Repurposing Universities speaker series: Collective Mental Models for Good Human-Earth Relations
Title: Collective Mental Models for Good Human-Earth Relations: The Case of Tribal Nation and Indigenous Scientists in STEM Graduate Education Date/Time: Wednesday, February 26, 10-11AM, Pacific Time RSVP to receive the Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/r0XSNABcR7KlnGAOKKKKeA Abstract: Indigenous students remain vastly underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduate programs. Simultaneously, Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities throughout the Americas […]
In Memory of Dr. Garnet Grosjean
It is with a heavy heart that I inform you of the death of our colleague and friend, Dr. Garnet Grosjean, who passed away on Friday, January 31, 2025, as a result of a sudden-onset medical issue. His longtime partner, Jan Atkinson-Grosjean, and members of his family were with him at his bedside at the […]
Congratulations to Itamar Manoff who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation
Please join us in congratulating Itamar Manoff who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation on January 17 of 2025. Title:The Experience of Error in Adult Language Learning Abstract:We often think of language learning as a continuous process of learning from our mistakes: producing incorrect, inappropriate, ill-formed utterances, to which experienced and proficient speakers offer We often think […]
Reflection on Learning in the Time of Scholasticide: Collage Workshop
Reflection on Learning in the Time of Scholasticide: Collage Workshop
Mindfulness Event Series – Bracelet Making Workshop
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/mindfulness-event-series-bracelet-making-workshop/
Embracing the Messiness: Foundations of Experiential Facilitation
Thursday, January 30th, 2025Time: 5:15-7:30PM Join us for an engaging, interactive workshop for students and community members who are interested in building their skills for creative facilitation and experiential forms of teaching. This session will offer helpful ideas for facilitation in settings such as classrooms and community research and activism spaces. The session will be […]
Doctoral Colloquium – Identity, belonging, and citizenship among ethnic minority higher education students in Hong Kong
Thursday, January 9th, 202512:30 pm – 2 pm, in PCN 20126445 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Presenter: Keenan Manning Many societies which purport to value social cohesion and social harmony project a façade of ethnic / cultural unity; particularly when this sense of shared cultural heritage is foundational to the notion of political legitimacy. […]
New Book Chapter – British Columbia’s Elementary School Education and Indigenous Equality in Canada
AbstractAs an elementary practitioner in Surrey, BC, I contemplate the role of K-7 education, which can no longer stand aside in dispassionate voyeurism without further compromising its moral integrity. The voyeuristic modality of BC’s current K-7 system utilizes Indigenous trauma as a resource that it freely mines for self-centered theorization by teachers and students, with […]
