Doctoral students’ successes
Colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to inform you that Mindy Carter, who completed her doctoral degree on May 25, 2012, has been awarded “Honourable mention the 2013 Outstanding Dissertation Award competition” of the Arts Based Education Research SIG of the AERA. She will be presented with this award at the annual AERA meeting in San Francisco in April. Also, please congratulate Natalie LeBlanc who has been awarded the Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2012-2013. She will be presented with this award at the May 14 Faculty meeting in the Aquatic Ecosystem Research Building, room 120, starting at […]
Recent Successes
Colleagues, Recently, in January, EDCP had two successes that have gone unacknowledged. First, on January 8, 2013, Marina Milner-Bolotin was awarded a certificate of recognition for her stellar contributions to the American Association of Physics Teachers. Congratulations Marina! Second, Alayne Armstrong successfully defended her PhD dissertation on January 16, 2013. Hearty congratulations, Alayne, on this milestone achievement! Best, Peter Peter Grimmett Professor and Head, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy
Recognition of Dr. William Pinar and Dr. William Doll
Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that I inform you of an important recognition ceremony that is to take place at Louisiana State University in May, 2013. The work of Bill Pinar and Bill Doll will be honored on May 9 with a symposium on the Internationalization of Curriculum. The next day, May 10, there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony to name the current conference room “The William Pinar and William Doll Curriculum Theory Project Conference Room.” In addition, the ceremony will also include the transfer of the personal papers of Bill Doll and Bill Pinar to the Louisiana State University […]
Liu Scholar: Blake Smith
Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating Blake Smith, a doctoral student in Art Education under the supervision of Donal O’Donoghue, who has recently been accepted as a Liu Scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues here at UBC. She is the first art education student to join the Liu Scholar program. The Liu Scholar program is “a new and unique program to bring together exceptional PhD students from across UBC to facilitate issue-based research on global issues and strengthen global networks.” The Liu Institute currently supports three main areas of research: sustainability, security, and social justice with a “particular interest in emerging issues that affect large groups […]
Congratulations to Penney Clark and Stephen Petrina
Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating Penney Clark and Stephen Petrina who (with Mona Gleason of EDST) have been awarded the 2012 Founders’ Prize by the Canadian History of Education Association. Their award winning article, Clark, P., Gleason, M., & Petrina, S. (2012) “Preschools for science: The Child Study Centre at the University of British Columbia, 1960-1997,” can be found in the History of Education Quarterly, 52 (1), 29-61. The development of the Child Study Centre (CSC) at UBC provides a unique perspective on the complex and often contradictory relationship between child study and preschool education in postwar Canada. In this article, we detail […]
Don Krug named a university sustainability fellow
Please join me in congratulating Don Krug who has been named a university sustainability fellow in the UBC UniversitySustainability Institute’s Teaching & Learning Fellowship Program. This represents an important university-wide recognition of the contribution that Don and his EDCP colleagues are making to environmental sustainability at UBC. Hearty congratulations Don! Peter Grimmett Professor and Head, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy