchuk to discuss her latest insights into future of approaches to a critical politics of learning as changing practice. The lecture will be chaired by special guest Dr. Michael Bernhard from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Reception

OISE Library

OISE Alumni Fireside Chat

Room 5170

March 23, 2024

9:00 - 10:30am

The Jack Quarter Lectureship on Social Economy: "Solidarity Economies, Direct Democracy, and Lifelong Learning: Lessons from Argentina"

OISE Library
Ana Inés Heras
My goal in this presentation is twofold, conceptual, and methodological. On the one hand, I intend to address the concepts of solidarity economies, direct democracies and lifelong processes for accessing social justice and human rights, as they relate to the Argentinean experience.

"Surveillance, Saviorism, and "Care": Challenging Nationalist Educational Policies and Teacher Practices through Media-Based Resistance."

OI 5150
Niyousha Bastani
Abarna Selvarajah
Sarah Ázeline
Hayley H. Brooks
This highlighted panel session will explore how educational policies and teacher practices across ޾ֲ, the United States, and the United Kingdom shape specific nationalist discourses that produce and reproduce racial violence.

10:30 - 11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Student Research Session 3

  • Room
    OI 2296
    • Bushra Shahrin: Are We Doing Enough?: A Critical Analysis of Commodification of International Education and Student Affairs
    • Stephanie Salib: Linguistic Discrimination in ޾ֲ Through Linguicism and Glottophobia
    • Jinyang Wang: Studying in Virtual Multicultural Classroom: The Application of AI in Dialogical Education
    • Chair: Bushra Shahrin
  • Room
    OI 5230
    • Mengyuan Guo: Fanben Kaixin: Exploring the Potential of Chinese Traditional Culture for a Holistic Understanding of Sustainability
    • Alison Lam: Redefining Consumption and Sustainable Planning: Freetown and the City of Darkness Through a Green Lens
    • Steve 4. Tu: Velut arbor ævo: Other-than-humans and the future of higher education research
    • Chair: Steve 4. Tu
  • Room
    OI 5250
    • Rida Fatima: Increasing Access to Study Abroad Programs for Underrepresented Students
    • Usha Sharma: Internationalization of Higher Education and Quest for Global Common Good
    • Mehdia Hassan: Collage-making as bridge-building: Gathering insights into a transformative pedagogical practice with racialized youth in Toronto
    • Chair: Christina de los Santos
  • Room
    OI 5270
    • Christie Lazo: How First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Mothers Provide Ethnocultural Education to Their Children Within Pluralist ޾ֲ
    • Elaine Yu: Queering Parental Care: Informed by Queer Asian Youth
    • Blessing Timidi Digha: Exploring the Link between Financial Abuse and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights
    • Chair: Alissa Lévesque
  • Room
    OI 5170
    • Gabrielle Forget: ޾ֲ French immersion students: goals, retention, and sociolinguistic development
    • Jocelyn Yu and Heidi Dienesch : Using Critical Literacy to Reimagine Student Engagement in ޾ֲ Grade 9 Core French (online)
    • Sara Zoghbi: Intercultural Competencies in Education: a solution for a more inclusive and diverse world
    • Chair: Sara Zoghbi
  • Room
    OI 5150

    Xun Ril Li

  • Room
    Auditorium

    Maryuri Marin

  • Room
    OI 5240
    • Seo Young Lee: An overlook into the experience of internationally-trained teachers in the post-secondary education setting
    • Savina Nankoo: Barriers and Solutions to Reporting Gender Based Violence: The Experience of Survivors
    • Afraa Yusuf: Professional Development on Gender Identity and Teaching Trans Youth in ޾ֲ Secondary Schools
    • Fatima Farrukh: An Exploration of Support, Training, and Resources for K-8 ޾ֲ Teachers Working with Students with Chronic Illnesses (online)
    • Sara Pagliaro: Transcending the Classroom: Re-imagining “Social Justice Education” for TDSB Teachers
    • Shelley Rafailov: The Effect of Attention on Elementary Word Reading in English-French Bilinguals
    • Aliya Mustafina: The impact of the EQAO assessments on students’ opportunity to learning (OTL)
    • Zein Abuosbeh, Avril Brigden, Yu Shan Wei, and Shelley Rafailov: The impact of demographic characteristics on the phonological processing skills of French Immersion students.

