June 2018 Retirement Reception RSVP

Please register for the Faculty of Education’s Retirement Reception.

This event will be held on Tuesday June 19, 2018 from 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in the Scarfe 4th Floor Lounge, Room 2414.

Fall 2018 New Course Offering – Living Language: Science and Society

28/05/2018

In September, the first ever University-wide course in Language Sciences. Living Language: Science and Society is a new three-credit course and will cover the scientific study of language as it applies to all domains of human life, in the creation and acquisition of spoken language through writing systems, texts of all kinds, arts, culture, science, and technology.

The course is designed as an upper level course and co-taught by Professor Janet F. Weker from Psychology and Mark Turin from Anthropology & First Nations and Endangered Languages.

Living Language is cross-listed as APSC 402, ASTU 402, FRST 402, LFS 402, LLED 402, and
PHAR 402. Enrolment for this course will be limited to 40 students so make sure to check it out early to get your spot.

You can learn more about the course here.

Congratulations to Anar Rajabali on receiving the ARTS PhD Graduate Award at CSSE

By domansky

May 23, 2018

PhD graduate Anar Rajabali is the 2018 recipient of the ARTS (Arts Researchers and Teachers) PhD Graduate Award at CSSE.

Here’s what the award committee wrote about her thesis:

PhD award: Anar Rajabali. (Re)turning to the Poetic I/Eye: Towards a Literacy of Light
Dr. Rajabali’s dissertation is a beautifully written meditation on poetry, spirituality, and the quest for knowledge. It enacts its project through a seamless merger of poetry (textual and spoken word), song, philosophy, autobiography, and curriculum theorizing, extending our understandings of each of these genres and modes in the process. As an accomplished poet researching poetry through poetry, Rajabali demonstrates the possibilities of a/r/tography as a mode of scholarship that extends the bounds of the dissertation and academic knowledge production.

Congratulations, Anar!

Alumni Builder Awards

By michael c s murphy

Dean Frank presented Mr. Leon Tuey and Mrs. Joan Tuey with the Faculty’s Alumni Builder Award for their outstanding support to Faculty.

Congratulations to Dr. Sterett Mercer on being awarded the U.S. Institute of Education Sciences Grant

By admin

Congratulations to Dr. Sterett Mercer (ECPS) on being awarded a $1.4 Million U.S. Institute of Education Sciences (IES) grant with his U.S. colleagues for their project Identifying Factors Predicting Implementation and Sustainability of Tier 2 and 3 Behaviour Support Systems. The project aims to examine how educators can implement durable systems to support effective teacher practices for students at risk for emotional and behaviour disorders.

Identifying Factors Predicting Implementation and Sustainability of Tier 2 and 3 Behavior Support Systems
PI: Dr. Kent McIntosh (U. Oregon)
Co-PI: Dr. Sterett Mercer (UBC)
Co-PI: Dr. Rhonda Nese (U. Oregon)
Co-PI: Dr. Rob Horner (U. Oregon)
U.S. $1.4 million, 4 years | U.S. Department of Education (Institute of Education Sciences)

Graduate Defence – Rahela Nayebzadah

By domansky

Rahela Nayebzadah, PhD, Language and Literacy Education

Red Tears of Pearl: Making Space for Afghan-Canadian Muslim Diasporas In Postcolonial Literature.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Carl Leggo
Monday, June 4, 2018 | 4:00 PM | Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road, Room 200

Rahela Nayebzadah will have her dissertation defence at 4:00 PM on Monday, June 4, 2018 in Room 200 of the Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road).

All are welcome to attend.

Date:	Monday, June 4, 2018
Time:	4:00 PM
Location:	Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road), Room 200

Committee Members:
Dr. Carl Leggo (LLED)
Dr. Theresa Rogers (LLED)
Dr. Paul Matthew St. Pierre (SFU, English Department)

Examiners:
External examiner: Dr. Aparna Mishra Tarc (York University)
University examiners: Dr. Margot Filipenko and Dr. Peter Gouzouasis

Title:

“Red Tears of Pearl: Making Space for Afghan-Canadian Muslim Diasporas In Postcolonial Literature”

Abstract:

Fiction is powerful, shaping people’s minds. Most importantly, it is a powerful site for the construction of the Other and the projection of fantasies about women, ethnicity, and religion to consolidate the notion of the self. Representations of Muslims/Islam, in particular, contribute to how people view both the faith and its followers. Authors are demystifying and constructing “valid” notions of Muslims, simultaneously naturalizing, romanticizing, essentializing, and reducing them to homogenous entities. After 9/11, followers are over-exposed and over-determined in all forms of media (including fiction) as they are inscribed to stand as the West’s opposite; they are imaged and constructed so as to stress their need to be saved through colonization and civilization. Moreover, they are constructed and reconstructed as victims of their society, culture, and religion.

