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Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation Presents “Opening the Schoolhouse to All”: Session One

When:
November 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm
2020-11-17T19:00:00-05:00
2020-11-17T19:15:00-05:00
Where:
online
Cost:
Free
Contact:
The Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation

ETSF Presents

These topics will be taken up in a four-part ZOOM series, sponsored by the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation, which begins in November 2020 and will continue in January 2021. The sessions feature presentations and panel discussions on a range of important educational themes. The series, free of charge, and accessible online, is designed for a broad audience interested in the past, present and future of Canadian education.

The first session (November 17) explores The Promise of Equity: Race, Multiculturalism, and First Nations Education, and features panelists: Carl James, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora at York University; Natasha Henry, President of the Ontario Black History Society; University of Toronto’s, Rob Vipond, author of Making a Global City: How One School Embraced Diversity; and Ryerson University historian, Ian Mosby, a specialist in the study of indigenous health and the politics of settler colonialism. The session will be chaired by University of Toronto historian, Funké Aledejebi, author of the forthcoming book, Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers.