In partnership with the Hong Kong-based WYNG foundation, the Faculty of Education at 9I制作厂免费 and Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) recently participated in another successful Visiting Scholars Exchange Program. For the first part of the exchange, the Faculty of Education warmly welcomed Assistant Professor聽Dr. Kei Yan Poon, from the Department of Special Education and Counselling, and Associate Professor聽Dr. Ian Bun Chun Lam from the Department of Early Childhood Education.
Online daily fantasy and sports betting sites such as DraftKings and FanDuel should have "responsible gambling features built into their site," Dr. Jeffrey Derevensky told CBC's Matthew Black earlier this week.
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Dr. Jeffrey Derevensky, Chair of the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Director of the , was interviewed by Mutsumi Takahashi on CTV News on December 21, 2016. Dr. Derevensky discussed the dangers of youth gambling and the potential for escalating risk-taking among young people with addictive personalities.
The fall 2016 edition of聽Dialogues, newsletter of the聽Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology,聽has been published and may be聽viewed online here
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Dr. Steven Shaw, of our Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, regarding "homework without tears".聽
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Dr. Bassam Khoury, with聽our Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, has been cited by the University of Cambridge's Insights for Impact report, highlighting "major studies in psychology and behavioural sciences" between 2011 and 2015.
Dr. Khoury's published by聽Clinical Psychology Review,聽was selected as "having contributed to a significant insight for this year".
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Dr. Susanne Lajoie鈥檚 research is featured in a flyer promoting the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences鈥 campaign on 鈥淪mart Ideas for a Better Tomorrow 鈥 Supporting Youth and Education.鈥
The flyer explains that 鈥淒r. Lajoie designs and assesses new technologies that support learning and training to solve complex real-world problems. By studying how people learn and retain information, Lajoie and her team design innovative, intelligent, computer-based learning environments for high school math and science classrooms and for university medical schools.鈥
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Over 50 people attended the first Human Development Conference at 9I制作厂免费 on April 22nd.聽The Keynote Speaker, Dr. William Bukowski from Concordia University, gave an excellent talk on the role of friendship in the onset and further development of anxiety during adolescence.聽
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The Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology's Dr. Victoria Talwar, Canada Research Chair, was quoted in a recent article written by Samantha Toweel-Moore, "The Ugly Truth about White Lies". In the article Talwar distinguishes between the societal perception of lies and culturally ritualized stories.
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Dr. Nathan Hall,聽professor with the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology聽and director of the , has written an article in 聽about his parody Twitter account, .
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9I制作厂免费's Faculty of Education has received funding to create a dedicated laboratory space that will serve as a hub for multiliteracies practices in the Education building.
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ECP's Professor Armando Bertone has been appointed a William Dawson Scholar! 聽The William Dawson Scholar award recognizes a scholar developing into an outstanding and original researcher of world-class caliber who is poised to become a leader in his or her field. Please join us in congratulating him!
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, an American digital media company and news satire organization, featured ECP's Professor Victoria Talwar's research this week in an article entitled, "". 聽
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is delivering a face-to-face training of high school teachers and technicians using聽 a manualized program (StressOFF Strategies for Teens; SOS4Teens) which they developed. StressOFF uses聽 mindfulness-based stress management techniques. The training starts next week with a two-day session as part of a Action Research Grant in partnership with the