Creating Space to Conceptualize Different Families
This symposium is part of a series of Graduate Student Symposia hosted by EDCP 601. October 25, 2017 | Scarfe 1209 | 1:00 – 4:00 pm Panelists: Matthew Isherwood and Naoki Takemura with Special Guest Speaker Dr. Kedrick James View of download poster.
Re – engaging the Method of Currere: Teachers’ Perspectives
This symposium is part of a series of Graduate Student Symposia hosted by EDCP 601. October 11, 2017 | Scarfe 1209 | 1:00 – 4:00 pm Panelists: Kiera Brant-Birioukova, Emmanuel Amoah & Scott Robertson with Special Guest Dr. William Pinar View or download Poster
Materializing the Social: Art Practice, Religion and “What Really Matters”
Dr. Anna Hickey-Moody | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Thursday, October 19, 2017 | 2:30 – 4:00 pm | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract Anna Hickey-Moody is a Professor of Media and Communication, ARC Future Fellow and VC Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where she is based in […]
7th Family Math & Science Day
Saturday, November 4, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Math & Science labs, 2nd floor, Scarfe Education Building, UBC (2125 Main Mall) Presented by the UBC Faculty of Education and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Science and Math Educators and students from the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Education Program and the […]
Re-signifying Curriculum Studies from Indigeneity in the Mexican and Kenyan Contexts
This symposium is part of a series of Graduate Student Symposia hosted by EDCP 601. October 4, 2017 | Scarfe 1209 | 1:00 – 4:00 pm Panelists: Maria Jose Athie-Martinez & Philip Kimani Karangu with Special Guest Dr. Samson Nashon To view or download poster.
University Responsibilities, Values, and Value: $cholarship in the Age of Plenty
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 […]
Earth and Dark Wonder: Notes on Animism and Technology in an Age of Ecological Wipe-Out
Dr. David Abram | EDCP Summer Noted Scholar Wednesday, July 19, 2017 | 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract We live in an era of both wonderment and despair, of techno-utopian dreams and dizzying ecological breakdown. Many persons who spend large stretches of time out of doors, in […]
Wayfinding Peace: Museums in conflict zones
Speaker: Kimberly Baker, EDCP PhD Candidate & Liu Scholar, Liu Institute for Global Issues Date: Sunday, June 25th Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Venue: Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site 5180 Westwater Drive, Richmond, BC, V7E 6P3 Phone: 604-238-8050 http://www.richmond.ca/culture/sites/britannia/about.htm Britannia is located in the historic town of Steveston and is a lovely location for lunch and a […]
The Educative Potential of Contemporary Art
Dr. Dónal O’Donoghue | Professor, EDCP, UBC Friday, May 19, 2017 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract In his recent book, Teaching Objects: Studies in Art Based Learning, Jeroen Lutters (2015) explains to readers how works of art have functioned for him as teaching objects – objects that […]
A Comparative Study of STEM Educators’ Views of Technology: A Case of Canada, China and Korea
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 […]
7th Aboriginal Math K-12 Symposium
Mathematical Landscapes for Reconciliation Thursday May 11, 2017 | 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Sty-Wet-Tan First Nations Longhouse, 1985 West Mall, UBC Registration by May 7 | tinyurl.com/7thAboriginalMathSymposium Join us for the 7th Aboriginal Math K-12 Symposium for teachers, administrators, Ministry representatives, community members and academics interested in exploring, sharing and deepening understandings of […]
Freirean Dialogue through Social Media in a Refugee Camp: An Educational Experiment
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 […]
The Tyler Rationale, Bureaucracy, and the Banality of Evil
The Peer Advisors are honoured to invite you to an exciting upcoming guest lecture in the department. Details and abstract in the poster below! Dr. Hannah Spector |Penn State University, Harrisubrg March 21, 2017 12-1 pm Scarfe 310
Media and Technology Studies Education Search Candidate Presentation
Dr. Jillianne Code “Agency for Learning in Immersive and Virtual Environments” Date: March 15, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 am Venue: Scarfe room 1107
Media and Technology Studies Education Search Candidate Presentation
Dr. Kelly Bergstrom “Learning, Playing, Designing: Barriers and Gateways to STEAM Participation” Date: March 14, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 am Venue: Scarfe room 1107
Media and Technology Studies Education Search Candidate Presentation
Dr. Ido Roll “Beyond ‘Faster Classrooms’: Teaching with Technology to Promote Sense-Making and Peer Learning” Date: March 13, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 am Venue: Scarfe room 1107
Media and Technology Studies Education Search Candidate Presentation
Dr. Douglas Clark “Beyond Medium: The design of digital games and modeling environments for learning” Date: March 10, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 am Venue: Scarfe room 1107
Ancient clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest: Teaching and learning at the confluence of archaeology, marine science and traditional (Indigenous) knowledge
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 […]
“hishuk’ish tsawalk – Everything is One. Revitalizing Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth-aht Foodways.
