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The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Monica Heller a reçu un doctorat honorifique de l'Université autonome de Barcelone

Presented by Emis Akbari, Professor and Program Coordinator, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College | Senior Policy Fellow, Atkinson Centre, OISE/University of Toronto, at the Research Roundtable: Care Work in the Recovery Economy, February 2-3 2022

Amal Madibbo nommée directrice fondatrice du Centre for Black Studies in Education

How did OISE alum Rosemary Sadlier convince Canada to recognize Black History Month?

MA in Clinical and Counselling Psychology (CCP) student, Iman Musani.
Expected year of graduation: 2023.

CBC is celebrating 7 Black Canadian writers this #BlackHistoryMonth. Among them is OISE communications officer Perry King.

Dr. Amal Madibbo, who joined OISE in 2021 and has been appointed Founding Director of the Centre for Black Studies in Education.

Dr. Amal Madibbo has lived a life deeply immersed in Black Studies.

Whether it was during her schooling-socialization as she grew up in Sudan, to her years of academic practice in Europe and North America, the newly arrived OISE faculty has lived the material and wants to bring new insight as she begins her time as associate professor at the department of social justice education.

“My engagement with Black Studies is a long process, a lengthy process, both as a student and as an educator that started since the early stages of my social upbringing,” said Dr. Madibbo, who returns to OISE, University of Toronto – where she completed her doctoral studies.

Excerpt: "Nova Scotia will develop a new provincial organization that will manage all regulated child care in the province. A provincial executive director, regional directors and centre based managers/pedagogical leaders will lead the organization and be responsible for meeting mandated objectives as determined by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD). The Province will provide the organization with an annual funding agreement to support all regulated child care centres and licensed family home child care agencies that fall under their mandate. Current regulated child care centres will transition from individual contracts with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to a new governance and infrastructure model on April 1, 2022. The organization will oversee contracts for or manage the overall delivery of provincial child care including managing child care spaces and need in community, ECE compensation and wages/benefits (labour relations), daily parent fees, and centre finances."

At a Jan. 31 webinar, OISE’s Environmental and Sustainability Education Initiative will announce its new name, Sustainability and Climate Action Network (SCAN).

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.