Topic: History
Student perspectives on good teaching: what history reveals
What constitutes effective and engaging university pedagogy, and have student impressions of this changed through the ages? My reading of memoirs, biographies, […]
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Community involvement and government leadership in challenging sexual violence on campus
The involvement of community-based organizations such as METRAC was key to the creation of Ontario’s new action plan on sexual violence.
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From Deference to Defiance: The evolution of Ontario faculty associations
Faculty associations are behaving more and more like unions, transforming labour relations at universities in Ontario.
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OCUFA at 50
Looking back at five decades of change, challenge, and growth in Ontario’s university sector.
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Town and Gown go to the movies
What can film tell us about the town and gown relationship?
READ MOREHarper and the “dumbing down” of Canadian society
It’s almost like we planned it! But even though we didn’t, the micro-lecture roundtable discussion sponsored jointly by the Canadian Political Science […]
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Business as Usual: Elite Universities during the 1930s
Resources and intelligence do not necessarily translate into political or moral fortitude. Stephen H. Norwood, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Plus ça change? Education in the Enlightenment and Now
Stephen Bygrave, Uses of Education: Reading in Enlightenment in England (Bucknell, 2009) and Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin, eds, Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices (Ashgate, 2009).
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Major developments in American politics and society always provoke some combination of consternation, envy, imitation, rejection, or righteous indignation north of the […]
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