Dr. Charlotte Coté | Assiociate Professor, University of Washington in Seattle Friday, January 20, 2017 | Scarfe 1107 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. View the Seminar Poster Abstract In her presentation, Dr. Coté will examine the concept of food sovereignty to articulate an understanding of its potential for action in reviving Indigenous foodways in the U.S. and Canada. […]
What Lures Us to Linger … In Conversation with Aokian Curriculum and Pedagogy
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 […]
Mobile Technologies & Community Networks in Refugee Education: Case Studies from Kenyan Refugee Camps
Dr. Negin Dahya | Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School Friday, November 25, 2016 | Scarfe 1214 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. View the Seminar Poster Abstract The study of information and community technology in development settings is a rich and complex field of research and practice. Mobile phones have become a crucial part of this […]
(Un)Learning Anthropocentrism: An Ecocritical Framework for Teaching to Resist Human-Supremacy in Curriculum and Pedagogy
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 […]
Family Math & Science Day 2016
Presented by the UBC Faculty of Education and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Science and Math Educators and students from the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Education Program and the larger Faculty of Education community at UBC invite guests from 2 to 102 years old to help us celebrate science and math teaching […]
Curricular Ideologies in the Discussion and Negotiation of the Chilean Social Studies Curriculum
Sept 26 | 12:00 – 1:00pm | Scarfe 1209 Renato Gazmuri, PhD, Assistant Professor at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) Organized by the Institute for Critical Education Studies Dr. Gazmuri will discuss his research on the construction of the social studies curriculum in Chile. The Chilean social studies curriculum has been defined through processes of discussion and […]
Curricular Discourses with Practical Implications
Perspectives and Experiences From Spain & South America Sept 22 | 11:30am – 1:30pm | Scarfe 310 Panelists: Dr. Renato Gazmuri (Chile), Sandra Delgado (Colombia) Fernando M. Murillo (Chile) Breo Tosar (Spain), and Héctor Gómez (Chile) Organized by the Institute for Critical Education Studies This seminar brings together scholars from Spain and South America working […]
On the History of the Critique of Media and Technology
Science and Technology Studies (STS) Colloquium 2016-2017 Tuesday, September 20, 2016 | 4:30 – 6:00 pm | Bu To 1197 Dr. Stephen Petrina Commentator: Carla Nappi More Info
Schizophrenic Scholar Out for a Stroll: Multiplicities, Becomings, Conjurings
Dr. Abraham P. DeLeon | Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio Friday, September 30, 2016 | Scarfe 1214 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. View the Seminar Poster Abstract In this presentation, Professor DeLeon departs from a traditional academic rendering and takes an interdisciplinary and fictional theoretical stroll. Engaging the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix […]
Doing Oral History Education Toward Reconciliation
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 […]
Getting Bruised, Hurting, and Dirty” in Academic Leadership: Tempering the “Leprosy” of Careerism with a Sense of Calling
Dr. Peter Grimmett | Professor and Head, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy May 16, 2016 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract This talk builds on themes I addressed in December 2013—that, although the world is tragic, full of injustices and things that make us angry, against which we […]
6th Aboriginal Math K-12 Symposium
Sharing Approaches for Improving Aboriginal Mathematics Education Thursday May 12, 2016 8:45 am – 3:00 pm. UBC First Nations Longhouse (1985 West Mall) Please join us for the 6th Aboriginal Math K-12 Symposium at the First Nations Longhouse, UBC on May 12, 2016. This symposium is an opportunity for teachers, administrators, Ministry representatives, community members, […]
A “Rogue” Curriculum: Trans-Atlantic, Creole Pedagogies and Historical Imagination
Dr. Petra Hendry | Louisiana State University Friday, April 22 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scarfe Room 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract The project articulated in this paper takes up the work of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau to envision history as a spatialized practice of ethical engagement with alterity. Specifically, I explore three […]
Dangerous indeed: A response to Wayne Ross’ ‘Courage of hopelessness’
