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 decolonization (EDI-D). In this study, I examine four key concepts: coloniality of being and praxis (from Latin American decolonial thinkers Maldonado-Torres, Dussel, and Gutiérrez) alongside cognitive imperialism and stories (from Mi’kmaw scholar Marie Battiste OC and Stó:lō scholar Jo-Ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem OC). The study […]
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 computer adoption, integration, and interpretation. As cultural artifacts, computers were more than instruments—they were symbols that held meaning for people. I first discuss what they meant in the context of the 1960s computer counterculture, where computers were interpreted as a transformative force leading to personal empowerment. […]
Dec 02, 2025
Arushi Goswami – Successful Defence (M.A. Thesis)
Congratulations to Arushi Goswami on successfully defending her M.A. Thesis on November 27, 2025. Thesis title: Deconstructing the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Framework and The Happiness Curriculum in the Context of Educational Neoliberalism and Emotional Governance Examining Committee: Dr. Lindsay Gibson (EDCP), External Examiner Dr. Taylor Webb (EDST), Committee Member Dr. Mona Gleason (EDST), Research Supervisor Abstract: This thesis examines Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) through a comparative analysis of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL, 2020) framework and Delhi’s Happiness Curriculum (HC, 2019). It addresses two research questions: What implicit values and assumptions […]
Dec 01, 2025
Hanging by threads: Encountering transnationalism in Chiharu Shiota’s Home Less Home
Nov 28, 2025
Keynote: Education in a World of Broken Feedback Loops
Tuesday 9 December8:30AM Haynes’ Keynote Lecture32.101 LECTURE THEATREEdith Cowan University, Joondalup Campus, Perth, Western Australia Claudia RuitenbergEducation in a World of Broken Feedback Loops https://www.pesaconference.org/speakers Full Programme In this paper I use “feedback” in the ecosystem sense of a flow of information, energy, or matter from a system’s output that, in a closed system, affects the input. For example, if I form a closed system with my houseplant, and that plant’s leaves start to droop, I regulate how much I water it. Most of the systems in which we live, especially if we are urban residents in postindustrial societies, are not […]
Bifocal Ethics in Educational Leadership and Policy
Meeting Registration – Zoom
Nov 26, 2025
New Article: The impact of educational and work trajectories on wellbeing in midlife: A comparison of Canada and Germany
Nov 25, 2025
Congratulations to Lisa Winsome White on a Successful Oral Defence (PhD Dissertation)
Please join us in congratulating Lisa Winsome White, who successfully defended the PhD Dissertation on November 14 of 2025. Title:ETHICAL SPACE OF ENGAGEMENT: EXPLORING PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES OF INDIGENIZATION IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION AS SITUATED IN PLACE Abstract:The notion of “Indigenization” within the academy has been taken up by Indigenous scholars and activists for more than two decades, and more recently, it has become a priority in the tertiary sector in Canada with federal and provincial endorsement. Still, Indigenization remains a relatively ambiguous concept within higher education. This doctoral dissertation offers a portrait of Indigenization, providing insight into this process within the […]