13.010 - The Laboratory School at the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study at the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Session Type: Off-Site Visit

Abstract

The Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study (EJICS), near downtown Toronto, supports research across the lifespan with a particular focus on imagination, curiosity, wellbeing, and culture and education by faculty from the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at OISE at the University of Toronto. The tour will highlight the integration of EJICS’s component elements to support child development, learning, teacher development, and the integration of practice, theory, and research.
EJICS is the home of OISE’s award-winning Laboratory School (grades Nursery through 6th Grade), which contributes to research and highlights excellence in teaching. The school’s mission is to provide excellence in elementary education, teacher education, and research in an intentionally diverse environment. From its earliest days in 1925, the Laboratory School has been an engaging and exciting learning environment for young children, their parents, graduate students, and researchers to work together toward deep understanding. All students in the Department’s graduate teacher education program have a practicum within the Lab School, and Lab School staff contribute to graduate courses and engage in research and research based practices. Since the school’s inception, it has made a noted contribution to understanding of strong educational practices in elementary schools and faculties of education throughout the world. The school develops a link to educational theory and practice in order to benefit teacher education in the MA CSE program, throughout OISE and the University of Toronto, and the wider educational community in Canada and around the world.
This site visit will include a one-hour tour of EJICS’s physical space, which integrates a historic mansion and modern classrooms (for OISE students and the Lab School), research labs, faculty offices, and meetings spaces. The tour will be followed by a Q and A session with Director of the Institute and the Principal of the Lab School.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Visit Leader

• Sim Kapoor, University of Toronto - OISE

Chairs

• Richard Messina, University of Toronto - OISE

• Rhonda Lynne Martinussen, OISE/University of Toronto