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 […]
Third Annual EDCP Graduate Student (EGS) Conference
Dear Education graduate students and faculty, On behalf of the EGS Conference Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to the third annual EDCP Graduate Student (EGS) Conference, which will be held on Friday, March 4th, 2016 from 2:00 – 6:00 PM in Scarfe building Room 1130. The conference is FREE, and light refreshments […]
A Symposium in Celebration of the Career of Peter Seixas
Coming of Age: Life/Time/History A celebration of Peter Seixas’ career, in anticipation of his retirement 9:00-3:15, March 12, 2016 Peter Wall Institute, UBC “Coming of Age: Life/Time/History” alludes to an intersection between life course and history, an intersection that can be interpreted in many ways. The title challenges speakers to examine people’s lives, including their […]
When the Phallus Appears: The Politics of Comedy in Jean Genet’s The Balcony
Dr. James Penney | Trent University February 12, 2016 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract To capture in a nutshell what Jean Genet’s varied lifework is about, one might suggest that it attempts to understand the complex interplay between images, both “real” and poetic, and the everyday […]
Cultivating Learning Network Research Opportunity Info Session for Grad Students and Professors
When: Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 3:00-4:30pm Where: Scarfe 310 Looking for a research opportunity that is meaningful and relevant to our community? The Cultivating Learning Network (CLN) is looking for new researchers! Come to this information session to learn about the CLN and the opportunities for getting involved with or developing new research with our […]
The Lyric Subject of Psychoanalysis and Autobiographical Curriculum Inquiry
Dr. Brian Casemore | George Washington University January 29, 2016 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 1107 View the Seminar Poster Abstract This presentation explores a concept of lyric subjectivity rooted in psychoanalysis and relevant for autobiographical curriculum inquiry. In this context, the presenter shares an account of the the conceptualization and development of […]
The Courage of Hopelessness: Democratic Education in the Age of Empire
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) […]
Jo-ann Archibald to lead 601 seminar on TRC’s Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
For Wednesday’s EDCP 601 meeting (25 November), Associate Dean for Indigenous Education, Jo-ann Archibald, will join us to lead a seminar on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada‘s summary Report, Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future. How do we respond to the Call to Action for Education for Reconciliation? The question for us […]
Folk Phenomenology and the Offering of Teaching
Dr. Sam Rocha | Assistant Professor, EDST December 11, 2015 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract This talk will proceed in three parts. It will begin with some passages from Rocha’s recent book, Folk Phenomenology: Education, Study, and the Human Person (Pickwick, 2015). This reading should begin […]
The Curriculum of Character: Poetic Ruminations on Growing Old
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” […]
EDCP Graduate Student Halloween Party
Thursday, October 29, 2015 THE DEN (SCARFE 6A) 5:30pm – Pumpkin carving 7:30pm – Halloween themed movie Details: Come to our family friendly EDCP grad student event (kids are welcome). Experience authentic North American traditions of carving pumpkins, eating candy and watching Halloween movies. **Come for all or just part of the event **Candy and […]
Book Launch: Reconceptualizing Physical Education through curricular and pedagogical innovations
Date: October 16, 2015 Time: 4:30 – 6:00 pm Venue: Scarfe Room 2414 – Staff Lounge The UBC Faculty of Education is pleased to invite you to a reception celebrating the second publication by Physical Education Master’s degree cohort. Reconceptualizing Physical Education through curricular and pedagogical innovations Featuring: -Short presentations by authors -Paperback books available […]
Family Math & Science Day 2015
Presented by the UBC Faculty of Education and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Science and Math Educators and students from the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Education Program and the larger Faculty of Education community at UBC invite guests from 2 to 102 years old to help us celebrate science and math teaching […]
When Scriptures Hurt: Teaching Violent Sacred Texts
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 […]
