{"id":17652,"date":"2012-07-27T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17652"},"modified":"2012-07-27T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T14:24:09","slug":"masters-student-chairs-sessions-at-international-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/07\/masters-student-chairs-sessions-at-international-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Master&#8217;s student chairs sessions at international conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17657\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17657\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17657\" title=\"Spain Day\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/spain-day-5-0751-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Tukonic (right) was encouraged by Prof. Mary-Louise Vanderlee (left) and Prof. Debra Harwood (middle) to apply for an award that granted her the opportunity of a lifetime at the 2012 Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. \" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie Tukonic (right) was encouraged by Prof. Mary-Louise Vanderlee (left) and Prof. Debra Harwood (middle) to apply for an award that granted her the opportunity of a lifetime at the 2012 Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>For most students, a trip to Barcelona would come as part of an exchange program or maybe some summer travelling.<\/p>\n<p>But Stephanie Tukonic, a master of education student, headed to the Spanish city to attend the Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences last month, thanks to a graduate scholar award she recently received.<\/p>\n<p>There, she chaired parallel paper presentation sessions, facilitated a themed talking circle and co-presented a paper presentation &#8211; all firsts for Tukonic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although it was a new experience for me, I embraced the role fairly quickly and openly, and I received a lot of positive and supportive feedback from the presenters and audience,&#8221; Tukonic said.<\/p>\n<p>At home, Tukonic has been working as a research assistant on a study that focuses on early childhood education research since last fall. She said her experience at the conference will help with her work and research prospects in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Tukonic was encouraged by professors Debra Harwood and Mary-Louise Vanderlee in the Department of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Education to apply for the award that sent her overseas. It wasn&#8217;t until after the conference that she realized the magnitude of being named a recipient, however.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initially, I was pleased and satisfied to have received the award, given the context of the conference and the responsibilities that were attached to the award,&#8221; Tukonic said. &#8220;Yet, the true merit of receiving this award was not recognized and understood until the conclusion of the conference when I had the opportunity to reflect on this experience, and on the overwhelming amount of support and motivation I received from the academic and conference community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most students, a trip to Barcelona would come as part of an exchange program or maybe some summer travelling.<\/p>\n<p>But Stephanie Tukonic, a master of education student, headed to the Spanish city to attend the Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences last month, thanks to a graduate scholar award she recently received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":17657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[328,432,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17658,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652\/revisions\/17658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}