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Are you interested in exploring SSHRC’s Connection Grants program? If so please consider participating in an upcoming webinar hosted by SSHRC on the program. SSHRC will be holding a webinar for applicants and research administrators to provide information and answer questions about Connection Grants.
Connection Grants are an ideal vehicle to both disseminate research findings to a range of knowledge users and to bring together scholars, practitioners and other community members to explore the current state of research in a particular domain with the goal of mapping out future research agendas.
The webinar will be held via Adobe Connect at the following times:
Please note that you do not need to register in advance and a question and answer period will follow the presentation. With Adobe Connect, questions must be submitted in writing.
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By domansky
May 16, 2019
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Please join ETS in welcoming new staff members:
Parm Gill, Instructional Designer, works with course developers to gain an understanding of student needs, the placement of a course within a program, and the overall course aims from the instructional perspective. She helps to create courses which support effective student learning experiences and that help meet learning goals in the Faculty of Education. Parm has been seconded from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences for six months.
Faeyza Mufti, Learning Technology Support Coordinator, works with faculty members, instructional and user support staff to select and align learning technologies to their instructional goals and design educational resources. She manages the learning systems and supports the maintenance of online courses. Her areas of interests include exploring new trends and models of technology-enabled learning in higher education, MOOCs, learning experience design and learning analytics.
Tina Du, Learning Technology Rover, provides support for Canvas, UBC Blogs, Camtasia, and many other learning technologies to instructors and faculty members. She has been working with ETS since, February.
And,
Yvette Kharoubeh, Senior Program Assistant, PDCE, is working on new cohort program hubs.
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Notice of Intent deadline is August 1, 2019 at 8 p.m. (ET)
NSERC Discovery Grant Research Portal now open at https://tinyurl.com/zk4nnrx
Webinar sessions are scheduled for May 22nd, June 4th and June 19th. For information on these sessions, please see the following website: https://tinyurl.com/yc2ygosc
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Each year, top-ranked applicants from around the world participate in a 12-week research internship under the supervision of Canadian university faculty members in a variety of academic disciplines, from science, engineering and mathematics to the humanities and social sciences.
Faculty submissions are now being accepted for Summer 2020. Please see here for more information, and here to submit a short project outline. Note that faculty can submit multiple projects, and can re-submit projects from previous years.
Projects must be submitted by June 5, 2019, at 1pm PT.
Any questions about the application process or technical concerns can be sent to helpdesk@mitacs.ca.
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By alex smiciklas
Authors: Penney Clark and Mona Gleason, Co-editors
Published: May 6, 2019, Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
Articles
Kay Whitehead, “A Middle Class Farming Family Negotiates “the Rural School Problem” in Interwar Australia”
Helen Raptis, “Bringing Education to the Wilderness: Teachers and Schools in the Rural Communities of British Columbia, 1936–45”
Sara Z. MacDonald, “An Insurrection of Women: Deans of Women Confront Student Government after the Great War”
Nigel Roy Moses, “Bonds of Empire: The Formation of the National Federation of Canadian University Students, 1922–1929”
Christine Chevalier-Caron and Yolande Cohen, “La langue française chez les Sépharades du Québec : une stratégie de préservation culturelle et d’intégration sociale (1960 –1980)”
Book Reviews
Damien-Claude Bélanger, Thomas Chapais, historien. Reviewed by Félix Bouvier
Julien Prud’homme, Instruire, corriger, guérir? : Les orthopédagogues, l’adaptation scolaire et les difficultés d’apprentissage au Québec, 1950–2017. Reviewed by Jason Ellis
Marie-Claude Larouche, Joanne Burgess et Nicolas Beaudry, dirs., Éveil et enracinement : Approches pédagogiques innovantes du patrimoine culturel Québec. Reviewed by Sabrina Moisan
Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier, Printemps de force: Une histoire engagée du mouvement étudiant au Québec (1958–2013). Reviewed by Nadia Hausfather
Kristina R. Llewellyn and Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, eds., Oral History and Education: Theories, Dilemmas, and Practices. Reviewed by Funké Aladejebi
Kristine Alexander, Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Reviewed by Sian Edwards
Derrick Darby and John L. Rury, The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice. Reviewed by Thomas Fallace
Cecilia Morgan, Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada. Reviewed by Nathaniel Holly
J. R. Miller, Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History
and
John S. Milloy, A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986. Reviewed by Shannon Van der Woerd, Matthew Midolo, and Brittany Luby
Lynne Taylor, In the Children’s Best Interests: Unaccompanied Children in American-Occupied Germany, 1945–1952. Reviewed by Michelle Mouton
John Willinsky, The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke. Reviewed by T. Philip Nichols
Benjamin Bryce, To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society. Reviewed by Mollie Lewis Nouwen
Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Heidi MacDonald and Elizabeth M. Smyth, Vatican II and Beyond: The Changing Mission and Identity of Canadian Women Religious. Reviewed by Tom O’Donoghue
Maren Elfert, UNESCO’s Utopia of Lifelong Learning: An Intellectual History. Reviewed by Johannes Westberg
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CBC Early Edition
By:
April 24, 2019
Over the next few weeks, some Lower Mainland schools are hosting special guests. Artists with different disabilities are hosting workshops for students. They range from musicians, to actors, to photographers. Recently, The Early Edition’s Jake Costello went to Elsie Roy Elementary to sit in on a storytelling class for students in grades five and six.
Link to full text.
Story via UBC News.
