Congrats Annie Montague on CAREC award

We are very excited to announce that Annie Montague, who graduated last year from our MA program, has won a Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood (CAREC) award for her thesis research. Remarks from the citation for Annie’s award included praise for her comprehensive research design, for furthering the timely topic of sustainability in early childhood education, and for “pushing our understanding of the potentials and possibilities of fostering children’s relationships with the environment and in promoting transformative change through early childhood education.”

Well done Annie!

Congrats Dr. Jude Walker on the Killam Teaching Prize

Dr. Jude Walker has been selected as the recipient of a 2019-2020 Killam Teaching Prize

Congratulations to Dr. Amy Metcalfe – Professor promotion

Congratulations to Dr. Amy Metcalfe who is promoted to Professor, effective July 1, 2020.

Well done on reaching this major milestone in your career, Amy!

Neha Gupta

MA in Adult Learning and Education.

Interest areas- Education for Sustainable development, environment management, communities, and children

Supervisor: Dr. Judith Walker
Personal URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehar111/

nehar111@gmail.com

EDST 596A (951)

EDST 596A (951)

Philosophy and Educational Policy: Neo-liberalism

Summer Term 2A
July 6-24, 2020
P. Taylor Webb

The course welcomes students from all fields and disciplines, and there are no prerequisites.

Register: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?sesscd=S&pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&course=596A&sessyr=2020&section=951&dept=EDST

PDF Poster: EDST 596A (951)

EDST 596A introduces students to the economic and political rationalities of neo-liberalism in relation to competing conceptions and practices of education policy and educational governance. The seminar begins with a historical review of neo-liberalism and then surveys contemporary neo-liberal expansions into K-12 schooling and curriculum, and higher and adult education. The seminar intersects with literatures on ‘globalizing educational policy’ (including Canada) and reviews processes and effects of educational neo-liberalism on gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, age, dis/ability, language, mobility, and class (e.g., access, knowledge). The seminar notes how neo-liberalism has constructed policy mechanisms to enforce its economic and political philosophies (e.g., rankings, accountabilities, markets), including the re-defining educational discourses related to ‘choice’, ‘freedom’, ‘performance’, ‘austerity’, and self-development or self-determination. Finally, the course examines how ideas of equity and equality have been de-politicized through educational neo-liberalism.

The course welcomes students from all fields and disciplines, and there are no prerequisites.

Topics include:

Educational markets;
Knowledge and academic capitalism;
Ethnic and cultural commodifications;
Responsibilised and entrepreneurial subjects;
Policy networks, including public / private partnerships;
Audit, performative, and surveillance cultures in education;
The marketing of recognition and the privatization of difference.

Authors include (alphabetical): Michael Apple, Stephen Ball, Lauren Berlant, Wendy Brown, Pierre Bourdieu, Noam Chomsky, Bronwyn Davies, Angela Davis, Gilles Deleuze, Nancy Fraser, Michel Foucault, Milton Friedman, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, David Harvey, and Doreen Massey.

Register: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?sesscd=S&pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&course=596A&sessyr=2020&section=951&dept=EDST

Rights for Students at Work Podcast

See podcast of the session on “Rights for Students at Work” on our blogsite. This session was prompted by findings from our Hard Working Student study about the challenges faced by many working students at UBC. The Hard Working Study team includes EDST Faculty members, Alison Taylor and Hongxia Shan.

Link: https://blogs.ubc.ca/hardwork/category/resources/