Winter Break Wishes and 2025 Holiday Hours
Dear EDST Members & Institutional Partners: Best for the Winter break – May it be for you and yours a safe, restful and rejuvenating time. As we head to the winter break let us recall the words attributed to Athenian philosopher Thucydides by Pericles (both Athenians, 5th Century before the common dating): “What you leave […]
Dec 23, 2025
Doctoral Colloquium – Educating for Utopia: Ideology and Practice in the Global History of Non-Hierarchical Education
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/doctoral-colloquium-educating-for-utopia-ideology-and-practice-in-the-global-history-of-non-hierarchical-education/
Dec 18, 2025
MEd Information Session for 2026-2027 Intake
UBC Educational Studies (EDST) Master of Education (MEd)Information Session for 2026-2027 IntakeMonday January 12, 20264:30 – 6 PM (PST)Online (link will be shared later) Programs’ info: https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/programs/ Contact: grad.edst@ubc.ca
How do international faculty at Japanese universities view integration?
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/how-do-international-faculty-at-japanese-universities-view-integration/
Jewellery Making Workshop
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/jewellery-making-workshop/
Dec 15, 2025
CBC Radio – Water as Teacher: What water can teach us about hope in hard times
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/cbc-radio-water-as-teacher-what-water-can-teach-us-about-hope-in-hard-times/
New Article – Decolonizing Mental Health in the Polycrisis: Pathways Toward Neuro-Decolonization
Dec 11, 2025
Congratulations to Catalina Parra on a Successful Oral Defence (M.A. Thesis)
Please join us in congratulating Catalina Parra who successfully defended her M.A. Thesis on December 9 of 2025. Title:A Conversation Between South and North: Latin American Decolonial Theory and Indigenous Theory Abstract:This Master’s thesis explores Latin American decolonial theory and Indigenous theory from the North to illuminate pathways for the practice of equity, diversity, inclusion, and […]
Dec 10, 2025
Creating AI-Resilient Assessments: Moving from Concern to Actionable Design
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/creating-ai-resilient-assessments-moving-from-concern-to-actionable-design
Dec 03, 2025
Michael LeBlanc – Successful Oral Defence (EdD Dissertation)
Please join us in congratulating Michael LeBlanc who successfully defended his EdD Dissertation on November 18 of 2025. Title:By the Bootstraps: Teachers, Grassroots Computing, and Educational Culture in British Columbia, 1966 to 1986 Abstract:This dissertation is a history of computer culture in British Columbia’s (BC) education system from 1966 to 1986, a period of teacher-led, grassroots […]