Dr. Gleason’s article “Avoiding the Agency Trap: Caveats for Historians of Children, Youth, and Education”, published in History of Education won the won the 2018 Neil Sutherland Prize for Best Article from the History of Children and Youth Group. Her article “‘Knowing Something I Was Not Meant to Know’: Exploring Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Childhood, 1900-1950”, published in Canadian Historical Review, won the 2018 Best Article Award from the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality.
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.
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.
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!
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 (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)
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
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:
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
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.
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
