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May - August 2007
An Invitation to Public Events on Aboriginal Education:
Indigeneity Today and How to Make It Matter in Education
July 23rd - August 2nd 2007
On behalf of the Faculty of Education and Indigenous Education Institute of Canada, it gives me great pleasure to invite you to three public events as part of our Summer Scholars in Residence 2007 program. We have five internationally renowned scholars (see attached), who will be discussing the program's theme this summer at the following events:
Opening Symposium, Monday July 23rd 4:30pm - 7:30pm
The scholars will address the theme and issues that arise in light of their areas of expertise. They will also discuss how the course they are teaching will speak to those issues. Key questions will be brought forward at the all-day conference and closing symposium.
All Day Conference, Saturday, July 28th 8:30am - 4:30pm
The scholars will describe their work in a brief presentation. There will be small group discussions, with emerging ideas to be discussed with the scholars.
Closing Seminar, Thursday, August 2nd from 4:30pm - 7:30pm.
Course participants will speak to what they have learned across the two week period of courses. The scholars will then respond. The Institute will close with discussion and interaction among faculty, students and community members.
All public events will be held at the First Nations House of Learning, Sty-Wet-Tan, 1985 West Mall. These events are free but registration is requested via email at ogpr@interchange.ubc.ca.
We do hope you will join us at this very exciting opportunity to join stimulating and interactive discussions with these outstanding scholars on the role of Indigeneity within the academic community and beyond.
To register for the Summer Scholars in Residence Public Events to be held from July 23rd - August 2nd 2007, please send an email to ogpr@interchange.ubc.ca. For further information about these events, please visit www.educ.ubc.ca/scholars
April 2007
The Faculty of Education 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Founded in 1956-57, UBC’s Faculty of Education has provided outstanding leadership in teaching, scholarship, research, and service for half a century. To acknowledge and honour this landmark academic year, the Faculty hosted a wide range of events, including a gala weekend, March 30 - April 1 2007, along with a range of affiliated events and conferences. More
March 2007
As part of UBC's Celebrate Research festivities, the Faculty of Education hosted a multi-part research festival that challenged prevalent stereotypes related to youth subcultures, development, and identities. Find out more about UBC Celebrate Research Week at www.research.ubc.ca/CRW
February 2007
Gaalen Erickson
Dr Gaalen Erickson will be honored with an honorary doctorate at the University of Uppsala in Sweden at their Spring Convocation. Those of us who know Gaalen are aware of the incredible contributions that he has made to the fields of science education and teacher education nationally and internationally, and also his tireless work within the context of our Department's graduate and teacher education programs. |
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Other names among the selected Honorary Doctorates include former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Professor James Watson, who together with Professor Francis Crick discovered the structure of the DNA-molecule, and Professor Noam Chomsky. Following is an excerpt from an announcement made on the Swedish Embassy in Ottawa's website: |
In connection with the Tercentenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus, the faculties at Uppsala University have decided to invite a number of special honorary doctors to this spring's Conferment Ceremonies, as part of the Linnaeus Festival in Uppsala. Professor Gaalen Erickson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, has been a leading science educator in the international arena for more than twenty five years. He has been at the forefront of developing and articulating research into the teaching and learning of science. He has also actively mentored a large number of graduate students and junior staff members from across the globe. In his doctoral thesis in 1975 he laid the foundation for a whole new perspective on learning and since then he has amongst other things developed theory on how students come to understand scientific concepts and how teaching can be made more effective through the use of this knowledge. Furthermore his work in teacher education is widely recognized for advances in effective modeling strategies which make it possible for teachers to develop their teaching repertoires and obtain better learning outcome. Click here to visit Gaalen's department homepage. |
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January 2007
Veronica Strong-Boag
Veronica Strong-Boag, ‘Always Second Best? The Nature and Implications of Foster Care in English Canada from the 19th Century to the 1990s, SSHRCC-funded project 2006-9
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Foster care has been the bedrock of Canadian child welfare programs from the 19th century to the present. Tending chiefly to attract notice when tragedies occur, as with the case exposed by Alanis Obomsawin in ‘Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child’ (1986), no comprehensive history exists. My new work builds upon my Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canadians Encounter Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990s (Oxford UP, 2006) to consider the nature of fostering’s relationship to child welfare programs generally; the character of the ‘respectable’ households that have long provided the chief sites for care; the workings of gender, ‘race’, and (dis)ability in the provision of assistance to disadvantaged youngsters; and institutional alternatives (from orphanages to residential schools). This project employs UBC graduate students, including those completing theses on the history of c-sections in Canada and on Indigenous resistance to the apprehension of Native youngsters. |
See also:
Lost and Found: Vulnerable Children and Youth in Canada, the United States, and Australia, eds. M. Gleason, L. Paris, T. Myers, and V. Strong-Boag (Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming)
“Casual Fornicators, Young Lovers, Deadbeat Dads, and Family Champions: Men in Canadian Adoption Circles in the 20th Century”, Science, Polity, and Society in Canada: Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss ed. Elsbeth Heaman and Alison Li (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007)
Strong-Boag, V.‘Today’s Child: Preparing for the ‘Just Society’ One Family at a Time,’ Canadian Historical Review 86, 4 (December 2005): 673-99.
