March 1, 2022
Congratulations to Kshamta Hunter, Dr. Ryuko Kubota and Dr. Ryan Deschambault
Please join the Faculty of Education in extending congratulations to recipients of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) awards for the 2022–23 funding cycle.
Doctoral candidate Kshamta Hunter and her team will receive funding for their proposal, Embedding Climate Education in Teacher Education Courses through a Novel Framework of Climate Kind Pedagogy. This project will develop a “Climate Kind Pedagogy framework for the Teacher Education Program.”
The University TLEF review committee said of this project, “[it] is timely and focused on an important topic…. Focus[ing] on climate and eco-justice by taking a decolonized lens to embrace Indigenous perspectives of Respect, Reciprocity, Relatedness, Relevance, and Responsibility…. This project directly achieves the transformative learning objectives in the UBC Strategic Plan.”
Ms. Hunter is Manager of Sustainability Student Engagement with the UBC Sustainability Initiative. She is joined by a team of co-applicants including Drs. Sandra Scott, Douglas Adler and Oksana Bartosh, Faculty of Education; Sarah Martz, Faculty of Education and Tsleil-Waututh Nation School; Dr. Bob Woolard, Faculty of Medicine; and Amanda Unruh, UBC Wellness Centre.
Dr. Ryuko Kubota and Dr. Ryan Deschambault’s project, entitled Learning about Global Englishes: Educational Video Project, has received a second year of funding. The project will produce five to seven videos that aim to “invite learners to recognize the existence of the global diversity of English, their historical, economic, and ideological underpinnings, and the biases attached to non-standardized Englishes and racialized speakers.”
The TLEF review committee noted that, “even as the challenges of COVID-19 required considerable pivots [the outputs achieved] are… significant…. [the proposal] provides clear rationale, methodology, and objectives consistent with both the TLEF’s mandate and in recognition of the equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts at the University.”
