The Education Graduate Students' Society (EGSS) is excited to announce our 8th annual conference, “Education for a Diverse World: Addressing Equity & Human Rights”, which will take place on March 13th and 14th, 2009. The McGill EGSS Conference is an open forum for celebrating research and theory in a number of education disciplines such as  Culture and Values ◈ Curriculum Studies ◈ Educational Leadership and Policy ◈ Educational Psychology ◈ School Psychology ◈ Counseling ◈ Child and Adolescent Development ◈ Human Development ◈ Kinesiology ◈ Physical Education ◈ Technology, Media, and Information Studies ◈ Second Language Education ◈ and Teacher Education.

Pre-conference registration is now closed. 

However, we do have some spots available for onsite registration. If you would like to reserve a spot, please send us an email at egssconference2009@gmail.com. On the day of the conference, please be prepared to pay the $40 conference registration in cash. Unfortunately, we will not be able to accept cards or cheques on the day of the conference.

Quick Links:

• Conference Program (PDF)
• Registration Information
• Program Information for Presenters
• Information about our Keynote Speakers
• Keynote speaker schedule (also available in conference program)
• Preferred Rate Hotel Information
• Special Poster Presentation

Registration Information 

The registration fee is $40 for both days, including access to all keynote events, lunch and refreshments Friday and Saturday, wine & cheese cocktail Saturday evening, and conference swag (bag, notepad, etc.). 

McGill has preferred rates at hotels close to campus. Click here for more information.

Important! All presenters must register for the conference.

To register, complete the following two steps:

1.      Fill in this registration form, save the file as yourname.doc, and email it to egsspayment@gmail.com.

You will receive an email in return with your invoice and a link to complete your payment online via PayPal.

2.      Upon receipt of the email click on the link and complete your payment via PayPal.

You will receive a second email confirming that your payment is received and your registration is complete.

Attention Presenters:  Click here for important additional information.

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About our Keynote Speakers

Dr. Edward Zigler received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. He joined the psychology department at Yale in 1959 and also served on the faculty of Yale’s Child Study Center. He founded and is Director Emeritus of Yale’s Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, one of the first centers in the nation to combine training in developmental science and social policy construction. He is currently Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, but remains as active as ever in his scholarly and social policy endeavors. In addition to being one of the founders of the field of applied developmental psychology, Dr. Zigler pioneered the discipline of developmental psychopathology as well as the developmental approach to mental retardation and adult psychopathology. He conceptualized the School of the 21st Century, which has been adopted by more than 1,300 schools in 20 states. Working with state governments and private foundations, he has played a central role in generating the momentum toward establishing universal preschool education. Dr. Zigler helped to plan several national projects and policies, including Head Start, Early Head Start, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. In the early ‘70’s, he served as the founding Director of the U.S. Office of Child Development (now ACYF) and Chief of the U.S. Children’s Bureau. Dr. Zigler is the author, coauthor, or editor of over 800 scholarly publications and more than 38 books. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received many honorary degrees.

Dr. Karen E. Mundy is part of a small but growing group of Education scholars seeking to understand the growth of supranational, or "borderless," forms of governance in education. She believes that globalization processes -economic, political and cultural - are intensifying the opportunities and necessity for educational cooperation across borders, making this an extremely important topic of research. Her published works, widely read and cited in the field of international and comparative education, provide valuable insight into the evolution of many of the world's governmental and non-governmental institutions with educational mandates. Dr. Mundy is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education(OISE/UT), Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Comparative Educational Change, And Co-Director of the Comparative International and Development Education Centre. In addition, Mundy took on a lead role as “anchor” of the Canadian Global Campaign for Education (GCE) Alliance, a collaborative venture involving education researcher and nongovernmental organizations, when it was founded late in 2004.

Jessica Yee is a multiracial youth of Native descent who was called to the line of action by raising controversy in her Catholic school and began volunteering at Homeward Family Shelter at the age of 12. Now at 22, she is a proud Mohawk young woman whose work has spanned across North America to focus on issues of healthy sexuality, reproductive justice, youth empowerment, and cultural competency, as the founder and director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. She is also directly involved in front line violence prevention education work, with organizations such as the the Highway of Tears Initiative in British Columbia, and serving on the Board of Directors for Maggie's: Sex Workers Organizing. Jessica is a strong believer in the power of the youth voice and you can see her activisting it up on sites like Racialicious, RABBLE.ca, SHAMELESS Magazine: For Girls Who Get It! or writing in the community about sex in the Turtle Island Native News or the Kahnawake Eastern Door. Her literary works include authoring "Aids in Aboriginal Communities" as part of the Canadian Aids Treatment Information Exchange's (CATIE) multipurpose manual "Managing Your Health", and she has been commissioned to write the Youth Indigenous Feminist Guide for the Tribal Policy and Law Institute of America. She also coordinated and edited the much anticipated "Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, Communities of Colour, and Sexuality", published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Jessica is the 2009 recipient of the YWCA Young Woman of Distinction award. She is currently teaching with the Alberta Society for the Promotion of Sexual Health and is the National Youth Coordinator for the Taking Action Project! Art and Aboriginal Youth Leadership for HIV Prevention.

