Retirement Celebration | June 20, 2022

Event Description

Faculty, instructors, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and staff are invited to a gathering to celebrate the careers of the Faculty of Education professors retiring this year:

Dr. Marlene Asselin (LLED)

Dr. Wendy Carr (LLED) (in absentia)

Dr. Jennifer Chan (EDST) (in absentia)

Dr. Serge Lacroix (ECPS) (in absentia)

Dr. Bill McKee (ECPS)

Dr. Ling Shi (LLED)

The Faculty of Education invites guests and attendees to review and adhere to UBC Campus Rules.

Date

Monday, June 20, 2022

Time

3:30 to 5:30 pm PDT

Location

Ponderosa Ballroom

Host

Dr. Jan Hare, Dean pro tem

Event registration

Questions

For questions or concerns, please contact info.educ@ubc.ca.

Panel Presentation: Elevate & Mobilize EDI Research Grants in Education (EMERGE) Projects | June 8, 2022

By Ayla Collins

Event Description

Join researchers from the Faculty of Education at UBC in a Zoom discussion about their ongoing projects funded through the 2022 Elevate & Mobilize EDI Research Grants in Education (EMERGE) program.

The EMERGE program provides groups opportunities to engage in knowledge mobilization and exchange between Indigenous and racialized scholars, educators and community members. Join us for a lively discussion about EMERGE projects on topics ranging from developing environmental education resources for youth, strengthening literacy at home for grade school children, and developing strategies for understanding and reducing cyber-aggression among Indigenous youth.

Participants are welcome to attend for any portion of the event.

Host

Dr. Patsy Duff, Associate Dean, Research

Discussant

Dr. Reg D’Silva, Associate Dean, Equity & Strategic Programs

Presenters

Dr. Jessica Chan: Fostering Literacy at Home: Knowledge Mobilization Beyond the Classroom

Dr. Sandrine Han: AsianCrit in Canadian Context

Dr. Surita Jhangiani: Alternative Grading Practices

Dr. Anusha Kassan: A Virtual Symposium and Book Launch for “Diversity and Social Justice in Counselling, Psychology, and Psychotherapy: A Case Study Approach

Dr. Shannon Leddy: Knowledge Sharing Sessions for Revising the Ministry of Education Environmental Learning and Experience Framework

Dr. Bathseba Opini: Mentoring Teacher Candidates in Anti-ableist and Antiracist Education: A CFE Pilot Project

Dr. Amy Parent: Intergenerational Learning Circle on Indigenous Graphic Novels & Decolonial Graduate Knowledge Mobilization Projects

Dr. Johanna Sam: Online Warriors Sharing Circles

Dr. Hongxia Shan: Diversity Work as Organizational Learning: Dissemination and Assessment of an Organizational Model

Date

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Time

1:00 to 2:30 pm PDT

Location

The Zoom link will be provided to registrants closer to the event date.

Registration

Questions

Contact educ.ore@ubc.ca.

Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites and colleagues awarded the insignia of Knight in the Order of Academic Palms

By Paula Sabti

May 9, 2022

Insignia of Knight in the Order of Academic Palms

In conjunction with the Consulate General of France in Vancouver, UBC Faculty of Education, UBC Faculty of Arts and UBC Extended Learning hosted a ceremony on May 5, 2022 to honour three educators, founders of the Centre de la Francophonie de UBC, for their services to French language and culture.

Mr. Nicolas Baudouin, Consul General of France in Vancouver, bestowed the insignia of Knight in the Order of Academic Palms (des insignes de Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques), one of the oldest civil honours bestowed by the French Republic, on:

Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites
Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC
Dr. André Lamontagne
Emeritus Professor in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, and first Director of the Centre de la francophonie de UBC
Dr. Judith Plessis
Executive Director Emerita, Extended Learning (formerly Continuing Studies), UBC

Knights

Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites teaches second language methodology in the Teacher Education program and courses in second language assessment, research methods and reading foundations at the graduate level. She developed a French Master of Education cohort program at UBC which continues to attract French as an additional language teachers. Most of her research interests are related French immersion, including second language acquisition, learning content in a second language, grammar teaching and learning, assessment and language assessment, literacy, intercultural competence, and learning disabilities. Most recently, she has been the project lead for writing the Theoretical Language Framework for the Canadian Language Benchmarks, a language evaluation tool for Canadian immigrants. She served on the Centre for the Canadian Language Benchmarks board from 2018 to 2021.

