The First Annual William Waters Symposium on Urban Education

March 2009

The Centre for Urban Schooling hosted the first annual Bill Waters Symposium on Urban Education, which took place at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto from March 25-27. This annual event inspires discussion and debate on important issues of research and practice in urban education in Canada.

Professor Michelle Fine was the featured scholar for this first symposium. Professor Fine is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center - City University of New York in Social Personality Psychology, Urban Education and Women’s Studies.  To watch the video of Dr. Fine's lecture, please click on the image below.  (To watch the video without closed-captioning, please click here.)

A brochure on the William Waters Symposium on Urban Education is available for download:  Brochure

 
Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, Dr. Michelle Fine, Dr. William Waters, 
Dean Jane Gaskell, Jeff Kugler, CTL Chair Tara Goldstein