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Douglas Todd: Canadian boys suffer from lack of male teachers

UBC Education Professor Emeritus Marv Westwood was interviewed for a Vancouver Sun column about the need for Canadian boys to have male teachers as positive role models.

Can we really teach ‘Indigenizing’ courses online?

By domansky

The Conversation mentioned UBC’s course “Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education” in an article about Indigenization.

School district applauds commitment to recruit French teachers from abroad

By domansky

An article in Pique Magazine mentioned the creation of 37 additional spaces in French teacher-education programs at UBC and Simon Fraser University over the next two years.

Miquela lives somewhere on Instagram, between fiction and reality

By domansky

Ron Darvin is interviewed by Publico, a Portuguese newspaper, on how we construct identities through digital media.

Self-taught carpenter building a whole new skill set in adulthood

By domansky

Metro News interviewed Dr. Shauna Butterwick, a professor emerita of adult education at UBC, for a story about learning new skills in adulthood.

Canada’s curiously cautious commemoration of women suffragists

By domansky

Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag, a UBC professor emerita in educational studies, wrote an op-ed about women suffragists for The Conversation.

Big Questions Unanswered in Government’s Child Care Plans

By domansky

Dr. Guofang Li was interviewed by The Tyee about the need to include professional learning for early childhood teachers to better support them to teach and care for children from diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, and economic backgrounds in the BC government’s $1 billion investment in universal childcare programs in the next three years.