Community Panel

Mostafa Henaway is a community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal,
where he has worked for the past two years on immigrant worker campaigns in the textile
industry and in the Tamil community. Mostafa has also been active organizing with taxi drivers
in Toronto for health and safety rights, with the Toronto Coalition of Concerned Taxi Drivers. In
addition, he is an independent journalist and radio producer.

Alex M. Otsehtokon McComber (bear clan, Kahnawake Mohawk Territory) is an independent
consultant in health promotion, Aboriginal education and strategic planning. He holds a Master’s
in Education Administration from McGill University. Alex was the Kahnawake Schools
Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP) Executive Director, Training Coordinator and an
intervention facilitator from 1994 to 2006. He was a high school teacher and principal at the
Kahnawake Survival School from 1978 to 1994, and is a former volunteer firefighter. He is one
of the co-authors or the KSDPP Code of Research Ethics, a landmark document on community–
based participatory research.

Sheetal Pathak is a community worker at the South Asian Women’s Community Centre
(SAWCC), working on the project South Asian Women: Autonomous and Independent. She is
also the coordinator of the Youth Project. The youth project connects her to South Asian girls at
primary and secondary schools with a high concentration of South Asian students where she
holds regular workshops for them. Sheetal is also busy completing her Bachelors in International
Development and Economics at McGill University. In addition, Sheetal has been the President of
the Board of Directors at the Mountain Sights Community Centre since 2005.

Keynote Speaker Schedule 

All talks will take place in the Jack Cram Auditorium (Education Building, Room 129, 3700 McTavish Street).

Friday, March 13th 2009.

Dr. Edward Zigler: 9:30-11:00am.

Schools of the 21st Century

In this presentation Dr. Zigler will describe his Whole School Reform Model known as 21C.
"Schools of the 21st Century" is the most frequently employed school reform model in the U.S.
and now encompasses some 1,300 schools in 20 states. Dr. Zigler will describe the model and its
genesis as well as present empirical findings demonstrating the model's efficacy in improving the
lives of both children and their families.

Dr. Karen Mundy: 3:15-4:45pm. 

Saturday, March 14, 2009.

Jessica Yee: 9:30-11:00am

Community Panel: 3:15-4:45pm

Beyond the classroom: Exploring the role of education and learning in community activism

While schools are generally thought to be the primary sites of education, researchers and
community activists are increasingly bringing our attention to the learning that takes place
through social action. This panel will feature local community activists, who will share with us
their visions of education and of the role that academic institutions, such as McGill, may play in
social change.

Please Note: Special Poster Presentation 

1:45-3:00pm

by  Mohammed R. Alyemeni, Ph.D ; Mohammed Alnaif, Ph.D; Dr. Abdullah Alhumaid, Ph.D,.
King Saud University, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia 

The Impact of establishing a "First of it's Kind" graduate program in Saudi Arabia on it's Graduate Development

Background: Graduate education in Saudi Arabia is booming, however, there appear to be some repetition in the programs offered by various universities. King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences has developed and started a Master’s Degree program in Health Informatics, the first of its kind in the Middle East. The impact of this relatively unknown discipline on the career and professional development of the graduates is very important to educators and those specialized in this area. Conclusion: It appears that the lack of awareness among healthcare officials and professionals in Saudi Arabia about Health Informatics, has contributed in graduates not realizing their goals. Therefore, it is recommended that efforts have to be seriously increased to educate the professional community about Health Informatics, and what Health Informatics specialists can contribute to the healthcare organization.

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Important Program Information for Presenters

In order to keep the conference as environmentally friendly as possible, only an abbreviated version of the program (including brief synopses of each presentation and not detailed abstracts) will be distributed at the conference. Please take the time to read through the full version online of the program online prior to attending the conference. We thank you for your cooperation and support in this matter!

Poster Presentations

Paper and Roundtable Presentations

Preferred Rate Hotels

Click here for hotel information and to book reservations. 

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Want to see what happened last year? Click here to find information and download the program from the 7th Annual EGSS Conference “Making Education Count”.