Explore what you are passionate about while weaving in your own knowledge and interests throughout your courses. Our MA is for those who wish to develop their expertise as researchers in addition to furthering their knowledge through offered coursework. Our students work with their supervisors to plan a program that meets their interests and goals by choosing from a variety of courses. In a MA, students are required to carry out and defend an independent research project (thesis).
Master of Education (MEd)
Explore what you are passionate about while weaving in your own knowledge and interests throughout your courses. In this program, students will gain valuable inquiry skills while fostering personal and professional development throughout their coursework.
Students will work with their supervisors to plan a program that meets their interests and goals by choosing from a variety of courses. Students can pursue their MEd through coursework-only or choose to showcase their understanding by completing a final project known as a Capstone Project.
This program is typically completed on a part-time basis over two to three academic years, including summer sessions.
Connecting Online Safely | March 27, 2023
When youths want to turn socializing into screen time, parents often become concerned about online hazards — and all of this is understandable. We’re addressing these issues in our Online Safety and Digital Wellness series. Part one, “Preventing online harm,” looks at how to curb social media abuse and misuse. In this second part, three experts will help us explore this subject further. From the internet’s impact on development to fear of missing out (FOMO), join us for this webinar to learn how youths can cope with and develop healthier approaches to social media, cyberbullying, and more.
Host
Dean pro tem, Faculty of Education
Jan Hare is an Anishinaabe scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation, located in northern Ontario. As an Indigenous scholar and educator, she has sought to transform education in ways that are more inclusive of Indigenous ways of knowing and languages. She is researching the improvement of educational outcomes for Aboriginal/Indigenous learners by centering Indigenous knowledge systems within educational reform from early childhood education to post-secondary. This work recognizes the holistic and multidisciplinary nature of Indigenous education.
Moderator
UBC Bachelor of Kinesiology student in Neuromechanics and Physiological Sciences, minor in Commerce
In his fourth year, Ahmed Masood is majoring in Neuromechanical and Physiological Sciences in the School of Kinesiology at UBC, with a minor in Commerce. He is hoping to later enter the Faculty of Medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he did community work at Surrey Memorial Hospital. He is currently pursuing research in spinal cord injury at the iCORD Lab, and volunteers in exercise rehabilitation with seniors. He serves as President of the Order of Omega, and has previously held positions of student governance, campus ambassadorship, and safety management at various organizations at UBC.
Speakers
Head, Department of Educational Counselling and Psychology (ECPS)
Dr. Johanna Sam is a proud citizen of Tŝilhqot’in Nation. She currently lives and works on the traditional lands of the Musqueam People. She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at UBC. Realizing the importance of a strength-based approach, she is involved in creating youth-friendly educational and mental health resources. Her research explores the relationships among cyber-aggression, resiliency, academic achievement, and wellness. Her research and teaching not only utilizes digital technology, but also approaches those digital tools from Indigenous perspectives.
Doctoral candidate, Department of Educational Counselling and Psychology (ECPS), Faculty of Education, Faculty of Education
Natasha Parent is a doctoral candidate in Human Development, Learning, and Culture at UBC. She investigates factors that influence human development and well-being in the modern world. Her current work focuses on adolescents and critically examines how their socio-technological contexts impact their healthy development and everyday lives, including how things like fear of missing out (FOMO) and habitual smartphone use impact the wellbeing of youths. She is well-published in this area, and is regularly invited to present on youth and technology.
Sessional lecturer, NITEP, Indigenous Teacher Education Program, Department of Educational Counselling and Psychology (ECPS)
Dr. Johanna Sam is a proud citizen of Tŝilhqot’in Nation. She currently lives and works on the traditional lands of the Musqueam People. She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at UBC. Realizing the importance of a strength-based approach, she is involved in creating youth-friendly educational and mental health resources. Her research explores the relationships among cyber-aggression, resiliency, academic achievement, and wellness. Her research and teaching not only utilizes digital technology, but also approaches those digital tools from Indigenous perspectives.
Date
Monday, March 27, 2023
Time
6:00 – 7:30 PM PT
Location
Online
Free Online Anti-racism Awareness Course
March 20, 2023
On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we highlight this free online course on anti-racism awareness developed by Dr. Bathseba Opini, UBC Education Associate Professor, Teaching, and her team.
This course is one of several initiatives the Faculty has developed to promote anti-racism education in response to the UBC President’s Task Force Report on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence (ARIE) report recommendations which emphasized the need for sustained anti-racism training and education. The report can be downloaded from the UBC anti-racism website.