Students and Faculty in Conversation: ‘Slow Spaces’ and Community Building in Academia

Nexus Lounge
Yara Abdelaziz
Ebru Bağ
Nana Gulic
Justine Jun
Carly Manion
Emikay Ogbeide
Norin Taj
This roundtable uniquely blends reflective exploration with a focus on the transformative potential of “slow spaces” within graduate institutions.

12:30 - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:05 - 1:25pm

"To Be" is to Inter-Be: Mindfulness Practice Sessions

OI 8280
Ann Dugan
Alana Rodger Jacobson
Yishin Khoo
This is a space for conference participants to pause in the middle of the busy conference schedule, ground themselves, take care of their minds and bodies, and connect with each other at a deeper level.

1:30 - 3:00pm

Food is medicine: Indigenous culinary journey - Exploring Sacred medicine and Traditional Recipes

Nexus Lounge
Embark on a culturally enriching and interactive experience with our Indigenous Cooking Class, where participants will delve into the rich tapestry of Native American traditions.

"Writing for Performance" workshop with Dr. Gowrinathan and D'Lo

OI 5170
Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan
’L
Join this year’s GSRC Keynote Speaker Dr. Gowrinathan and ’L for a workshop on applying key concepts from the keynote lecture in academic spaces with a specific focus on art-making, storytelling, and comedy.

3:00 - 3:15pm

Coffee Break

3:15 - 4:45pm

Student Research Session 4

  • Room
    OI 2296
    • Cristina Peter: Finding the Secret Sauce to Success: Measuring Metacognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills in ޾ֲ, ޾ֲ
    • Sara Shivafard: Changing The Way We Think: Sex Education as a Tool of Sexual Violence Prevention
    • Danielle Denichaud: Harmonizing theory and practice in Environmental & Sustainability Education through embodied, compassionate and eco-spiritual praxis
    • Chair: Cristina Peter
  • Room
    OI 5240
    • Elena Hannach-Courard: Unveiling Truth, Recognizing Complicity: A Call for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Child Study
    • Elwin Varughese: Exploring the Dark History of Colonial Education on Indigenous Communities in ޾ֲ and India
    • Marie McLeod: Embedding Decoloniality: Constructing Anti-Colonial Epistemological Possibilities for Education
    • Chair: Elena Hannach-Courard
  • Room
    OI 5250
    • Meral Choudhry: Resisting Islamophobia: Muslim Students’ Identity Formation and Agency in ޾ֲ Elementary Public Education
    • Palvi Sidana: Addressing Anti-Muslim Racism in ޾ֲ Public Schools
    • Pirasanya Gnanasuntharam: Re-imagining Race-Based Data to Elevate Equitable Decision-Making in Educational Policy and Leadership Spaces
    • Chair: Meral Choudhry
  • Room
    OI 5280
    • Justin Patrick: The University of Ottawa Students’ Union Revolution
    • Blessing Digha: When Community meets Academia
    • Xuefan Li: Decoding Performance: Chinese PhD Students’ Motivation, Finances, and Cross-Cultural Adaptation in ޾ֲ
    • Chair: Xuefan Li
  • Room
    OI 5270

    Annalissa Crisostomo

  • Room
    OI 5230

    Christina de los Santos

  • Room
    OI 5150

    Debanjan Borthakur

  • Room
    OI 5170
    • Alissa Lévesque: Breathing to Abolition
    • Xun Li : #WebComics: Fostering Global Dialogue through Political Webcomics on Instagram

4:45 - 5:00pm

Break

"To Be" is to Inter-Be: Mindfulness Practice Sessions

OI 8280
Ann Dugan
Alana Rodger Jacobson
Yishin Khoo
This is a space for conference participants to pause in the middle of the busy conference schedule, ground themselves, take care of their minds and bodies, and connect with each other at a deeper level.

5:00 - 6:00pm

Closing Ceremony & OISE GSA Award Ceremony

Nexus Lounge

6:30 - 8:00pm

Post-Conference Social

Pauper’s Pub (539 Bloor St W)

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