Simone Ellene Cote

Simone Côté holds a Master of Arts in Education and Society from McGill University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Toronto Metropolitan University (formely Ryerson University). Supported by the Joseph Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship and the P. Lantz Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Education and the Arts, her Master’s thesis, “Student distress on Canadian post-secondary campuses: Arts-based approaches and positive affect”, reviews the literature on arts communities and art-making modalities in ameliorating student distress and in promoting mental health and well-being. Côté is an independently motivated community-engaged scholar and instructor, facilitating arts-based wellness workshops at the Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University and through her non-profit volunteer work.

Publications

Belonging and Legitimacy for French Language Teachers: A Visual Analysis of Raciolinguistic Discourses
Mimi Masson, Simone Ellene Cote. © 2024. 34 pages.
With the ongoing French as a second language (FSL) teacher shortage crisis driving multi-million-dollar expenditures from governments, professional associations, and school...