Workshop by EDCP Peer Advisors
What does it feel like to be a grad student? Workshop by EDCP Peer Advisors Feeling stressed? Feeling alone? Feeling like there is too much to read? Feeling like you don’t belong in grad school? Don’t worry, you’re not alone! In this workshop, your fellow graduate students will share and discuss some of their most […]
“I Love the Terror in A Mother’s Heart”: Stepping Out of the Fray as a Radical Pedagogical Act
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 […]
EDCP Dr. Katharine Borgen Welcome Back Barbecue 2015
You are invited to the annual EDCP Welcome Back Barbecue on Thursday, September 17th, 2015 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Venue is the garden at the west entrance of the Scarfe Building. For catering purposes, please RSVP to nhi.dang@ubc.ca by September 4th, 2015 and note whether you would like the meat or vegetarian option. This […]
Tactful Inclusion: Towards a Pedagogical Understanding
Thomas Andreasen, Visiting Scholar, University of Southern Denmark Date: May 19, 2015 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm Venue: Scarfe room 1209 Event Organizer: Centre for the Study of Teacher Education Abstract: The purpose of this research is to investigate how inclusion as a politically motivated idea intervenes in teachers’ everyday practice. In Denmark the political […]
Reclaiming the School as Pedagogic Form
Dr. Jan Masschelein, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Date: May 12, 2015 Time: 12:00 – 2:00 pm Venue: Scarfe room 1214 Event Organizer: Institute for Critical Education Studies Abstract: In my contribution I will use the word ‘school’ to refer to a specific pedagogic form i.e. a concrete way (including architecture, practices, technologies, pedagogical figures) to gather […]
“Somebody’s Got to Tell It Like It Is”: Conjugating James Baldwin and Curriculum
Dr. Warren Crichlow, York University April 10, 2015 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 1107 View the Seminar Poster This seminar is part of the EDCP 2014-2015 Seminar Series “International Perspectives in Curriculum and Pedagogy” hosted by William E. Doll Jr., Donna Trueit and William Pinar. Abstract Throughout 2014-2015, to celebrate what would […]
Interactions in the Classroom: Tensions Between Understanding and Difficulties in Learning Mathematics
Dr. Lucie De Blois | Visiting Professor, Laval University March 4, 2015 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster No Recording permission Abstract Our research on interpretation of pupil’s cognitive activities in mathematics (DeBlois, 2003; 2014) and on teacher sensibility towards pupil’s errors (DeBlois, 2006, 2009) showed the emergence […]
5th Aboriginal Math K-12 Symposium
The 5th Aboriginal Math K-12 Symposium will take place on Friday, Feb 27, 2015.
A Tangle of Trouble: Boys, Men and Masculinities
Dr. Blye Frank, Dean | Faculty of Education, UBC March 13, 2015 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster This seminar is part of the EDCP 2014-2015 Seminar Series “International Perspectives in Curriculum and Pedagogy” hosted by William E. Doll Jr., Donna Trueit and William Pinar. Abstract This talk […]
2nd Annual EDCP Graduate Student (EGS) Conference
We are pleased to invite you to the second annual EDCP Graduate Student (EGS) Conference, which will be held on Friday March 20, 2015 in the Scarfe building.
The CACS 7th Biennial Provoking Curriculum Studies Conference
EDCP is excited to announce it will be hosting The CACS 7th Biennial Provoking Curriculum Studies Conference, on February 20 and 21, 2015 on the UBC campus.
Bildung, Curriculum and the task of Remembrance
Dr. Norman Friesen | Visiting Professor, Boise State University February 13, 2015 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. (PST) | Scarfe 1107 View the Seminar Poster This seminar is part of the EDCP 2014-2015 Seminar Series “International Perspectives in Curriculum and Pedagogy” hosted by William E. Doll Jr., Donna Trueit and William Pinar. Abstract: Franz Kafka opens his […]
The Power of Negative Thinking in and for Teacher Education
Dr. Anne Phelan, EDCP, UBC January 9, 2015 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster This seminar is part of the 2014-2015 EDCP seminar series “International Perspectives in Curriculum and Pedagogy” hosted by William E. Doll Jr., Donna Trueit and William Pinar. Abstract: In an anxious world increasingly perceived in terms […]
The Meaning of Curriculum is a Complicated Conversation: The Purpose of Curriculum is to Render a Complicated World View
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 […]
EDCP End of Term Winter Solstice Potluck
Please RSVP to Nhi Dang at nhi.dang@ubc.ca by November 26, 2014.
