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!
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.
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.
Announcing UBC EDST’s Online Learning Library! It is a resource designed just for you as a graduate student in the Department of Educational Studies, and beyond! This library of online theory and methods modules aims to provide support to students at various points in their degree, such as:
- Using or combining modules to construct a directed study course with your research supervisor – each module suggests assignments for you to consider.
- Refreshing your knowledge or introducing you to a theory or method while writing your proposal or thesis/dissertation – use this as a self-study tool.
- Introducing you to various faculty members in the department whom you may not have had a course with as you consider the composition of your thesis or dissertation committee.
Each of these modules are ideally viewed in the sequence in which it has been put together, but they are all open thus allowing you to jump in and out of a module where needed.
Visit the Online Learning Library now: https://thesismodules.edst.educ.ubc.ca/
Date and time: Wednesday December 9th, 9:00 – 10:00 am PT
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Description: The last meetup was a great success. We are happy that you found it meaningful and, based on the suggestion that we meet again, we are holding a second round of meetup in December. We hope to see most, if not all, of you again. Do not forget to bring your cup of coffee or warm drink to join us for a virtual chat in this cold weather.
Just to remind ourselves: the meetup aims to offer an exciting space for interactions among all MA students and with GAAs, for the purposes of getting to know each other, asking questions and exchanging experiences.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend. Please send any questions to your GAA team at edst.gaa@ubc.ca
“Student Volunteer Work and Learning: Undergraduates’ Experiences and Self-reported Outcomes,” by Milosh Raykov, Alison Taylor, Sameena Jamal, and Sirui Wu.
(Sameena is a PhD student in EDST and Research Coordinator on the project.)
This report builds on our earlier report on UBC students’ paid work by documenting features of their unpaid work and differences in their perceptions of paid and unpaid work. It is part of our SSHRC-funded Hard Working Student mixed-methodology research study.
The report on Unpaid work is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/76610
The earlier report on Paid work is at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/73374
From UBC Education:
We congratulate Dr. Handel Kashope Wright on his appointment as the Senior Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence.
In addition to advising President Ono on addressing issues of race, racism, representation and inclusive excellence, Dr. Wright will liaise with senior leaders, support the implementation of the Inclusion Action Plan, and develop an effective outreach strategy to the UBC community to advance understanding of race, racism and anti-racist strategies and facilitate town/gown relationships with anti-racism groups and communities of colour.
The Senior Advisor on Indigenous Affairs and the Senior Advisor on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence will work together to find intersections and collaborative opportunities.
Dr. Wright is a Professor at the Faculty’s Department of Education Studies, as well as the Director of Centre for Culture, Identity and Education. His work focuses on continental and diasporic African cultural studies, critical multiculturalism, anti-racist education, qualitative research, and cultural studies of education. Dr. Wright’s current research examines post multiculturalism, youth identity, and belonging in the Canadian context.
Dr. Wright received a B.A. from the University of Sierra Leone, an M.A. from the University of Windsor, and an M.Ed from Queens University. He completed a Ph.D. in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Also, Dr. Wright has been Canada Research Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies and David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education.
Responding to Racism Series
Workshop:
Holding space for the difficulties of decolonizing work
Facilitator: Dr. Sharon Stein
Host: Dr. Alison Taylor
Wednesday December 9, 2020
1 – 2:30pm (Pacific time)
Zoom Meeting URL: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66224708972?pwd=VE1LN2R5d3h4VDRYN0l0dTBnZ1JDZz09
Meeting ID: 662 2470 8972
Passcode: 226207
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