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.
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.
By Ayla Collins
Project Name
A Language Teachers’ Guide to Enhancing Social Justice Through UBC Indigenous Campus Features
Team Members
Andrew Scales
Cheyenne Cunningham
Leah Meunier
Lozen Osecap
Project Summary
This initiative will develop two place-centered, experiential language learning resources that enhance international learners’ critical awareness of anti-racism, indigeneity and decolonization in Canada and their home countries. One resource explores the Reconciliation Pole and the other looks at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre. The projects will be based on diverse Indigenous perspectives, epistemologies and pedagogies integrated with current research in language teaching and learning, and use this knowledge to develop a brief instructors’ guide to further implementing social justice content in curriculum and lesson planning.
By Ayla Collins
Project Name
Orange Shirt Project: Acts of Remembrance, Respect and Reconciling
Team Members
Dr. Shannon Leddy
Dr. Lorrie Miller
Dr. Kerry Renwick
Heather Clarke
Project Summary
The Orange Shirt Project is an art installation developed to acknowledge the impact of residential schools for Indigenous people in Canada. It is a pedagogy of the public, providing an ongoing reminder and a challenge to what has been a hidden or opaque piece of history for many settlers in Canada. It is a way to stand with Indigenous people, recognizing their loss and pain while looking towards healing. Each orange shirt that is created is a reminder of a young person whose death was recorded at Indian Residential Schools, and those who were lost and left in unmarked graves. This installation invites recognition about what is (truth) before turning to understanding and then engagement in acts of reconciling. It invites inquiry and engagement with learning for being and becoming more human, and humane. As an act of ongoing remembrance, it demonstrates meaningful and respectful ways to work with Indigenous histories and voices.
By Ayla Collins
Project Name
Development of Short Scenes for Reader’s Theater and Accompanying Animation Videos
Team Members
Dr. Ryuko Kubota
Dr. Meghan Corella
Project Summary
This project will develop two short scenes for Reader’s Theater, and two accompanying 20-minute animation videos—one on the experiences of students, staff and faculty from racialized and Indigenous backgrounds, and another on linguistic manifestations of these experiences. The content is based on interview and focus group discussion data that were collected for a separate study. These resources together with discussion questions, which will be made available online, aim to promote critical perspectives on anti-racism and decolonization among students and other audiences within the Faculty of Education and beyond.
By Ayla Collins
Project Name
Integration of a Social Justice Pedagogy in the School and Applied Child Psychology (SACP) Program at UBC
Team Members
Dr. Laurie Ford
Dr. Anusha Kassan
Dr. Thomas Schanding
Linnea Kalchos
Melanie Nelson
Harris Wong
Project Summary
The purpose of this project is co-creation in the redesign of seven core courses in the SACP program by elevating social justice pedagogies. A tenet to this revision is co-creation, based on collaboration between SACP faculty and students and the larger community in a culturally sensitive, responsive, and meaningful manner. The aim of this project is to: 1) examine the presence of social justice training across core areas of the SACP curriculum through a content analysis of course outlines for graduate courses offered in SACP, and b) program support documents (e.g., handbook, practicum documents, admissions policies); and 2) elevating social justice pedagogies in the SACP curriculum.
By Ayla Collins
Project Name
Enhancing Indigenous Themes in a Teacher Education STEAM Course
Team Members
Dr. Robert Campbell
Dr. Sumer Seiki
Desiree Marshall-Peer
Project Summary
This grant funding will be used to support the inclusion of Indigenous themes into a STEAM course (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) in UBCO’s Teacher Education program. A portion of funding will be used to provide honoraria for teachers and Elders from the Syilx community whose expertise includes sustainable practices, Indigenous art, and Indigenous cosmology. The remainder of the funds will be used to provide student transportation and admission to the Okanagan Science Centre in Vernon to view the Indigenous Skies presentation, and, also, to visit the Syilx Winter house in Komasket Park in the North Okanagan.
By Ayla Collins
Project Name
Black Healthcare & Wellness Career Panel during Black History Month
Team Members
Cindy Sha
Irene Yang
Zoë Balbosa
Project Summary
In celebration of Black History Month, this one-hour-long professional career development event features four Black speakers in health and wellness: two physicians, a personal trainer and yoga teacher. The Professional Development Panel event is open to all students, faculty and staff. Through storytelling, Black speakers can provide their personal expertise revolving around systematic issues of inequalities Black individuals face in the health and wellness industry, culturally competent practices and tips to transition from university into the workplace.
By Ayla Collins
Project Name
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.
By Ayla Collins
Project Name
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.
