The summary provides the schedule for the OISE Graduate Students Research Conference (GSRC) taking place on Friday, April 1st and Saturday, April 2nd, 2016. The conference includes 21 panels over the two days covering topics in education such as brain-based learning, social justice, international education, language acquisition, and more. Each panel has 4 presentations providing titles and presenters' names. The schedule outlines the date, time, room number and panel title for each session.

1. 6TH
OISE GRADUATE STUDENTS RESEARCH CONFERENCE (GSRC) SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 1st AND SATURDAY 2nd APRIL, 2016
Panels, Panelists and Presentation Titles
Panel title Presenter Name Presentation Title
1. Brain Based
Learning and
Cognitive
Engagement
Friday
1.Lowe, Stephanie
A Social Constructivist View of Neoliberalism as it Pertains to the Education Quality and
Accountability Office Testing and Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
2 Buono, Stephanie, (with 1
co-presenter) Emotional Valence and Narrative Competence in Emerging Readers
3. Woodruff
3. Oraegbunem, Annastasia
Onyinyechukwuka Factors of Socialization: Impact of Nature And Nurture In Educational Outcome
2. Inclusive,
Cooperative, And
Collaborative
Education
Friday
1 Edelson, Abbe Lisa Individual and Collective Learning in Response to the Mimico by-the-lake-secondary plan
2 Hamlin, Dan
Reconceptualizing school-based parental involvement through an examination of over
11,000 parental involvement initiatives
3 Malec, Alesia
Affect, Activity Theory, and Accentuating the Positive: Analyzing Successful Collaboration
in the Classroom
4 Parker, Sarah
Creating a third space in the classroom: The fusion of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
pedagogies by non-Aboriginal educators

2. 3. Social Justice and
Anti-Oppression
PART 1
Friday
1 Kinnon, Emily
(In)Equity and Academic Streaming in Ontario, and How These Affect Students and
Teachers
2 McLeod, Marie Race and School Improvement
3 Morris, Matthew
The Fresh Prince Syndrome: Hip-Hop Culture and the issue of black masculine identity in
education
4 Kapoor, Anjani Barriers to Effective Case Management for Youth on Probation
4.. Social Justice
and Anti-Oppression
PART 2
Friday
1 Mohamed, Hodan The Activism of First Generation Somali Canadian Womyn
2 Losman, Ben It Is No Dream: Decolonizing Jewish Solidarity for Palestine
3 McMinn, Tracilee
Whose Health is it Anyway? A textual exploration of hetero-cis-ableism in Ontario’s 2015
Health and Physical Education curricula
5.. Transformative
Education
Saturday
1 McAllan, Christine
Growing Success or Nurturing Failure: A study of the Social Promotion in Ontario
Education System
2 Karmiris, Maria The School Hallway: Doing and Undoing Authority
3 Spring, Lauren
"Maybe it's not a real shield" How Guided Art Gallery Visits Can Inspire Disorienting
Dilemmas and Social Change
4 Samee, Sabir
White Woman’s Burden: The Colonial Feminism, Imperial Feminism and Neoliberal
Imperial Feminism
6. Decolonizing
Projects In
Education
Saturday
1 Chookomoolin, Joette
A Growth in Cultural Knowledge and Teaching: Instilling Knowledge, Language, and Cree
Culture from the Minds of Elders into Teaching Practice
2 Kennedy, Alysse
Dancing to the Beat of Their Own Drum: Arts, Dance and Music as Culturally Responsive
Pedagogy for Indigenous Students
3 Afonsopinheiro, Lucia The Relevance of Bringing Indigenous Perspectives, History and Culture in the Classroom
4 Benn-John, Jacqueline Canada's Legacy of Colonialism: Implications in Education
7. International And
Multicultural
Education
Friday
1 Escobar Roxana Maria Feminist Approaches to Interculturalism
2 Ali Ayesha A ‘Two-Face’ Multicultural Approach to Public Funding of Private Schools in Ontario
3 Bangura, Alimamy A difficult balancing Act: A Study of School Principalship In Islamic Schools In The GTA and

