Resources

Here's the link to the U of T TA and Graduate Student Development conference:
http://www.teaching.utoronto.ca/conference2010/cfp.html

You'll recall (and for those who had to leave early), we left off with a few possibilities for how Gillian might respond based on what we could gather (facts and assumptions) from the scenario.

The task now is for each of us to do some further research to find out something that you think would help inform our understanding of Gillian's situation. "Research" can include conversations with other TAs, parents, friends, professors etc., and of course articles, scholarly books and journals, or any other item that you'd like to look into.

Post your idea or intended area of research (something doable between now and our next meeting on Feb 9 same time same place) and we'll report back on what we've each looked at/thought about. For my part (and since I might using this for my comps prep anyway), I will look into:

- bell hooks, Teaching Community: a Pedagogy of Hope

and

- George Fallis, Multiversities, ideas, and democracy

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