Visiting Scholar presents sustainability research
Kim Ceulemans, from the Catholic University of Leuven—the largest and oldest university in Belgium—is visiting The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus to continue a two-year collaboration with Dr. Carol Scarff from the Faculty of Education.
Calling all designers, developers, tinkerers, community boosters, creatives—yes, we mean you!
Innovative Learning Centre hosts Kelowna’s second Design Jam
UBC students help commit Ghana folktales to print for the very first time
Team of teacher candidates helps Ghana folktales come to life in print Education students Jessica Bens, Holly Corbett, Meghan Epp, Alisha Hoy, Dorothy Marcy, Stephen MacInnis and Sara Pereira, worked with local junior high school students in Ghana to choose, illustrate, and write, the folklore for seven storybooks—committing traditional stories to print for the very […]
Maker Days movement shifts learning across BC schools
Educators are reclaiming ‘making’ in classrooms across BC The University of British Columbia (UBC), in partnership with The Industry Training Authority (ITA), piloted 5 ‘Maker Days’ in Kelowna, Sicamous, and Maple Ridge as a way of introducing trades and technology and experiential learning opportunities from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The Maker movement encourages a shift […]
Stirring Minds Faculty of Education Speaker Series welcomes Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change
Dr. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti will present Alter-Globalism in Higher Education in speaker series Title: Alter-Globalism in Higher Education: paradoxes of ethics, justice and internationalization When: March 14, 2014, 1-2 pm Where: EME 2202 Andreotti’s presentation will examine shifting perceptions of the public role of (higher) education, with particular emphasis on questions of ethics, justice […]
Faculty of Education professor to present B.A.R.K. at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus
Dr. John Tyler Binfet will present an overview of B.A.R.K.— the faculty’s dog therapy program. Dr. Binfet will share with the UBC Vancouver campus an overview of the B.A.R.K. Program. Standing for “Building Academic Retention Through K9’s”, B.A.R.K. is a dog therapy program that brings together UBC Okanagan students, trained therapy dogs and handlers, and […]
Assistant Professor Dr. Scott Douglas publishes new book about writing for post-secondary
Students have a new resource with the Oxford University Press release of Academic Inquiry: Writing for Post-secondary Success, by the Faculty of Education’s Dr. Scott Douglas. In Academic Inquiry, Douglas uses authentic undergraduate content, including business, engineering, and health sciences, to guide and inspire student’s writing. Each unit is theme-based and teaches one essential rhetorical […]
From the London’s financial district to UBC’s Faculty of Education
Former banker Walid Muslih decided ‘I want to be in the classroom’ It wasn’t long ago that Walid Muslih toiled in the high-rises of London and New York, a successful banker analyzing debt capital markets. Working in the towers of big-city financial districts—suit and tie’d—his “exciting, always changing” career rode epic waves such as the […]
Elementary Teacher Candidates present research findings
Graduating teacher candidates in the Elementary Teacher Education Program (ETEP) at UBC’s Okanagan campus have completed their Guided Reflective Inquiry Projects (GRIPs).
STEP Student Martina Steuri: Recipient of Annual Essay Prize
Congratulations to Martina Steuri, a student in the Faculty of Education STEP French Education Specialty, who was one of the recipients for the annual essay prize in the Canadian Undergraduate category by the North American Conference on British Studies. Martina Steuri, now in the Faculty of Education’s Secondary Teacher Education Program, was one of the […]