Selected Topics
Fall 2009
EDU7150 elected Topics in Teaching, Learning and Evaluation
Current Issues in Health, Physical Activity, and Physical Education
Professor: Rebecca Lloyd
Monday, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The premise of this course is to critically examine and redefine how concepts of health are understood in relation to the current global obesity and physical inactivity crisis. Philosophical underpinnings and assumptions associated with various approaches to physical activity prescription and intervention will be explored in the contexts of schools and the community at large. Differences between ‘body-as-object’ and the lived or ‘living’ body will be considered, particularly in relation to assessment practices and process of becoming physically educated. Students will be invited to somatically reflect on their movement experiences and conceptually link how enhanced levels of animate consciousness may implicitly influence, actively promote and/or pedagogically shape the cultivation of active, healthy living in their own lives and the lives of others.
Winter 2010
EDU7395 Selected Topics in Advanced Statistics in Education
Multivariate Data Techniques
Professor: David Trumpower
Thursday, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Topics of current interest will be selected for intensive study from the following list: Multiple Regression, Path Analysis, Factor Analysis, Meta-analysis, Multivariate Analysis of Variance, Analysis of Covariance. Focus will be on the appropriate application and interpretation of statistical techniques. SPSS, and perhaps other software programs, will be used to conduct analyses
Students select the topics to be covered based on their own needs. Focus is on the appropriate application and interpretation of the chosen statistical techniques. Students will actually analyze their own data (which can be pilot data for their thesis, hypothetical data that you construct to mimic your future thesis data, or any other real data set that you want to analyze) and present their findings to the class for feedback.
EDU6371 Selected Topics in Educational Counselling
Crisis Intervention
Prerequisites
- EDU5471 or EDU5871 (Micro Counselling)
- EDU5271 or EDU5671 (Counselling: Theories and Practice I)
Professor: Nick Gazzola, PhD
Wednesday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of crisis models and intervention strategies. Emphasis will be placed on developing assessment and intervention skills applied to a variety of client populations. Selected topics include suicide assessment and intervention, sexual assault, abuse, mass-scale disasters, grief, critical incident stress, and counsellor self-care.
EDU7150 Selected Topics in Teaching, Learning and Evaluation
Developmental Psychopathology and School
Professor: Tracy Vaillancourt
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Mental disorders in childhood are characterized by significant disturbances in behaviour, mood and thought and are associated with substantial distress and impairment. The prevalence of mental disorders among children and youth in Canada is about 15% which translates to be close to 400,000 Ontario children and youth. At present, clinical services cannot meet the demand of treating this many affected individuals. Thus, by default, schools have become “treatment facilities” even though school personnel are not trained per se in psychological evaluation, treatment, and intervention. This survey course examines children’s mental health in the context of Ontario’s education system with emphasis placed on understanding how schools can better serve students who are currently suffering from a mental health disorder(s).