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. […]
Happy Holidays
Stromae’s song, Santé (for meaning and lyrics translation, refer to this webpage).
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 […]
Sam Rocha Coaches Ethics Bowl Team to Victory at Friendly Tournament
The Distributed Learning homeschool group, coached by Dr. Rocha, competed in the Ethics Bowl: Democracy in Our Backyard tournament, at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, on the downtown Simon Fraser University campus, on November 9, 2024. Ethics Bowl Canada is a competition where teams of five high school students discuss the ethical dimensions […]
Congratulations to Jordan Long who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation
Please join us in congratulating Jordan Long who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation on December 2 of 2024. Title:School Leadership Practices for a Democratic Way of Life: A Temporally Multiple Case Study of One Canadian Public High School Abstract:Scholars have long argued that public schools are especially important in inculcating the habits and competencies necessary for […]
Introducing the new EDST Blog Editor: Ella Wright
With great pleasure, please join me in welcoming Ella Wright as the new EDST Blog Editor. The EDST Blog has grown into a vibrant hub of insights, exchanges and contributions by EDST Members. We are grateful to Jessica Lussier, its first Editor, for her dedication and hard work in promoting the Blog as a community venue […]