Research Stories: A Graduate Forum
How We Learn Media and Technology (across the lifespan),
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy,
UBC,
funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The Medicalized Paradigm of Contemporary Empirical Research and Its Effects on Education Policy & School Reform
Dr. Daniel Tröhler | University of Luxembourg October 30th, 2014 | 4:00-5:30 pm | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: This paper argues that educational research today is subjected to a medicalized paradigm of social reality. It reconstructs, how the catchwords of this paradigm (evidence-based, monitoring, intervention studies) arouse and how they translated into […]
2014 Math and Science Day at UBC Faculty of Education
The 4th Mathematics and Science Family Day will take place on Saturday, November 1st during the UBC Celebrate Learning Week.
Art, Education and Human Rights in Africa’s Last Colony
Fernando Perez-Martin | Visiting Scholar from University of Granada, Spain Octover 9th, 2014 | 1:00-2:00 pm | Scarfe 1211 View the Seminar Poster No recording permission Abstract: This presentation will shed light on the forgotten conflict of the Western Sahara, the present situation at the Sahrawi Refugee Camps and in the Occupied Territories. It will […]
Colours in Refuge: A Curriculum Story
Dr. Karen Meyer | EDCP, UBC November 14, 2014 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. (PST) | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: Meyer’s bricolage of poetry, narratives and postscripts sketches a story of place and education. In Dadaab Refugee Camp in Northeastern Kenya, the heart of education relies on promises of school and a living persistence […]
Intercultural Wisdom & Questions of Loss, Ethics, Hope
Dr. Claudia Eppert | University of Alberta October 17th | 12:30-2:00pm | Scarfe room 1107 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: What are the complexities of hope? What it might mean to remember the future in the context of contemporary environmental loss and trauma? With reference to intercultural wisdom and East-West contemplative studies, holocaust and trauma studies, and […]
Welcome Back Barbecue 2014
You are invited to the annual EDCP Welcome Back Barbecue on Thursday, September 18th, 2014 from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m.
Invitation to EDCP Graduate Student Orientation
Welcome to a new academic year in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy! We would like to invite you to the EDCP Graduate Student Orientation on Friday, September 5, 2014, 4-7pm in Scarfe 310. At the Orientation you will have an opportunity to meet faculty members and students, to gather information about academic and practical […]
Curriculum Studies in India
Dr. William Pinar | Professor and Canada Research Chair September 12th, 2014 | 12:30-2:00pm | Scarfe room 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: To study the state of curriculum studies in India, Pinar worked with five scholars there asking about the intellectual life history and present circumstances of the field in India. Three members of […]
Digital Ethnography as a New Trend of Ethnographic Studies in Education in Brazil
Dr. Carmen de Mattos | Associate Professor Department of Applied Studies in Education State University of Rio de Janeiro July 30th, 2014 | 12:30-2:00pm | Scarfe 1107 View the Seminar Poster No recording permission Abstract: Digital Technology and Ethnographic Research are subjects that reflect the demands of education in the postmodern age.Research agencies, researchers, teachers […]
Towards a Research-based Pedagogy
Dr. Hua Zhang | Professor & Dean Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education; Foundations of Education Graduate School of Education Studies Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Province, China August 5, 2014 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. (PST) Short Bio: Zhang Hua, professor and dean in Graduate School of Educational Studies at Hangzhou Normal University; former president of International Association for […]
Looking Into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an Institutional Orientation for Graduate Education
Dr. Bryan Brayboy | Professor School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education Arizona State University Tempe, USA July 8, 2014 | 12:00-1:30 | Scare 310 View the Seminar Poster Short Bio: Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy is a citizen of the Lumbee Nation. He is President’s Professor, Borderlands Professor of Indigenous Education and Justice, and Director […]
Presentation by Michelle Tan, special hire candidate
Exploring teachers’ conceptions and experiences of curriculum and professional development: Implications for policy making Dr. Michelle Tan Research Fellow, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Date: May 13, 2014 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm Venue: Scarfe room 1107 Abstract: This presentation focuses on research studies I have undertaken over the last two years, […]
Some Questions Concerning Ethics
Dr. William E. Doll, Jr. | Visiting Professor at UBC, Emeritus Professor at Louisiana State University April 11th, 2014 | 12:30-2:00pm | Scarfe 1107 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: The literature on Ethics is vast, well beyond the bounds of this paper, or my skills as a curriculum/complexity theorist. My focus then in this talk will […]
The First Annual EDCP Graduate Student Conference
Research Presentations, Art Installations, Roundtables, Workshops, Posters. Free admission including special farm to fork catering from Agora Cafe. Please RSVP by March 15, 2014.
