Dr. Shauna Butterwick inducted into the IACE Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Dr. Shauna Butterwick, who has been inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Eductation (IACE) Hall of Fame! This Hall of Fame has been created to honour leaders in the fields of continuing education and adult learning. Through her advocacy and research, she has advocated for community as a teacher, advancing how community is a source of significant knowledge, not just a site of research and learning. In partnership with national and local women’s organizations, Butterwick’s research through collaborative, community-based inquiry not only extends academic knowledge of the field, but makes a difference to the practice of adult education […]
Congratulations, Dr. Amy Metcalfe
Congratulations to EDST’s Dr. Amy Metcalfe for being awarded the 2018 Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education from the Council for International Higher Education (CIHE) of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Amy received the award in recognition of her article, “Nomadic political ontology and transnational academic mobility,” published in Critical Studies in Education. The award recognizes a highly significant research outcome in the field of international higher education. From the award citation: “The article is state-of-the-art knowledge and challenges current thinking, framing, and approaches to academic mobility through its “heretical” centering of the (academic) body and the epistemic […]
“Embodied Learning: Transformative (De)colonial (Im)possibilities” Panel at 2018 Decolonizing Conference
Panel Title: Embodied Learning: Transformative (De)colonial (Im)possibilities Panel Presenters: Stephanie Glick, Sonia Medel, Lucy El Sherif, and Maria Angelica Guerrero Panel Discussant: André Elias Mazawi November 9, 2018 This panel of diverse women scholars explores the (de)colonial potential of learning through embodied forms of engagement with self and others, personal and public encounters. Together we attempt to answer the question, what is the transformative potential of ‘languages’ of embodied learning? Proceeding from our lived experiences, research and artivisms, we speak to the transformative power of sense-feeling, dance, and play to stir cultural encounters that prompt (de)colonial forms of sociality and living well together in […]
Welcome, Sophia Choi
The Department of Educational Studies is pleased to extend a warm welcome to Sophia Choi, our new Graduate Student Support Assistant! Sophia comes to EDST from Go Global, UBC, where she worked as a Program Assistant for 2.5 years; and prior to that as a Work/Learn student. Sophia is well poised in communicating with a diverse population and has experience dealing with domestic and international students on variety of issues. Sophia is a volunteer at the Distress Services Crisis Intervention & Suicide Prevention Centre of B.C., Vancouver, B.C. and has advanced training in crisis intervention and suicide prevention; and participates in […]
Lesley Andres receives 2016 BCCAT Leadership Award
Congratulations to Dr. Lesley Andres, who has been awarded the 2016 BCCAT Leadership Award from the BC Council on Admissions & Transfer. This is in recognition of Dr. Andres’ research on advancing theory and practice of transfer and articulation within the BC transfer system. Fore more information about this award, click here.
Handel Wright receives Hampton Grant
Handel Kashope Wright, Professor in the Department of Educational Studies has been awarded a two year Hampton Fund Research Grant in the Social Sciences and Humanities Established Scholar Award in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Professor Wright’s project is entitled as follows: Postmulticulturalism: Identity, Difference and Belonging After Multiculturalism. “Because multiculturalism is still dominant in Canada, the notion of postmulticulturalism seems to be somewhat nascent and tentative here and to have much more purchase in other parts of the world. Depending on (or perhaps irrespective of) one’s conception, it appears postmulticulturalism is either inevitable or (acknowledged or not) already […]