Congrats on the 2020 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)
Congratulations on the 2020 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)! Dr. Bathseba Opini, EDST. Co-applicants: Dr. Hartej Gill, Dr. Jason Ellis, Dr. Annette Henry, Dr. Michelle Stack, Dr. Andre Mazawi, John Yamamoto, Rod Brown, Dr. Shaya Golparian, Dr. Daniel Shiu, Meena Uppal, Ashley House, Dr. Vince White, Dr. Marianne McTavish, Mary Kostandy, Alison St. Pierre, […]
Feb 13, 2020
New Publication – The Rise and Fall of Adult Literacy: Policy Lessons from Canada – Dr. Jude Walker
The Rise and Fall of Adult Literacy: Policy Lessons from Canada, co-written by EDST’s Dr. Jude Walker, has been published in The European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA) Link: https://www.rela.ep.liu.se/contents.asp?doi=10.3384/rela.2000-7426.2020111
Feb 07, 2020
Dr. Mona Gleason – Killam Faculty Research Prize in the Arts and Humanities, Senior Scholar Category
Congratulations to Dr. Mona Gleason, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, on the UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize in the Arts and Humanities, Senior Scholar Category Established in 1986, the UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize is awarded in recognition of distinguished research and scholarly contributions of international significance. Up to ten prizes are awarded annually to full-time […]
Dr. Vanessa Andreotti – Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, Junior Scholar Category
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Educational Studies, on the UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, Junior Scholar Category Ten UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowships are provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies established through a bequest from the late Dorothy J. Killam. These awards assist promising faculty members […]
Jan 29, 2020
New Report – Hard Working Students, Report of 2018 and 2019 Survey Findings
Hard Working Students, Report of 2018 and 2019 Survey Findings, co-authored by Alison Taylor, Milosh Raykov and Robert Sweet has been published in cIRcle UBC cIRcle Link It’s a mixed methods study of undergraduate students’ term-time work experiences at two universities. Our report focuses on presenting our quantitative findings at UBC.
Jan 28, 2020
MA Student Daniel Jordan on CTV
Daniel Jordan, Director Of Sunshine Coast Mental Health and M.A. Student of EDST, was a guest on CTV Morning Live’s “Starting the Conversation about Mental Health” Link: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1885892 Supervisor: Dr. Jude Walker
Jan 21, 2020
Dr. Charles Ungerleider in The Conversation’s Curious Kids series.
Link to article: http://theconversation.com/curious-kids-do-teachers-get-paid-when-they-go-on-strike-130158?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1579648984
Jan 16, 2020
New Podcast – Families Without Schools – Dr. Mona Gleason
Dr. Mona Gleason discusses the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars on Faculti. https://faculti.net/families-without-schools/ Also available on Spotify – search “Faculti.”
Jan 07, 2020
New publication – Truth before reconciliation: the difficulties of transforming higher education in settler colonial contexts
Please see the article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2019.1666255
Jan 03, 2020
Dr. Jason Ellis opinion piece on Cecil Rhodes school
An op-ed written by Dr. Jason Ellis (EDST), Dr. Lindsay Gibson (EDCP) and Mallory Davies about the Cecil Rhodes school renaming controversy in Vancouver. Learning from ‘Cecil Rhodes School’ and Vancouver’s imperfect past. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-learning-from-cecil-rhodes-school-and-vancouvers-imperfect-past