Centre
for Arts-Informed Research (CAIR)
The Centre's mission
is to articulate, explore, and support
alternative forms of qualitative research
and representation which infuse elements,
processes, and forms of the arts into
scholarly work. Centre priorities include
seminars, exhibits, workshops, conferences,
publishing, international exchanges, collaborations
with art education institutions and an
artist-in-residence program. Ardra Cole
and J. Gary Knowles are Co-Directors of
the Centre.
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Center for
Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy
(CDCP)
The Centre
for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy
(CDCP) is an interdisciplinary centre
dedicated to research and development
of multicultural and diversity issues
in counselling and psychotherapy, focusing
particularly on the stigmatized social
identities of gender, race, sexual orientations,
class, disabilities, religion, and age.
One of the key objectives of the Centre
is to facilitate research and scholarship
on the integration and intersection of
various marginalized identities so that
counselling and psychotherapy can be conducted
through a paradigm of multiple identities
irrespective of particular counselling
approaches.
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Centre for
Education and Work (CSEW)
The Centre for Education
and Work is a collaborative project of
Adult Education and Sociology and Equity
Studies in Education, which allows for
students and faculty to bring together
related research interests. The Centre
is associated with the Workplace Learning
and Change specialization in the Adult
Education program.
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Centre for Women's Studies (CWSE)
Both programs in the
Department of Adult Education and Counselling
Psychology participate in the collaborative
program in Women's Studies along with
three other departments in OISE/UT (see
OISE/UT Bulletin, page 218). Angela Miles
serves as the Co-ordinator within Adult
Education.
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Comparative, International, and Development
Education (CIDE)
One of the world's largest,
most diverse and dynamic graduate programs
in the field of comparative education.
All CIDE students and faculty bring with
them extensive international experience.
Faculty interests span an exciting range
of theoretical and practical issues –
from the study of ethnicity and identity
to the issues of globalization and global
governance; from non-formal learning and
citizenship education, to concrete problems
of educational reform, social equality,
language education, conflict resolution
and community development.
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The Social
Economy Centre of the University of Toronto,
Imagine Canada, and the Ontario Co-operative
Association, have launched a research
alliance that aims at enhancing capacity
for ongoing research and development for
the social economy of Southern Ontario.
This project—a Community-University
Research Alliance for Southern Ontario’s
Social Economy—consists of a network
of leading scholars from 11 universities
in Southern Ontario, 22 partner organizations,
and scholars from seven universities external
to the node whose research will be beneficial
to this initiative. This Alliance will
generate synergy between researchers and
practitioners currently working in isolation
through the creation of five Research
and Practice Clusters, and ultimately
contribute to a broader movement. Our
Alliance will also create synergy with
similar networks in other regions and
the social economy internationally.
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Transformative
Learning Centre (TLC)
The TLC's working definition
for Transformative Learning is: "Transformative
learning involves experiencing a deep,
structural shift in the basic premises
of thought, feelings, and actions. It
is a shift of consciousness that dramatically
and permanently alters our way of being
in the world. Such a shift involves our
understanding of ourselves and our self-locations;
our relationships with other humans and
with the natural world; our understanding
of relations of power in interlocking
structures of class, race and gender;
our body-awareness, our visions of alternative
approaches to living; and our sense of
possibilities for social justice and peace
and personal joy." The TLC provides
educational offerings for the community
at-large, engages in interdisciplinary
and collaborative research products, produces
a variety of publications, participates
in social movement community building,
and operates a resource centre (presently
being upgraded).
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