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New Book – EDST PhD graduate Omer Aijazi – Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Interview with Dr. Georgina Martin
Strategic (De)coupling of Hongkonger Diaspora with Global Cities

Strategic (De)coupling of Hongkonger Diaspora with Global Cities

Strategic (De)coupling of Hongkonger Diaspora with Global Cities

New two-volume Anthology of African Cultural Studies by Dr. Handel Wright et al.

New two-volume Anthology of African Cultural Studies by Dr. Handel Wright et al.

See links below for details   Tomaselli, Keyan G. & Wright, Handel Kashope (Editors). (2025). An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume 1: Groundings https://www.routledge.com/An-Anthology-of-African-Cultural-Studies-Volume-I-Groundings/Tomaselli-Wright/p/book/9781032601991   Wright, Handel Kashope & Tomaselli, Keyan, G. (Editors). (2025). An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume 2: Directions https://www.routledge.com/An-Anthology-of-African-Cultural-Studies-Volume-II-Directions/Wright-Tomaselli/p/book/9781032601977

Congratulations to Karen Gledhill on successfully defending her EdD Dissertation

Congratulations to Karen Gledhill on successfully defending her EdD Dissertation

Please join us in congratulating Karen Gledhill who successfully defended her EdD Dissertation on July 25 of 2024.   Title: Who Do We Trust? Life Histories of Women in School Leadership   Abstract: At a critical point in my career as a leader in independent schools in British Columbia, Canada, I came to the realization that […]

Playing with Poetry: An Inward Journey
Beyond the Frame: Floating Schools in Bangladesh

Beyond the Frame: Floating Schools in Bangladesh

July 15 – September 15 | Neville Scarfe Lobby & Ponderosa Commons Lobby Beyond the Frame is a photo and video exhibition which offers a critical perspective on the Climate and Nature Emergency, inviting us to look beyond mainstream climate discourse. In Bangladesh, the education system faces ongoing challenges due to climate impacts like cyclones […]

Georgina Martin’s Drumming Our Way Home (UBC Press, 2025)

Georgina Martin’s Drumming Our Way Home (UBC Press, 2025)

It is with an immense pleasure that this email carries the news and Congratulations regarding the publication of EDST alumna, Dr. Georgina Martin, Drumming Our Way Home: Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, published by UBC Press.    Based on Dr. Georgina Martin’s PhD Dissertation, the book discusses “what does it mean to be Secwepemc? […]

Drs. Anusha Kassan and Hongxia Shan awarded 2023-24 SSHRC Partnership Development Grants
New article – Sins of the Father: Exploring Shame as an Ethical Pedagogy to Advance British Columbia’s K–12 Settler Students Towards Reconciliation – Victor Brar

New article – Sins of the Father: Exploring Shame as an Ethical Pedagogy to Advance British Columbia’s K–12 Settler Students Towards Reconciliation – Victor Brar

  Abstract This paper reflects my journey, as a racialized settler and K–12 practitioner in British Columbia, Canada, towards developing a pedagogical understanding of how to transform the experience of inherited colonial shame among settler children in my classroom. Canada has a shameful history of colonialism, the progressive revelations of which provoke an iterative cycle […]