Dr. André Lamontagne joined UBC in 1989 after completing a doctoral thesis on the poetics of intertextuality in the works of Hubert Aquin and Jorge Luis Borges. He has published on Quebecois literature, postmodern fiction, and literary theory. As a creative writer, he is the author of a collection of short stories and of two novels. He is the cofounder of a francophone publishing house in British Columbia, les Éditions de l’Épaulard. He was Head of the Department of Francophone, Hispanic and Italian Studies and the first Director of the Centre de la francophonie de UBC. He was also involved in community outreach as vice-president of the Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique and a founding member of the Société historique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique.

Dr. Judith Plessis devoted her forty-year career to continuing education, including many years as Executive Director UBC Continuing Studies, one of the largest continuing education units in Canada. While teaching and coordinating conversational French courses at UBC’s Centre for Continuing Education during the 1980s, Judith developed distance education French courses for the BC Open Learning Agency. During the 1990s, Judith developed a dynamic, multicultural vision for adult language learners as Director of the UBC Languages, Cultures and Travels division. While working at Extended Learning (formerly Continuing Studies), she advocated for the important role of continuing education in fostering civil society.

Ceremony

Equity in Faculty Hiring

By Paula Sabti

Details about the current guidelines, practices, and policies in faculty hiring—in which equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization (EDID) are embedded—can be found in the Faculty Hiring Guidelines.

Updates and significant projects related to addressing EDID in faculty hiring include:

From September-December 2022, Dr. Reginald D’Silva and Hann Scurlock prepared a Literature Review on Constructing Inclusive Job Advertisements, as a resource and to apply to the Faculty Hiring Guidelines. This project was partially funded by the UBC Equity Enhancement Fund.
From January-September 2022, Dr. Reginald D’Silva, Dr. Lesley Andres, Anna Bin, Michael Wilkinson, and Julia Burnham saw through the project “Equity in Faculty Hiring: Evaluation of a Two-year Hiring Pilot Initiative”. This project was partially funded by the UBC Equity Enhancement Fund. The project sought to evaluate the two-year pilot initiative launched by the Faculty to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the Faculty’s hiring practices. The project culminated in a Final Report and an accompanying Literature Review and Equity in Faculty Hiring.
From 2019-2021, the Faculty of Education held a two-year pilot project for EDI in faculty hiring. This initiative brought the following changes to the faculty hiring process, including:

Diversity statements and the completion of the mandatory Equity Employment Survey from all applicants
Rationales on EDI for key steps in the search process: proposals for new positions and job advertisements, search committee membership, recommendations for the shortlist, and the final recommendation for hiring
Resources and support to search committees on assessing applicants’ contributions to EDI

Call for Proposals for Faculty of Education Student EDID Funding Grants

By Paula Sabti

A Call for Proposals for Faculty of Education Student Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) funding grants for the 2021-22 academic year was sent Faculty-wide on November 25, 2021 with a deadline of December 22, 2021. These project grants are an outcome of the Final Report for the Task Force on Race, Indigeneity, and Social Justice. Details on the Call for Proposals can be found in this document.

Task Force on Race, Indigeneity and Social Justice’s Final Report

By Paula Sabti

The Faculty of Education’s Task Force on Race, Indigeneity and Social Justice Final Report presents 12 clusters of themed recommendations that, when enacted, will advance the dismantling of racist and oppressive structures and practices. The report identifies barriers that prevent or discourage the realization of equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization for Indigenous and racialized people, as well as for people from other equity-deserving groups. Learn more.

Orientation for Summer Instructors | May 12, 2022

By Paula Sabti

Event Description

In anticipation of the start of the Summer 2022 academic session, the office of the Associate Dean, Academic and Innovation, invites all Faculty of Education instructors to attend a free, online instructor orientation during which presenters will speak on:

student well-being and creating inclusive, student-focused syllabi
equity, inclusion and accessibility
grading practices and trends at UBC
promotion of academic integrity and approaches to suspected misconduct
Canvas and instructional support available through Educational Technology Service

There will be time at the end of the session for questions and discussion.

