Schedule - 2023 OISE Graduate Student Research Conference

April 1, 2023

8:00 - 9:00am

Volunteer Orientation & Conference Setup

OISE Library

9:00 - 10:00am

Registration/Refreshments; Art Reflection in Library

OISE Library

10:15 - 11:45am

Research Talks and Q & A

  • Room
    OI 5160
    • The Right to Learn: Children's Rights and Elementary Education (Elke Crosson)
    • Dreams and displacement: positioning internally displaced youth in Nigeria as knowledge creators (Jennifer Chinenye Emelife)
    • Centering Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy in Early Years Literacy (Hardeep Shergill)
    • The Influence of Social Inequalities in Student Occupational Expectations (Yehyeon (Ann) Yoo)
  • Room
    OI 5170
    • Integrating Taoist Curriculum Wisdom into Teaching (Ruodan Wang)
    • Teaching While Black An Emotional Journey (Jamil Kalim)
  • Room
    OI 5230
    • Meaningful Access to Agency and Online Communities: Implications for Community Development (Silvia Nguyen,
      Tuaha Mubarak)
    • A Journey Towards Allyship: How Middle-Class, Second Generation South Asian Canadian Mothers Challenge Anti-Black Racism (Shalina Khanna)
    • Toward Global Critical Consciousness for Liberatory Pedagogy in the West (Madison Laurin)
    • Supporting Complex Collaboration Across Multiple Boundaries in Engineering Education (Anuli Ndubuisi)
  • Room
    OI 5250
    • The predictability of high-stake exams to academic writing: A Chinese perspective (Rui Dong Chen)
    • New Literacies in the Age of Misinformation (Rana Haidar)
    • Applying Design Thinking Approach in English for Tourism Course (Thi Chang Duyen Can)
    • Supporting immigrant families to maintain their heritage language and promoting parental involvement using home-based STEM activities (Sudhashree Girmohanta)
  • Room
    OI 5260
    • The Tensions in the Local-Global Interplay of Education: The Colonizing Nature of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) Enacted in the International Schools in Asia (Jennie Kim)
    • Understanding Community Women Leadership in the African Context (Rachael Kalaba)
    • Formal Teacher Leadership and the Education Management Hierarchy (Rema Passarelli)
    • How Leadership Education in Universities in Mainland China could be Improved (Rurui Liu)
  • Room
    OI 5270
    • Nature and Physical-Based Mental Health Supports for Adolescents During COVID-19 (Talin Atikian)
    • Supporting Mental Recovery and Wellbeing of Injured Athletes (Jotthi Bansal)
    • How Undergraduate Students Understand, Learn About and Act in Support of Their Wellbeing (Lauren Brown)
  • Room
    OI 5280
    • Pilot testing as a strategy to develop Interview and Questionnaire Skills for Scholar Practitioners: A selection of Education Doctorate Students' Reflective Vignettes (Bill (Yuan Hong) Sun)
    • Interlinkages between Teacher Transfer Policy and School Culture in a Dark Zone of India (Elwin Varughese)
    • Beyond Covid-19: A call for Advocacy through Innovation and the Pivotal Role of Leadership in Effectuating Change (Henry Ssali, Shelly Khushal, Justin Patrick, Zian (Kelly) Zhang)
  • Room
    OI 5290
    • Interrogating and Pursuing Liminality as an act of Resistance within Canadian adult education for Black transnationals (Kameka Morrison)
    • Co-Constructing New Pathways Forward in Adult Education Through Reflexive Storytelling and Art (Vidya Sri)
    • Re-Storying, Truth-Telling and Response-abilities: An Autoethnographic Genre Analysis on Gladue Reporting, Methodologies, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing within a Colonial Institution (Taylor Rubin)
    • The Path to Love: Learning Identity and Expansiveness in Teaching and Learning (Stephanie Fowler)

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch & Network

Nexus Lounge

1:15 - 2:45pm

Community-Based Research & Researcher-Practitioner Engagement Panel

Library Stage
Moderator: Sigrid Roman
Panellists: Professor Bettina von Lieres, Professor Leslie Chan and Karen Villanueva

2:50 - 3:30pm

Teaching Human Rights and the Holodomor Genocide in Ukraine

Library Stage
Presenter: Sophia Isajiw

3:45 - 5:15pm

Roundtables/Workshops

  • Room
    OI 5160

    Understanding the educational experience of autistic learners during COVID-19 in Ottawa, Canada (Tracey Evans)

  • Room
    OI 5170

    Secondary Students’ Perceptions on Seeking Help for Adverse Childhood Experiences from Educators at School (Roilui Sin)

  • Room
    OI 5230

    Storying Inclusion and Exclusion in Higher Education (Dani Dilkes)

  • Room
    OI 5250

    Critical Literacy and Stories as tools for Anti-Islamophobia Education (Rabia Khokhar)

  • Room
    OI 5260

    Tough Choices and Difficult Decisions: Engaging in Educational Ethics (Tina Ta)

  • Room
    OI 5270

    Harnessing an Entrepreneurial Mindset along the Innovation Journey in Higher Education (Rashpal Uppal-Assi)

  • Room
    OI 5280

    The Risk Factors and Preventative Methods of Self-Harm and Suicidality for Autistic People (Kai Forcey-Rodriguez)

  • Room
    OI 5290

    The ESCAPE Project: Embracing newcomer parents’ and students’ funds of knowledge for effective and language friendly teaching in Canadian schools through digital tools (Sudhashree Girmohanta, Leanne Adegbonmire, Ye Jia, Rosalia Cha, Ana Tariq)