Celebrate Food and Fitness: In-roads to Equity and Diversity
Team Members
Karin Wiebe
Yukie Ueda
Prapti Mallhi
Project Summary
The IDEA Module for Foods and Fitness uses an appreciative inquiry approach and backwards design methods in an asynchronous Canvas learning module focused on diversity and equity in foods and fitness for international university students. This unique concept has been created from the perspectives of international and local students and highlights intercultural awareness through an exploration of eating and exercise as elements of successful academic and campus life.
Barriers and Facilitators to UBC Sexual and Gender Minority Students
Team Members
Benjamin Hives
Naomi Maldonado-Rodriguez
Project Summary
The project will examine sexual and gender minority (e.g., lesbian, gay, queer, bi, transgender, non-binary, two-spirited) university students’ perceptions of, and experiences with, physical activity. The project team will conduct focus groups with 20 sexual and gender minority students. Through these focus groups, patterns will be identified within the students’ stories to illuminate the role of their intersecting identities in shaping their previous experiences with, and current preferences for, physical activity. The results of this project will inform the creation of recommendations for how to create and promote inclusive physical activity programming for, by, and with sexual and gender minority students.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in Schools—Taking a Cultural Lens
Team Members
Alex Gist
Sylvia King
Project Summary
SEL in Schools—Taking a Cultural Lens is a two-part webinar series. As one way to address the impacts of systemic racism and discrimination on the mental health and academic outcomes of their students, pre-service and practicing educators will be given the opportunity to reflect and build upon their understanding of social and emotional learning (SEL) by considering how to integrate SEL with culturally sustaining teaching practices (part 1) and Indigenous knowledges and perspectives (part 2). Recordings of the webinars are available at: keltymentalhealth.ca/school-professionals/supporting-social-emotional-learning-schools-and-classrooms.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization Speaker Series
Team Members
Leor Elizur
Alejandra Botia
Project Summary
The Counselling Psychology Social Justice Committee created a survey to understand students’ experiences of social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion within the department, and to identify areas of improvement for the committee to address. Many students expressed a desire to learn about social justice in more depth than many courses currently offer, and noted that a speaker series would provide an opportunity to do this. In response, the Counselling Psychology Social Justice Committee will be hosting a speaker series, including topics such as:
Indigenous ways of knowing and sharing,
Statistical representation of identity demographics,
Inclusive practices when working with clients of diverse gender identities,
Counselling with refugee populations,
The history of psychology and the impact of colonialism on current psychological perspectives and practices,
The evolution of social justice work in counselling,
Advocacy practices,
Knowledge dissemination and translation of social justice research,
White racism
The speaker series will be open to attendance by any Faculty of Education students who are interested in learning about a topic, and can benefit all Faculty of Education students by introducing them to ideas they may have not had an opportunity to learn about in a classroom setting.
Our Next Act: Theatre, Research, and Social Justice
Team Members
Christina Cook
Janice Valdez
Simangele Mabena
Project Summary
Our Next Act: Theatre, Research, and Social Justice is a podcast series showcasing conversations between graduate students exploring Research-based Theatre (RbT), and professional theatre artists specializing in creating theatre with diverse communities. The episodes allow for conversations about creating RbT projects which are accessible, equitable and actively engage in social justice practices. This podcast series will serve as an arts-based methodological resource for advancing awareness and understanding of EDID matters in thesis and dissertation projects that use RbT. Matching funding for this project is provided by the UBC Research-based Theatre Lab.
This project creates space for Bachelor of Education teacher candidates to consider the complexities of EDID initiatives—in particular, Indigenous Education in BC and SOGI 123—and how our positionalities impact the ways we incorporate them into our teaching practice. It involves three components: (1) a self-reflective reading and writing phase, focused around selected readings; (2) a writing workshop, and (3) the publication of an edited zine, consisting of writing by Bachelor of Education students to be shared with the wider teaching community.
Inspired by the concept of the Human Library, this event will offer a space for learning exchanges around experiences of race and racism in pedagogical contexts. In the event, teachers from different backgrounds will narrate their story to a small group of interested “readers.” Like visiting a library collection, participants will move between the “books” allowing each teacher’s story to function as a stimulus for personal reflection and group discussion. The target audience is Faculty of Education students interested in the practice of antiracist pedagogy.
Faculty, instructors, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and staff are invited to a reception to celebrate scholarly achievements and a return to in-person events in the Faculty of Education. Refreshments, including one free drink ticket, will be provided.
The Faculty of Education invites guests and attendees to review and adhere to UBC Campus Rules.
Date
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Time
3:00 to 5:00 pm PDT
Location
Ponderosa Ballroom
Hosts
Dr. Jan Hare, Dean pro tem
Dr. Patricia (Patsy) Duff, Associate Dean, Research
Submit your published book
If you have published a book in the past two years that you would like celebrated at the event, please submit your book.
Congratulations to Dr. Amy Parent, who will serve as a member of the Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research. As such, Dr. Parent and her colleagues will advise presidents of Canada’s three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada—and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Dr. Parent is Nisga’a from the Nass Valley of Northwestern British Columbia on her mother’s side of the family. Her Nisga’a name is Noxs Ts’aawit (Mother of the Raven Warrior Chief) and she belongs to the Ganada (frog) clan from the village of Laxgalts’ap. Dr. Parent is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, a member of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Canada Working Group on Indigenous Land Based Education and a board member of the Access to Media Education Society.
The Canada Research Coordinating Committee, which advances federal research priorities as well as the policies and programs of Canada’s research funding agencies and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, established the Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research to advise on the implementation of the interagency strategic plan,Setting new directions to support Indigenous research and training in Canada 2019–2022.
Members of the Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research will monitor the progress of the strategic plan, identifying issues and opportunities and recommending approaches to support the successful implementation of the plan.
An external, expert committee of Indigenous scholars and community members selected Dr. Parent to serve on the Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research, which includes members from universities and scholarly institutes across Canada.
Thank you for joining us at the 2022 Spring Graduation Reception!
We hope you enjoyed the event. Click here to access the photos, and read more about the graduation!
Event Description
The Faculty of Education invites you to attend a reception in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre immediately following your graduation on Thursday, May 26, 2022.
The event will include light fare, coffee, and a chance to celebrate alongside friends, family, and fellow graduates.
The Faculty of Education invites guests and attendees to review and adhere to UBC Campus Rules.