The course was developed to support teacher educators and members of the Faculty. The curriculum content is suitable for K-12 and post-secondary students, and it is also relevant for broad audiences and a good introduction for new learners of Canadian histories. The UBC-issued certificate of completion is extremely attractive for those seeking professional development opportunities.
— Dr. Lynne Tomlinson, course facilitator and Assistant Dean, Professional Development and Community Engagement
The course will systemically cover and uncover implicit and explicit forms of historic, systemic, and institutional racisms and their colonial and intersectional impacts on marginalized peoples and their communities in the past and in contemporary times. Learners from across disciplines, professions, organizations and communities will be challenged to think critically about racism and to move from denial to awareness, action and dismantling institutional and systemic racism so as to create lasting change.
Course Info
Course Title: Historical, Systemic and Intersectional Anti-racism: From Awareness to Action
Format: Online
Cost: Free (with optional $50 certificate)
Length: 7 modules
Schedule: Asynchronous and self-paced
Key Themes
Community Update | March 2023
March 2023 | Published once each term
Message from Dr. Jan Hare, Dean pro tem
Aanii—Greetings!
Spring is nearly upon us. It is a time of renewal, growth and rejuvenation, especially now with the longer days of light. I hope you are all taking care of yourselves and those within your circles—students, staff, faculty, instructors, and also family and community members.
It’s also time for our annual alumni award submissions. The Alumni Educator of the Year Award recognizes extraordinary Faculty of Education alumni. And, new this year, The Reconciliation and Decolonization Alumni Award, which recognizes Indigenous and non-Indigenous alumni reconciliation or decolonizing education. I encourage you to nominate a deserving UBC Education alum from among our active and diverse alumni community by March 31 for these two awards.
I am also thrilled to share with you that three members of our Faculty received notable awards.
Dr. Verna Billy-Minnabarriet, Senior Advisor to the Dean on Indigenous Education, was honoured with the Great Trekker Awardat the UBC Alma Mater Society Awards Gala last month for her work in advancing Indigenous education and empowering Indigenous peoples through community-based education and economic development. In her acceptance of this award, Dr. Billy-Minnabarriet spoke about the significance of Indigenous leadership in the Faculty and at UBC for transforming the institution, acknowledging Dr. Verna Kirkness and Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald as mentoring her in to her own leadership.
Dr. Anusha Kassan—associate professor with the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education—was presented with a Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal at a ceremony in Calgary in January. The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) nominated Dr. Kassan for this prestigious award for her dedication and service to immigration research and education.
And Kinesiology Professor Dr. Tania Lam and her team received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant for their research project, 0The PELvUS Study – Pelvic floor Exercise to Lessen Urinary incontinence and Sexual dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury. The study explores how to prescribe pelvic floor muscle exercises to support people with spinal cord injury and aims to understand what effect this type of training could have on bladder and sexual health.
In my Moment With The Dean communications, I have invited you to connect with me to share your thoughts and feedback on education matters. I look forward to your continued contributions and sharing ideas. Please also feel welcome to forward this Community Update to colleagues who may be interested.
Miigwech—thank you!
Read the Faculty of Education’s announcement on Dr. Hare’s extension as Dean pro tem.
Watch Dr. Jan Hare in Episode 1 of Worldviews in Education, an online video series by the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.
Engaging All Learners in the Secondary Years: Interactive Webinar Series, Part 3 – Disciplinary Literacy | April 3, 2023
Join the Edith Lando Virtual Learning Centre and partners for a shared conversation about literacy learning in the secondary years. The session includes a blend of current thinking, examples from practice and time to process and personalize ideas. See how reading, writing and thinking grow from oral language. The final session of this three-part webinar series is on April 3 and will focus on disciplinary literacy with special guests Heather Brown, Tammy Renyard and Vicki Roberts.
