Student Research Session 1 (11:00 am – 12:30 pm)
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 Number: 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 Canada: 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 Ontario’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
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
Student Research Session 2 (3:15 pm – 4:45 pm)
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 Number: OI 2296
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 Number: OI 8170
Abigail Fisher: Implementation of Mental Health Services in Ontario 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 Number: OI 8180
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 Number: OI 5170
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 Number: OI 2279
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 Canada (online)
Kruti Patel: Relationships as Opportunities for Resistance in Education
Chair: Wendy Pope
Room Number: OI 2295
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
Room Number: OI 5240
Student Research Session 3 (11:00 am – 12:30 pm)
Bushra Shahrin: Are We Doing Enough?: A Critical Analysis of Commodification of International Education and Student Affairs
Stephanie Salib: Linguistic Discrimination in Canada Through Linguicism and Glottophobia
Jinyang Wang: Studying in Virtual Multicultural Classroom: The Application of AI in Dialogical Education
Chair: Bushra Shahrin
Room Number: OI 2296
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 Number: OI 5230
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 Number: OI 5250
Christie Lazo: How First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Mothers Provide Ethnocultural Education to Their Children Within Pluralist Canada
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 Number: OI 5270
Gabrielle Forget: Ontario French immersion students: goals, retention, and sociolinguistic development
Jocelyn Yu and Heidi Dienesch : Using Critical Literacy to Reimagine Student Engagement in Ontario Grade 9 Core French (online)
Sara Zoghbi: Intercultural Competencies in Education: a solution for a more inclusive and diverse world
Chair: Sara Zoghbi
Room Number: OI 5170
Xun Ril Li
Room Number: OI 5150
Maryuri Marin
Room: Auditorium
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 Ontario Secondary Schools
Fatima Farrukh: An Exploration of Support, Training, and Resources for K-8 Ontario 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.
Room Number: OI 5240
Student Research Session 4 (3:15 pm – 4:45 pm)
Cristina Peter: Finding the Secret Sauce to Success: Measuring Metacognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills in Ontario, Canada
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 Number: OI 2296
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 Canada and India
Marie McLeod: Embedding Decoloniality: Constructing Anti-Colonial Epistemological Possibilities for Education
Chair: Elena Hannach-Courard
Room Number: OI 5240
Meral Choudhry: Resisting Islamophobia: Muslim Students’ Identity Formation and Agency in Ontario Elementary Public Education
Palvi Sidana: Addressing Anti-Muslim Racism in Ontario Public Schools
Pirasanya Gnanasuntharam: Re-imagining Race-Based Data to Elevate Equitable Decision-Making in Educational Policy and Leadership Spaces
Chair: Meral Choudhry
Room Number: OI 5250
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 Canada
Chair: Xuefan Li
Room Number: OI 5280
Annalissa Crisostomo
Room Number: OI 5270
Christina de los Santos
Room Number: OI 5230
Debanjan Borthakur
Room Number: OI 5150
Alissa Lévesque: Breathing to Abolition
Xun Li : #WebComics: Fostering Global Dialogue through Political Webcomics on Instagram
Room Number: OI 5170