{"id":10686,"date":"2011-06-22T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2011-06-22T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T16:06:53","slug":"cherubini-named-new-tecumseh-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/06\/cherubini-named-new-tecumseh-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherubini named new Tecumseh director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10687\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10687\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10687 \" title=\"Lorenzo Cherubini\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cherubinitecumseh.jpg\" alt=\"Lorenzo Cherubini is the new director of the Tecumseh Centre.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorenzo Cherubini is the new director of the Tecumseh Centre.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lorenzo Cherubini has been named new director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/education\/community\/tecumseh\" target=\"_blank\">Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/education\/directory\/teachered\/lcherubini\" target=\"_blank\">associate professor<\/a> in the Faculty of Education has been the centre\u2019s acting director. He starts his new position on July 1, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A former school administrator in the Halton Region, Cherubini said his research of Aboriginal education started with an interest in policy and social justice issues.<\/p>\n<p>His research concentrates on areas of teacher development and policy analysis, and he holds a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Grant to examine Aboriginal educational policy. He also received a SSHRC Aboriginal Developmental Grant to work with prospective and new Aboriginal teachers in Ontario. He is also the editor of the <em>AABSS Journal<\/em>, the annual publication of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Cherubini describes his new appointment as an honour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to be working with and learning from the people who work at the Tecumseh Centre,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to continue the good work of previous directors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is also heartened by the University\u2019s commitment to Aboriginal research and education, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cherubini brings a wealth of expertise to the Tecumseh Centre, said Fiona Blaikie, Dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/education\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis experience working with Aboriginal educators and in Aboriginal educational policy is invaluable,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are delighted to welcome him to this important role within the Faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tecumseh Centre is the only multidisciplinary research entity in Ontario that builds educational programming around the needs and requirements of Aboriginal communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Cherubini will oversee the centre that researches Aboriginal education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[32,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}