The (De)Colonial Pedagogical Possibilities of Films and Film Festivals has been published in Postcolonial Directions in Education (PDE), issues 8.2 (2019) and 9.1 (2020), accessible at the Open Access Repository (OAR) of the University of Malta at <https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19316>.
We Must Tackle and Dismantle Systemic Racism and White Supremacy, written by Dr. Bathseba Opini, has been published on The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Link: http://www.ideas-idees.ca/blog/we-must-tackle-and-dismantle-systemic-racism-and-white-supremacy
The winner of the CHA Journal Prize is Jason Ellis, for “Public School Taxes and the Remaking of Suburban Space and History: Etobicoke, 1945–1954.” This article argues that school taxes were a significant policy tool for municipal officials and Etobicoke residents in their remaking of suburban space. Adding to the growing literature on the significance of tax to Canadian History, Ellis’ research provides new insight into how exclusion functioned in the suburbs during the post-war period. Reviewers and editors commented on the article’s originality of argument, careful research, and engaging style. They also noted that it successfully links the historiographies of urban history and the history of education, and predict that it will make an important contribution to both fields.
Congrats to our Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Program award recipients, Vanessa Lawrence and Emily Van Halem. Well done, Vanessa and Emily!
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.
