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1. Revised Academic Integrity Website
2. Education Library
3. American Educational Research Association
4. Conference - University of Calgary
5. Department of Integrated Studies in Education: Occasional Seminar Series

On behalf of Prof. M.J. Mendelson, I would like to draw your attention to the newly revised academic integrity website at www.mcgill.ca/integrity. The organization of the site has been improved and there are two additions to the main page.

A student quide to help avoid plagiarism at www.mcgill.ca/integrity/studentguide/

Strategies to help lecturers prevent plagiarism and cheating at www.mcgill.ca/integrity/strategies/

The "strategies" page contains links to suggestions about the following: prevention of cheating on midterm exams, reducing plagiarism on lab reports, assignments and term papers, prevention of plagiarism on term papers and what to do if a student cheats or plagiarizes.

Christine Zilberman
Faculty Administrator

EDUCATION LIBRARY - EASTER HOURS
The Library will be closed Friday, March 29th to Monday, April 1st.

Regular sessional hours resume Tuesday April 2nd.

Best wishes for the Holidays.

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The Education Library welcomes faculty requests for new library acquisitions.

Please send your suggestions by e-mail to: marilyn.cohen@mcgill.ca or send publishers catalogues with requested titles checked off. Deadline for submission is March 26, 2002.

Thanking you in advance for your cooperation.

Marilyn Cohen
Head, Education Library

McGill University, Faculty of Education will be hosting a reception at the American Educational Research Association Meeting in New Orleans, Tuesday April 2nd, 7:00-9:00PM, at the New Orleans Sheraton Hotel, 500 Canal Street in the Southdown Room.

All alumni, faculty and students are welcome. Please notify Catherine Hughes (7037) if you will be attending and invite any alumni you know who will be at the conference.

Ratna Ghosh
Dean

“SCHOOL CHOICE: PUBLIC EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS” University of Calgary from May 9th – 11th, 2002.

The conference agenda and copies of the registration form are available in the Dean of Education’s Office, or on the University of Calgary website: www.ucalgary.ca

Catherine Hughes
Secretary to Dean Ghosh

Remaining Presentations:

Tuesday, March 12
Dr. Ming Fang He (Curriculum Studies)
4:30-6:00 p.m. Education 211
Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry of Language, Culture, and Identity in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education

Thursday, March 14
Dr. Laura Winer (Teacher Education/New Technologies)
1:00-2:30 p.m. Education 233
Integrating Technology in Teacher Education

Monday, March 18
Dr. Seth Agbo (Leadership Education)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. Education 233
Participatory Research, Cultural Literacy, and
Transformational Learning: Linking Cultures, School Improvement and Professional Development

Tuesday, March 19
Dr. Sandra M. Alters (Science Education)
1:00-2:30 p.m. Education 233
Issues in Science Education in North America

Tuesday, March 19
Guillaume Gentil (Composition and Rhetoric)
4:00-5:30 p.m. Education 233
The construction of identity in academic writing: Case studies of francophone writers in an anglophone university

Monday, March 25
Shaheen Shariff (Leadership Education & Policy Studies)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. Education 233
A System on Trial: The Legal Culpability of Canadian Schools in Handling Violence

Tuesday, March 26
Dr. Leo Elshof (Science Education)
1:00-2:30 p.m. Education 233
Working with Worldviews for a more Sustainable Science and Technology Education

Wednesday, March 27
Dr. Kathryn Alexander (Composition and Rhetoric)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. Education 233
Reclaiming the social text: Exploring writing pedagogy as situated learning, meta-genres and textually mediated communities.

Kathleen McElroy
Department of Integrated Studies in Education