Research Area: Education

Dr. Jessie-Lee McIsaac and doctoral student Nahal Fakhari will work with the Iranian Cultural Society of Nova Scotia (ICS) to complete an evaluation of the Farsi School, exploring the programming of the school and how it supports the students' personal development as well as maintaining connections to Iranian culture.

The project team at ICS included Forough Parastar, Maryam Mirmoghisi and Majid Taghavi.

Dr. Norine Verberg will work with Jack Beaton and the volunteers at Syria Antigonish Families Embrace (SAFE) to better understand the experience of older youth immigrants who seem to have greater challenges and barriers to their educattional success.

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In the picture above, Calvin Stevens, a teacher at the Eskasoni Immersion School is showing students how to make a wooden whistle. Prof. Melissa Bishop from CBU will team up with Elaine Denny, Principal of the Immersion School to explore the impacts of land-based learning on students' oral language production and comprehension competencies during the implemention of an outdoor learning space.

Eskasoni background photo courtesy of Sjoerd Witteveen

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Dr. Heather Sparling, Cape Breton University, and Kenneth MacKenzie, Gaelic College will explore ways to better integrate traditional songs into Gaelic language instruction.