3. Cities Across The Prairie Provinces Of Canada.
4 Alaca, Zahide
Religion in Secular Public Schools and Independent Faith-Based Schools: An Institutional
Analysis
8. Migration,
Immigration And
Education
Friday
1 Chinchamie, Lisa
Disposable Qualifications, Disposable Lives: The Social And Economic Death Of Professional
Immigrant Women of Colour In Canada
2 Zainub Anila
The Use of Anti-Colonial Discursive Framework for My Research On Highly Skilled Muslim
Immigrants and Their Socio-Economic Integration in Canada
3 Relucio, Maria
The underemployment and unemployment of Racialized Female Migrant Teachers in Canada
and the Social Reproduction of Inequality in Schools
4 Djong, Gordon International Students Adaptation in Canada
9. Education,
Citizenship And
Democracy
PART 1
Friday
1 Monica Munaretto,
Soliman, Yang
(with 2 co-presenters) Service-Learning And The City: A Case Study Of The Attention Created By The CCP In Toronto
2 Soliman,
3 Yang
10. Education,
Citizenship And
Democracy
PART 2
Friday
1 Nieto Sachica, Diego
( 2 people)
Citizenship Education For The Age Of Terror? Re-Creating The Democratic Pedagogical
Imaginary In Latin-America
2 Berlin, Mischa
Secur(itiz)ing Safe Spaces in Ontario’s Sexual Education Curriculum: Evicting Muslims from
Liberal Spaces
3 Nyaga, Dionisio
Gendered Citizenship and Labour: A case study of paid Filipino male live-in caregivers in
Toronto.
4. DaCosta Paula Beyond limits into hybridity: Recent immigrant students shifting boundaries and innovating in
academic landscapes
11. Education,
Citizenship And
Democracy
PART 3
1 Laing, Tristan Policy Governance and Member Participation in Student Housing Co-operatives
2 Ellis, Everton Quebec's Maple Spring Revisited: Student Organization Or Neoliberal Hegemony?
3 Holmes (Lopes), Krista
Research Ethics in the Ontario College Sector: An exploratory descriptive study of governance
and administrative frameworks

4. Friday
12. Comparative
International
Education
Saturday
1 Rouf, Kazi
Revenue-Generating Social and Economic Mission-Entwined Organizations in Canada and in
Bangladesh'
2 Min, Sue
A Comparison of Multicultural education between Canada and South Korea: Challenges of
Saetoemin (North Korean defector) students in South Korea
3 Wahab, Abdurrahman
The Kurdish Culture At The Intersection Of Formal Education, Realpolitik And The Nationalist
Narrative
13. Globalization
And Educational
Trends
Saturday
1 Shahrman, Khattak
[Unrecognized] Internationalization for Developing Countries - Student Mobility through
International Scholarship Programs
2 Sabzalieva Emma Theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding change in Asian higher education
3 Walkland, Ty Exploring Occasional Teachers’ Experiences Navigating Precarious Employment in Ontario
4 Shadi, Afshar The Democratic Defense of the Humanities and its Problems
14. Higher
Education,
Scientific
Innovation, And
Technology
Saturday
1 Watson, Kaschka Diversity and Inclusive Leadership in Higher Education
2 Hussain, Marzia The Eviction of Muslim Women From Higher Education Through Government Policy
3 Hoveling Léonie Technology Integration at the Elementary School Level
4 Wang, Zhaoyun Using Web 2 Websites For Professional Development: Promise And Challenges
15. Educational
Research And
Evidence Based
Teaching
Saturday
1 Qian, Miao
Perceptual Individuation Training Reduces Implicit but Not Explicit Racial Biases in Preschool
Children
2 Drabkin, Raquel
Implementing Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning in the Intermediate Mathematics Classroom
3 Kubasik, Wendy
Can Statistical Models be Used to Predict, Reward, and Even Enhance Academic Productivity?
The New K-MAAP© Method

