(e)Merging Knowledges:
Classroom, Community, Culture

Friday, March 9th - Saturday, March 10th, 2012

As we gather this year in the McGill Education Building, EGSS focuses on emerging knowledges that occur in conventional and unconventional spheres. We are excited by the possibility that new knowledge may arise as classroom, community, and culture converge in a research conference setting. The EGSS committee looks forward to hosting a series of critical conversations in March 2012.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Sherene Razack
Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE (University of Toronto)

ShereneRazack.pdf

Keynote Address: Friday, March 9 @ 5:15pm

“The Manufacture of Torture as Public Truth”

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Dr. Jessica Ruglis
Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University

Keynote Address: Saturday, March 10 @ 5:15pm
"(Resisting) Education and/as Life: Schooling and the Social Determinants of Health"

From the McGill Webpage:

Dr. Jessica Ruglis joined the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology as an Assistant Professor in August, 2011. Dr. Jessica Ruglis was a WK Kellogg Health Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. A former public school teacher; Jessica holds a PhD in Urban Education, an MPH in Community Health and an MAT in Secondary Science Education.

Dr. Ruglis conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods, community based participatory action research. Employing an ecological and biosocial approach to inquiry, her research, theory and writing focuses on: the role of education and social policy in shaping human development, dis/advantage, insecurity and risk across the lifecourse and intergenerationally; schooling as a social determinant of health; school dropout as a public health issue; the biopolitics of school dropout; adolescent health and development; interventions for reducing school dropout and improving student engagement; alternative forms of civic engagement, capacity-building, leadership and resistance; and ethics of community and participatory research. In addition to research, Dr. Ruglis engages in local, state, national and international policy and legal issues related to this work.

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_Les savoirs émergeants:
en classe, communauté, et culture
Le 9 et 10 mars, 2012

Conférenciers invités:

Prof. Sherene Razack, Université de Toronto - OISE

Prof. Jessica Ruglis, Université de McGill

Cette année, lors de notre rencontre annuelle dans l’édifice d’éducation de McGill, EGSS se concentrera sur les savoirs qui émergent des cercles conventionnels et non-conventionnels. Nous sommes enthousiastes à l'idée de créer une connaissance nouvelle de la convergence de notre institution académique, de notre communauté et de notre culture dans le contexte d’une conférence. Nous avons hâte d’accueillir une série de dialogues critiques en mars 2012.