Please also visit the Gibson House Museum’s website for many more ongoing exhibitions and events!
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 third Session (January 12, 2021) is entitled: Doing the Right Thing: Disability, Autism and Special Education. Panelists include University of British Columbia Professor, Jason Ellis, author of A Class By Themselves: The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond; Natalie Spagnuolo from the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, and co-founder of Memory Witness and Hope: Sharing Stories About Surviving Institutions; Gillian Parekh, Canada Research Chair: Inclusion, Disability and Education at York University; and Margaret Spoelstra, President of Autism Ontario.
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 final session (January 19) turns to higher education, and asks “Does Liberal Education Matter in the 21st Century?” Lorna Marsden, former President of York University, is joined on the panel by Paul Gooch, past president of Victoria University in the University of Toronto and author of Course Correction: A Map for the Distracted University; the University of Waterloo’s Ian Milligan, author of History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web is Transforming Historical Research; and Qiang Zha, York University professor, and co-editor of International Status Anxiety and Higher Education: The Soviet Legacy in China and Russia.
Topic: The Struggle for Freedom
Speaker: Kathleen Maynes Northover
Kathleen is a student at Seneca College. An assignment to produce a project for Black History Month resulted in an interesting presentation on the history of the American struggle to create equality for Black people.
To end discrimination, hatred, persecution, and daily lives of fear, which the black population of the USA has endured for centuries, continues to be a major driving force of the civil rights movement.
Kathleen produced a presentation which uses unique elements, such as live clips to emphasize key elements of the struggle for freedom, which was championed by Martin Luther King Jr.
NYHS members, please check your email for your invitation to this Zoom online meeting. If you haven’t received it, please email info@nyhs.ca.