Monday, April 3, 2023 | 3:30pm – 5:00pm PT | Learn more and register
Inclusive Makerspace Conference | May 24 and 25, 2023
The maker movement, including creating physical or digital items using no-tech, low-tech and high-tech tools, is a recent phenomenon in education and corporations. Many educators and industry leaders do not know how to effectively infuse, implement, identify and design curriculum content through Makerspace structures, particularly while ensuring the space and content are culturally relevant, responsive and inclusive. As part of its twentieth anniversary celebration, The Master of Educational Technology (MET) program is hosting an Inclusive Makerspace Conference on the UBC Vancouver campus. If you’re a maker, expert, academic, student, or an industrial actor in education at any level and in any setting, we invite you to submit a proposal. | Learn more and register
Pre-Conference Celebration | Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 3:00pm – 6:00pm PT
Main Conference | Wednesday, May 24 and Thursday, May 25, 2023 | 9:00am – 4:00pm PT
Doctor of Education – Kelowna Blended Cohort
A new graduate degree offered on the Okanagan campus will allow educators and leaders an opportunity to advance their careers while staying in their local community. The Doctor of Education program, offered by the Okanagan School of Education, is a three-year program is designed to address timely, ever-changing and relevant issues in education. The majority of the coursework will be delivered online with opportunities for students to come to campus for summer intensive sessions. The program will begin accepting applications later this year and the first cohort will start in July 2024. More
Rural and Remote Teacher-Candidates share their experiences
The first ever cohort in the UBC Rural and Remote Teacher Education (RRED) program share their experiences as future certified teachers aiming to serve rural and remote communities. The RRED program provides an innovative solution to a longstanding teacher shortage in BC through a flexible and accessible online and in-person hybrid structure. The 2022–2024 cohort is now one quarter through their studies, and teacher candidates continue to observe how critical this program is to meeting their educational needs and the needs of their communities. More
Peer Mentorship in the Bachelor of Education Program
Helping our students find success in the Bachelor of Education (BEd) program is a community effort in the Faculty of Education. Peer mentors, under the supervision of Learning Design Manager Yvonne Dawydiak, work with teacher candidates in all UBC teacher education program options (in person and remote), to help the students set and meet their goals with planning for practicum in K-12 schools in the Lower Mainland and in rural communities throughout the province. More
LLED Antiracist Caucus
The Language & Literacy Education (LLED) Antiracist Caucus has met monthly since November 2019 to collectively learn about antiracism and intersectional justice. Each month students and faculty discuss a new topic. This year, the role of faculty facilitator has rotated monthly with two graduate student leaders actively supporting activities. Since October, the group has discussed systemic racism as seen in sport, UBC’s Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force (ARIE-TF) Final Report, and racism in and through A.I. and other digital tools.
2020–2022 Research Report
The Faculty of Education just released its 2020–2022 Research Report. Learn about our research centres, scholarly awards and grants, chairs and professorships, and the work of select researchers from across our Faculty. The report focuses on strategic research priorities, community engagement, and contributions to knowledge and social justice in relation to four broad themes of Indigenous community-based research, education as a social good, social and physical sustainability, and digital innovations in education and health. Read the report
Dr. Chris Martin Receives Outstanding Book Prize
Dr. Chris Martin has received the Outstanding Book Prize for The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory from the North American Associate for Philosophy and Education / Theory and Research in Education. The prize honours excellent scholarship at the intersection of philosophy and education. As the recipient of the prize, Dr. Martin will have the contributions to his author-meets-critics session published as a book symposium in Theory and Research in Education. More
Citizenship Survey Launched by Dr. Catherine Broom
Dr. Catherine Broom, Okanagan School of Education, has launched a survey inviting all Canadians to share their views on Canadian citizenship, identity and citizenship education. She is hoping to gather Canadians’ views, hopes and beliefs about what kind of society they would like Canada to become. More
Graduate Student Conference in Language and Literacy Education: Creating Access for All | April 28 and 29, 2023
The LLED Graduate Student Conference is a biannual student-led academic conference that celebrates and showcases the diversity of research in language, literacy and education while strengthening our collaborative links with other UBC departments and local institutions. Keynote speakers include Dr. Angel Lin, Dr. Suhanthie Motha and Dr. Christopher Hammerly. Attendance at the conference is free and everyone is welcome. Learn more and register
Early Childhood Education Presentation Series
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Wellbeing of Early Educators in British Columbia
Presenters: Dr. Laurie Ford, Fatemeh Arian, Abby Delmacio, Ashleigh Janus, Teija Yli-Renko
This presentation series focuses on health and wellness in early childhood education. Join fellow practitioners, researchers, and graduate students to explore a myriad of topics through these free, online sessions.
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | 3:00pm – 4:00pm PT | Registration now closed.
