In this newsletter:

• Free Pizza!!!
• PhD Cohort Celebrate End of Fall Semester
• First Global Perspectives MEd Cohort Wraps Up Their Coursework
• French Symposium Held Today
• Creating a Culture of Research for Graduate Programs
• Call for Proposals:  2016 CAREC Post Conference — 02-June-2016
• A Christmas Carol!
• Hosting International Students During the Holidays
• Hurrahs!

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FREE PIZZA!!!

All faculty and staff are invited to join us in welcoming our new MEd and BEd international students. Drop by to meet and greet the international students, and grab some FREE PIZZA, from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm on Monday, 04-Jan-2016 at the Faculty Lounge, Main Building. Please RSVP to Christa so we have enough!

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PHD COHORT CELEBRATE END OF FALL SEMESTER

Members of the 2015 PhD cohort celebrate the end of their last class of the fall semester

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FIRST GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES MED COHORT WRAPS UP THEIR COURSEWORK

The Faculty of Education celebrated a watershed moment last week. The first Global Perspectives cohort of students in the MEd Leadership in Learning program have completed their course requirements, an achievement celebrated with a small reception hosted by Dean MacDonald and his wife Erin. Many of the faculty and staff who have taught and otherwise been involved with this cohort over the past 16 months joined the students to enjoy a pot-luck meal and celebratory cake. And the weather cooperated to make this a memorable evening, as the first snow storm of the season fell outside!

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FRENCH SYMPOSIUM HELD TODAY

Today was the inaugural Consultation on Culture and Language Learning symposium at UPEI, which brought together educators and community to network, strengthen partnerships, and identify shared priorities.  UPEI’s Faculty Education helped to organize this important symposium, together with the PEI Department of Education, Early Childhood Development and Culture, the English Language School Board, La Commission scolaire de langue français, Collège Acadie de Î.-P.-É., Holland College, UPEI Department of Modern Languages, UPEI Faculty of Arts, and Canadian Parents for French PEI.  You can read more about the symposium here.

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CREATING A CULTURE OF RESEARCH FOR GRADUATE PROGRAMS

We had a fantastic first semester of research discussions at our Graduate Program. We would like to thank all the faculty members and graduate students who took the time to participate and fully engage in these discussions. In particular, we would like to show our most sincere appreciation to our journal meeting leaders (Valerie Campbell and Dr. Maryam Wagner) and the presenters of our first Research Seminar (Mary MacPhee, Selvi Roy, and Lizzie Yan Yan). Thank you for taking the lead and for paving the way for future presentations!

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2016 CAREC POST CONFERENCE – 02-JUNE-2016

The 2016 Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood Post Conference takes place at University of Calgary on 02-June-2016.  This year’s theme is Mosaics of Possibilitites: Researching and Teaching through the Arts in Early Childhood Education.  For details on this event, please see the attached flyer.  The post conference invites proposals by 26-Feb-2016.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

This weekend and next, Ashley Clark will be performing in A Christmas Carol at the Watermark Theatre (57 Church Hill Road, North Rustico)! Admission is by donation at the door (proceeds going to the theatre).

Show times are as follows:

• Friday, 11-Dec-2015 — 7:30pm
• Saturday, 12-Dec-2015 — 3:00pm and 7:30pm
• Sunday, 13-Dec-2015 — 3:00pm
• Saturday, 19-Dec-2015 — 3:00pm and 7:30pm
• Sunday, 20-Dec-2015 — 3:00pm and 7:30pm

Tickets can be reserved by phone (902-963-3211), by email, or through the website.

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HOSTING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FOR CHRISTMAS

Just a reminder that we are looking for families to welcome some of our international students into their holiday celebrations. If you can include some students in your holiday plans, please contact Christa.  This is a great opportunity for our international students to learn more about traditions here, and to enrich our own opportunities to learn more about these students and their traditions.

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HURRAHS!

Congratulations to Sean Wiebe on a new book chapter!  Sean’s chapter, “An experiment in in poetic-psychoanalytic therapy: What is good for the poem is good for the poet” will be included in Poetic Inquiry: Seeing, Understanding, and Caring (edited by K. Galvin, L. Todres, & M. Prendergast).  A preview is available here.