One of our signature CTEI Communities, Journal Club is a monthly get-together where members gather to share and discuss ideas on teaching, learning, and education more broadly. Discussions are guided by selected journal articles balancing theory and practice.

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2026 Journal Club’s list of readings:

• November Meeting: Joshua Hill’s “SoTL as Reconciliation: Seeking to contribute to decolonization and Indigenization of teaching, learning, and research in Canadian Universities” (2024).
• October Meeting: Juuso Henrik Nieminen’s “How Does Assessment Shape Student Identities? An Integrative Review” (2024).
• September Meeting: Mahesh and McIsaac’s “Distance Education: Learner-Teacher Interaction and Time Spent by Teaching” (1999).
• August Meeting: Mohamed et al.’s “Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence” (2020).
• July Meeting: Amani et al.’s “Generative AI Perceptions: A Survey to Measure the Perceptions of Faculty, Staff, and Students on Generative AI Tools in Academia” (2023).
• May Meeting: Dr. Philippa Hardman’s “From Crutch to Coach?” (2025).
• April Meeting: Mariana T. Guzzardo et al.’s “’The Ones that Care Make all the Difference’: Perspectives on Student-Faculty Relationships”, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-020-09522-w (2020).
• March Meeting: Stacey C. Wilson-Forsberg et al.’s “From Class Assignment to Friendship: Enhancing the Intercultural Competence of Domestic and International Students through Experiential Learning, https://doi.org/10.5206/cie-eci.v47i1.9322 (2018).
• February Meeting: Tea for Teaching‘s UDL 3.0 (2025).

2025 Journal Club’s list of readings:

• March Meeting: Getting started together, overviewing our hopes, goals, and what to expect with Journal Club as well as deciding upon what to read together to discuss for our next meeting.
  
• April Meeting: Marcella LaFever’s “Switching from Bloom to the Medicine Wheel: Creating Learning Outcomes that Support Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Post-Secondary Education” article (Intercultural Education, 27:5, 409-424 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2016.1240496)
• May Meeting: Silvia F. Rivas, Carlos Saiz, and Carlos Ossa’s “Metacognitive Strategies and Development of Critical Thinking in Higher Education” article (Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 913219 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.913219) 
• June Meeting: Mindi Summers, Jordann Fernadez, Cody-Jordan Handy-Hart, Sarah Kulle, and Kyla Flanagan’s “Undergraduate Students Develop Questioning, Creativity, and Collaboration Skills by Using the Question Formulation Technique” article (The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotlrcacea.2024.2.15519)
• July Meeting: Gurnam Kaur Sidhu and Yuen Fook Chan’s “Authentic Assessment and Pedagogical Strategies in Higher Education” article (Journal of Social Sciences, 6(2): 153-161, 2010)
• August Meeting: Maggie Debelius, Molly Chehak, Kenny Le, Sophia Oh, Sarah Lyons, Grace Kim, Hugo Nutting, and Jake Holtschlag’s article “Designing an AI Policy: An Experiment in Co-creation.” (International Journal for Students as Partners, 9(1), 151–160. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v9i1.5836)
• September Meeting: Fleur Sharafizad, Kerry Brown, Uma Jogulu, and Maryam Omari’s “Letting a Picture Speak a Thousand Words: Arts-based Research in a Study of the Careers of Female Academics” article (Sociological Methods & Research, 52(1), 438-479. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124120926206) [Original work published 2023] 
• October Meeting: Kristian D. Stewart’s article “Classrooms as ‘Safe Houses’? The Ethical and Emotional Implications of Digital Storytelling in a University Writing Classroom.” (Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CriSTaL), 5(1), 85-102, 2017, https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-84b116da2)
• November Meeting: Michalinos Zembylas’s article “‘Pedagogy of Discomfort’ and Its Ethical Implications: The Tensions of Ethical Violence in Social Justice Education.” (Ethics in Education, 10(2), 1-12, 2015, DOI:10.1080/17449642.2015.1039274)