Teaching & Learning

By Kate Hargreaves 

While September brings the start of the school year, November marks the beginning of practicum placements for teacher candidates in the Faculty of Education. 

On Friday, Nov. 14, more than 350 first-year teacher candidates gathered in the Dennis Fairall Field House at the Toldo Lancer Centre to be officially welcomed into the teaching profession during the annual pinning ceremony. 

By John-Paul Bonadonna

With a love for the art of motion pictures that extends to all facets of production, Jett Shields is already earning a reputation for his technical precision and creative drive.

The second-year film production student at the University of Windsor is hooked on 24 frames-per-second storytelling.

But it’s the meticulous craft of editing that earns his dearest affection.

“I’ve always been drawn to the behind-the-scenes work,” Shields says.

By Lindsay Charlton

Dramatic arts students are delving into what it means to be free — and captive — through a set of immersive performances ranging from a trapped toy to the inner world of a medieval prisoner. 

The production, opening this week, is the third instalment of the Black Box performance series. This student-led theatrical showcase brings together various voices in an intimate and collaborative production exploring a single theme. 

By Sara Meikle

Dr. Debbie Rickeard, a trailblazing nurse educator whose student-first approach and leadership in simulation-based learning have shaped nursing education at the University of Windsor and beyond, has earned national recognition for excellence in her field.

Rickeard received the Excellence in Nursing Education Award from the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) for permanent, tenure-track, tenured and term faculty – one of the most distinguished honours in Canadian nursing education.

By Kate Hargreaves 

Angela Langlais’s path to becoming a technological education teacher was a journey in more ways than one. 

A 2024 graduate of the University of Windsor's Bachelor of Education in Technological Studies Program (BEd Tech), Langlais is now a hairstyling and aesthetics teacher with the Keewatin-Patricia School Board at Dryden High School. 

By Victor Romao 

Luca Mastroianni has always loved building things. 

From welding and woodworking projects in high school to designing automated systems in university, his hands-on approach to problem-solving has shaped his academic journey. 

By Kate Hargreaves

From search results to article summaries, image generators and facial recognition, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. 

Bonnie Stewart, a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor, challenges the idea that this AI omnipresence is inevitable or even something higher education should embrace. 

Having worked in digital pedagogies since the late 1990s, Dr. Stewart’s research focuses on combining educational and sociological lenses to examine how digital tools are used. 

By Lindsay Charlton

We’re living in a time when inequality is at the centre of political controversy, says Faculty of Law professor Joshua Sealy-Harrington, which makes it all the more important to clarify what the term means in a legal context.

By Kate Hargreaves

When professor of English and Creative Writing Nicole Markotić was selecting books for the department’s final graduate-level creative writing class, she knew she wanted to make a big splash. 

“We wanted a course objective that would both celebrate past achievements and project our current student cohort into their own literary futures,” she explains. 

By Kate Hargreaves 

Students and faculty gathered for the annual Faculty of Human Kinetics Scholars’ Evening on Tuesday, Nov. 11 to celebrate students’ scholastic success. 

A total of 138 students, from undergraduate to doctoral level, received scholarships and bursaries in addition to the 103 students recognized for making the Dean’s Honour Roll, which requires a minimum of an 80 per cent average across five courses.