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By Kate Hargreaves 

While Canadian and Chinese culture may appear very different, visiting scholar Dr. Guifang Cheng says there are more commonalities than she expected. 

An associate professor in the Faculty of Educational Technology and Media at China's Liaocheng University, Cheng has been working with researchers in UWindsor's Faculty of Education since July.  

Her first visit to Canada has also introduced her to local traditions, including celebrations of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and Canadian Thanksgiving. 

By Kate Hargreaves 

Faith is an important part of how some students understand themselves and the world around them, and they do not leave this part of their identity at the classroom door. 

A new additional qualification (AQ) course offered by the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Education aims to help teachers gain the knowledge and practical tools to better support Muslim students and respond to Islamophobia in educational settings. 

By Kate Hargreaves 

A new opportunity for experiential learning and research is available to UWindsor students this coming summer in Botswana. 

Part of the Faculty of Education’s Global Community Engagement Program (GCEP), which already provides international service-learning opportunities in China, Jamaica and Tanzania, Botswana is the latest country to be added to this list of options. 

By Kate Hargreaves 

Giang Nguyen had never owned a restaurant or even worked in a kitchen when she moved to Canada three years ago with her family. 

A trained teacher with a master's degree in teaching English as a second language from her home country of Vietnam, Nguyen came to Windsor to pursue a master of education at the University of Windsor. 

Three years later, she's earned her degree and traded the classroom for the kitchen, becoming the owner of two Vietnamese restaurants in Windsor-Essex. 

By Kate Hargreaves 

For visiting scholar Dr. Min Fan, one of the biggest surprises about Canadian elementary education has been the relatively limited presence of artificial intelligence (AI) in her daughter's classroom compared to schools in her native China.