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?
Sep 27, 2023
Challenging False Solutions and Centering Indigenous Responses to the Climate Crisis
Friday, October 20, 2023, 3-4:30 PM Children’s Greenhouse, UBC Farm Abstract Indigenous Peoples have long identified colonialism, capitalism, and the commodification of nature as the central drivers of climate change. However, mainstream technocratic climate solutions fail to address these systemic root causes, often resulting in projects that violate Indigenous sovereignty and exacerbate ecological injustices. Against […]
Sep 26, 2023
Orkhon Gantogtokh featured on UBC Grad School website
New article – The Challenges of Interrupting Climate Colonialism in Higher Education
Excerpt from In this article Sharon Stein and Jan Hare ask how higher education institutions might begin to confront the connections between climate change and colonization. To grapple with this question, they examine the dynamics through which climate action can reproduce colonial relations and reflect on the challenges, complexities, and possibilities that emerged […]
Sep 25, 2023
EDST Doctoral Colloquium – Higher Education Beyond Hope
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/edst-doctoral-colloquium-higher-education-beyond-hope/