Strong-Boag, V. ‘Interrupted Relations: the Adoption of Children in Twentieth Century British Columbia,’ BC Studies No. 144 (Winter 2004-5); 3-28.
Warsh, Cheryl K. and Strong-Boag, V. eds., Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005)
December 2006
Congratulations to the successful SSHRC Grant applicants
Kadriye Ercikan and Peter Seixas
Peter and Kadriye with some CURA members
Support for “public” history in Canada is one of the most remarkable features of the past decade. It is manifested in such capital-intensive projects as CBC’s Canada: A People’s History, the History Channel, and Historia; the founding of Canada’s National History Society, the Dominion Institute, and Historica; and federal support for a new Canadian War Museum and Portrait Gallery.
Polling data suggests that ordinary Canadians embrace these initiatives, visit museums, historic sites, and commemorative celebrations in growing numbers, and are themselves engaged in family and community history projects.
While Canadians are polled on a regular basis about their knowledge and consumption of history, they are less likely to be asked to reflect on the presence of their past in their lives. The centrepiece of the project is a nation-wide survey, modeled on those conducted in the United States and Australia, that will explore the presence of the past in everyday life.
The survey will provide national data that will allow Canadians to enter an important international debate about uses of the past and give those involved in delivering history in Canadian schools and universities, museums and historic sites, on television and the Internet a benchmark against which to measure their activities.
September 2006
Congratulations 2006 SSHRC Award Winners!
Congratulations to the successful SSHRC Grant applicants
Professor Theresa Rogers - Department of Language Education (LLED)
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Theresa Rogers was recently awarded a three-year SSHRC grant to study video production as a critical literacy practice among youth. This project grew out of her three-year collaborative school-university project in which students in one alternative secondary school drew on a variety of arts and multimedia practices to display their multiple literacies.
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Theresa and her colleagues (Kari Winters, Andrew Schofield and Anne-Marie LaMonde) found that the use of film, in particular, encouraged students to narrate their own stories and to engage in critical literacy practices. Student film topics and genres included a narrative about peer pressure, a music video about contemporary violence, and a documentary recounting the Holocaust.
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These multimedia practices blurred the boundaries between in-school and out-of-school literacies and allowed students to play with genre and form to express their ideas and reveal their identity positions. The new project will extend this work into new school and community sites to work with youth and their teachers/mentors who would like to engage in the critical media practices to enhance and extend traditional literacy practices.
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To see the kids in action, visit: http://newtonliteracies.ca Check out Theresa's departmental homepage at: http://lled.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/rogers.htm or Theresa's homepage: http://www.theresarogers.ca/ |
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August 2006
Dr Peter Gouzouasis - Department of Curriculum Studies
Peter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies
at The University of British Columbia. He has worked as the program director
of WRTI/JAZZ 90 in Philadelphia, which was the most listened to 24 hour
jazz radio station in North America during the 1980s, and was also recognized
for his work in writing and producing television and radio commercials
broadcast across North America.
Most recently, Peter's work is on a series of longitudinal studies that examines factors in arts participation and academic achievement of British Columbia grade 12 students. The overall objective of this research is to learn about various factors, relationships and differences in academic, social and arts (music, visual art, drama & dance) achievement of all students across BC from 1995-2004. This research uses quantitative methods to analyze a large data set to determine the differences between academic achievement in language, mathematics, and science of students who participate in arts programs and those who have no involvement with the arts in secondary school. Click here to download the full Globe and Mail newspaper article.
For further information, visit Peter's homepage at: http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/gouzouasis.html
Email: peter.gouzouasis@ubc.ca
July 2006
Dr Tim Inglis - School of Human Kinetics
The task of maintaining upright stance and balance in the human involves a complex control system that can use and integrate the bounty of sensory information that surrounds us. Dr. Tim Inglis is a Physical Therapist and Full Professor in the School of Human Kinetics, and the long term goal of his research program is to better understand the fundamental role played by sensory information in the control of posture and movement in humans. In the Human Neurophysiology laboratory, a special research technique, termed single-unit microneurography, is used to record directly from the peripheral nerve cells of conscious human subjects. This is the first laboratory in Canada, and one of only a handful in the world, currently capable of doing this type of research. Other research directions in this laboratory involve investing vestibular contributions to movement and uses another novel research technique, termed galvanic vestibular stimulation, to artificially stimulate the human vestibular system (inner ear balancing system). The practical extension of this type of technology and research is the design and implementation of an "artificial vestibular system" to improve standing balance. Finally, very recent investigations into the control of balance in sitting, and using fine wire muscle electromyographic (EMG) recordings, have suggested a underlying role for startle reflexes in the occurrence of whiplash injury.
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