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Art Education and the Limitations of White Liberalism

Art Education and the Limitations of White Liberalism

Dr. Amelia M. Kraehe | Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture Education, Affiliate Faculty in Human Rights Practice, and Co-founder and Co-director of the Racial Justice Studio at The University of Arizona Friday, March 26, 2021 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) Faculty Host: Dr. Sandrine Han View the Seminar Poster  No Recording Permission […]

41 1/2 UBC Physics Olympics

41 1/2 UBC Physics Olympics

UBC Physics Olympics has been a major outreach collaboration between the UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy and UBC Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy aimed at engaging secondary science students for more than four decades. This year the event was completely virtual and it was labeled 41 ½ UBC Physics Olympics. It took place on […]

Cultural Appreciation or Cultural Appropriation? When Cultural Studies Meets Creativity, an Autoethnographic Narrative

Cultural Appreciation or Cultural Appropriation? When Cultural Studies Meets Creativity, an Autoethnographic Narrative

Dr. Hsiao-Cheng (Sandrine) Han | University of British Columbia Friday, February 26, 2021 | 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (PST) | via Zoom View the Seminar Poster Abstract From Marcel Duchamp’s portrayal of Mona Lisa with facial hair to Andy Warhol’s painting of Campbell’s Soup Cans, artists have used creative license to appropriate and/or modify […]

On The Practice of Seeing Children: Photographs in Early Childhood

On The Practice of Seeing Children: Photographs in Early Childhood

Dr. Tran Nguyen Templeton | Assistant Professor of Early Childhood StudiesUniversity of North Texas Friday, January 15, 2021 | 12:30 to 2:00 pm (PST) | via Zoom Host: Dr. Harper Keenan View the Seminar Poster No Recording Permission, in accordance with research participants privacy Abstract “Who is the child on whom [early childhood practice] is […]

Naoki Takemura

Naoki Takemura

I am a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy under the supervision of Dr. William Pinar. I mainly study curriculum theory, early childhood education and teacher education. I hold an MA degree from Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan. I worked as a member of the EDCP Peer Advisors’ Team in  2018/2019. As it happens, I am joining […]

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Meyer on Her Retirement

Congratulations to Dr. Karen Meyer on Her Retirement

Dear Colleagues, Please join me in extending sincere thanks and gratitude for what Dr. Karen Meyer has contributed to our Department, Faculty of Education and The University of British Columbia over the years. Dr. Karen Meyer has served in many capacities including Director of CCFI, Acting Department Head as well as Deputy Head, Director of […]

Constructivism – the good; the bad; and the abhorrent?

Constructivism – the good; the bad; and the abhorrent?

Keith S. Taber | Emeritus Professor of Science Education University of Cambridge Friday, December 11, 2020 | 9:30 to 11:00 am (PST) Host: Dr. Samia Khan Note: rescheduled from October 30, 2020 View the Seminar Poster Abstract Constructivism has been a key referent in education for some decades, and is widely seen across many national contexts […]

The Syllabus as Curriculum and the Poetic Secret of Objects

The Syllabus as Curriculum and the Poetic Secret of Objects

Dr. Samuel Rocha | Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, UBC Friday, November 27, 2020 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) Host: Dr. Rita Irwin View the Seminar Poster Abstract Sam Rocha will introduce one of the principal claims of his newest book, The Syllabus as Curriculum. This claim is simply the fact that things are made. […]

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Gulzar Ahmad Yousafzai

Gulzar Ahmad Yousafzai

For me, availing an opportunity to learn research techniques at a globally distinguished higher seat of learning such as UBC is nothing short of a dream coming true. Having graduated from Pakistan’s supposedly best seat of higher education i.e Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, I attained a stage where I saw the realization of my dream: […]

Alim Fakirani

Alim Fakirani

Alim Fakirani is a PhD student and 4YF fellow in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. A graduate of McGill University (BA, 2007) and the Institute of Education – University College of London (MA Ed Hon. and MTeach Hon., 2010), Alim has taught a […]

Ian Alexander

Ian Alexander

I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. I am originally from Nova Scotia and first studied History at Mount Allison University and eventually Education at Brock University. With an interest in exploration, I first went to South Korea to teach English and then to China where I mostly taught […]

Rafael V. Capó García

Rafael V. Capó García

Rafael is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. He is from San Juan, Puerto Rico where he worked as a public-school History teacher for over 6 years and completed an M.A. in History at the Centre for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. His research […]

Stephen McGinley

Stephen McGinley

Steve McGinley is a PhD. Candidate in the Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Health Outdoor and Physical Education (HOPE) program area at the University of British Columbia. Steve’s current research and passion lies in investigating the collaboration, relationships, leaderships, and network alliances at the multisectoral stakeholder-level necessary to advance the future of […]

Community participation is…: Revisiting Boyer’s scholarship of engagement

Community participation is…: Revisiting Boyer’s scholarship of engagement

Renwick, K., Selkrig, M., Manathunga, C. & Keamy, K. 2020.  Higher Education Research & Development, 39(6), 1232-1246. Read more .

Nashwa Khedr

Nashwa Khedr

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Curriculum Studies, with an M.Sc. in Pharmacy and M.A. in International & Comparative Education. My undergraduate degree is in pharmacy, and then I shifted to education with my growing passion for personal development and social change. Before moving to Canada for my graduate studies, my work involved curriculum […]

Neoliberalism, Critical Education, and Social Justice: A focus on the Current Moment in History

Neoliberalism, Critical Education, and Social Justice: A focus on the Current Moment in History

Dr. Alpesh Maisuria | Associate Professor, University of the West of England Friday, September 25, 2020 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Via Zoom Host: Dr. E. Wayne Ross View the Seminar Poster Abstract In this talk, I’ll locate the current Covid-19 crisis in the crises of capitalism. I will argue that education has had, and […]

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Protected: Presentation by SCED Instructor Search Candidate – Dr. Douglas Adler

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Ad hoc Committee on Technology, Instruction and Communication (EDCP-ACTIC)

Dear Colleagues, The impact of COVID-19 on delivery of courses and summer institutes has made it necessary for EDCP to form an ad hoc committee to consult on a way forward in these areas. Specifically the committee will address how we can quickly respond to requests for feedback on guidelines from the University, Faculty and […]

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