Nasim Peikazadi – Successful PhD Dissertation
Please join us in congratulating Nasim Peikazadi who successfully defended her PhD Dissertation on September 12 of 2025. Title: IDENTITY AND POWER: IRANIAN WOMEN’S NEGOTIATIONS OF BELONGING IN A TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXT Lay Summary This study explores the perceptions of identity and belonging of first-generation Iranian women in British Columbia, Canada. It particularly focuses on the […]
Congrats to Mahfida Tahniat for her selection as a Climate Solutions Scholar
Learn more: https://climatesolutions.ubc.ca/solutions-scholars-program/meet-solutions-scholars https://climatesolutions.ubc.ca/profiles/mahfida-tahniat
Head’s statement for the academic year 2025-26
“The homeland will be when all of us will be strangers” — from a poem by Francesco Nappo (translated from the Italian)* Dear EDST Members, students, staff, and faculty: Greetings and hope the long weekend has been restful and re-invigorating. Today, Monday, September 2nd, 2025, we embark on a new academic year, 2025-2026. Welcome to […]
The Education of Mestizaje: A Folk Phenomenology
Recording Event SMAP’s Summer Virtual Speaker Series comes to an end on August 28th with a talk by Sam Rocha. Dr. Rocha is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia specializing in philosophy of education. You can find the details for his talk below and on the flyer attached. Everyone is welcome to […]
Inaugural Lecture – Dr. chuutsqa Rorick
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/inaugural-lecture-dr-chuutsqa-rorick/
New article: Decolonial Thoughts, Lands, and Indigenous Languages: A Tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Bathseba OpiniUniversity of British Columbia https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jcie/index.php/JCIE/article/view/29758/21507
Pillars of Purpose in Teaching
Dr. Dan Pratt’s profile: https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/pratt-dan/ Pillars of Purpose in Teaching Daniel D. Pratt, Brett Schrewe, and Martin V. Pusic People often look for ashadow of themselveswhen evaluating another teacher. To see teaching clearly,We must look through four lensesEach one is a pillar of purpose. Teaching as a Cultural Act We do not teachfrom a neutral […]