5. 4 Anwaruddin, Sardar
Teachers' Responses to Educational Research: Addressing the Crisis of Legitimation
16. Education And
The
Environment
Saturday
1. Mirza, Davis
Beyond Animal Testing: Open Rescue, Sentient Empathy, and Research-Informed Theatre - As
an extension of ourselves at our sentient best!
2 Mychajluk, Lisa
Learning for ‘One-Planet Living’: Early thinking on a comparative study of participation and
praxis in ecovillages and Transition Towns
3 Kanyogonya, Virginia
Is Corporate Social Responsibility an effective intervention for sustainable development? The
case of Canadian mining companies in Burkina Faso
17. Media, Critical
Literacy, And
Education
Saturday
1 Bolton, Elizabeth
Exploring the Moral Space in Literacy Practices: A Post- structural Model for the Formation of
Self in Adults Responses to Fairy Tales
2 Clayton, Laura Food Literacy Education: A Philosophical Perspective
3 Lee, Amanda
The Need to Media-te: Dissecting Media Representations and the Public’s Perception of
Teachers and the Teaching Profession
4 Ganjavi, Mahdi
Capitalism, Mobilization of Knowledge, and the Industrialization of the Publication Industry in the
Middle East
18. Curriculum,
Instructional
Strategies And
Learning
Friday
1 Ho, Certina
Experiential Learning in Undergraduate Pharmacy Curriculum: A Case Study of Co-operative
Experience of Pharmacy Students
2 Ehrlick, Steven Building knowledge community and inquiry in an undergraduate mass lecture
3 Rendely, Lisa Art | History
19. Education,
Language, And
Second Language
Acquisition
PART 1
Saturday
Rajendram, Shakina
(with 3 co-presenters)
An Exploration of ESL Learners' Aesthetic and Critical Responses to Literature through Films in
English and the L1 within a Multi-literacies Pedagogy
2 Sinclair
3 Masson
4 Larson

6. 20. Education,
Language, And
Second Language
Acquisition
PART 2
Saturday
1.Brubacher, Katie
Teaching plurilingual elementary students with limited prior schooling using content-based
programs
2 Muhling, Stefanie Language Teachers Learning through Interaction
3 Kawaguchi, Mayo
Translanguaging in Heritage Language Classrooms: New perspective and possibility for
heritage language teaching and learning
21. Gender And
Education
Saturday
1 Prioletta, Jessica Pedagogies of Play in Early Childhood Education: What’s Gender Got to do With it?
2 MacKinnon, Kenneth
"Thank goodness you are a man!": troubling gender and principal leadership in elementary
schools
3 Caleca, Christina
Liberal Education and the Ontario Sex-Ed Curriculum Update: A Libertarian Approach to the
Developmental Autonomy of Children
4 Koecher, Austen
Life History of Queer Youth Experience in Schools: Homophobic Bullying, Heteronormative
Presumptions, and Homonormative Expectations

7. 16TH
OISE GRADUATE STUDENTS RESEARCH CONFERENCE (GSRC) SCHEDULE
DAY 1: FRIDAY, 1st
APRIL, 2016
8.00 am - 9.00 am: Registration and Light Breakfast, NEXUS LOUNGE (12th Floor)
ROOM 5-150 ROOM 5-230 ROOM 5-240 R. 5-210/220
(5th
Floor Lounge)
Nexus Lounge
Session 1:
9.00am – 10.15am
Presentations
Brain Based
Learning and
Cognitive
Engagement
Moderator:
Inclusive,
Cooperative, And
Collaborative
Education
Moderator:
Education For
Citizenship And
Democracy
PART 1
Moderator:
Workshop Group 1
Educators and
International
Experience
1. Crane, Laura
How do Ontario
school principals
consider Ontario-
educated teachers’
international
experiences when
hiring?
Moderator:
Workshop Group 2
Critical Issues in
Elementary
Education
1. Hicks Benjamin
Lee
Beyond This Or That:
Challenging The
Limits Of Binary
Language In
Elementary Education
Through Poetry,
Word Art And
Creative Book Making
2.Shiderman Rachel
On Greening Your
Practicum and
Becoming Tech
Savvy: Environmental
Education and Inquiry
in Elementary
Classrooms
Moderator:

