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December 15, 2009
2010 story starters
There’s more to Vancouver’s 2010 story than moguls and medals. SFU has some great Olympic-themed story-starters to round out your games-time coverage. Whether you're looking for ideas or expert commentary related to the Winter Games or wondering about our February hiatus, you'll find plenty of helpful information at www.sfu.ca/2010.
Flying the pork barrel at the Olympics
Small and regional airports in B.C.’s Interior are charging the federal government with playing pork barrel politics in its imposition of a new air security rules during the Olympics. Ottawa is forcing regional airports to divert flights to better equipped, larger airports if they don’t meet beefed up security requirements. While regional airports are expected to pay for the upgrade themselves, a tiny airport on Salt Spring Island has had full security installed, courtesy of the federal government. SFU political scientist Patrick Smith agrees with charges that Ottawa is favoring a riding held by Gary Lunn, the minister of sport in the Conservative federal government. “Prime Minister Harper is acting a lot like his predecessor Jean Chretien. The Liberals were grand at taking care of business while doing the nation’s business. The Conservatives are showing the same old signs.”
Patrick Smith, psmith.sfu@gmail.com, email is best
Muslim voices in school
Where the heck is the Muslim world anyway? The question is being put to readers of a new book, Muslim Voices in School (fall 2009). Özlem Sensoy, an SFU assistant education professor, is co-editor of a collaboration of writers who describe what it is like to “live” Islam in relation to mainstream schooling in the West. Her provocative question (the title of her own chapter) and others raised in the book push back against the stereotypical ideas around being Muslim and point to “the complexities of individual experiences” often overlooked in the learning process. The Muslim-acculturated scholars write from personal standpoints on their own experiences. Sensoy, who grew up in a Turkish family with Sunni Muslim traditions, says the book raises social, political and educational issues that focus on the K-12 and post-secondary arenas.
Earlier this year, Sensoy worked with Grade 7 students at an inner school in Surrey on a project encouraging them to express views on race, class and gender. The students then created digital photo essays. See sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtsgSZCbrjc
First 50 pages of Muslim Voices: https://www.sensepublishers.com/files/9789087909574PR.pdf
Özlem Sensoy, 778.782.6795; ozlem_sensoy@sfu.ca
There’s more to Vancouver’s 2010 story than moguls and medals. SFU has some great Olympic-themed story-starters to round out your games-time coverage. Whether you're looking for ideas or expert commentary related to the Winter Games or wondering about our February hiatus, you'll find plenty of helpful information at www.sfu.ca/2010.
Flying the pork barrel at the Olympics
Small and regional airports in B.C.’s Interior are charging the federal government with playing pork barrel politics in its imposition of a new air security rules during the Olympics. Ottawa is forcing regional airports to divert flights to better equipped, larger airports if they don’t meet beefed up security requirements. While regional airports are expected to pay for the upgrade themselves, a tiny airport on Salt Spring Island has had full security installed, courtesy of the federal government. SFU political scientist Patrick Smith agrees with charges that Ottawa is favoring a riding held by Gary Lunn, the minister of sport in the Conservative federal government. “Prime Minister Harper is acting a lot like his predecessor Jean Chretien. The Liberals were grand at taking care of business while doing the nation’s business. The Conservatives are showing the same old signs.”
Patrick Smith, psmith.sfu@gmail.com, email is best
Muslim voices in school
Where the heck is the Muslim world anyway? The question is being put to readers of a new book, Muslim Voices in School (fall 2009). Özlem Sensoy, an SFU assistant education professor, is co-editor of a collaboration of writers who describe what it is like to “live” Islam in relation to mainstream schooling in the West. Her provocative question (the title of her own chapter) and others raised in the book push back against the stereotypical ideas around being Muslim and point to “the complexities of individual experiences” often overlooked in the learning process. The Muslim-acculturated scholars write from personal standpoints on their own experiences. Sensoy, who grew up in a Turkish family with Sunni Muslim traditions, says the book raises social, political and educational issues that focus on the K-12 and post-secondary arenas.
Earlier this year, Sensoy worked with Grade 7 students at an inner school in Surrey on a project encouraging them to express views on race, class and gender. The students then created digital photo essays. See sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtsgSZCbrjc
First 50 pages of Muslim Voices: https://www.sensepublishers.com/files/9789087909574PR.pdf
Özlem Sensoy, 778.782.6795; ozlem_sensoy@sfu.ca