2024 - 2025

Reform of Curricula to Enhance Computer Programming and Exploration of Mathematical Concepts: Challenges and Opportunities

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Curriculum as a Social Practice is pleased to invite you to an upcoming guest lecture:

Reform of Curricula to Enhance Computer Programming and Exploration of Mathematical Concepts: Challenges and Opportunities

In this talk, Dr. Nordby will invite you to consider how computer programming is integrated into mathematics curricula, and how it can serve as a tool to support students’ exploration of mathematical concepts. Since the early 2000s, computer programming has sparked significant interest and debate within the research community. With its inclusion in curricula in both Norway and Canada, we see that computer programming brings both challenges and opportunities. Through examples and hands-on activities, Dr. Nordby will invite you to explore how computer programming can be used as a thinking tool in mathematics education to deepen students’ understanding of mathematical ideas.

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Siri Krogh Nordby: Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, Faculty of Teacher Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway. Her research interests include computational thinking and computer programming in primary and secondary mathematics education, inclusive mathematics practices, and curriculum research using qualitative methods.

When: Wednesday, November 5, from 12:00-1:00 pm 

Where: 

In-person: Alumni Room (1044), Faculty of Education

Online: Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 987 9910 9936

Passcode: 663883

Registration Link: Fill out this form 

Faculty, graduate students, and researchers are cordially invited to participate and establish connections.

The European Alliance

Professor Marie-Agnes Detourbe is deeply involved in the creation of the ECIU University. In this talk, she provided an overview of the European Universities Initiative, considered as the most innovative step in the European Education Area since the Bologna process.

By developing long-term structural and strategic and sustainable cooperation between the higher education institutions in the European Universities alliances, the initiative aims to: improve the international competitiveness of higher education institutions in Europe and promote European values and identity

Through these alliances students can get a degree by combining studies in several European countries. The initiative has the potential to bring greater benefits to higher education institutions than any previous cooperation projects.

Counter Pedagogies: Resisting Cultural Hegemony of Extraction

Every year, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) hosts the world’s largest mining convention in the capital of mining finance: Toronto. Since the early 2000s, international community delegations have attended PDAC to protest the environmental and social degradation caused by unregulated Canadian mining operations. Activists and scholars have also begun to highlight the ways PDAC instrumentalizes culture and education to shape narratives about Canada’s mining industry. As a member of the scholar-activist collective Beyond Extraction, Camille-Mary Sharp will discuss the group’s recent interventions, suggesting that alternative forms of public pedagogy are needed to counter the cultural hegemony of resource extraction in museum exhibitions and school curricula.

Composing Ourselves: Psychology as Politics in the 21st Century

Based on their recent paper, The Politics of Unconscious Desire under Virtual Global Capitalism, from the open-access critical psychology collection, Professors Kathleen and Hans Skott-Myhre discuss a reconfigured psychology with potential to build upon shifts in 21st century modes of production and shifts in consciousness that have a capacity to challenge global capitalism and initiate new forms of subjectivity with capacity to create new worlds and new peoples.