Amanda Bolderston, EdD in Educational Leadership and Policy

Amanda Bolderston, EdD in Educational Leadership and Policy

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Amanda Bolderston, EdD in Educational Leadership and Policy

An Autoethnographic Lens on the Identity Work of Gay and Lesbian Radiation Therapists in Practice
Supervisor(s): Claudia Ruitenberg
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 | 9:00 AM | Room 200, Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road)

Doctoral Exam

Dissertation: An Autoethnographic Lens on the Identity Work of Gay and Lesbian Radiation Therapists in Practice
Amanda Bolderston

Tuesday, October 22, 2019
9:00 AM
Room 200, Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road)

LLED Research Seminar Series: Cognitive Retroactive Transfer of Language Skills among Bilingual Readers

By domansky

October 31, 2019
Date and Time: October 31, 2019 | 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Venue: Ponderosa Commons Oak House, Multipurpose Room PCOH 2012Everybody welcome! No need to RSVP.
This event will take place at the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam people.

LLED Research Seminar Series: Cognitive Retroactive Transfer of Language Skills among Bilingual Readers
Dr. Salim Abu Rabia, Professor, University of Haifa, Israel

This talk will discuss the concept “Transfer of Skills” and suggests a better way to test it under experimental research design. This study examined the effects of an English intervention program helping struggling readers improve their reading and writing skills in English as a foreign language (FL). Transferring linguistic skills from L2/FL to L1 is termed “Cognitive Retroactive Transfer”.

Tests were administered to the experimental and control groups to assess orthographic knowledge, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, syntax awareness, reading accuracy and reading comprehension in Arabic and English. The experimental group received an intervention program in English, but not in Arabic or Hebrew the first language of the readers, and the assessments were administered before and after the intervention.

The findings indicated a significant improvement in most of the experimental group’s linguistic and meta-linguistic skills in both Arabic (Hebrew) and English after the English intervention program. The results will be discussed in relation to the “transfer of language skills” and the implications for learning and teaching.

Salim Abu Rabia is professor at the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. He obtained his PhD from The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education affiliated to the University of Toronto (1993). His research interests are: Reading and language learning, cross-cultural reading and learning, reading in different orthographies, social and cognitive aspects of language learning, intervention programs among at-risk populations.

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LLED Scholarship Stories: Dr. Leah Macfadyen

By domansky

October 9, 2019

For our next installment of the Scholarship Stories, we sit down with Dr. Leah Macfadyen. Leah is an Instructor in LLED, and Associate Director in the UBC Master of Educational Technology Program (MET). In our interview, we talk about the use of learning analytics (analysis and visualization of large sets of educational data) to inform learning design and curriculum review, and to discover meaningful patterns that can inform improvements in learning design, teaching, and learning.

 

You can watch the full interview on our website or Youtube channel.

 

If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Leah Macfadyen, please visit her website: https://changingeye.com/

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Congratulations to Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites on receiving the Knight’s title in the Order of the Academic Palms from the French Republic

By domansky

October 8, 2019

We’re excited to announce that Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites has received the Knight’s title in the Order of the Academic Palms from the French Republic!

The Academic Palms is a French decoration established October 4, 1955, by Council President Faure which follows the distinction of Officer of Academy created by Napoleon (1808) to honor eminent members of the University. It is a national order bestowed by the French Republic to distinguished academics and figures in the world of culture and education. This is the oldest distinctions awarded only on a civilian basis.

Learn more about the order and its history here.

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