EDST SCHOLARS IN THE NEWS:
Jason Ellis has an op-ed piece on the long history of class size and composition in the Kelowna Daily Courier.
http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/opinion/article_dcfb530c-d3ea-11e9-b275-bfe44ebaab78.html
Cancelled – Sep 26, 2019 – EDST Potluck
Unfortunately the Potluck event is cancelled
We are sorry for any inconvenience
Cancelled – Sep 26, 2019
Unfortunately the Potluck event is cancelled
We are sorry for any inconvenience
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Andreotti – Royal Society of Canada
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, Professor in the Department of Educational Studies (EDST), who was recently elected to Royal Society of Canada as a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Founded in 2014, the College is a handpicked selection of top mid-career scholars and artists in Canada. College Members have already received recognition in their fields for excellence and serve as ambassadors of their fields.
From the RSC’s announcement:
Vanessa Andreotti holds a CRC in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. She is internationally recognized for her critical scholarship and artistic collaborations in the fields of global citizenship and international development education. Her research problematizes and offers alternatives to mainstream educational approaches that promote simplistic understandings of global problems and solutions, paternalistic engagements between dominant and marginalized groups, and ethnocentric views of justice, sustainability and change.
See also https://research.ubc.ca/nine-ubc-faculty-members-elected-royal-society-canada
New Inaugural Essay – Positioning Blackness, Necessarily, Awkwardly, in the Canadian Academy
Dr. Handel Wright (EDST) has written an inaugural essay for a new blog, #Black Professor Matter, hosted by the Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences. His essay, titled “Positioning Blackness, Necessarily, Awkwardly, in the Canadian Academy,” can be accessed at:
http://www.ideas-idees.ca/blog/positioning-blackness-necessarily-awkwardly-canadian-academy
Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019 (Tue)
New Start Time
9:30am – 12pm
PCOH 2012 (Ponderosa Commons Oak House)
Dr. Sam Rocha
Associate Professor
EDST (Educational Studies)
In past EDST workshops, I have focused on how to write and, most recently, how to edit. In both cases, I have made the assertion that writing and editing require reading. My analogy has been that trying to write without reading would be like trying to run a marathon after only eating a cracker. But how does one read? Is there a way to read that is especially conducive to writing?
In this workshop, I will explore this question with concrete tips on ways of reading that should benefit anyone who would like to see their reading as fuel for writing. In a sense, this is a workshop on how to read for the sake of writing, but I will take it a bit further as a time to contemplate what reading is and what value it might have in its own right.
Feb 17, 2020
Reading Week 2020
Dissertation Writing Retreats
UBC Grad Students Only
https://blogs.ubc.ca/loonlakeretreat/
Fighting Islamophobia Together
From Quebec City to Christchurch, from Afghanistan to Palestine, colonialism and white supremacy fuel not just increasing hate speech but all kinds of violence against Muslims around the world. What is Islamophobia? How does it affect the people around us? And how can we work together to end it? Muslims and non-Muslims alike are encouraged to attend this free event hosted by Students Against Bigotry and The Talon, UBC’s alternative student press.
Special guest NEILA MILED is a PhD candidate in UBC’s Department of Educational Studies, a Liu scholar, and UBC Public Scholar. Her research engages with feminist postcolonial/decolonial theory, critical ethnography, and participatory visual methods such as photovoice to explore the social and cultural contexts of education in relation to the integration of Muslim/immigrant and refugee youth. Neila’s research interests are interdisciplinary and span multiple terrains: multiculturalism and its contested discourses and policies, educational policy and its impact on immigrant/refugee youth, and Muslim women in Canada. Neila’s work focuses on gender and draws on intersectionality, Third World/transnational/Islamic feminism, and scholarship on globalization and migration. She holds an MA in Educational Administration and Leadership from UBC, has taught in several countries, and is actively involved in community organizations that support refugee women.
Sep 17, 2019
Between Local Distinction and Global Reputation: University Rankings and Changing Employment in Japan
Dr. Mayumi Ishikawa (Professor, Center for Global Initiatives, Osaka University) to speak at UBC.
Date: Sept 17, 2019
Time: 12-1:30 pm
Location: PCOH 1215
The study examines the incompatibility between the excellence norms used in global rankings and the conventional domestic university hierarchy. The prestige of Japanese elite universities has been primarily constructed on exam selectivity of students and producing desirable graduates for the domestic labour market. Although such a conventional system is in need of adjustment under globalisation, replacing it with excellence norms of global rankings is destructive to employment and career systems that have defined the lives of Japan’s middle-class, white-collar workers for much of the postwar period. Unlike previous works on global university rankings often conducted from national or institutional perspectives, this study identifies a potential threat of the hegemonic “world-class” model to jobs, remunerations and upward social mobility of individuals from a case of Japan.
Bio : Mayumi Ishikawa’s (ishikawa@iai.osaka-u.ac.jp) research interests include the globalization of higher education and ethnographic studies of universities and of Malaysian Borneo, the internationalization of higher education, transnational mobility of students and scholars, world university rankings and the emergence of hegemony in academia, and power in the construction of knowledge. She edited Sekai daigaku ranking to chi no joretsuka [World University Rankings and the Hegemonic Restructuring of Knowledge], a volume in Japanese published from Kyoto University Press.
For more information contact michelle.stack@ubc.ca
