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Media Release

Western’s Faculty of Education improving children’s mental health through new Single Ceiling initiative

December 18, 2014
Western University’s Faculty of Education is working to improve care for vulnerable children and enable ground-breaking research by ...

People

2014 W.A. Townshend Gold Medal in Education Awarded

December 11, 2014
Faculty of Education graduate student Beryl Cohen has become part of a prestigious group of researchers by being awarded the W.A. Townshend Gold ...

Announcements

UWOFA awards annual scholarships to outstanding students

December 04, 2014
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) handed out the association’s annual scholarships Wednesday to outstanding ...

Research

MacQuarrie, Wathen and MacGregor: Workplace can lead positive change for victims of domestic violence

December 04, 2014
We know many employers remain baffled at the link between domestic violence and the workplace. In Canada, despite some high-profile tragedies, we ...

Research

Study shows domestic violence no longer stays at home

December 04, 2014
Kim Gibson’s husband would often sit outside her workplace and call her boss to complain. He was an annoyance, but no one, not even Gibson, ...

Media Release

Western-led study shows domestic violence in Canada is significant workplace problem

November 27, 2014
A new study of domestic violence in Canada and its impact on the workplace has found more than one third of workers across the country have ...

Media Release

Western unveils Canada’s first national survey on impact of domestic violence at workplace

November 25, 2014
Initial findings of the first ever Canada-wide study on domestic violence in the workplace will be released at Western University on Thursday, ...

Media Release

Western’s Faculty of Education joins UN network to improve media literacy

November 18, 2014
Western University’s Faculty of Education has joined a select group of international academia by becoming part of the first international ...

Events

Let's Talk About Education

November 13, 2014
The Faculty of Education's complementary lecture series, Let's Talk About Education, is examining the challenges of access to proper ...

Alumni

Crawford: Honest, sincere thinking not cause for frustration

November 06, 2014
I understsand Gordon McBean’s frustration with the Harper government when it comes to climate change and its lack of initiative.

Events

Bright Futures Breakfast

November 05, 2014
Dr. Vicki Schwean, a child psychologist and Dean of Western's Faculty of Education, delivered these numbers today as part of her keynote ...

Events

Urquhart: Unplug, unschedule, enjoy

October 24, 2014
Graduates must take the time to explore the world unchained from modern technologies, Jane Urquhart, one of Canada’s best loved authors, ...

Media Release

Western-led study reveals state of crisis in Canadian foster care system

October 23, 2014
A new study of foster care in Canada led by a researcher at Western University reveals a shrinking number of foster care providers are available ...

Media Release

Expert available to comment on ending violence in hockey

October 08, 2014
Peter Jaffe, has long advocated on the dangers of fighting in hockey and the effect it can have on children and teenagers.

International Research People

Visiting Scholar

October 06, 2014
There are more than 150 different languages spoken among India's indigenous tribal minorities, but Hindi and English, the country's two ...

Events

World Café, lecture to focus on Indigenous students

October 06, 2014
Indigenous student success takes centre stage during two events this week.

Announcements

2014 AQ Instructor Awards

September 25, 2014
Every year Western Education's Teacher Education Office awards the Additional Qualifications Award of Excellence to an instructor that stands ...

Announcements

Western Education Library

September 12, 2014
To get your year off on the right foot, we encourage you to acquaint yourself with the Education Library, its breadth of digital and physical ...

Events

Class of 2015 Teacher Candidates

September 12, 2014
John Szasz fell in love with teaching after years of donating his time to working with kids. "I was always a pretty active volunteer," ...

Announcements

Food Options

September 08, 2014
We are pleased to provide information about Ontario Hall's food services and amenities. Ontario Hall is located directly north of the ...

Announcements

Graduate Student Orientation PowerPoint Slides

September 05, 2014
The PowerPoint slides from the graduate orientations this week are now available below.

Events

Teaching takes centre stage at conference

August 25, 2014
Teaching skillfully requires a constant openness and flexibility to experimenting with whatever approaches help students learn, according to ...

Announcements

CPED Membership

July 08, 2014
Western Education is excited to announce it has joined the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) consortium — a vibrant ...

Announcements

Deadline: Graduate Education Program Planning

June 25, 2014
The deadline for Program Planning (Course Registration) for new and continuing Graduate Education students in the research intensive programs is ...

Events

Convocation 2014

June 19, 2014
Family, friends, and faculty members gathered at Alumni Hall on the morning of Friday, June 13 to celebrate the 644 Faculty of Education students ...

Events

Mercer: Time to get out there, and fix my country

June 13, 2014
There are endless opportunities for today’s graduates, comedian Rick Mercer told graduates from the Faculty of Education and the School of ...

Events

Showcase Day Finale

May 30, 2014
On May 16, the Faculty of Education's Teacher Education program celebrated its second annual Showcase Day Finale - an event that marks the ...

Media Release

Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women & Children hosts Father’s Day Breakfast and 20th anniversary lecture

May 27, 2014
Committed to the prevention of violence against women and children through knowledge-based innovation, collaboration and equality, Western ...

Alumni

Retired schoolteacher found adventure in Farley’s lessons

May 27, 2014
Rudy Pilz, Dpl’82, BA’84, was in the middle of a tool-and-die apprenticeship when the company he was working for burnt to the ground. ...

Events

Minds on Minds

May 05, 2014
The Faculty of Education Research Office is pleased to invite you to our first Education-Neuroscience Symposium on May 23, 2014. This event brings ...

People

Documentation as Reflective Practice

April 27, 2014
When professional master's student Greg Marshall originally set out to investigate how education research literature links the topics of ...

Events

Student Council Deliver on Promises

April 08, 2014
This year has been a whirlwind for Teacher Education's Student Council President Mark Henshaw since being elected in September. He and his ...

International

Paul Tarc on International Education

April 08, 2014
When I began my international school teaching in the early 1990s, I had little more than the slide show presented by the school director at the ...

Events

TIES 2.0 Symposium

April 08, 2014
Are you interested in learning about and exploring research related to educational technology? Would you like to meet others in the Western ...

Media Release

Western’s TIES 2.0 symposium explores technology’s role in education

March 25, 2014
Western’s Technology in Education Symposium (TIES 2.0) is back on March 27-28, bringing together faculty, staff and students to learn about ...

Media Release

Western researchers launch website aimed at preventing domestic homicide

February 28, 2014
Researchers at Western University, in collaboration with the University of Guelph, have launched a new website, taking an important step in ...

Community

Bringing mathematics to the community

February 27, 2014
Ask most school-aged kids and they may tell you that math is ‘scary.’ But one Western professor would like to change all that.

Community

Bringing prevention to the community

February 27, 2014
Peter Jaffe has seen far too much violence in his 40 years working in clinical psychology.

Community

Bringing learning to the community

February 27, 2014
Now in its seventh year, Classes Without Quizzes is Western’s complimentary lecture series for the community.

Community

Bringing understanding to the community

February 27, 2014
Summer Bressette has decided to undertake a monumental journey – changing the “lopsided vision” Canadians have about First ...

Community

Bringing inclusion to the community

February 27, 2014
Classmates of 15-year-old Kurtis Duchene could easily tell you the importance of inclusion at school. That’s because they will leave high ...

Media Release

Teacher candidates prepare for children’s mental health issues in classroom

February 05, 2014
Teachers are not mental health professionals but they encounter mental health issues in the classroom every day.

Events

School's OUT

January 23, 2014
The Faculty of Education strives to facilitate discussions that both influence and affect positive change in education. On Wednesday, January 29, ...

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