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 faculty members in recognition of outstanding research and scholarly contributions. Five prizes are awarded for scholarly activity associated with NSERC and CIHR, and five for work associated with SSHRC and the Canada Council. At least one prize is awarded in each category to junior scholars.
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 who wish to devote full time to research and study in their field during a recognized study leave. The applicant must present a coherent project with a clearly stated objective and well-defined research plan, and demonstrate a growing record of significant scholarly contribution. The basis of award will be special distinction […]
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
Dec 31, 2019
Happy 2020
Dec 24, 2019
New Publication – The (De)Colonial Pedagogical Possibilities Of Film And Film Festivals
New Publication: THE (DE)COLONIAL PEDAGOGICAL POSSIBILITIES OF FILM AND FILM FESTIVALS (A TWO-PART SPECIAL ISSUE) This two-part Special Issue of Postcolonial Directions in Education (PDE), guest-edited by Sonia Medel and André Elias Mazawi, focuses on The (De)Colonial Pedagogical Possibilities of Film and Film Festivals. The idea of the Special Issue was born out of personal and collective frustrations with limited contemporary scholarship on film and film festivals in terms of their decolonizing practices and modes of representation. Of particular importance to this two-part Special Issue is the complex role films play in representing the relationships between diversity, modernity, and coloniality, from […]