Each year the popular UBC Family Math and Science Day, organized by the UBC Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy and Faculty of Education, marks an exciting campus event. This year, due to our current COVID pandemic conditions, our day became a virtual event. The first Virtual Family Math Fair was held February 20, 2021 facilitated […]
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UBC Physics Olympics has been a major outreach collaboration between the UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy and UBC Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy aimed at engaging secondary science students for more than four decades. This year the event was completely virtual and it was labeled 41 ½ UBC Physics Olympics. It took place on […]
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The Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy hosted the 16th Canadian Symposium – Home Economics on February 27– 28, 2021. The Canadian Symposium on Home Economics Education has been held biennially since 1991 in various locations across Canada. This was the 30 year anniversary. Attended by over 70 delegates the Canadian Symposium on Home Economics […]
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Congratulations to Dr Rita L. Irwin, Principal Investigator and Nicole Y.S. Lee, Editor and Curator on the publication of the Mapping A/r/tography: Exhibition Catalogue, InSEA 2019 World Congress The Mapping A/r/tography Exhibition was held at The University of British Columbia during the InSEA 2019 World Congress. This exhibition featured ongoing artistic, pedagogical, and scholarly works […]
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Home Economics | Family Studies | Human Ecology | Family & Consumer Science Education: Issues & Directions Virtual Symposium | February 27-28, 2021 The Canadian Symposium on Home Economics Education will celebrate its 30 year anniversary on 2021. It continues to grow in its representation of Canadian home economists as well as increasingly drawing […]
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This year, the UBC Music Education Teacher Candidates of TIME cohort – Teacher Initiative for Music Educators (TIME) created a virtual ensemble (covid theme). Combining all their unique musical prowesses to create a covid edition performance of songs to celebrate their B. Ed. year in teacher education at UBC. Despite the challenges of not being […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Dónal O’Donoghue, Senior Editor of Studies in Art Education, on the publication of four issues of the journal in 2020. First published in 1959, Studies in Art Education is the leading research journal in the field of art education in North America and beyond. Studies in Art Educationpublishes research about art making, criticism, aesthetics, cultures, philosophies, histories, […]
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A Summer Institute that was organized around an elementary course titled “Advanced Physical Education” (EDCP 420) feature a poster presentation, invited guest speakers, Dr. Stephen Berg, University of British Columbia – Okanagan (UBC-O); Lise Gillies, Indigenous Sport, Physical Activity & Recreation Council (I·SPARC; Alexandra Inglis, After-School Sports and Arts Itinerant Teacher, SD 73 (Kamloops-Thompson); Dr. […]
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