8. ROOM 5-150 ROOM 5-230 ROOM 5-240 R. 5-210/220
(5th
Floor Lounge)
Nexus Lounge
Session 2:
10.30am – 11.45am
Presentations
Social Justice and
Anti-Oppression
PART 1
Moderator:
Education For
Citizenship And
Democracy
PART 2
Moderator:
International And
Multicultural
Education
Moderator:
Alternative
Workshop 1
1. Azraq Sabrine
University Campuses
as Sites of
Resistance and
Repression
2. O'Grady, Aubyn
The Magic Journal
Club
Moderator:
Lunch
and Poster
set up
LUNCH AND
POSTER SESSION
11.45am-12.45pm
Nexus Lounge,
12th
Floor
Poster Presentations:
1. Alam, Rifat - How Tecky! Advocating for a provincial policy on the integration of technology in Ontario classrooms
2. Alhosseini, Fatemeh - Role of Attribution in Motivation to Wisdom
3. Anderson, Analise -Development of Peer Advisors Competencies and Career Clarity at the St. George Career
Centre
4. Bertram, Brandon - Transformative Praxis for Interdependent Consciousness
5. Carvalho, Cassandra- From Page to Stage: Teachers’ Perception of the Use of In-Role Drama Activities when
Exploring Mathematical Word Problems
6. Creary, Patricia - Perceptions of a psychotherapist as a function of companion animal presence
7. Djuric, Miya - Revealing the secrets of small talk: Can language learners acquire this sociolinguistic skill?
8. Schnabel, Rose - Measure of Emotion Level during Optimal Performance
9. Sinopoli, Alyssa – The Pedagogical Role of Mindfulness Meditation: The Effects of Mindfulness on Education,
Student Mental State & Learning Potential
10. Todd, Kimberly - Spirituality As A Site Of Solidarity: Examining Relationships Between Western Settlers And First
Nations People

9. Welcome Address
1.00pm – 1.15am
Nexus Lounge
OISE Dean's Remarks
Panel Discussion
1.15pm – 3.00pm
Nexus Lounge
12th Floor
Contemporary Issues and Debates in Knowledge Mobilization (KMb)
Panelists:
David Phipps, York University
Amanda Cooper, Queen’s University
Deb Masters, Visible Learning, New Zealand
Carol Campbell, University of Toronto
Moderator:
Sharon Alexander
ROOM 5-150 ROOM 5-230 ROOM 5-240 R. 5-210/220
(5th
Floor Lounge)
Nexus Lounge
Session 3
3.15pm - 4.30pm
Presentations
Curriculum,
Instructional
Strategies And
Learning
Moderator:
Alesia Malec
Gender And
Education
Moderator:
Michelle Sutherland
Social Justice and
Anti-Oppression
PART 2
Moderator:
Maria Relucio
Migration,
Immigration And
Education
Moderator:
Neerajah Vignarajah
Education For
Citizenship And
Democracy
PART 3
Moderator:
Sheil Patel
Cultural Display
5.30pm – 7.30pm
OISE Auditorium
Ijo Vudu Dance International
MC: Cindy Sinclair

10. 16TH
OISE GRADUATE STUDENTS RESEARCH CONFERENCE (GSRC) SCHEDULE
DAY 2: SATURDAY, 2nd
APRIL, 2016
8.00 am - 9.00 am: Registration and Light Breakfast, NEXUS LOUNGE
ROOM 5-160 ROOM 5-170 ROOM 5-230
R. 5- 280
(After 1.00pm)
LIBRARY/
NEXUS LOUNGE
Session 1:
9.00am – 10.15am
Presentations
Transformative
Education
Moderator:
Globalization And
Educational Trends
Moderator:
Higher Education,
Scientific
Innovation, And
Technology
Moderator:
N/A
WORKSHOP IN
NEXUS LOUNGE
Workshop Group 3
Critical Issues in
Education
1.Suraweera, Dulani
Identifying Surface and
Deep Learning
Approaches
2.Jang, Inchull
Scholarly Publishing
with Critical
Intersections in
Education
Moderator:
Hayfa Jafar
ROUND TABLES IN
THE LIBRARY
Round Table 1

11. Learning and
Cognitive
Engagement
1.Mackenzie
Genevieve
Integrating Motivational
Interviewing and ADHD
Coaching: A
Comprehensive
Approach towards
Treating ADHD
2. Pillai, Sabina
An Investigation of
Experiences of
Adverse Effects
through Mindfulness
Meditation
Moderator:
ROOM 5-160 ROOM 5-170 ROOM 5-230 R. 5-280 LIBRARY/NEXUS
LOUNGE
Session 2:
10.30am – 11.45am
Presentations
Decolonizing
Projects In
Education
Moderator:
Educational
Research And
Evidence Based
Teaching
Moderator:
Education And The
Environment
Moderator:
N/A WORKSHOP IN
NEXUS LOUNGE
Panel Discussion
Part 2:
Research
Dissemination
Workshop
Presenters:
Ian Gormely- Anatomy
of a News Story

