Faculty Spotlight: Michelle Tan
Michelle Tan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Her teaching and research interests include Science Education, outdoor learning, curriculum reforms, and collaborative teacher inquiry. Particularly, Michelle is interested in examining ways teachers could theorize about their own practices within institutional and reform-based settings, where Science Education, outdoor learning and other […]
Faculty Spotlight: Kerry Renwick
Kerry Renwick is an Assistant Professor for Home Economics in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Her teaching experience includes home economics, food technology and health education in Australian secondary schools. Her research interests include health promotion and critical pedagogy. Kerry has undertaken leadership in teacher professional associations including roles as Editor of journals, Treasurer […]
Faculty Spotlight: Penney Clark
Penney Clark is Chair of Social Studies Education, Director of the SSHRC-funded knowledge mobilization project, The History Education Network (www.thenhier.ca) and Co-Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Historical Studies in Education. Her awards include the Faculty of Education Killam Teaching Prize (2006), The BC Social Studies Teachers’ Innovator of the Year Award (2008), and the Education […]
Faculty Spotlight: Peter Seixas
Peter Seixas’ research examines how people—both children and adults—develop and revise their understandings of the past, how history is used for guiding and justifying decisions made in the present, and how individuals and groups both commemorate past heroism and come to terms with historical injustice. Investigation of these and related questions contributes to the theorization […]
Faculty Spotlight: E. Wayne Ross
Professor E. Wayne Ross is interested in the role of curriculum and teaching in building a democratic society in the face of antidemocratic impulses of greed, individualism, and intolerance.
Faculty Spotlight: William Pinar
Bill Pinar is the editor of the International Handbook of Curriculum Research, published by Routledge this year; his (edited) Curriculum Studies in China is now in press (Palgrave Macmillan), and he is near completion of Curriculum Studies in India.
Faculty Spotlight: Anthony Clarke
One of Dr. Anthony Clarke’s current interests involves exploring the nature and substance of Teacher Inquiry across a range of educational contexts. In exploring these contexts he is interested in both the process and product of Teacher Inquiry. Further, he is curious about the ways in which Teacher Inquiry can be supported and facilitated and, […]
Faculty Spotlight: Marina Milner-Bolotin
Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin is a science and mathematics educator who studies how technology can be used to engage and inspire students. She has been teaching physics and mathematics at K-12 and undergraduate levels in Canada and internationally for more than 20 years. She co-authored a number of research papers and teaching materials, including an undergraduate […]
Faculty Spotlight: David Anderson
Dr. David Anderson is a Professor in the fields of Museum Education and Science Education, and is the Director of the Master of Museum Education (MMEd) degree program at UBC.
Faculty Spotlight: Patricia O’Riley
Pat’s scholarship focuses on the regeneration of traditional eco-technological knowings in BC and Peru, as well as the advancement of ecojustice literacy education.
Faculty Spotlight: Peter Cole
Peter’s Indigenous heritage includes St’at’imc and Celtic. His scholarship centres on Indigenizing the academy, research, narrativity, ecoliteracy, ecotechnology, methodology and orality.
Faculty Spotlight: Marina Milner-Bolotin
Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin is a science educator with many years of international mathematics and physics teaching experience at secondary and post-secondary levels.
Faculty Spotlight: Anne Phelan
Anne Phelan is a Professor of teacher education and curriculum studies. Her interests centre on teachers’ subjectivities as historically shaped, socially located, and politically positioned yet productive of original thought and action.
Faculty Spotlight: Joy Butler
Joy Butler is a teacher educator who is recognized as a leading exponent of Teaching Games for Understanding – a constructivist approach to games education. In her spare time she enjoys kayaking and hiking with her partner, Claire Robson, and their two dogs, Bella and Cricket.
Faculty Spotlight: Linda Farr Darling
When Linda Farr Darling isn’t researching or teaching about rural places as the Eleanor Rix Professor of Rural Teacher Education, she is traveling to them. See the projects and studies supported by the Professorship at www.ruralteachers.com.
Faculty Spotlight: Sandra Scott
Sandra Scott, her husband Doug, and their dog Mac, travel to Point Roberts Washington for weekly beach walks. Sandra shares her unique finds, which include skate egg-cases, shark jaws, even a Pacific Giant octopus beak, with her science education students.
Faculty Spotlight: Scott Goble
Dr. Scott Goble has re-conceptualized the role of music education in schools.
Faculty Spotlight: Samson Nashon
Dr. Samson Nashon researches ways of teaching and learning science focusing on understanding the nature of science curriculum and instruction, science learners, and meta-level mechanisms of science learning including metacognition.
Faculty Spotlight: Kit Grauer
Kit Grauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Her lifetime of dedication to the research and practice of art education earned her recognition as the 2008 Canadian Art Educator of the Year. More about Dr. Kit Grauer
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Harry Hubball
Dr. Hubball developed the blended/on-line International Faculty SoTL Leadership Program: UBC Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education. Since 1998, over 400 faculty graduates from this program.
Faculty Spotlight: Peter Grimmett
Here is Peter Grimmett with three of his four children, David (far left), Abigail (centre right) and Deborah (far right), after they had just played two games of beach soccer at Spanish Banks on a wet weekend in August 2010.
Faculty Spotlight: Sandrine Han
Hsiao-Cheng (Sandrine) Han is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. In her research she combines the fields of technology, visual culture, visual communication, semiotics, education, and cognitive psychology. Her research focuses on the visual culture in the virtual world of Second Life.
Faculty Spotlight: Harry Hubball
In 1999, Dr. Hubball developed & has since coached the INTER UBC Futsal Soccer Academy Program. Action research approaches to team & player development have contributed to 2 Masters World Cup trophies, & invited exhibition games for a Futsal team vs Chelsea FC & Aston Villa FC. He is Co-Chair of the Masters/Veterans 5v5/Futsal World […]
Faculty Spotlight: Susan Gerofsky
Susan Gerofsky brings a background in mathematics, linguistics and the arts to her research in mathematics education, using genre and gesture analysis. In between times, she’ll be playing music, bicycling, and/or dancing. More about Dr. Susan Gerofsky
Faculty Spotlight: Tracy Friedel
Tracy L. Friedel is an Assistant Professor working in the area of Indigenous education and place-based learning pedagogy. Her research interests include Indigenous peoples’ perspectives on outdoor recreation. More about Dr. Tracy Friedel.