During September 13 – 16, 2018, I represented UBC Faculty of Education (and Canada) at the Fifth Beijing Science Festival. It is hard to describe the scale of the event. It is about 800 times bigger than our UBC Family Math and Science Day and hundreds of companies, educational institutions and governmental agencies take part in it. It took place at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. They have about 250,000-300,000 visitors during the four days of the Festival. Every country was invited to have one booth of science activities to inspire young people. The booth of science experiments I brought was very popular […]
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We held our 40th UBC Physics Olympics on Saturday, March 10, 2018. It was an extraordinary event. We had 6 very successful heats that the students were very excited about. We also had a record number of teams and students: 73 teams and 721 students. We had teams from all over BC and we had teams with more than 30 students. Our volunteers were also very engaged and I was very happy to have some of them from our Department – Latika, Angela and Liman. In addition, I organized a professional development event for teachers that was attended by 35 teachers! We […]
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The Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy will be hosting the Celebration of the Life and Works of the late Professor William Doll who passed away on December 27, 2017. Professor Doll was an adjunct professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy where he mentored faculty and graduate students in scholarly pursuits. Though missed, his work and generous support to the Department, Faculty and University will forever be remembered. Samson Nashon Department Head & Professor of Science Education
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The Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya has been in existence since 1991, with many original refugees still in residence 26 years later. The camp in Dadaab hosts close to half a million refugees escaping violence in neighbouring Somalia and other African countries. The UBC–Moi University Secondary Teacher Education Program in Dadaab, Kenya launched in August 2014 is a humanitarian effort to improve and support quality teaching in Dadaab Refugee Camp schools. The aim of the project is to raise teaching standards at the camp, enhance the lives of young students, and offer opportunities for students and their family’s future. UBC […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Anne Phelan & Dr. Bill Pinar on a very successful two-day symposium in October 2017 entitled Reconceptualizing Teacher Education Worldwide: A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge. The symposium was supported by a SSHRC Connections Grant. Over 60 invited participants included representatives from the Ministry of Education, the British Columbia Teachers Federation, teacher education programs across British Columbia (e.g. University of Victoria, University of the Fraser Valley) as well as UBC faculty and graduate students. Presenters from the Universities of British Columbia, Manitoba and Ottawa as well as Simon Fraser, Queens, McGill, and Bishops University focused on three key themes: academic erudition | […]
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UBC Faculty of Education held our now famous annual event dedicated to hands-on mathematics and science: Seventh UBC Faculty of Education Mathematics and Science Day. We are very grateful for the continuous support of our event. We are also supported by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematics Sciences who realize that children’s interest in mathematics and science starts at home and should be nurtured from the very early age. This year, more than 500 people took part in our event. We had more than 400 guests, more than 100 different mathematics and science stations and more than 140 volunteers. We see a steady […]
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On Saturday, June 17, 2017, EDCP Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paula MacDowell successfully hosted an extremely innovative UBC Girls’ Makeathon. This equity-oriented event was designed to foster maker and coding mindsets in high school girls by engaging them with diverse media & technologies, materials, mentorship, and hands-on design experiences. Teams were challenged to make an app related to an issue that teen girls face in local or global communities throughout the world. Participants learned how to identify a problem, create new solutions, and code for changing the world for the better. The teams communicated their ideas and apps by pitching to a panel of experts. Nine apps […]
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Co-editors Penney Clark (EDCP) and Mona Gleason (EDST) announce the publication of the Spring 2017 issue of Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation. This issue was guest-edited by Dr. Thomas Peace, an Assistant Professor at Huron University College in London, Ontario and Dr. Alison Norman, who works for the Ontario Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation in Toronto, Ontario. In the wake of the findings of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the five emerging scholars who contributed to this issue presented fresh perspectives on the history of schooling for Indigenous children. As historian Jean Barman put it in her introduction […]
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