UBC Physics Olympics 2014
Date: Saturday March 8, 2014 Time: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Venue: Department of Physics and Astronomy The UBC Physics Olympics is organized jointly by the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver […]
Hannah Arendt’s Political Ethics and the Question of Totalitarianism
Dr. Hanah Spector | Pennsylvania State University March 14th, 2014 | 12:30-2:00pm | Scarfe 1107 View the Seminar Poster No recording permission Abstract: This paper considers the ways in which Hannah Arendt’s writings on totalitarianism acts as a warning sign for current political and miseducational circumstances in the United States. Because the term totalitarianism has […]
Aboriginal Math Symposium March 7th 2014
The 4th Aboriginal Math K-12 Symposium is an opportunity for teachers, administrators, Ministry representatives, community members, and academics to connect, explore, imagine and share new ideas, resources and research on Aboriginal mathematics education from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
Curriculum Reform in China: Historic Legacy, Current Debate, and Future Directions
The ongoing curriculum reform in China was formally initiated in 2001, echoing the requirements of knowledge-based economy and the intrinsic calling of educational democracy …
Research Presentation by Dr. Kerry Renwick
Research Presentation by Home Economics Education Search Candidate Title: “21st Century Home Economics: critical Southern thinking” Speaker: Dr. Kerry Renwick, Victoria University, Australia Date: Tue, January 28, 2014 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 am Venue: Scarfe room 1107
Research Presenation by Dr. Jacqui Gingras
Research Presentation by Home Economics Education Search Candidate Title: “Encounters with Alterity in Health Profession Education” Speaker: Dr. Jacqui Gingras, Ryerson University Date: Fri, January 24, 2014 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 am Venue: Scarfe room 1107
Research Presentation by Dr. Roula Hawa
Research Presentation by Home Economics Education Search Candidate Title:“Clearing Space for Multiple Voices: HIV Vulnerability amongst South Asian Immigrant Women in the Greater Toronto Area” Speaker: Dr. Roula Hawa, Queen’s University Date: Tue, January 21, 2014 Time: 10:30 – 12:00 noon Venue: Scarfe room 1107
Socially Responsible Approaches to Global Education Initiatives – First, Do No Harm
Dr. Shafik Dharamsi | UBC Faculty of Medicine January 10th, 2013 | 12-2pm | Scarfe 1107 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: Participation in global education and international engagement initiatives can provide students the opportunity to foster a sense of global citizenship, develop global fluency, and a sense of social responsibility to respond to global inequalities. […]
End of Term Winter Solstice Party
You’re invited to the EDCP End of Term Winter Solstice Party! Please RSVP to Kalie Fong at kalie.fong@ubc.ca by November 29, 2013.
Nonviolent Engagements with Difference: Transforming Relational Dynamics in Education
Dr. Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University October 4th | 12:00-2:00 p.m. (PST) | Scarfe 1214 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: Based upon a life history, qualitative study of Chinese professors’ and American professors’ mutual engagement with the counterpart thought, culture, and education, this presentation discusses the central thread of nonviolence and portrays important elements of […]
Historizing Pedagogy
Gert Biesta | University of Luxembourg Jan 10th, 2012 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster The six part Theorizing Pedagogy Seminar Series will explore ‘pedagogy’ as it has been understood historically and as it is lived presently within educational institutions and beyond. Drawing on the thought of curriculum thinkers, indigenous scholars, educational philosophers […]
Disciplining Pedagogies: A Conversation
Dr. Scott Goble, Dr. Samia Khan, & Dr. Donal O’Donoghue | EDCP February 14, 2013 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster No recording permission The six part Theorizing Pedagogy Seminar Series will explore ‘pedagogy’ as it has been understood historically and as it is lived presently within educational institutions and beyond. Drawing on […]
Thoughts on Indigenous Pedagogies
Dr. Bryan Brayboy | Arizona State University March 14, 2013 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scare 310 View the Seminar Poster The six part Theorizing Pedagogy Seminar Series will explore ‘pedagogy’ as it has been understood historically and as it is lived presently within educational institutions and beyond. Drawing on the thought of curriculum thinkers, indigenous scholars, educational […]
The Pedagogical Folds of NIAL-A-PEND-DE-QUACY-IN
Dr. Taylor Webb | Department of Educational Studies, UBC Dr. Lisa Loutzenheiser | Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, UBC April 11, 2013 | 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster No recording permission The six part Theorizing Pedagogy Seminar Series will explore ‘pedagogy’ as it has been understood historically and as it is […]
