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One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography
Margaret Mackey, Professor, University of Alberta When I begin explaining my book One Child Reading to people, everybody asks the same question: “How do you remember all those things you read as a child?” It’s a reasonable point to raise. In...
Workshop offers alternate model for student engagement in and out of the classroom
Caleb Snider, Congress 2016 student blogger On June 2 at Congress 2016, Lisa Stowe (University of Calgary) lead a special session of Career Corner hosted by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Calgary entitled...
Research methods: The right tool for each job
Some years ago, two great research traditions arose in social and behavioral science: talking to people and gathering data and numbers about people. A hybrid tradition, which goes by various names but which we’ll call ‘mixed methods,’ arose in the...
Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control
Alex Marland, Memorial University of Newfoundland Before entering academia, I worked in communications consulting and in government. In the private sector, we had lots of time to ruminate about marketing strategy. But in government, the best laid...
Rethinking graduate education to access greater career opportunities
As part of the Congress 2016 exciting line-up of events, the University of Calgary will host six Interdisciplinary symposia to exhibit the university’s most compelling and leading-edge thinking and research. This article is part of a six-part series...
Adolescentes et mode : Repenser la question d’hypersexualisation
Il y a une dizaine d’années, la chanteuse populaire Britney Spears a fait couler beaucoup d’encre en déclenchant une controverse au sujet des adolescentes qui imitaient sa façon dite ‘sexy’ de s’habiller. Caroline Caron, une professeure au...
Fresh Air and New Hope for Canada and Human Rights
John Packer, Director, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa Ce billet de blogue a été préparé à l'occasion de la Journée des droits de l'homme 2015. There is a palpable sense of relief within the human rights community...
Shifts Happen
It is always nice to start the new academic year on a bit of a high, not always easy given enrollment challenges, coping with an election that has lasted longer than some prime ministerial terms, and being bombarded with Gradgrindingly Wente-esque...
Back to school: What is the media saying?
As Media Officer at the Federation, I monitor “back to school” media every September to get a snapshot of what dominates current debates and conversations in the postsecondary education (PSE) sector, and what some of the biggest priorities and...