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Jul 31, 2024

Broadcast about an innovative educational leadership project and program led by dis/abled and Deaf artists who teach the youth

You may be interested in learning about Wingspan’s innovative educational leadership project and program led by dis/abled and Deaf artists who teach youth in our K-12 schools about inclusion, accessibility and developing dis/ability and Deaf pride and confidence through their art practice.   Global BC news at 6 pm will feature at 6: 55 p.m. […]

 

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Jul 30, 2024

New two-volume Anthology of African Cultural Studies by Dr. Handel Wright et al.

See links below for details   Tomaselli, Keyan G. & Wright, Handel Kashope (Editors). (2025). An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume 1: Groundings https://www.routledge.com/An-Anthology-of-African-Cultural-Studies-Volume-I-Groundings/Tomaselli-Wright/p/book/9781032601991   Wright, Handel Kashope & Tomaselli, Keyan, G. (Editors). (2025). An Anthology of African Cultural Studies, Volume 2: Directions https://www.routledge.com/An-Anthology-of-African-Cultural-Studies-Volume-II-Directions/Wright-Tomaselli/p/book/9781032601977

 

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Jul 29, 2024

Congratulations to Karen Gledhill on successfully defending her EdD Dissertation

Please join us in congratulating Karen Gledhill who successfully defended her EdD Dissertation on July 25 of 2024.   Title: Who Do We Trust? Life Histories of Women in School Leadership   Abstract: At a critical point in my career as a leader in independent schools in British Columbia, Canada, I came to the realization that […]

 

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Jul 24, 2024

Playing with Poetry: An Inward Journey

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Jul 18, 2024

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 […]

 

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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? […]

 

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Jun 27, 2024

Drs. Anusha Kassan and Hongxia Shan awarded 2023-24 SSHRC Partnership Development Grants

 

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Jun 25, 2024

Wingspan Showcasing Event at Seaquam Secondary School, Delta (BC)

22 June 2024   Dear EDST Members:   Greetings.    At EDST’s Thursday, May 16, 2024 Department Meeting, our colleague, Prof. Leslie Roman, presented the VPRI-funded project she leads, Wingspan: Dis/ability Arts, Culture, & Public Pedagogy. Wingspan represents a school and community engagement project that is deployed in school communities across three Canadian provinces, namely British […]

 

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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 […]

 

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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) […]

 

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