Okanagan School of Education: Summer Institute
The Okanagan School of Education located in Kelowna, BC has posted their upcoming Summer Institute in Education courses. The Institute offers excellent learning opportunities for those seeking professional development or are pursuing a certificate, diploma or master’s degree. Courses are offered online, hybrid and in-person. This year, topics include digital literacy, food and environmental sustainability, healing the roots of trauma and building resilience, and using Indigenous assessment practices in the STEAM setting. More
Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization (EDID) Cohort in Secondary Education
In September 2022, the Faculty of Education in collaboration with the Richmond School District launched an Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Decolonization (EDID) cohort for secondary education students in the 2022/23 Bachelor of Education program. The cohort is made up of 22 teacher candidates from different curricular areas that focus on approaching pedagogy, planning and learning with an EDID lens. The cohort includes a unique demographic mix of students, including members of the IBPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ communities and year-four students in the Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP). More
Indigenous youth: Nurturing the next generation | March 30, 2023
Community can be a cornerstone of identity and social connections can provide individuals with a sense of belonging, support, and guidance. That guidance may be influential, or even crucial, in making life decisions. These experiences, connections, and relationships can motivate community members to ensure the future growth, health, and success of the next generation. Attend this webinar to hear from three Indigenous speakers who mentor Indigenous youth to share knowledge in their communities and beyond, and to help youth strengthen connections to their culture —and to each other.
Moderator
Angela Sterritt, BA’09 – Host, CBC’s Land Back Podcast
Speakers
Dr. Andrea Reid (she/her) — Assistant Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Principal Investigator, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, UBC
Dave Robinson, BEd’18 (Elementary) — PhD candidate, Experimental Medicine, UBC Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Amber Shilling, BA’06, PhD’20 (she/her/hers) — Sessional Instructor, UBC Faculty of Education
Moderator Biography
Angela Sterritt
Award-winning investigative journalist Angela Sterritt is host of Land Back, a six-part CBC British Columbia original podcast that uncovers land theft in Canada and looks at how Indigenous people are taking it back. As a multi-platform reporter, host, and producer of more than a decade, Sterritt is known for her impactful journalism on the tensions between Indigenous people and institutions in Canada. Sterritt’s work has received many accolades including a Canadian Screen Award for Best Local Reporter of the Year in Canada for her coverage of an Indigenous man and his then-12-year-old granddaughter who were arrested while trying to open a bank account at BMO. In 2017, Sterritt accepted the Investigative Award of the Year from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression for coverage of missing and murdered Indigenous women. In 2020, Sterritt was named in Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 list of the city’s most influential people. Sterritt is also an educator, having taught journalism at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, and Western University’s Master of Media in Journalism and Communication program. She is the author of Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls.In 2015, Sterritt was awarded a Southam Fellowship at Massey College/University of Toronto. Before becoming a journalist, Sterritt graduated with a political science degree at UBC. Sterritt is Gitxsan, a member of the Gitanmaax First Nation in northwestern British Columbia, on her paternal side. Her mother was from Newfoundland with Irish and English ancestry. She is the proud mother of a son.
Speaker Biographies
Andrea Reid
Dr. Andrea Reid is a citizen of the Nisga’a Nation, a descendant of the Gisk’aast (Killerwhale) clan, with her paternal family coming from Gingolx. She was raised, however, on Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island) by her mother and brothers, and now lives in the Nass River Valley, home of her Nation, in Gitlaxt’aamiks. As an Indigenous fisheries scientist, Dr. Reid joined the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at UBC in 2021. She has launched and now leads the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries, committed to research and teaching approaches that are intergenerational, land-based, and profoundly relational.
Dave Robinson
Dave Robinson is an Algonquin artist from the Timiskaming First Nation. Robinson is a UBC NITEP (UBC’s Indigenous Teacher Education Program) graduate, a certified teacher, and a UBC Experimental Medicine PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Darren Warburton. Currently he works as an Indigenous Enhancement teacher for the Vancouver School Board (VSB). In 2021, he mentored students in an Indigenous-directed studies course at Britannia Secondary School in Vancouver, as part of the VSB’s Treasure Boxes Project. The enrolled students earn high school credits towards social studies, math, and science by learning carving practices on sculptured logs. Robinson’s sculpture style can be understood by the way he considers time, space, and ways in which the sculpture form is created. Although Robinson’s contemporary sculptures bring to mind visionary sculptors Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore, and traditional First Nations carvers, Robinson’s work is not fashioned directly after their works. However, Robinson’s sculptures share a way of exemplifying the simple forms that reflect archetypal representations of their subject matter.
