EDST 401: Education, Schooling and Social Institutions
Elementary Large Lecture, November 17, 2022
By Educator Ashley House
Title: Social Justice Pedagogies: The Classroom as a Laboratory for Social Justice
Time: 9am – 10:50am
Location: Earth Sciences Building (ESB) 1013
2207 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC
About Ashley:
Ashley House uses the pronouns she/her, works in the two colonial languages and systems and is a white settler. She works to develop awareness of her complicity in the systems of oppression that we critically consider in social justice pedagogies. Ashley’s area of interest is in student social justice orientations and how the education system obstructs or facilitates activism that seeks to transform the system itself. She is an intermediate teacher in the Vancouver School District. She has been teaching adults and youth since 1999. Over the past 20 years she has taught adults at the Immigrant Services Society of BC as well as Social Studies, French Immersion and Outdoor Education in public school systems. She completed her Masters of Arts in Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC in 2008 and continued to study in Curriculum and Pedagogy at a post graduate level. She has worked with the BCTF and UNESCO Associated Schools Network to promote social justice curricula. She is currently teaching at Trafalgar Elementary School, the first UNESCO school in Vancouver.
