CRTED

08/08/2017

Here is the poster with more information about the upcoming writing group "Walking together: a writing community response nested in experience."

08/08/2017

Dr. Emma Quiles-Fernández, the 2017 Horowitz Teacher Education Research Scholar, will facilitate a writing group over the 2017-2018 academic year. "Walking together: a writing community response nested in experience" will meet every third Thursday, beginning on September 21, 2017, from 10:00 to 11:30 am in Education South Room 633. An information session will be held on Thursday, September 14, 2017 from 10:00 to 11:00 am in Education South Room 633 for all those considering joining the writing group. For more information, please contact Emma by email at [email protected] or by phone at 587-710-0631.

07/27/2017

The 2016-2017 final report for the CRTED and the final report for the 2017 Mahatma Gandhi Summer Institute are now posted on the CRTED website. The CRTED final report is under the About tab and the Mahatma Gandhi Summer Institute final report is under the Events tab.

The Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development (CRTED) was established in 1991 as a faculty wide centre for research for teacher education and development. The Centre draws together diverse people, including graduate students from across campus, faculty, research assistants, principal...

07/27/2017

Research Issues will be taking its annual break for the month of August. We look forward to welcoming everyone back to the table in our freshly painted Centre on Tuesday, September 5. We wish everyone a very happy and peaceful summer break!

07/16/2017

The Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development is in the midst of a welcome renewal, with fresh paint in all the offices and common areas and new carpet tiles where needed. Research Issues will continue to meet for the next two Tuesdays, July 18 and 25, and then will break for the month of August.

07/11/2017

The third public lecture for the 2017 Mahatma Gandhi Summer Institute will be tomorrow at 3:00 pm at the University of Alberta, Education North 2-115. Please join us as Amanah Eljaji and Grade 9 youth at the Edmonton Islamic Academy present "(Re)Storying Ourselves," an account of their journey over the 2016-2017 school year to attend to the stories the youth were living and telling of who they were and were becoming as Muslim Canadians.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byq8YJFsI4THOFp4SHpYSE00ajlfeEIwOTBhNEstRFNPNDdr/view?usp=sharing

07/05/2017

We are grateful to Mary Pinkoski, spoken word poet, art educator, and former Edmonton Poet Laureate, for her inspiring public lecture yesterday, the first of the 2017 Mahatma Gandhi Summer Institute Public Lectures. We invite you to join us tomorrow as Kaia Lamothe, Director of Education for Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, presents CREATING SPACE AND THE RE-EMPOWERMENT OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES IN EDUCATION. Please see the poster for further details.

07/05/2017

We are pleased to share that "Picture Books for Peace," a beautiful blog created by Muna Saleh, is once again available for reading and viewing on the CRTED website.

This is a bittersweet post for me, dear friends. This is the last blog posting in our Picture Books for Peace series, for now … thank you all for traveling alongside us every week and to all who have responded so generously to these posts with your thoughts and stories. We will make plans to continu...

06/07/2017

Everyone is warmly invited to attend the Public Lectures for the 2017 Mahatma Gandhi Summer Institute, being held on July 4, July 6, and July 11 from 3:00 to 4:30 pm in ED N2-115.

Please see the poster below for further information on the July 4th Public Lecture presented by Mary Pinkoski.

05/12/2017

Everyone is invited to the last of the 2016-17 Reconsidering Teacher Education seminar series, presented by Dr. Brooke Madden, who is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. Brooke's seminar, (Un)Becoming Teacher of School-based Indigenous Education: Early Career Teachers, Teacher Identity, and Indigenous Education Across Institutions, will explore the experiences of Indigenous and ally early career teachers who completed university coursework and/or professional development on the topic of Indigenous education.

This seminar will take place on Tuesday, May 16 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in Room 633 Education South. Please see the brochure for further information.

05/05/2017

The CRTED invites everyone to a seminar presented by Zahra Kasamali, recipient of the 2017 Dr. Mary Young Memorial Travel Fund, on Tuesday, May 23 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in 633 Education South. Zahra, a PhD candidate in the Department of Secondary Education, will be presenting on her research, The Curricular and Pedagogical Significance of Wisdom Traditions in Deepening Understandings of Difference, at the 2017 Canadian Society for the Study of Education conference. Congratulations, Zahra!

04/27/2017

We welcome you to view the video recordings of this year's Reconsidering Teacher Education seminars on the CRTED website: crted.ualberta.ca
Once on the website, follow the links to Events and Reconsidering Teacher Education Seminar Series.

The presenters for this academic school year have been Dr. Emma Quiles-Fernández, Dr. Sumer Seiki, and Dr. Andrew Estefan.