Public Lecture: Professor Marie Mc Andrew
03/21/2013 - 14:00 - 14:00
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Professor Marie Mc Andrew, from the University of Montreal, will deliver a
public lecture entitled "Les politiques d’immigration, d’intégration
et de relations interculturelles au Canada et au Québec" in the auditorium
S422 on 21 March at 14:00. The lecture will be held in French.Marie Mc
Andrew is a full professor in the Department of Educational Administration
and Foundations, at the University of Montreal. She holds a PhD in
Comparative Education and specialized in the education of minorities and
intercultural education. She has worked extensively in research and policy
development and evaluation in this field. From 1989 to 1991, as an advisor
to the deputy-minister’s cabinet of the Quebec Ministère des
Communautés culturelles et de l’Immigration, she has been closely
associated to the development and dissemination of the Policy Statement on
immigration and integration Let’s build Quebec together.From 1996 to
2002, she was the Director of Immigration and Metropolis, the
Inter-university Research Centre of Montreal on Immigration, Integration
and Urban Dynamics, one of four centres created in 1996 by the Social
Sciences Research Council of Canada (SSRCC) and Citizenship and Immigration
Canada (CIC) in the framework of their joint initiative to foster the
development of research and policy related to immigration. The Centre is a
network of over 60 researchers who have been carrying out, in the last 5
years, more than a hundred research projects focusing on policy issues.From
1993 to 2004, Dr. McAndrew also co-ordinated the Research Group on
Ethnicity and Adaptation to Pluralism in Education (Groupe de recherche sur
l’ethnicité et l’adaptation au pluralisme en éducation – GREAPE).
This was an interdisciplinary research team which worked in partnership
with the Ministère de l'Éducation (MEQ), the Ministère des Relations
avec les citoyens et de l'Immigration (MRCI) as well as a number of
School Boards on the Island of Montreal. The GREAPE team, building on the
experience of studies carried out in Canada and in other societies,
critically examined various issues such as the school integration of
immigrants, the adaptation of Quebec's French-language educational system
to diversity and citizenship education. Presenting an original synthesis of
the studies conducted by the group since 1992, her book «Immigration et
diversité à l’école: le cas québécois dans une perspective
comparative» (Immigration and diversity in school : the québécois case
in a comparative perspective) won the Donner prize 2001 attributed to the
best book on Canadian public policy.Since June 2003, she holds the Chair
for Ethnic Relations and in June 2006, she was awarded a SSHRC Canada
Senior research Chair on Education and Ethnic Relations. In this framework,
she carries a major research program on the role of education
in the maintenance and the transformation of ethnic relations, which
comprises tree main components: Culture, Socialization, Curriculum;
Academic performance and educational mobility; Policies and Practices from
a comparative perspective. This program includes many projects on various
subjects such as the role of Education in the relations between the Jewish
Community and other Quebecers and the Factors influencing the School
Success of immigrant students ( a FQRSC team on this last theme, the
research group on immigration equity and schooling, is also attached
to the chair ).Another issue explored since more than 10 years by the Chair
holder is the specificity of the adaptation of school system to pluralism
in societies where more than one group can claim the status of a
sociological majority. Her more recent book, «Les majorités fragiles et
l’Éducation: Belgique, Catalogne, Irlande du Nord, Québec, (PUM, 2010)/
Fragile Majorities and Education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland,
Quebec», nominated for the Governor General Awards in the Essays category,
studies various issues, often contested, such as common schooling, the
teaching of History in the context of competing memories, linguistic
integration of immigrants, as well as the taking into account of diversity
in schools.In June 2005, she received the Prix québécois de la
citoyenneté Jacques-Couture pour le rapprochement interculturel, in
recognition of the relevance of her involvement in research and
dissemination for the development of public policies, better adapted to
pluralism. She was or is also a member of various provincial or
federal committees such as the Consultative Committee on integration and
reasonable accommodation in the school setting, the advisory board of the
Consultation commission on accommodation practices related to cultural
differences, the National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance
and Research and CIC Deputy- Minister Advisory Committee. She was recently
appointed to the Royal Society of Canada.For further information please
