Research Hub

This past weekend, Mehdia Hassan had the pleasure of sharing our Pashto and Dari resource booklets with Afghan newcomer families in Cornwall, Eastern Ontario. The event, hosted by CESOC, took place during a vibrant community picnic in the park. She was invited to present in Dari and speak with parents about how these resources can…

Dr. Dania Wattar and Rosalia Cha had a great session with 25 educators, administrators, and researchers at the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education (OAME) in Oshawa in May! As AI continues to evolve rapidly and teachers increasingly use it to support instruction, they focused on integrating culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy with AI tools to…

Dr. Mai Naji and Rosalia Cha presented at Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) in Chicago in March. They explored how digital tools and curriculum mapping can foster more inclusive STEM education for multilingual and newcomer students. Through comparative curriculum analysis across 18 countries, inclusive assessment practices, and community-based resource development (e.g., in Dari and…

In the fall of 2024, Martine, a graduate student from the Netherlands, joined the ESCAPE project to share her knowledge of the Dutch education system. During these months, she wrote a section about the Netherlands for the ESCAPE website and created a Dutch version of the 12-lesson booklet as part of her internship.  For the…

Dr. Sunny Lau from Bishop University invited Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon and Dr. Mai Naji to conduct a workshop for high school teachers in Quebec. This workshop was part of the Entente Canada-Quebec project, designed to assist teachers in offering courses in French at this Anglophone college, in compliance with the newly enacted Law 14…

In October of 2024, our team member Ye Jia joined the collaboration project of international curriculum mapping with researchers from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Our well-established category system for organizing mathematics and science curricula laid the groundwork for a detailed comparison between the Ontario and Berlin school systems. This collaboration led to the collection and update of Berlin’s…

ABSTRACT This study addresses the challenges faced by newcomer students in the host country’s education system. It emphasizes the importance of creating learning communities around these learners. To achieve this goal, we assisted various stakeholders including parents and educators in transcending language differences by examining each other’s educational system. Our approach aimed to cultivate positive…

ABSTRACT In Canada, the substantial increase in English language learners has underscored the pressing need for educational resources that enable them to receive an education appropriate to their academic level while learning the school language. This issue carries significant implications for equitable access to quality education. In this study, we describe a novel multilingual digital…

ABSTRACT This special issue highlights research mainly conducted from 2020 to 2023 in Canada, France, Germany, the UK and Finland. Each of these studies presents the affordances and constraints of using multilingual digital tools to address the deficit orientation to the education of newcomer students that still exists in many contexts. This includes the underestimation…