Congratulations to Rabia Mir (EDST MA, 2019) for winning the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC/SCECI) Douglas Ray Award for Best Graduate Paper. The title of Rabia’s paper is “Migrations, Transformations, and Getting to Home: A Theoretical and Personal Reflection.” The award gives “recognition to outstanding research in the field of comparative and international education, and to facilitate communication about that research.” Well done, Rabia!
Dear new and returning EDST students,
We understand you have many questions about how you can start or continue your studies. We want to reassure you that we are continuing to offer classes and graduate supervision via a range of online platforms. At the moment, what we know is that all EDST courses in the 2020 Summer term (May-August) and 2020 Winter term 1 (September-December) will be offered online; there will be no in-person classes. No decision has been made yet about classes starting in January 2021.
Many of your questions—for example, about student visas, or housing, or the consequences of not moving to Vancouver for now—are relevant also to students outside of EDST, and the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) as well as the Faculty of Education have created central information pages with the latest updates. We do not want to duplicate that information here because that would create a risk that we would miss an important update and you end up with outdated information. So, please consult the following pages:
We look forward to hearing from you on email, and seeing you in online meetings and classes. And, of course, we especially look forward to meeting you or seeing you again in person when conditions permit!
EDST faculty and staff
June 2, 2020
The Department of Educational Studies (EDST) condemns, in the strongest terms, the anti-Black racism and police violence that has emerged again in cities across the world, and especially in the US. We also denounce Anti-Indigenous racism, Anti-Asian racism, and xenophobia amplified worldwide at this time of pandemic crisis. We support calls for justice in the light of such violence and call for an end to systemic racism.
We acknowledge that all forms of racism are historically endemic to our social, economic, and political systems; we acknowledge that white supremacy and colonization continues to be at the root of inequality. We acknowledge that universities and wider societal institutions continue to perpetuate anti-Black racism, marginalization, and oppression of racialized and Indigenous faculty, students, and staff, in subtle and covert ways. We also acknowledge that, as a department, we are implicated in the reproduction of racism and colonialism, and we continue to learn and unlearn in an effort to take responsibility for change, individually and collectively. In as much as universities are spaces that fight for social justice, they are also part of the larger systemic structures that uphold white dominance and supremacy.
In pursuit of our EDST mission, students, faculty, and staff value equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and social justice, support for Indigenous educational advancement and decolonization, respectful engagement with our community partners, criticality in our approach to educational orthodoxies, and integrity in our relationships. In keeping with this mission, our work promotes, and insists upon, anti-racism, anti-bigotry, anti-hate, and social justice. We call on our white community members, in particular, to interrupt racist and colonial behaviors and assumptions in both themselves and others. We are producers and cultivators of knowledge and, in addition to individual and personal action against racism, we will continue to create and engage with scholarship on the topics of race and racism to combat racial hatred and injustice.
Congratulations to Dr. Jo-ann Archibald on winning the 2020 AMS Great Trekker Award!
The Great Trekker Award is presented each year to an alumnus or alumnae who has made unique contributions to the UBC and wider community. It was first established in 1950 to commemorate the Great Trek of October 28, 1922, when UBC students marched to pressure the government to complete work on the university’s buildings.
More details: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAN8EG0jEPH/
Congratulations Dr. Robert VanWynsberghe, Associate Professor, EDST, Dr. Maggie Low, Assistant Professor, SCARP, and Moura Quayle, Professor, SPPGA for their successful application to New Frontiers in Research Fund – 2019 Exploration Competition. The team was funded for $247,738 for their project titled Transforming city governments in response to disruptive change: meeting the challenges of colonization, inequity, and climate change. Their project seeks to develop and test a prototype to create a different set of foundational systems, structures, competencies, and mindsets that might lead to transformative change for decolonization efforts, inequity, climate change, and other complex challenges like them.
With many of us working from home, the EDST GAA team is missing seeing everyone’s face! Join us next week for a fun social event so that we all have a chance to reconnect.
EDST Trivia
So much has happened since the COVID-19 pandemic rearranged our lives. EDST students Emily Van Halem and Maria Angelica Guerrero are inviting you to join them for an opportunity to reflect creatively on this transformative time. Bring along some paper, pens, and your favourite drawing tools! Please register to receive further details. If the date doesn’t work for you we encourage you to sign up and tell us your preferred time as we are planning another session.
Pre- and postpartum employment patterns: comparing leave policy reform in Canada and Switzerland, by Matteo Antonini, Ashley Pullman (EDST Graduate), Sylvia Fuller & Lesley Andres (EDST), has been published in Community, Work & Family.
Antonini, M., Pullman, A., Fuller, S., & Andres, L. (2020). Pre- and postpartum employment patterns: Comparing leave policy reform in Canada and Switzerland. Community, Work & Family, DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2020.1752620.
In recent decades, many countries modified their maternity and parental leave programmes, changing elements such as length, wage replacement levels, and eligibility criteria. We employ sequence analysis of women and men’s employment trajectories in the two years before and after a birth to explore changes occurring alongside reforms that advanced different policies: a short, compulsory, and well-compensated maternity leave in Switzerland in 2005, and a long, voluntary, but less well-compensated parental leave in Canada in 2001. Our results show that employment patterns changed little after the reform in Switzerland. Most Swiss women remained in or switched to part-time employment in the period preceding childbirth. After the reform in Canada, mothers in the province of British Columbia—the context of our study—spent more time out of employment after the birth of a child. However, they were also more likely to return to work full time. In both contexts, the employment trajectories of men did not change. Together the results highlight that parents are not passive recipients of policy change; rather, reform may reinforce old patterns or generate change depending on the extent of change and the context where it takes place.
How colonization fostered public mass gun violence in the US (and what education and society can do about it)
Published in The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
Author: Stephanie Glick
Link: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/1740
Applicant: Dr. Annette Henry (LLED)
Co-investigator(s): Dr. Bathseba M. Opini (EDST), Dr. Hannah Turner (UBC), Dr. Michelle L. Stack (EDST)
This is the riddle I’ve been trying to solve: A longitudinal oral history of the challenges and experiences of Black people in Vancouver
$ 181,569 | 5 years