Beyond the Frame: Floating Schools in Bangladesh
July 15 – September 15 | Neville Scarfe Lobby & Ponderosa Commons Lobby Beyond the Frame is a photo and video exhibition which offers a critical perspective on the Climate and Nature Emergency, inviting us to look beyond mainstream climate discourse. In Bangladesh, the education system faces ongoing challenges due to climate impacts like cyclones […]
Jul 09, 2024
Georgina Martin’s Drumming Our Way Home (UBC Press, 2025)
It is with an immense pleasure that this email carries the news and Congratulations regarding the publication of EDST alumna, Dr. Georgina Martin, Drumming Our Way Home: Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, published by UBC Press. Based on Dr. Georgina Martin’s PhD Dissertation, the book discusses “what does it mean to be Secwepemc? […]
Jun 27, 2024
Drs. Anusha Kassan and Hongxia Shan awarded 2023-24 SSHRC Partnership Development Grants
Jun 14, 2024
New article – Sins of the Father: Exploring Shame as an Ethical Pedagogy to Advance British Columbia’s K–12 Settler Students Towards Reconciliation – Victor Brar
Abstract This paper reflects my journey, as a racialized settler and K–12 practitioner in British Columbia, Canada, towards developing a pedagogical understanding of how to transform the experience of inherited colonial shame among settler children in my classroom. Canada has a shameful history of colonialism, the progressive revelations of which provoke an iterative cycle […]
Jun 10, 2024
EDST sessional/adjunct lecturers presenting at the 13th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA)
EDST sessional/adjunct lecturers presenting at the 13th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) Gabriella Maestrini (EDST sessional), Sharon Jarvis (EDST adjunct), and Vicheth Sen (EDST sessional) are participating as a panel in the 13rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) […]
Jun 01, 2024
Black Visual Representation: Sports Celebrities in Brazil
Black Visual Representation: Sports Celebrities in Brazil
May 24, 2024
Remembering Sandy Abah
The EDST blog has a new post featuring a memorial for former EDST colleague, Sandy Abah. Read and share your memories here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/edst/2024/05/23/remembering-sandy-abah/
May 21, 2024
Donald Jean Poirier successfully defended his EdD Dissertation
Please join us in congratulating Donald Jean Poirier who successfully defended his EdD Dissertation on May 17 of 2024. Title: Community-University Engagement in Canada: Boundary Spanner Practice Abstract: Historically, public universities have played a role in the development of society through the creation and sharing of knowledge and upholding democratic values. In recent […]
May 17, 2024
EDST’s 30th Anniversary Celebration
Dear EDST Members: A profound bow of appreciation for all those who took part, yesterday, Thursday, May 16, in the celebration of EDST’s 30th Anniversary. Thank you, everyone, for the spirit of conviviality, hope and care that you brought to bear on the event, and for the opportunity to acknowledge EDST elders, EDST’s emeriti professors […]
New interview – Dr. Jason Ellis – How class size and complexity are addressed in B.C. teachers’ contract