Events

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 […]

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. […]

Dr. Sebastián Plá | National Autonomous University of Mexico (Visiting Scholar, Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy) Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Scarfe 1214 Host: Dr. E. Wayne Ross View the Seminar Poster Abstract My research seeks to understand how social studies and citizenship education respond to structural violence that characterizes contemporary Latin […]

Natalie LeBlanc, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, EDCP, UBC With Panel | Dr. Rita L. Irwin | Dr. George Belliveau | Dr. Peter Gouzouasis | Dr. Ching-Chiu Lin, Research Facilitator, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University | Dr. William Pinar, Canada Research Chair and Professor, Curriculum Studies, EDCP, UBC | Dr. David Beare, Handsworth Secondary Drama Educator […]

Margaret Macintyre Latta | Professor and Interim Director, Okanagan School of Education, Faculty of Education, UBC Friday, December 14, 2018 12:30 – 2:00 pm Scarfe 1214 Faculty Host: Dr. William Pinar View the Seminar Poster Abstract William Doll’s attention to what he termed the curricular “ghost of control” is a persistent haunting encounter that continues to thwart […]

Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), aka Don Trent Jacobs  Friday, September 28, 2018 12:30 – 2:00 pm Scarfe 1130 * Light refreshments will be served at 12:00 pm. * Lecture will commence at 12:30 p.m. Abstract This presentation will clarify the various meanings, goals, concerns and potential outcomes relating to school-wide efforts to “teach” the relevance […]

Dr. Paula Salvio,  Professor, University of New Hampshire, USA Friday, April 27, 2018 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract “Children of the Massacre…” offers an examination of the Sicilian grassroots organization Addiopizzo, with a specific focus on Addiopizzo’s public pedagogical commitment to educate residents and citizen in Italy for […]

Dr. Peter Taubman, Professor, Brooklyn College, USA Friday, March 23, 2018 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract Professor Taubman will focus his remarks on the decades-long education reform movement in the U.S. and its tumultuous culmination in the Trump administration’s education policies. Located in the “no-man’s-land” between the […]

Dr. Leslie N.K. Lo,  Professor, Beijing Normal University, China Tuesday, March 20, 2018 12:30 – 2:00 pm Scarfe 310 * Light refreshments will be served at 12:00 pm. * Lecture will commence at 12:30 p.m. Abstract Administrative power of Chinese schools and universities is concentrated in the hands of a few who hold official positions. This […]

Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman,  University of Pennsylvania, USA Friday, January 26, 2018 12:30 – 2:00 pm Scarfe 310 Guest Host – Dr. Peter Seixas * Light refreshments will be served at 12:00 pm. * Lecture will commence at 12:30 p.m. Abstract In 2003, during a fifth-grade current-events lesson about the United States’ newly begun war in Iraq, […]

Dr. Lars Knudsen | Dept. of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark Friday, November 24, 2017 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract The recent school reform in Denmark (2013) included what was called the ‘open school program’. The basic idea was to make all schools and all teachers cooperate with the […]

Dr. Kirk Madison | Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, UBCDr. Barbara Weber | Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education & Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program, UBC Friday, September 29, 2017 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract What are […]

Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin, Associate Professor, EDCP Friday, April 21, 2017 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 1214 View the Seminar Poster Abstract This paper describes the results of a pilot quantitative international comparative study that investigated how STEM educators in Canada, China and Korea view the roles of technology in their teaching. The study […]

Karen Meyer, Cynthia Nicol, Samson Nashon, Mohamud Olow, Ali Hussein, Siyad Maalim, Abdihakin Muse, Abdikafar Ali, Ahmed Hussein, Hassan Hassan, Hassan Yarow, Mohamed Halane, Philip Karangu, Abdullahi Ismail, Ibrahim Abdi and Suleiman Aden Friday, March March 24, 2017 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 1214 View the Seminar Poster Abstract As a team, we […]

Nicole Smith and ‘the Clam Garden Network’ Friday, February 17, 2017 | Scarfe 1214 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. View the Seminar Poster Abstract Clam gardens are rock-walled, intertidal terraces constructed by the coastal First Nations of British Columbia (Canada) and Native Americans of Washington State and Alaska (USA) to enhance the shellfish productivity of beaches and […]

Dr. Erika Hasebe-Ludt | Professor, Faculty of Education, University of LethbridgePatricia Liu Baergen, Joanne Price | PhD candidates, EDCP Friday, December 16, 2016 | Scarfe 1214 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. View the Seminar Poster Abstract This conversation features three educators who are inspired by the intellectual works of curriculum scholar Ted Tetsuo Aoki (1919-2012). Joanne Price opens […]

Dr. John Lupinacci | Assistant Professor, Washington State University Friday, October 28, 2016 | Scarfe 1214 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. View the Seminar Poster Abstract In this talk, I will call attention to—and critically question—the epoch now referred to as the Anthropocene in relationship to Western industrial assumptions rooted in the understanding of human-beings as separate from […]

Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook | Professor of Curriculum Theory | University of Ottawa Friday, June 2, 2016 | 3:00-4:30 p.m. (PST) | Scarfe 1209 View the Seminar Poster No recording permission Abstract: There is a growing reconceptualization of how history “ought” to be taught in a disciplined fashion. For example, in Canada and in certain parts of the […]

Dr. Peter Seixas | Professor, EDCP Friday, February 26th, 2016 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scarfe Room 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract Yes, yes, the past gets in the way; it trips us up, bogs us down; it complicates, makes difficult.  But to ignore this is folly, because, above all, what history teaches us is to […]

Dr. E. Wayne Ross| Professor, EDCP January 15, 2016 http://seminars.edcp.educ.ubc.ca/seminars2016/EDCP_Jan_15_2016_seminar.mp4 Short Bio: E. Wayne Ross is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC. He has written and edited numerous books including: Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies and Social Education (Sense, 2010); The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems and Possibilities (4th Ed., SUNY Press, 2014) […]

Dr. Carl Leggo | Professor, LLED November 13, 2015 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract In The Force of Character and the Lasting Life James Hillman (1999) asks, “why do we live so long?” (p. xiii) He then suggests that “the last years confirm and fulfill character” […]

Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry | Radcliffe College and University of British Columbia October 9, 2015 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster No recording permission Abstract In this talk, I will discuss a Qur’anic text (Q. 4:34) that has historically been used to justify domestic violence and continues to be […]

Dr. David Jardine | University of Calgary September 11, 2015 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract Within the confines of educational theory and practice, things are becoming, once again, both moribund and panicky, and little is to be done within this fray that won’t simply exhaust attention […]

Dr. Peter Grimmett | Professor and Head, EDCP, UBC December 13, 2014 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. (PST) | Scarfe 1107 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: When we are caught off-guard or in our dark moments, we exhibit the secret thoughts that mark our ethical dealings with alterity. A complicated worldview implies we must possess an understanding […]