2007

Features and News, HIC 2007

Conferences

Call for Papers

Canadian History Of Education Association/L'Association canadienne d'histoire de l'éducation

15th Biennial Conference

23-26 October 2008
Sudbury, Ontario
Canada

The Canadian History of Education Association/L'Association canadienne d'histoire de l'éducation will hold its 15th Biennial Conference at the Radisson Hotel in Sudbury, Ontario from October 23 to 26, 2008. The conference theme is "Regions and Communities: Alternative Experiences in the History of Education." The conference organizers invite proposals for individual papers and panel sessions on all aspects of the history of education in any period. Proposals which address the following sub-themes are particularly encouraged:

• Rural and northern education
• Aboriginal education
• Ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities in education
• Historiography
• Regional identities
  
  

Individual and panel proposals must include the name, institutional affiliation, contact address and email of the presenter, a 250 word abstract, as well as a one-page curriculum vitae that provides details such as publications and current research interests. For panel proposals, please include this information for each presenter, as well as a one-page proposal for the entire session. Correspondence can be in either English or French.

The deadline for proposal submissions is 29 February 2008. Please send proposals by email attachment or regular mail to:

CHEA 2008 Organizing Committee
c/o Department of History
Laurentian University
935 Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6
Canada

or by email: admin@ache-chea.ca

Information on the Canadian History of Education Association can be found at http://www.ache-chea.ca/.

 

Recognition

York University Faculty of Education Dean Receives Research Award

Paul Axelrod, Dean of the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto, has been named the recipient of the 2007 David C. Smith Award by the Council of Ontario Universities. The award, in honour of the late David Smith, former Chair of the Council of Ontario Universities and Principal of Queen's University, recognizes individuals who have contributed to scholarship and policy in higher education in Canada.

Dr. Axelrod is the author and editor of 8 books and some 40 scholarly articles on the history and politics of schooling and higher education. His publications include Scholars and Dollars: Politics, Economics and the Universities of Ontario, 1945-1980; Making a Middle Class: Student Life in English Canada during the Thirties; The Promise of Schooling: Education in Canada, 1800-1914; and Values in Conflict: the University, the Marketplace and the Trials of Liberal Education.

He holds a B.A. (1972) and doctorate in History (1980) from York, and has been a full-time faculty member since 1982. He is a former Chair of the Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts (1989-1993), and has served as Dean of the Faculty of Education since 2001 . . . He is the recipient of a number of prizes for his scholarly work, including a Distinguished Research Award from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, a certificate of merit from the Canadian Association of Foundations of Education, and three publication prizes from the Canadian History of Education Association.

Previous winners of the Smith Award include former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, former principal of McGill University Bernard Shapiro, and former president of the University of Toronto, Rob Prichard.

Dr. Axelrod said, "I am honoured to receive this award. It has inspired me to continue my research on post-secondary education, including aspects of policy development. I am interested in learning more about how policy choices are made by governments. As Dean, I have had an unusual vantage point to observe that process over the past several years."

Dr. Axelrod was recognized at a reception and dinner sponsored by the Council of Ontario Universities on 1 November 2007 where he delivered a talk entitled, "A History of Good Teaching: Student Perspectives." The article can be found on the Council of Ontario Universities website:
http://www.cou.on.ca/_bin/publications/speeches.cfm

http://www.yorku.ca/foe/AboutUs/News/Paul_Smith_Award.html with permission.)

 

Journal News

Journal Launch

The Underhill Review: A Forum Of History, Ideas, And Culture

The Underhill Review is dedicated to relationships between history, ideas, and culture, especially as these relate to Canada. It offers a forum for reflection, discussion, and analysis that is popular and engaged, yet informed by historical understanding and subject to rigorous scholarly standards.

Each issue features spirited essays on subjects of historical or contemporary concern and several substantive review essays written within an international and comparative framework.

We invite thoughtful writers who bring a historical perspective to contemporary intellectual and cultural subjects, issues, and concerns to propose essays and review essays for The Underhill Review.

Our aim is to provide those from any discipline with a forum that lies between the specialized scholarly research journal and the commercially driven general interest cultural magazine.

Essays and review essays should bear the authority of personal voice rather than that of the scholarly footnote, and should be addressed to the informed general reader.

The Underhill Review; A Forum Of History, Ideas, And Culture is now on-line at:
http://www.carleton.ca/underhillreview/ur/07/fall/index.htm

 

Open-Access University Press

Athabasca University has established the first open access, University Press in Canada. It will be formally launched at the 2008 Congress. Its initial monograph authors include chair holders from leading universities, as well senior public heritage scholars. The fully peer reviewed press will provide all of its monographs freely on line with a print on demand alternative. Distribution of hard copies will be handled by UBC Press. The Press will also be launched with two peer-reviewed web sites and several dozen peer-reviewed journals - all based on open access principles. The Press is being led by Walter Hildebrandt and supported by an extensive editorial board chaired by Dr. Alvin Finkel, a leading Canadian historian.

Contact Information:

AU Press
Athabasca University
Edmonton Learning Centre
Peace Hills Trust Tower
1200, 10011 - 109 Street
Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8
Canada
Phone: (780) 421-2544
Fax: (780) 421-3298
aupress@athabascau.ca