Congratulations to Itamar Manoff who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation
Please join us in congratulating Itamar Manoff who successfully defended his PhD Dissertation on January 17 of 2025. Title:The Experience of Error in Adult Language Learning Abstract:We often think of language learning as a continuous process of learning from our mistakes: producing incorrect, inappropriate, ill-formed utterances, to which experienced and proficient speakers offer We often think […]
Jan 16, 2025
Reflection on Learning in the Time of Scholasticide: Collage Workshop
Reflection on Learning in the Time of Scholasticide: Collage Workshop
Jan 15, 2025
A Theory of Immigration Policy: The Insulation Logics of Policy Arenas
Jan 09, 2025
Mindfulness Event Series – Bracelet Making Workshop
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/mindfulness-event-series-bracelet-making-workshop/
Jan 07, 2025
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 […]
Jan 01, 2025
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. […]
Dec 17, 2024
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 […]
Dec 11, 2024
Master of Education (M.Ed) Information Session for 2025-2026 Intake
Dec 06, 2024
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 […]