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We are pleased to announce that three doctoral students who have worked as graduate research assistants in our SSHRC Partnership Grant Project have won the 2021-2022 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), valuing at $15,000 for each recipient: Chenkai Chi (University of Windsor), Eun Gi (Cathy) Kim (OISE/University of Toronto), and Mitchell Wong (OISE/University of Toronto).
Chenkai is Dr. Shijing Xu’s doctoral student in the Joint PhD in Educational Studies Program at the University of Windsor in partnership with Brock University and Lakehead University. Contextualized in the SSHRC Partnership Grant Project, Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education and School Education between Canada and China, directed by Drs. Xu and Connelly in 2013-2022, his study is to understand the generalist teaching model in Canadian elementary schools and the specialist teaching model in Chinese elementary schools and to explore what can be reciprocally learned among those two models. Since 2016, Chenkai has been working as a research assistant with the guidance of Dr. Xu and Dr. Connelly in the SSHRC Partnership Project at the University of Windsor, which helps broaden his horizons and advance his research skills in multidimensional ways. Chenkai is committed to upholding the ethos of Reciprocal Learning to harmonize the West and East (Xu, 2017).
Eun Gi (Cathy) Kim is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Her dissertation will compare the experiences of Korean immigrant and international students at Canadian universities. These two student groups differ by their statuses, and she is interested in observing how this status difference might affect their experiences, especially with regard to the support systems they utilize throughout their undergraduate studies. She has been participating in the SSHRC Partnership Grant Project as Dr. Michael Connelly’s graduate research assistant since 2017, and her participation in the project work under the guidance of Dr. Connelly and Dr. Xu have helped her realize and further develop her strengths as a researcher.
Mitchell Wong is a Ph. D. student at OISE/University of Toronto. His proposed research is a narrative inquiry into Shanghai teachers’ personal and practical knowledge. It will seek to understand how teachers’ biographies, present circumstances, deep commitments and social contexts work to implement, resist or subvert official school policy. Mitchell hopes that it will add nuance and complexity to our understanding of an educational system that has become a “reference” for others around the world. Mitch has been Dr. Connelly’s graduate assistant at OISE/UT since 2020 and is working with Dr. Connelly, Dr. Xu and Dr. Yishin Khoo on a book project.