Our Food is Our Medicine: Traditional plant food, traditional ecological knowledge and health in a changing environment PRESENTED BY | 15th Canadian Symposium on Home Economics/Family Studies Education Dr. Nancy Turner | Emeritus Professor, University of Victoria Febuary 22, 2019 The University of British Columbia, AMS Student Nest, Nest 3500, 6133 University Blvd Open to […]
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Congratulations to Marina Milner-Bolotin, Cynthia Nicol and everyone involved in the successful 8th Math & Science Family Day on Saturday, November 3rd. 400 guests and 130 volunteers attended. The large turn out on a rainy day is a demonstration of how popular this Family Math and Science Day has become. Thank you all for making […]
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Co-editors Penney Clark (EDCP) and Mona Gleason (EDST) announce the publication of the Fall 2018 issue of Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation. Table of Contents Front Matter Articles Canadian Schools, the League of Nations, and the Teaching of History, 1920–1939 Ken Osborne “Some Reckoning of Gains Is Made”: Theories of Assessment in Alberta’s […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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