Written within a postcolonial framework and embodying the practices of a/r/tography, my novel titled Red Tears of Pearl speaks from the perspectives of Muslims as agents, which is
crucial to discourses of resistance within dominant representations because it raises questions about biases, presuppositions, and world-views on Muslims.

Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence Recipients Announced

By domansky

UBC Faculty of Education Dean Blye Frank recognized several outstanding staff members nominated for the 2018 Faculty of Education Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence and announced Frederick Brown, Research Assistant Technician of EDCP and Dr. Heather Frost, Director, Research Support Services, Office of Research, as the recipients of this year’s award.

Additional outstanding staff nominated for the award and recognized at the annual Tea with the Dean Event included: Erika Hughes, Administrative Assistant to the Head, Dr. Abdi of EDST and Alexandra Allen, Graduate Program Assistant of ECPS.

The award recognizes excellence in staff service and support and acknowledges nominated staff who go above and beyond their defined duties to contribute to the Faculty. The award reflects the following criteria:

Maintains a consistently high quality of service
Serves as a role model
Establishes and maintains exemplary and inclusive people practices
Provides a sense of purpose, vision and mission for co-workers or staff
Invests time and effort in coaching and/or mentoring
Positively influences others to build consensus and action around departmental or organizational objectives

Frederick and Heather’s names will be engraved on the Staff Excellence Award plaque, located in the Neville Scarfe foyer, and will receive a keeper plaque and $1,000

: Dean Blye Frank presents Frederick Brown with the 2018 Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence Award

: Dean Blye Frank presents Dr. Heather Frost with the 2018 Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence Award

Vancouver Foundation: Participatory Action Research Grants: Investigate Grants

By domansky

Deadlines:
July 10, 12 Noon: Voluntary internal review of Letter of Intent for the Investigate Grant by the ORE. Email your LOI materials to Heather Frost in the Office of Research in Education.
July 20: Submit LOI to Vancouver Foundation.

Please be sure to first take the online eligibility test and read the program guidelines document before starting an application.

Grants from $20,000 to $300,000 to support research that is co-led by community members and researchers to learn more about the root causes of pressing issues impacting the health of communities.

INVESTIGATE GRANTS (UP TO $100,000 PER YEAR, FOR UP TO THREE YEARS)
Investigate grants are multi-year grants to help teams answer a research question, analyze their findings, and share knowledge in a way that supports the community to take action in the future. You can apply for an Investigate grant during either the spring or fall granting call, and decisions are made by the beginning of June or December. Investigate grants are a two-stage application. Applicants begin by their application by submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI), and if successful, are invited to submit a Full Application.

Vancouver Foundation: Systems Change Grants: Test and Scale Grants

By domansky

Deadlines:
July 10, 12 Noon: Voluntary internal review of Letter of Intent for Test and Scale Systems Change Grants by the ORE. Email your LOI materials to Heather Frost in the Office of Research in Education.
July 20: Submit LOI to Vancouver Foundation.

Please be sure to first take the online eligibility test and read the program guidelines document before starting an application.

Grants from $20,000 to $300,000 for charities and other qualified donees with projects that take action to address the root causes of pressing social, environmental or cultural issues in BC.
The Systems Change Grants Program funds community-led projects that have the potential to create lasting changes within and across systems. VF consider these initiatives to be social innovations.
The Systems Change Grants Program funds projects that:

• are led by, or are in the care and control of, qualified donees listed by the Canada Revenue Agency
• tackle the root causes of complex issues by disrupting the ways that systems work—sometimes this means challenging the way things have worked for generations
• collaborate within and across sectors by breaking down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, or arts and culture, among others
• are bold, creative, and ambitious in their approach to systems change
• are socially innovative, such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices, by doing something new or using existing resources in a new way, by doing something that has worked elsewhere, or by trying something a gain under different conditions
• have the potential to create lasting change for communities across British Columbia

LLED Summer 2018 featured courses

By domansky

For any students still thinking about summer courses, please consider these featured courses we’re offering in July:

LLED 368
Topic: Multiliteracies in English Language Arts Classrooms
Instructor: Magdalena Vergara
Date July 3 – July 27, Monday to Friday, 15:00 – 17:00.More info

LLED 387 (cross-listed with LLED 435A)
Topic: Secondary Theatre: Applications to Curriculum
Instructor: Dr. George Belliveau
Date: July 14 – July 21, Monday to Friday, 15:00 – 19:00 / Saturday, 9:00 – 1700More info

LLED 435A (cross-listed with LLED 387)
Topic: Drama in Education: Community, Inquiry, and Performance
Instructor: Dr. George Belliveau
Date: July 14 – July 21, Monday to Friday, 15:00 – 19:00 / Saturday, 9:00 – 1700More info

LLED 481
Topic: Digital Media in English Language Arts Education
Instructor: Dr. Derek Gladwin
Date: July 3 – July 27, Monday to Friday, 13:00 – 15:00More info