Curriculum Studies in China
Dr. William Pinar | Professor and Canada Research Chair September 13th, 2013 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: After briefly discussing the lecture series title, Pinar will discuss his study of curriculum studies in China, involving interviews as well online discussions among the scholar-participants in China and an International Panel […]
Epistemological Pluralism in Higher Education: Ethical and Epistemological Challenges
Dr. Cash Ahenakew | University of British ColumbiaDr. Vanessa Andreotti | University of Oulu (Finland) Nov 8th | 12:00-2:00 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster Abstract: In this seminar, we explore potential joys, difficulties and paradoxes of introducing epistemological pluralism as a viable curriculum strategy to connect with ways of knowing that have […]
Welcome Back Barbecue
You are cordially invited to a Welcome Back Barbecue on Thursday, October 17th, 2013 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
The Worldliness of Jane Addams’ Cosmopolitan Education
Dr. William Pinar | Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Education, UBC January 13, 2010 | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Green College, UBC View the Seminar Poster No recording permission Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI) COSMO/POLITICS NOTED SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES CO-SPONSORED BY: College for Interdisciplinary Studies (CFIS), Critical Studies in Sexuality,Department of Curriculum […]
Promoting Active and Healthy Lifestyle through the Constructivist Approach: A Hong Kong Experience
Dr. Amy Ha (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Co-hosted by KIN and EDCP December 12, 2012 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scare 1214 View the Seminar Poster No recording available Abstract: This presentation based on research conducted on school children and teacher development in Hong Kong, discusses the local Physical Education curriculum reform in order to […]
Launching the 2012-2013 Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy Seminar Series: Theorizing Pedagogy
Drs. L. Farr Darling, K. Meyer and J. Butler November 14, 2012 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scare 310 View the Seminar Poster No recording available Abstract: This seminar series will explore ‘pedagogy’ as it has been understood historically and as it is lived presently within educational institutions and beyond. Drawing on the thought of curriculum […]
Tracing Lines of Flights: Flows and Intensities of Children Drawing
Dr. Christine Marmé Thompson | School of Visual Arts, The Pennsylvania State University October 29, 2012 | 4:30 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster No recording available Abstract: For young children, drawing is a performance: the marks they make are accompanied by gestures, sound effects, narratives, and movements that attract the attention of […]
Reform of Physical Education in China
Dr. Xiaozan Wang | East China Normal University September 27, 2012 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scare 2125 View the Seminar Poster No recording available Abstract: Dr. Wang’s areas of specialization include Physical Education Curriculum and Teaching Reform; Evaluation of Learning in Physical Education; Physical Education Teacher Education; Physique Monitoring and Management of Adolescents; Motor skill […]
Student teachers’ practical knowledge: how to approach the study of mentoring conversations
Dr. Juan-José Mena Marcos | University of Salamanca May 17th, 2012 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster No Recording Permission Abstract: In the last two decades mentoring has been advocated as a genuine way to foster pre-service teachers’ development since it allows them to practice teaching under the supervision of their […]
Science Student Teachers’ Struggles with and Learning about ClassroomAction Research during Their Field Experiences
Dr. Chatree Faikhamta | Faculty of Education, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand April 4th, 2012 | 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Scarfe 310 View the Seminar Poster No Recording Permission Abstract: A key element in teacher education programs, action research is a learning process in which pre-service teachers inquire, reflect on and improve their teaching practices. This qualitative […]
Pinar Seminar Series | Curricula in their Historical Context:Curriculum Studies in Canada
September 23 | William Pinar: “Disciplinarity and the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies” (Scarfe 310) Abstract: The seminars in Canadian curriculum history, politics, and theory are created to showcase the latest work of Dr. William Pinar as a world-renowned scholar in our midst, together with visiting lectures given by leading curriculum scholars in the Canadian context. […]