Jan 28, 2021
Book Talk: Dr. Paul Bennett, The State of the System – A Reality Check on Canada’s Schools (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020)
January 28, 2021, at 2:00pm to 3:30pm PST.
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PDF Version: Book Talk – Dr. Paul Bennett
Overview:
Exploring the nature of the Canadian education order in all its dimensions, The State of the System explains how public schools came to be so bureaucratic, confronts the critical issues facing kindergarten to grade 12 public schools in all ten provinces, and addresses the need for systemic reform. Going beyond a diagnosis of the stresses, strains, and ills present in the system, Paul Bennett proposes a bold plan to re-engineer schools on a more human scale as the first step in truly reforming public education. In place of school consolidation and managerialism, one-size-fits-all uniformity, limited school choice, and the “success-for-all” curriculum, Bennett advocates for a new set of priorities: decentralize school governance, deprogram education ministries and school districts, listen to parents and teachers, and revitalize local education democracy.
Dr. Cash Ahenakew – CRC Appointment
Congratulations Dr. Cash Ahenakew on your appointment as a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous People’s Wellbeing.
Learn more on the Faculty of Education website:
https://educ.ubc.ca/canada-research-chairs-annoucement/
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Dec 17, 2020
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Topic: Holiday Home Concert with Sam Rocha
Time: Dec 17, 2020
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Hannah Coderre – the Gina Blondin Memorial Ts”kel Award
Please join us in congratulating Hannah Coderre (MEd EDST 2020) for receiving the Gina Blondin Memorial Ts”kel Award for 2019/2020. The Gina Blondin award is bestowed annually “in memory of Georgina (Gina) Blondin, M.Ed. (Ts”kel Program) 1988, by the Government of the Northwest Territories, friends, and colleagues. The award is offered to a Ts”kel First Nations graduate who has made the greatest contribution toward the well-being of fellow First Nations students at UBC and who exemplifies Gina Blondin’s scholarship and qualities of leadership.” Well done, Hannah!
Dr. Amy Parent’s project RNL featured in the Vancouver Sun
Read more about this project which utilizes VR-technology to revitalize Nisga’a language:
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/nisgaa-anthropologist-spearheads-new-effort-to-repatriate-family-house-pole-from-europe
Recording: Cities as Sites for Transformative Change
Watch the video on the CCIE website:
https://ccie.educ.ubc.ca/cities-as-sites-for-transformative-change-how-and-why-universities-can-contribute/
Speakers: (See link for full bios)
Maggie Low is an Assistant Professor at the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she is the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Community Planning master’s concentration.
Mumbi Maina is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a Social Planner in the Social Policy and Projects Division at the City of Vancouver.
Kyla Pascal is a Métis, Black woman born and raised in Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta). She currently works at Indigenous Climate Action, is a member of the Indigenous art collective, nipahimiw, and is a first-year graduate student with the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC.
Rob VanWynsberghe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He launched a Masters’ program in Education for Sustainability, which partners with the City of Vancouver on the implementation of sustainability, health, housing and planning policy.
EfS students presented in front of the Mayor of Vancouver and 4 Post-secondary Presidents
Five student groups in the EfS program presented their projects to the mayor of Vancouver, 4 post-secondary presidents (including UBC’s very own Dr.Ono), 4 councillors and many city staff. Click each slide below to find out more.
