Recognition of Dr. Cash Ahenake
The Indigenous Faculty Circle, here in the Faculty of Education at UBC, recognizes the significant contributions that Dr. Cash Ahenakew has made to advancing Indigenous knowledge, teaching, research, and engagement. His work has impacted our faculty’s commitments to decolonization, reconciliation, and inclusion. Dr. Ahenakew has demonstrated a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities […]
Nov 08, 2023
New article – ‘Children Obviously Don’t Make History’: Historical Significance and Children’s Modalities of Power
New Article: Mona Gleason, “ ‘Children Obviously Don’t Make History’: Historical Significance and Children’s Modalities of Power,” in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (16.3 2023). From the abstract: Sarah Maza has argued that “children obviously don’t make history” given they are marginal to more meaningful, adult-driven change over time. In […]
Nov 07, 2023
New article – Dreaming the life: international students and the temporal complexity of employability
Dreaming the life: international students and the temporal complexity of employability ABSTRACT Undergraduates today are required to make strategic decisions about where and what they study, and how they allocate time to studies, extra-curricular activities, and work. International students are likely to experience the pressure to capitalize on their time more intensely because of the […]
Nov 06, 2023
New article by Yotam Ronen
When intellectuals educate: history and geography in the educational project for Chinese workers in France during World War One, 1916–1918 Between 1916 and 1918, a group of Chinese intellectuals opened a school in Paris for Chinese workers who came to Europe in aid of the Allied cause. One of them, Cai Yuanpei, created a textbook […]
Blog post – October Doctoral Colloquium
The EDST blog has a new post! This October EDST began hosting a Doctoral Colloquium. In this post, Colloquium coordinator, Yotam Ronen, summarizes the first of these presentations, given by EDST PhD Candidate, Jed Anderson. Check it out: https://blogs.ubc.ca/edst/2023/10/23/doctoral-colloquium-higher-education-beyond-hope/
Oct 21, 2023
EDST Doctoral Colloquium – Co-developing the Indigenous Languages Act of Canada: Indigenous Roles in the Policy Process
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/edst-doctoral-colloquium-co-developing-the-indigenous-languages-act-of-canada-indigenous-roles-in-the-policy-process/
Oct 17, 2023
New article – “The Archived Child: Strategies for Amplifying Children’s Contributions to History” in Qualitative Inquiry
New Article! Mona Gleason has published a new open access article entitled, “The Archived Child: Strategies for Amplifying Children’s Contributions to History” in Qualitative Inquiry. From the abstract: Using examples drawn from letters written by rural youth from the western Canadian province of British Columbia during the interwar period, I explore three interrelated interpretive strategies […]
Oct 16, 2023
Congratulations to EDST grad, Dr. John Egan!
Congratulations to EDST graduate, Dr. John Egan (MA, 1999; PhD, 2002), who has been awarded the University of Auckland’s 2023 Leadership in Teaching and Learning Award. John is Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, and Director, Learning and Teaching Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Well done, John!
Oct 11, 2023
New article – Phasing out letter grades for K-9 a good thing
New article – Where did the term ‘parental rights’ come from?