This cohort will be of interest to health, outdoor and physical educators who work in schools and other sites of learning, including health promotion agencies, community health services, and environmental and recreational organizations.
This MEd cohort is timely, as many educators and professionals move away from instrumental hierarchical approaches in order to engage students and communities in participatory cultures.
Educational Studies (EDST)
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November 30, 2021
NITEP students and graduates are agents of change and empowerment.
The Faculty’s Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP) is committed to increasing the number of Indigenous educators provincially and nationally. NITEP prepares Indigenous teacher candidates with culturally appropriate resources and services at UBC’s Vancouver campus and field centres across British Columbia.
NITEP’s field centres increase access to post-secondary studies for Indigenous learners from communities beyond the lower mainland of British Columbia and help students maintain their connection to home and community while pursuing their education.
Learn-and-Earn helps Indigenous high school students begin learning to become educators as early as Grade 11.
Through the new Learn-and-Earn program, UBC Faculty of Education, the Surrey School District, and the Vancouver School District will support an annual cohort of 30 Indigenous youth to graduate with education assistant qualifications and transition into the NITEP program.
The innovative Learn-and-Earn program enables students to work part-time as education assistants upon secondary school completion, earning money while becoming certified teachers within NITEP. As NITEP students, they will receive holistic supports nurturing their cultural identity, as well as tutoring services to support their academic needs.
Support the growing number of Indigenous leaders in education who are transforming schools, organizations and communities through Indigenous ways of knowing.
By donating to the Learn-and-Earn program, you will help:
Donations are tax-deductible.
This unique MEd in Curriculum Studies, with a focus on Practitioner Inquiry and Place-Conscious Pedagogies, takes into account a diversity of perspectives, pedagogies, and conceptions of curriculum. This part-time graduate cohort takes place in Nelson, BC in a blended format (online September – June with in-person summer courses).
This program offers students opportunities to examine, theoretically and experientially, the multiple and complex relations between teaching, learning, place, and the potential realization of social justice in local contexts.
November 24, 2021
Tonje Molyneux’s academic and professional life has been dedicated to improving social, emotional and academic outcomes for children and youth. Upon completing her first master’s degree, she started a career in SEL program development and educational design. After more than ten years in that role, she pursued further graduate studies in support of a career shift to post-secondary education and educational research.
She chose to complete her doctoral studies in Human Development, Learning, and Culture at UBC Faculty of Education for three reasons:
After completing her PhD, Tonje plans to work as a professor and researcher to advance the science and practice of SEL by developing and testing instruments, interventions and professional learning approaches that can make significant, positive differences in SEL implementation quality and student outcomes.
To learn more about her research, visit her Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies profile page.
The UBC Killam Doctoral Scholarships are awarded annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies. Their primary purpose is to support advanced education and research at five Canadian universities and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Approximately 15-20 Killam Doctoral Scholarships are awared each year to the top doctoral candidates in the Affiliated Fellowships competition. Killam Doctoral Scholarships awardees on the UBC-Vancouver campus also become Four Year Fellowship holders.
To learn more about the Killam Doctoral Scholarship, visit UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies’ Killam Doctoral Scholarships page.
To learn more about the full range of Killam prizes at UBC, visit the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic’s Killam Awards and Fellowships page.
The MMEd is a unique graduate degree program focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in museums and other informal learning contexts (such as, art galleries, science centres, parks and historic sites).
This program draws together Museum professionals, educators and those with an interest in using the community to support teaching and learning to further their thinking and scholarship around museums as sites of education and learning.
November 23, 2021
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace, is one of the many inspiring presenters in the global Roots and Shoots 30th Anniversary Awards Ceremony, where the UBC Orchard Garden project has been nominated by the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada and is a finalist for the Growing Together Long-term Award.
The student-led UBC Orchard Garden, located on Totem Field at UBC’s Vancouver campus, is part of the Cultivating Learning Network, a mutually-supportive affiliation of UBC teaching and learning gardens.
The UBC Orchard Garden cultivates an outdoor living classroom that invites learners across disciplines to connect theory to practice through exploring the relationships among teaching, learning, and growing. It provides pre- and in-service educators with a space to experiment with outdoor teaching and learning, with the garden as co-teacher. It also offers collaborative, hands-on, immersive, and experimental learning opportunities for students, faculty, and staff.
Further, food for the Agora Cafe, Sprouts and Seedlings, Orchard Garden Workshop Series, Orchard Garden Community Field Experiences and other courses are grown at the Orchard Garden. The Orchard Garden is also an outdoor research lab, supporting faculty, graduate and undergraduate papers and dissertations, as well as international research conferences.
Dr. Susan Gerofsky, Faculty of Education, is the academic advisor and principal investigator of the UBC Orchard Garden team. She works collaboratively with a team of graduate and undergraduate students from the UBC Faculties of Education, Land and Food Systems, Forestry and the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
To learn more, visit the UBC Orchard Garden website and watch Dr. Gerofsky’s short films with UBC Orchard Garden alumni.
This MEd is a unique, fully-online program exploring approaches for constructing and living mathematics curriculum responsive to place/land and connected to community.
The program offers opportunities to study teaching and learning mathematics in diverse community contexts, and applications are welcome from a wide range of students including early childhood educators, elementary school teachers, secondary and post-secondary school teachers, and educators keen to explore creative and innovative contexts to support and inspire children and youth in mathematical inquiry in community.
This online graduate program delves into key aspects of Home Economics curriculum with connections to Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies (ADST) curriculum, Textile Arts, and Culinary Arts.
This program has been designed for school and community educators who teach in areas such as food and nutrition, textiles, family studies, health, human ecology, consumer studies or related projects such as food security or school gardens.
This online graduate program allows students to read and engage with the latest research in the field of Literacy education, and connect research to practice.
This program aims to personalize the learning for each admitted cohort. Depending on each cohort’s learning needs, adjustments will be made in the delivery of courses. Students will be encouraged from the beginning of the program to engage in self inquiry by bringing their personal questions into synchronous and asynchronous conversations, and exploring the answers to these questions through their course assignments and graduating project.