contactAleksandra LjalikovaE-mail: alexa@tlu.eePhone: +372 504 6657
public lecture entitled "Les politiques d’immigration, d’intégration
et de relations interculturelles au Canada et au Québec" in the auditorium
S422 on 21 March at 14:00. The lecture will be held in French.Marie Mc
Andrew is a full professor in the Department of Educational Administration
and Foundations, at the University of Montreal. She holds a PhD in
Comparative Education and specialized in the education of minorities and
intercultural education. She has worked extensively in research and policy
development and evaluation in this field. From 1989 to 1991, as an advisor
to the deputy-minister’s cabinet of the Quebec Ministère des
Communautés culturelles et de l’Immigration, she has been closely
associated to the development and dissemination of the Policy Statement on
immigration and integration Let’s build Quebec together.From 1996 to
2002, she was the Director of Immigration and Metropolis, the
Inter-university Research Centre of Montreal on Immigration, Integration
and Urban Dynamics, one of four centres created in 1996 by the Social
Sciences Research Council of Canada (SSRCC) and Citizenship and Immigration
Canada (CIC) in the framework of their joint initiative to foster the
development of research and policy related to immigration. The Centre is a
network of over 60 researchers who have been carrying out, in the last 5
years, more than a hundred research projects focusing on policy issues.From
1993 to 2004, Dr. McAndrew also co-ordinated the Research Group on
Ethnicity and Adaptation to Pluralism in Education (Groupe de recherche sur
l’ethnicité et l’adaptation au pluralisme en éducation – GREAPE).
This was an interdisciplinary research team which worked in partnership
with the Ministère de l'Éducation (MEQ), the Ministère des Relations
avec les citoyens et de l'Immigration (MRCI) as well as a number of
School Boards on the Island of Montreal. The GREAPE team, building on the
experience of studies carried out in Canada and in other societies,
critically examined various issues such as the school integration of
immigrants, the adaptation of Quebec's French-language educational system
to diversity and citizenship education. Presenting an original synthesis of
the studies conducted by the group since 1992, her book «Immigration et
diversité à l’école: le cas québécois dans une perspective
comparative» (Immigration and diversity in school : the québécois case
in a comparative perspective) won the Donner prize 2001 attributed to the
best book on Canadian public policy.Since June 2003, she holds the Chair
for Ethnic Relations and in June 2006, she was awarded a SSHRC Canada
Senior research Chair on Education and Ethnic Relations. In this framework,
she carries a major research program on the role of education
in the maintenance and the transformation of ethnic relations, which
comprises tree main components: Culture, Socialization, Curriculum;
Academic performance and educational mobility; Policies and Practices from
a comparative perspective. This program includes many projects on various
subjects such as the role of Education in the relations between the Jewish
Community and other Quebecers and the Factors influencing the School
Success of immigrant students ( a FQRSC team on this last theme, the
research group on immigration equity and schooling, is also attached
to the chair ).Another issue explored since more than 10 years by the Chair
holder is the specificity of the adaptation of school system to pluralism
in societies where more than one group can claim the status of a
sociological majority. Her more recent book, «Les majorités fragiles et
l’Éducation: Belgique, Catalogne, Irlande du Nord, Québec, (PUM, 2010)/
Fragile Majorities and Education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland,
Quebec», nominated for the Governor General Awards in the Essays category,
studies various issues, often contested, such as common schooling, the
teaching of History in the context of competing memories, linguistic
integration of immigrants, as well as the taking into account of diversity
in schools.In June 2005, she received the Prix québécois de la
citoyenneté Jacques-Couture pour le rapprochement interculturel, in
recognition of the relevance of her involvement in research and
dissemination for the development of public policies, better adapted to
pluralism. She was or is also a member of various provincial or
federal committees such as the Consultative Committee on integration and
reasonable accommodation in the school setting, the advisory board of the
Consultation commission on accommodation practices related to cultural
differences, the National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance
and Research and CIC Deputy- Minister Advisory Committee. She was recently
appointed to the Royal Society of Canada.For further information please
contactAleksandra LjalikovaE-mail: alexa@tlu.eePhone: +372 504 6657