Seminar

Dr. Esther Ohito | Rutgers University, USA Friday, March 25, 2022 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm (PST) | via Zoom Faculty Host: Dr. Harper Keenan View the Seminar Poster No Recording Permission Abstract Scholarship on antiracist pedagogy has proliferated the white world of U.S. teacher education; however, studies scrutinizing this phenomenon from the perspective of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dr. Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin | Ruppin Academic Center, Israel (Visiting Scholar, Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy) Friday, September 20, 2019 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 1209 Host | Dr. M. Milner-Bolotin View the Seminar Poster No Recording Permission Abstract Israel is a multicultural society that has experienced waves of Jewish immigration since its foundation […]

Awneet Sivia, Vandy Britton, Sheryl MacMath, Janet Carroll | University of the Fraser Valley Friday, April 26, 2019 12:30 – 2:00 pm Scarfe 1214 * Light refreshments will be served at 12:00 pm. * Lecture will commence at 12:30 p.m. Host: Dr. P. Grimmett Abstract In the current climate of K-12 educational reform and innovation, […]

Dianne Turner | formerly Superintendent of the Delta School district, Chief Educator for the province of British Columbia, Official Trustee and Special Advisor of the VSB educational leadership consultant Friday, February 22, 2019 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 1214 Host | Dr. P. Grimmett View the Seminar Poster Abstract This presentation will share […]

Dr. Ruth Sandwell | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Tuesday, January 15, 2019 | Scarfe Room 310 | 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Host | Dr. Penney Clark View the Seminar Poster Abstract As twenty-first century Canadians contemplate their upcoming energy transition away from fossil fuels, this talk will explore the massive […]

Mr. Mitchell McLarnon, Ms. Layal Shuman, Dr. Pauline Sameshima, Dr. Kathryn Ricketts, and Dr. Sean Wiebe Friday, November 30, 2018 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | Scarfe 1130 Faculty Host: Dr. Rita Irwin View the Seminar Poster Abstract The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) focus on creativity and innovation for driving economic advancement and diversification exerts […]

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. Mark Selkrig, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Australia Dr. Ron “Kim” Keamy, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia Friday, April 6, 2018 12:30 – 2:00 pm Scarfe 310 Abstract Universities rely upon the collaborative work of academic staff and students, yet the nature of this work has been undergoing profound and rapid change. Neoliberal ways […]

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. 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 […]

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. 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 […]

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 […]

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. 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. 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]