Instructors who are supervising Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are invited to share this event with their GTAs, who are most welcome.

All attendees will be entered in a draw for two gift cards.

Date

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Time

2:30 to 4:30 pm PDT

Location

Virtual via Zoom

Agenda

2:30 pm | Welcome
Teresa Dobson, Associate Dean, Academic and Innovation

2:35 pm | Land Acknowledgement
Mark Edwards, Director, Academic Initiatives

2:40 pm | Student well-being and creating inclusive, student-focused syllabi
Marie Krbavac, Educational Consultant, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

2:55 pm | Equity, inclusion and accessibility
Kuan Foo, Co-Director, The Centre for Accessibility

3:15 pm | Grading practices and trends at UBC
Leah Macfadyen, Associate Director, Master of Educational Technology

3:25 pm | Promotion of academic integrity & approaches to suspected misconduct
Teresa Dobson, Associate Dean, Academic and Innovation
Mark Edwards, Director, Academic Initiatives

3:40 pm | Canvas and instructional support from Educational Technology Support
Faeyza Mufti, Learning Design Manager, and Gabrielle Coombs, Learning Technologist

3:55 pm | Discussion with facilitators and peers

Registration

Questions

Contact pdce.educ@ubc.ca.

Learning, Teaching, and Reclaiming Language: Centering Linguistic Diversity in Teacher Education

By Ayla Collins

Project Name

Learning, Teaching, and Reclaiming Language: Centering Linguistic Diversity in Teacher Education

Team Members

Dr. Meike Wernicke
Nicole George

Project Summary

This project focuses on the redesign and delivery of a required teacher education course that prepares elementary and middle school teacher candidates to teach French-as-a-second-language as part of the mandated grades 5-8 curriculum in BC. The redesign aims to create space for learning how to teach ancestral and heritage languages in addition to French, to reflect the linguistic diversity of students and teachers in BC, and acknowledge the importance of the Indigenous Languages Act within Canada’s language policy. We explore how the course can engage critical reflection on issues related to language education and policy as well as teaching strategies that students can practice and adapt to their local languages.

Re-imagining Social Institutions of Adult Education Through Learning Videos

By Ayla Collins

Project Name

Re-imagining social institutions of adult education through learning videos

Team Members

Dr. Jude Walker
Dr. Carolina Palacios

Project Summary

This project will update the course ADHE 328: Social Institutions of Adult Education to focus more on the hidden histories and marginalized places and peoples of adult education, in the context of five social institutions: religion, politics, family, work or economy and health care. The Curriculum Enhancement Grant enables the project team to create learning videos and podcasts to help students make better sense of the relationship between de/colonisation and adult education, and to expose them more to non-Western ways of knowing, doing and learning. The grant allows the team to more fully incorporate and promote Indigenous, decolonial and racialized voices which previously held a peripheral place in this course. The revised version of ADHE 328 will provide a more engaging and inclusive learning environment for the hundreds of UBC students who take this course.

Braiding Indigenous and Anti-Racist Perspectives Through Human Development, Learning and Culture’s Core with Contributions to the Teacher Education Office

By Ayla Collins

Project Name

Braiding Indigenous and Anti-Racist Perspectives Through Human Development, Learning and Culture’s Core with Contributions to the Teacher Education Office

Team Members

Dr. Jennifer Vadeboncoeur
Dr. Surita Jhangiani
Dr. Johanna Sam
Dr. Barbara Weber

Project Summary

Human Development, Learning and Culture (HDLC) offers graduate programs, and contributes to the preparation of pre-service teachers. This project will support today’s generation of teachers and students to more deeply engage with Indigenous Peoples, perspectives and experiences, both past and present. The goal is to build decolonizing pedagogical principles and anti-racist practices to both support graduate students and teacher candidates, and as a community-building process. The process will be supported through an Open Wiki resource that locates the infrastructure for this virtual work on the ancestral and unceded territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations. We acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of all Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island.