12. Sachin - The Media
and Edu Research
Moderator:
ROUND TABLES IN
THE LIBRARY
Round Table 2
Curriculum, learning
and Work
1. Husainy, Aamir
Assessment and
Evaluation: Placing the
Learning Skills and
Work Habits
2. Toor, Arif
College after
University: What’s
going on?
3. Syed (Fahim)
Manaal
(With Co-presenter,
Noor)
Exploring immigrant
older adults' learning
through transnational
connections: Links to
social work and
education
Moderator:

13. Round Table 3
Education and
Citizenship
1. Shakkouri, Leeza
Citizenship Education:
A Platform for Creating
Informed Citizens
within Science
Classrooms
2. Tremblay-Beaton,
Katie
Negotiating Music
Teacher Identity in the
New Music Education
Paradigm
3. Wang, Lingzi
The U.S.-China
Collaborative
Universities Through a
Comparative Lens
Moderator:
Round Table 4
Ethics, Language,
and Opportunities in
Education
1.Polson Jessamyn
Beyond Integration:
Exercising the Ethics of
Incommensurability in
Elementary Education

14. 2.Vignarajah
Neerajah
Entha mozhi?: An
interrogation of factors
influencing language
choices in a Tamil
language classroom in
the Greater Toronto
Area
3. Ahn, Ju-hye
Distributive Goal in Arts
Education: How should
educational
opportunities in the arts
be distributed in public
schools?
Moderator:
LUNCH AND
POSTER SESSION
11.45am-12.45pm
Nexus Lounge,
12th
Floor
Poster Presentations:
1. Chan, Lisa -Rethinking Solitude in Schools: How Silence and Solitude Can Benefit Students and Enhance Creativity
2. Esgandanian, Aryan - Empowering Iranian Women through Co-operatives
3. Lam, Larisa - A Portrait of Intergenerational Parenting Practices and Beliefs about Education
4. Knutson, Kris - Connecting with students: Culturally responsive integration of character education in Ontario
elementary schools
5. McNamara, James - Creativity and the Ontario Curriculum
6. Lobo, Dillon -The Role and Responsibility of Teaching 21st Century Competencies to Prepare Students for their
Careers in the Current and Future Job Market
7. Nourallah Gharid (Nourallah & Hui) - Visual Art in Medical Education
8. Zippel, Dana - Full Potential: Identifying Barriers to Implementation of School Meal Assistance Programs in Ontario
Public Schools
9. Shabbir, Abdul -Teachers' Perspectives and Practices Regarding SSI Incorporation

15. Keynote Speaker
Introduction and
Address
1.00pm – 2..30pm
OISE Library
Ground Floor
Knowledge Mobilization and Visible Learning in the 21st
Century
Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker:
Deb Masters
Moderator:
OISE Faculty
Session 2
3.00pm – 4.15pm
Presentations
Education And The
Environment
Education,
Language, And
Second Language
Acquisition
PART 1
Moderator:
Media, Critical
Literacy, And
Education
Moderator:
Gender And
Education
Moderator:
Alternative Workshop
2 - NEXUS LOUNGE
Canadian Students
and Study Abroad
Programs
1. Guindon, Julie
Factors That Affect
Canadian University
Students Decisions to
Participate in Outbound
Study Abroad
Programs
Moderator:
Award Winners
Workshop: LIBRARY
Winning Award for
Outstanding Thesis
of the Year
Presenters:

16. Award for Outstanding
Thesis in
Organizational
Leadership.
1. Adriana Berlingieri,
PhD
Weaving
Methodologies
Throughout the
Research Process
Joint Leithwood Award
for OISE Outstanding
Thesis of the Year.
1. Mira Gambhir
TBA
2.Gail Prasad
TBA
Moderator:
Session 3:
4.30pm – 5.15pm
Presentations
Decolonizing
Projects In
Education
Moderator:
Educational
Research And
Evidence Based
Teaching
Moderator:
Education,
Language, And
Second Language
Acquisition
PART 2
Moderator:
Comparative
International
Education
Moderator:

17. Closing Reception
5.30pm – 7.30pm
Nexus Lounge
Awards Ceremony: All Registered Students and Invited Guests Are Welcome!
1. Award for Outstanding Thesis in Organizational Leadership.
2. Joint Leithwood Award for OISE Outstanding Thesis of the Year.
3. Joint Muriel Fung Appreciation Award
4. DGSRC Conference Planning Appreciation Award