Youth, Culture, and Identity: Challenging Stereotypes and Transforming Education

Everyone welcome!

Monday, March 5th 2007 from 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
UBC Robson Square, Foyer and Room 300 (Theatre downstairs)

As part of UBC's Celebrate Research festivities, the Faculty of Education will host a multi-part research festival that will challenge prevalent stereotypes related to youth subcultures, development, and identities. The festival will include:

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Discuss your questions with our internationally renowed faculty members who will be displaying their research as follows:

Dr Jo-ann Archibald	Transforming Education and Well-Being through Aboriginal Knowledge Systems
Dr Mary Bryson	Precarious Play: Queer Virtualities and the Politics of Mis/Recognition
Dr Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien	Performing Global Citizenship: Youth Participation at World Conferences
Dr Don Krug	Media Matters: Living and Learning with Digital Technologies
Dr Lynn Miller	The Aboriginal “FRIENDS” Project – Expanding the FRIENDS for Life Program into Aboriginal Communities
Dr Theresa Rogers	Where is the love? Multimedia production as a critical literacy practice supporting the identities and cultural expressions of youth
Dr Kim Schonert-Reichl and Dr. Denise Buote	Is It Better To Have Loved and Lost Than Never to Have Loved At All? A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of Early Adolescents’ Natural Mentoring Relationships in School
Dr Jennifer Shapka	Developmental Change and Technology: Research findings from the DCTech Lab
Dr Maureen Kendrick	Ugandan Secondary School Girls’ Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS Knowledge
Dr Steven Talmy	Linguicism as resource: Transforming language prejudice and stereotypes in ESL
Dr Laurie Ford and Martin Gunn	Translating school readiness research into community actions and policy planning: The Early Development Instrument Project

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Moderated by Associate Professor Don Krug, there will be three panel presentations given by the following faculty members followed by an interactive dialogue with the audience:

Reading, ‘Riting, ‘Rithmetic and Relationships: The Social Foundation of Academic Learning
Dr. Shelley Hymel
Professor and Head, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Special Education

Girls Reinventing Girlhood: Geeks, Sk8ers, Online Gender Benders
Dr. Deirdre Kelly
Professor, Department of Educational Studies

Youth and Adults: Challenging and Creating Media Together
Dr. Michelle Stack
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies

9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m
An opportunity to circulate with panelists and other researchers taking part in the research fair.