Oct 9, 2020
EDST Student Cafés
Date and time: Friday October 9th at 6:30 pm PT, and Wednesday October 21st at 10:00 am PT
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Description: It can be difficult to get to know one another and catch up when we’re not running into each other in the halls between class, so this month the GAA team will be holding two social coffee hours. Bring your own warm drink and join us for a virtual, non-academic chat. The purpose is to meet on Zoom and hang out together, get to know people from the department who are not necessarily in your courses, and have some social time with other members of the department.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend. Please send any questions to your GAA team at edst.gaa@ubc.ca
Sep 22, 2020
Oct 6, 2020
Two SCPE Q&A sessions:
Oct 6: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64252364235?pwd=cm0yZXRFdFd5NEs3aU9LRkhWSnBldz09
Meeting ID: 642 5236 4235
Passcode: 590735
Oct 20: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66290407738?pwd=aFRVMUFmeVNsVlFZU1ZpaGZzckluZz09
Meeting ID: 662 9040 7738
Passcode: 009097
Speaker:
Dr. Sam Rocha
SCPE Coordinator
Associate Professor, EDST
Sep 21, 2020
Sep 30, 2020
The Art and Craft of Study, with Dr. Sam Rocha
Date and time: Wednesday September 30th, 2:00pm Vancouver Time
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Description: Over the years, Sam Rocha has offered an annual workshop on reading, writing, editing, and more. These have aimed to give graduate students a sense of the discrete tasks of graduate study. Many of these practical tips and guides have taken inspiration from Rocha’s more formal academic work on the phenomenology of study which, in turn, draws heavily from Rocha’s practice as a musician. In this workshop, Rocha will try to speak more broadly about study, gathering together some of the better advice from previous years and leaving the floor open to questions and discussion to follow.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend. Please send any questions to your GAA team at edst.gaa@ubc.ca
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 24, 2020
Responding to Racism Series
Anti-Black Racism in Education: A Conversation of possibilities and challenges.
Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Featuring Dr. Njoki Wane
Professor at OISE/University of Toronto Chair of the Social Justice Education Department
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69739166581?pwd=YnhOUW1qQUZsNWw3OEkrYXNJWm54QT09
Meeting ID: 697 3916 6581
Passcode: 121426
About:
“History is not everything, but is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly what they must be” (Henrik Clarke: 1997, p.38).
An analysis of scholarship and research on Canadian history reveals some omissions. In this conversation, I will be focusing on Anti-Black racism from a historical as well as contemporary standpoint. A conversation on the writings about people of African ancestry will ultimately synthesize deeply contextualized knowledge. It will generate a series of conversations and suggestions tailored towards making sense of the complexities of Blackness, as well as the reasons Anti-Black racism persists. Drawing on my past and current scholarship, particularly my most recent book: “From My Mother’s Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada”; I will engage with the following questions:
- What continues to hold together the systemic barriers to equitable employment, education health and economic opportunities for Black people/people African ancestry?
- What informs systemic forms of Anti-Black racism?
- What needs to be done to bring about sustainable transformation?
In examining these questions, I hope that together we can focus on real solutions not only to dismantle these oppressive structures, but to also consider and provide concrete ways to empower Black people, especially students, so they can carve academic and life pathways that speak to them.
Bio:
Njoki Wane, PhD is currently serving as Chair in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). She also served as Director, Center for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS) at OISE from 2006 to 2014. Professor Wane is a recognized scholar in the areas of Black feminisms in Canada & Africa, African indigenous knowledges, Anti-colonial and decolonizing education and African women and spirituality.
Aug 18, 2020
Sep 18, 2020
Zoom event
Book Launch: The Syllabus as Curriculum A Reconceptualist Approach
Featuring book author Sam Rocha in conversation with book series editor Bill Pinar.
Friday, September 18th, 2-3pm
ZOOM LINK:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/67253738222
FOR DETAILS:
Email sam.rocha@ubc.ca
PDF FLYER:
May 15, 2020
May 21, 2020
With many of us working from home, the EDST GAA team is missing seeing everyone’s face! Join us next week for a fun social event so that we all have a chance to reconnect.
EDST Trivia
- Where: Zoom (https://ubc.zoom.us/j/98232328243)
- When: Thursday May 21st from 5pm – 7pm PST
- Description: Join us for a game of virtual trivia. Dress up, grab a drink of choice and log in to play a rousing game! All you have to do is join the Zoom meeting and we will take care of the rest (i.e. no need to have a team).
May 18, 2020
So much has happened since the COVID-19 pandemic rearranged our lives. EDST students Emily Van Halem and Maria Angelica Guerrero are inviting you to join them for an opportunity to reflect creatively on this transformative time. Bring along some paper, pens, and your favourite drawing tools! Please register to receive further details. If the date doesn’t work for you we encourage you to sign up and tell us your preferred time as we are planning another session.
