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1. Position Postings - University of Prince Edward Island
2. Call for Nominations
3. McGill Lecture Series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education"
4. Facilities Management and Development Announcement

The University of Prince Edward Island, Faculty of Education invites applications for the following positions:

Three (3) tenure track postions - Assistant/Associate Professor
One (1) Science Education Faculty position
Two (2) Faculty positions with expertise in one or more of Educational Foundations, Mathematics Education, Assessment, Technology, Language Arts and Quantitative Research Methodology.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. or be near completion, be strong teachers and researchers and have experience in schools. Duties will include teaching at the undergraduate level and supervision of B.Ed. students in their school practice. There will also be the opportunity to teach in the M.Ed. or Diploma programs and to supervise graduate thesis work.

To apply: Send a curriculum vitae and three (3) letters of reference to:

Dr. Gerry Hopkirk
Dean, Faculty of Education
University of Prince Edward Island
550 University Avenue
Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4P3
Phone: (902) 566-0622
Fax: (902) 566-0416
E-Mail: ghopkirk@upei.ca

Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Start date as soon as candidate is available.

Dr. Ratna Ghosh
Dean

The Faculty is invited to nominate individuals for the Advisory Committee for the Selection of a Director for the Centre for University Teaching and Learning. The faculty has been asked to name two faculty members and one alternate. Completed nomination forms should be returned to Gill Rejskind's mail box in the Student Affair's office by 4:30 p.m. on May 30, 2002.

Dr. Gill Rejskind, Chair
Nominating Commitee

This presentation will examine the potential for history education to contribute to citizenship in pluralist, participatory democracies. Debates over public memory often revolve around narrow interpretations of what constitutes "real" history, with each side attempting to establish its own approach as authoritative and dismissing all rivals. This presentation, on the other hand, will examine the multiple historical "acts" - such as analysis, moral judgment, and identification - that students are expected to perform in school, and the ways in which these reflect the varied, and frequently conflicting, public use of history. It will be argued that history education should not be evaluated by its adherence to an exclusive (and supposedly authoritative) body of content or procedures, but by its contribution to democratic citizenship - a contribution which can best be achieved through a focus on the goals of humanistic education.

The next lecturer in the series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education" is Keith Barton, Associate Professor in the Division of Teacher Education at the University of Cincinnati and Visiting Professor in the UNESCO Programme in Education for Pluralism, Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Ulster. His lecture, entitled "Committing Acts of History: Humanistic Education and Participatory Democracy" begins at 5:30 pm this Thursday, May 30th in the Jack Cram Auditorium of the Faculty of Education, McGill University, 3700 McTavish St. Everyone is welcome.

For further information about this lecture, and others in the series, please see www.education.mcgill.ca/events or
email ruth.sandwell@mcgill.ca

Dr. Ruth Sandwell
Department of Integrated Studies in Education

Facilities Management and Development is planning a power shutdown of the Macdonald Parks substation in order to tie in the new Genome building to the McGill power grid. The shutdown is scheduled from Friday, July 5, 2002, 11:00 pm until Saturday July 6, 7:00 pm and will affect the Currie Gym, Field House and Education buildings. Emergency power will be in operation where available.

We regret the inconvenience this situation may cause. For further information, please contact:

Andre Aylwin
Director of Operations
Facilities Management
398-8192

Annie Bondi
Assistant Building Director