By ben drake
We are very pleased to announce our latest faculty award winners, Dr. Margot Filipenko and Dr. Sam Rocha, who are the recipients of the Killam Teaching Prize, and Mr. Stephen McGinley, recipient of the Sessional & Lecturer Teaching Prize.
The Killam Teaching Prize is awarded annually to faculty nominated by students, colleagues and alumni in recognition of excellence in teaching. Winners are recognized at the graduation ceremonies.
The Sessional & Lecturer Teaching Prize is awarded in recognition of the significant contribution that Sessional and Lecturer faculty members make to our programs. The prize is awarded annually to outstanding educators.
Learn more about these inspirational educators:
Dr. Margot Filipenko
Language & Literacy Education (LLED)
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Dr. Margot Filipenko
Language & Literacy Education (LLED)
Dr. Margot Filipenko is a highly regarded literacy and early childhood educator, innovator, and educational leader. The combination of years of practical experience in early childhood contexts, deep commitment to teaching, and her theoretical understanding of child development, children’s literature, and language and literacy development, is a rare asset. She is genuinely invested in her students’ learning, strategically drawing on individual interests and funds of knowledge in class. She is extremely generous with her time; she freely and informally shares her ideas and materials with teacher candidates, colleagues, and graduate students, which serves an important mentorship function in our Department and Faculty.
Dr. Sam Rocha
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
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Dr. Sam Rocha
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
Dr. Sam Rocha brings his commitment to scholarship in philosophy of education to students across the entire spectrum of teaching in the Department of Educational Studies and across the Faculty. He guides students’ engagement with the profundity of educational relationships and encounters in ways that expand their understanding of what it means to teach and to learn. As many of his students have remarked, Dr. Rocha’s classes have not only changed perspectives, they have changed lives. His unparalleled pedagogical generosity, seamlessly integrating the humanities and the arts, continues to draw students into a supportive and inclusive community of scholars.
Mr. Stephen McGinley
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP)
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Mr. Stephen McGinley
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP)
Mr. Stephen McGinley, a 12-month lecturer in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), is an exemplary, dedicated and skilled teacher educator who aligns constructivist philosophy with effective and appropriate pedagogy. He listens carefully to his students’ ideas and feedback, and always challenges them to be critical of the practices they employ and encounter. As a faculty advisor, Mr. McGinley has been responsive, empathetic, and very clear with his advisees about what is required. He has built strong relationships and collaborations with colleagues from a variety of institutions locally, nationally and internationally as well as major stakeholder groups that impact pedagogy.
By alex smiciklas
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The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Government of Japan is currently accepting applications for its 2020 Research Student Scholarship for students who wish to study at Japanese universities as research or post-graduate students.
The scholarship covers:
- Full tuition
- Monthly allowance
- Round-trip flight between Japan and Canada
The Research Student Scholarship is aimed at university graduates, born on or after April 2, 1985 (for the 2020 scholarship year). The area of research or post-grad study should be in the same or related field that the applicant has previously studied. The term of the scholarship is 18 months to two years (including 6 months of Japanese language training) starting in April or October 2020.
Application guides and forms are available on the Embassy of Japan’s website: http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/education.html. Deadline for the 2020 scholarship year: May 24, 2019.
Applicants who successfully pass the written application screening are required to undertake an interview and examination (English and Japanese language) to be held in mid-June or early July. Please note that fluency in Japanese is not necessarily required, but dependent on the nature of the university and study program as selected by the scholarship candidate.
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By alex smiciklas
May 1, 2019
The School of Kinesiology and UBC Studios are proud to announce that the new KIN banner installed received a platinum Hermes Creative Award in the category of Print Media – Outdoor Advertising on May 1, 2019.
The Hermes Creative Awards are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communications Professionals, which has been ongoing since 1994.
The banner features Scarlett Sparrow-Felix, a young athlete from the Musqueam community. It celebrates the heritage of the School of Kinesiology, and the Department of Athletics and Recreation housed within the War Memorial Gym. It is an acknowledgement that UBC stands on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and Scarlett’s family history. The banner symbolizes the future and the recognition of history, people, and place, and the important role the School of Kinesiology, and Athletics and Recreation play in the evolution of the university.
More information can be found here: https://hermesawards.com/
The School would like to thank UBC Studios for their design support throughout the project and UBC photographer Paul Joseph, as well as Scarlett Sparrow-Felix for her enthusiastic participation, Elder Gail Sparrow for her support and blessing, Rosalin Miles for her engagement with the Musqueam community, Kavie Toor for his collaboration on the banner project, and President Ono for his generous support of the project.
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By alex smiciklas
This is a call for nomination packages for the Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence. Each year, the Dean extends the Faculty’s appreciation for the valuable contributions of our staff through an award for staff excellence. This year, the Dean is seeking nominations for awards in two categories.
- Outstanding Service
- Emerging Leadership
The Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence is presented to the Faculty of Education staff in recognition of excellence in personal achievements and contributions to the Faculty, UBC, and to the vision and goals of the University. The winner will have their name engraved on the Staff Excellence Award plaque, located in the Neville Scarfe foyer, and will receive $1,000 as an honorarium.
The selection criteria and nomination process has changed; please read the attached document for more information and a nomination form.
PLEASE RETURN YOUR COMPLETED AWARD NOMINATION PACKAGE ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019 TO:
Faustina Cheung, Administrative Assistant, Dean’s Office
Room 2616, Neville Scarfe Building
All nomination packages will be acknowledged. All information submitted will be kept strictly confidential. The winner will be announced and acknowledged at the Tea with the Dean event on Thursday, May 30, 2019.
Please take this opportunity to recognize excellence in your department or unit- nominate a staff member today!