Mar 11, 2020
Event Cancelled
Public Presentation of Graduate Research on Leadership Practices
Saturday, April 4, 2020 Event Cancelled
Education Centre at Ponderosa Commons
6445 University Boulevard
Vancouver
Please join us over coffee and muffins for introductions and an explanation of the day’s program.
8:30 a.m.
Ponderosa Ballroom
Student presentations
9:00 – 1:00pm
Refer to the following agenda for room numbers and our schedule.
Session info:
Mar 03, 2020
EdD Writing Retreat
Join us at the Annual EdD (Virtual) Writing Retreat!
March 20, 2020
Keynote and workshops on Zoom.
The EdD program is pleased to have you join us for our third annual writing retreat on March 20, 2020!
Please see the schedule here
Register
In response to important and necessary precautions being put in place due to COVID-19, we are moving the EdD Writing Retreat to a fully on-line webinar format. It will continue virtually on Friday March 20, 2020.
If you would like to join the new webinar format please register here in advance: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hQAFBeY4SO-IWrSf50JW6g
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the webinar through zoom on March 20th.
Meet our Keynote Speaker
Dr. Claudia Ruitenberg
Department Of Educational Studies
Faculty Of Education
UBC
Claudia Ruitenberg was born and raised in The Netherlands. She first came to Canada in 1987 to attend the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific on Vancouver Island, and returned in 2000 for doctoral studies at Simon Fraser University. She divides her time between Vancouver and Salt Spring Island.
She was Academic Director of UBC Vantage College (2017-2019), President of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (2016-2019), and Scholar in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (2013-2017).
Schedule
| Time | Session |
With
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| 9:00am-9:15am | Sign into zoom using the information provided through email after registering. | |
| 9:15am – 9:20am | Welcome message, how to use the platform and review of the day. | Tamara Baldwin (EdD 2017) |
| 9:20-10:15am |
Keynote: Acts of Translation in Scholarly Writing Dr. Claudia Ruitenberg is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, with a focus on philosophy and theory of education. One of her areas of research is speech act theory, with which she has examined the effects of language use in various educational contexts. A second area of research is translation, understood not only between languages but also between language registers and discourses. In her talk, titled “Acts of Translation in Scholarly Writing,” Dr. Ruitenberg will identify the various ways in which thesis writing, and scholarly speaking and writing, more generally, involves multiple acts of translation and code-switching. She will pay special attention to the translational moves required for practice-oriented research.
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Dr. Claudia Ruitenberg |
| 10:15-10:45am | Break | |
| 10:45-11:15am | Workshop: Getting and staying organized as a grad student | Dr. Deirdre Kelly |
| 11:15am- 1:30pm | Writing at home | |
| 1:30-2:00pm | Workshop: How to Read Real Good | Dr. Sam Rocha |
| 2:00- 2:15pm | Break | |
| 2:15-2:45 | Workshop: Understanding & Moving Through Writer's Block | Dr. Shauna Butterwick |
| Writing at home – best wishes! |
If you have questions related to the event or the technology, please do not hesitate to contact Tamara Baldwin at tamara.baldwin@gmail.com.
Mar 01, 2020
Event Postponed
Seminar title: Affect and the Rise of Populism: Lessons for Democratic Education
Speaker: Dr. Michalinos Zembylas, Open University of Cyprus
Date of event: Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Location of event: Ponderosa Commons Oak House Room 2012
Time of event: 1-4pm
Abstract + Recommended readings: below the form
Abstract: This seminar will examine that it is important for educators in democratic education to understand how the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, the United States and around the world can never be viewed apart from the affective investments of populist leaders and their supporters to essentialist ideological visions of nationalism, racism, sexism and xenophobia. In addition, the seminar will discuss how the rise of populism offers opportunities for renewing democratic education, especially when it opens up to a deeper understanding of the affective modes of right-wing populism and its implications for democratic life. The challenge for educators in the current political climate is to create spaces and opportunities for critical dialogue with students that acknowledges how and why different people articulate themselves affectively in certain ways and what can be done to respond productively to those affective investments. The seminar will discuss pedagogical responses that provide critical resources to democratic education for developing a culture and process of democracy that addresses the challenges emerging from the rise of populism.
Recommended readings (all available for download via the UBC Library):
Zembylas, M. (2019). The affective modes of right-wing populism: Trump pedagogy and lessons for democratic education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, DOI:10.1007/s11217-019-09691-y
Zembylas, M. (2019). The affective dimension of far right rhetoric in the classroom: The promise of agonistic emotions and affects in countering extremism. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI.: 10.1080/01596306.2019.1613959
Zembylas, M. (2019). The affective grounding of the post-truth: Pedagogical risks and transformative possibilities in countering post-truth claims. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, DOI.: 10.1080/14681366.2019.1598476
