Features

Confronting Asperger's in the classroom

January 9, 2012

They’ve been called “odd ducks,” “eccentrics” or “little professors.” Now these often brilliant but socially awkward students, diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, are flocking to postsecondary classrooms in greater numbers than ever before. Here’s how faculty are meeting the challenge.

Survivors tell their stories

January 9, 2012

Montrealers who survived horrific human rights abuses lend their voices to an unusual oral history project led by researchers from four Montreal universities.

Academic reform: tread carefully

January 9, 2012

Ontario’s system isn’t broken, just stressed. Before we try more radical fixes, why not encourage a robust college-university transfer system?


Archive
Academic papers get poetic

The experience of poets slash philosophers in academe reveals the growing pains that can accompany shifting disciplinary borders.

November 29, 2011
Research Rising

The status of research-based evidence in the Canadian courts moved up a notch with the resounding Insite decision by the Supreme Court. The implications for social scientists and their work could be profound.

November 28, 2011
Campus incubators hatch the entrepreneurial spirit

Students have been starting up businesses at such a feverish pace that the biggest challenge for universities that house such programs is keeping up with the talent and energy they’ve unleashed.

November 28, 2011
Book excerpt: Time to consider a new type of university

A new book argues for substantial reform to Ontario’s higher-education system, including the introduction of a rare breed of institution in Canada: the teaching-oriented university.

November 3, 2011
Way too many teachers

Oversupply doesn’t begin to describe the labour-market mismatch between newly minted teachers and teaching jobs in Ontario.

November 3, 2011
Unschooling: Legitimate pedagogy or foolish fad?

Why some scholars are adopting an educational philosophy that eschews formal lessons and any form of structure – and why others think it could be dangerous.

October 31, 2011
Canadian-style pedagogy takes roots overseas

Canadian faculty are welcomed in many developing countries for their skill in introducing student-centred learning.

October 6, 2011
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