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Sep 02, 2025

Head’s statement for the academic year 2025-26

“The homeland will be when all of us will be strangers”  — from a poem by Francesco Nappo (translated from the Italian)* Dear EDST Members, students, staff, and faculty: Greetings and hope the long weekend has been restful and re-invigorating. Today, Monday, September 2nd, 2025, we embark on a new academic year, 2025-2026. Welcome to […]

 

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The Education of Mestizaje: A Folk Phenomenology

Recording Event SMAP’s Summer Virtual Speaker Series comes to an end on August 28th with a talk by Sam Rocha. Dr. Rocha is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia specializing in philosophy of education. You can find the details for his talk below and on the flyer attached. Everyone is welcome to […]

 

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Aug 29, 2025

Inaugural Lecture – Dr. chuutsqa Rorick

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/inaugural-lecture-dr-chuutsqa-rorick/

 

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Aug 26, 2025

New article: Decolonial Thoughts, Lands, and Indigenous Languages: A Tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Bathseba OpiniUniversity of British Columbia https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jcie/index.php/JCIE/article/view/29758/21507

 

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In Memoriam: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

 

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Aug 25, 2025

Pillars of Purpose in Teaching

Dr. Dan Pratt’s profile: https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/pratt-dan/ Pillars of Purpose in Teaching Daniel D. Pratt, Brett Schrewe, and Martin V. Pusic People often look for ashadow of themselveswhen evaluating another teacher. To see teaching clearly,We must look through four lensesEach one is a pillar of purpose. Teaching as a Cultural Act We do not teachfrom a neutral […]

 

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Aug 22, 2025

Congrats to Jiin Yoo for her selection as PSI Scholar

 

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Aug 21, 2025

Diamond Art Painting Workshop

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/diamond-art-painting-workshop/

 

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Aug 14, 2025

Regenerative and Restorative Pedagogy

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/regenerative-and-restorative-pedagogy/

 

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Global Citizenship Education through the Lens of Regenerative and Restorative Pedagogy

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/global-citizenship-education-through-the-lens-of-regenerative-and-restorative-pedagogy/?login

 

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