Dr. Amber Shilling
Dr. Amber Shilling is Anishinaabekwe from Mnjikaning First Nation. She completed her PhD at UBC, in which she explored how urban Indigenous youth utilize technology to engage with culture, language, and identity. Her research demonstrates that youth are incredibly skilled, knowledgeable of risks in the digital age, and are enthusiastic contributors to the development of cultural resources. Dr. Shilling is highly skilled in the areas of Indigenizing, decolonizing, and grappling with the complexities of truth and reconciling.
Date
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Time
12:00 – 1:15 PM PT
Location
Online
Roundtable on Climate, Sustainability, and Education | April 25, 2023
Event Description
Addressing the climate emergency is a strategic priority for the Faculty of Education at UBC. Research, teaching, scholarship and community engagement on a range of areas that concern climate and sustainability is occurring across the Faculty. To better understand the work in this area undertaken by faculty colleagues, to create vibrant networks, and to explore issues and questions concerning future directions for work in these areas, Education faculty are invited to participate in the Faculty of Education Roundtable on Climate, Sustainability and Education.
The event will include guest speakers, as well an opportunity for participants to break into thematic roundtables for discussion. Lunch will be provided.
Possible discussion topics include:
- – climate justice
- – environmental education, health, and wellbeing
- – sustainable and equitable futures
- – place-based education
- – climate and migration
- – related interdisciplinary topics
- – implications for policy, research, community engagement, curriculum and instruction, action
Date
April 25, 2023
Time
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Location
C.K. Choi Building/Institute for Asian Research
1855 West Mall
RSVP
DaeYoung Goh receives the 2022 Curriculum Journal Editors’ Choice Award from the British Educational Research Association
March 16, 2023
We are delighted to share that PhD candidate Daeyoung Goh from UBC Faculty of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy has received a 2022 Curriculum Journal Editors’ Choice Award from the British Educational Research Association (BERA).
The British Educational Research Association is the leading authority on educational research in the UK, supporting and representing the community of scholars, practitioners and everyone engaged in and with educational research both nationally and internationally.
The annual Curriculum Journal Editors’ Choice Award, which recognizes the best paper published in the journal in 2022, was awarded to Daeyoung Goh for his paper Rethinking textbooks as active social agents in interpretivist research.
The paper challenges traditional approaches of analyzing textbooks as context-bound media for teaching and learning. The paper explores experiential interpretivist methodologies that may allow researchers to see the textbooks’ interactive performance and impacts on others and researchers themselves, opening up new possibilities for researchers to look at textbooks in a participatory way rather than as detached observers.
It is a paper which sheds new or different light on how textbooks may be viewed in curriculum research, namely “as interactive subjects in the social world rather than simply as content carriers”; it further exemplifies, through two interpretivist research methodologies (symbolic interactionism and autoethnography), how “rethinking textbooks as active social agents in human life instead of repositories of information and ideologies” opens up possibilities of researching them, including how textbooks themselves may shape research. — Curriculum Journal editorial team
To learn more about the full list of nominations, visit the BERA’s 2022 Editors’ Choice Awards page.
AERA Reception | April 15, 2023
Dr. Jan Hare, Dean pro tem, is pleased to host the annual UBC Faculty of Education Reception for faculty, graduate students, alumni and friends at the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2023 Conference. If you are interested in attending, please fill out the form below. We look forward to seeing you there!
When
Saturday, April 15, 2023 | 6:30 – 8:00 pm CDT
Where
Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park – 2nd floor – Ambassador Room
Registration
Questions? Please contact Michael Murphy, Associate Director, Alumni Engagement at education.alumni@ubc.ca.
Doctor of Education (EdD) – Kelowna Blended Cohort
The Doctor of Education (EdD) is designed to inform, empower, and engage current and aspiring leaders. You will have the opportunity to create meaningful changes in your local community as you apply newly learned knowledges, contextualize practical insights, and analyze and address problems of practice in your local contexts. The flexible delivery format allows you to stay in your community and continue working full-time. The majority of the coursework will be delivered online with opportunities to come to campus for summer intensive sessions.
Interdisciplinary cohorts of 15 to 20 doctoral students will journey together, alongside their supervisors and instructors to foster life-long professional networks and invest in scholar-practitioner communities world-wide.
Through your Practice-Based Dissertation, you will have the opportunity to carry out an independent research project inquiring into a problem of practice in your professional context.
