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Parent Engagement for Early Years Professionals

29. May 2011

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Dr. Debbie Pushor, an Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, will share her research findings on exploring what parent knowledge is and how it is held and used. Her discussions will also include the ...

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Narrative Inquiries into Curriculum Making in Teacher Education

18. March 2011

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Narrative Inquiries into Curriculum Making in Teacher Education

In this title the authors explore how individuals' identity and personal practical knowledge are being formed, shifted or interrupted through moments in teacher education which the authors have carefully and thoughtfully constructed. The particularity of the stories expressed in this collection, provide us with multiple perspectives and multiple entry points into making deeper sense of the complexity of curriculum-making in teacher education. As the stories of experience resonate with our own or as they stand apart from them, they provoke us to re-imagine teacher education, and to retell and relive our own stories of teacher education with new possibility. Narrative inquiry offers teacher educators a way to move the telling of stories of curriculum-making in teacher education forward, to delve more deeply into stories in order to make sense of experience and to attend more closely to a curriculum of life that is educative for the self and others in teacher education.

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2011 WMES Parent Conference

11. March 2011

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Recorded at the first ever Parent Conference at West Meadow Elementary School on February 12, 2011, Dr. Debbie Pushor discusses the importance of parent engagement and its impact on the lives and learning of our ...

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Exemplary Parent Engagement

5. October 2010

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Exemplary Parent Engagement

Come and dialogue with this inspiring leader as she helps us to move towards realizing the place of parents in the vision of Full Day Learning in Ontario Five interactive workshops! Agenda for the Day Keynote and interactive ...

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New Summer Graduate Course Offerings

28. September 2010

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New Summer Graduate Course Offerings

This past summer, from July 19 – 31, 2010, I had the opportunity to teach two new graduate course offerings drawing from my program of research. 20 students participated in Re/Presenting Families in Schools and ...

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New Summer Graduate Course Offerings

16. April 2010

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New Summer Graduate Course Offerings Department of Curriculum Studies University of Saskatchewan I have developed 2 new graduate courses which I will be teaching this summer in our College of Education. I am very excited about these courses as ...

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Speaking – Parental Engagement

14. July 2009

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Dr. Debbie Pushor will help us to understand what is the difference between parental “involvement” and “engagement”? And what effect can parental engagement have on students’ attitudes toward school, attendance, behaviour, marks, graduation rates, and ...

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Disposition: An attitude and an action?

6. July 2009

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In the last edition of School Advocate, I began to talk about how important the attitudes and dispositions of educators and school staff are to truly engaging parents in processes of schooling. Since that writing, ...

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Early Career Award

15. June 2009

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Early Career Award

On April 16, 2009 in San Diego, CA, Debbie Pushor was presented with an Early Career Award, an International award sponsored by the Narrative Research Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association ...

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Parent engagement: It’s an attitude

27. April 2009

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I walked by my son’s bedroom a little earlier today and was dismayed to see the chaotic state it was in. Clothes cover the floor, drawers and closet doors hang open, his laundry basket is ...

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