An educator ready to challenge the world of education
Okanagan College Regional Dean James Barmby earns PhD at UBC.
Kelly Hanson receives Faculty of Education’s Vicki Green Graduate Award
Kelly Hanson chosen as award recipient for her work in advancing social justice in her classroom, school, and community. The Faculty of Education Awards Committee announced Kelly Hanson as the winner of the third annual Vicki Green Graduate Award on June 5, 2014. Graduate student Kelly Hanson’s research was chosen on the basis of how it […]
UBC confers record number degrees at Convocation
Six graduation ceremonies take place over two days this week.
Record 28 UBC employees receive long-service awards
Decades of service to post-secondary sector celebrated at ceremony.
UBC creates Excellence in Teaching Award for Okanagan community
Faculty of Education calls for nominations, open to educators in the valley.
Mindfulness and gym class: What’s the connection?
Faculty of Education professor presents paper with international colleague at Oxford University Dr. Christopher Martin, in collaboration with Dr. Oren Ergas of Hebrew University and Haifa University, presented their recent work exploring the educational value behind the concept of mindfulness. Their joint paper, On the justification of physical education: Body-based mindfulness and R.S. Peters’ cognitive […]
UBC honours faculty for teaching excellence and innovation
Education professor Susan Crichton, engineering professor Mina Hoorfar recognized.
Faculty of Education students win Okanagan Historical Society Video Contest
Okanagan Historical Society Video awards Matthew Burke and Chelsea Sladen for their archival movies Faculty of Education students, Matthew Burke and Chelsea Sladen, were awarded 500 dollars for their archival movies, The Keremos Grist Mill and Kelowna’s Early Chinatown. Each year the Okanagan Historical Society (OHS) video contest searches for videos which depict the rich […]
UBC researchers part of Peachland partnership for large development
Developer joins forces with engineering students, Okanagan Sustainability Institute.
Interdisciplinary research: Concept navigator promotes personalized learning
Imagine if learning was like diving into a pool to any location you wished. You could learn a concept and then move to other areas of study exploring detailed content at various levels. There would be no “right’ entry point into or through the material, and all the while you are learning, you would be […]