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Graduate Student Spotlight: Award Recipient & Recent Graduate Donna Kozak

Graduate Student Spotlight: Award Recipient & Recent Graduate Donna Kozak

Our 2019 Doctoral Studies Outstanding Dissertation Award recipient is Donna Kozak with her dissertation on Parents with teachers re-authoring the home-school interface: a critical participatory action research study. A familiar face around UBCO, Donna Kozak (or Dr. Donna Kozak we can officially say!) has been an adjunct professor co-teaching a literacy course for our Bachelor […]

Graduate Student Q&A:  Award Recipient Spotlight on Leslie Shayer

Graduate Student Q&A: Award Recipient Spotlight on Leslie Shayer

Our 2019 Outstanding Master-Level Graduate Student Award recipient is Master of Arts student, Leslie Shayer. An award that’s not often bestowed, Leslie has gone above and beyond since joining us at the Okanagan School of Education (OSE). She is a Grad Student Representative, the Secretary for the Stress, Coping, and Resilience Special Interest Group in […]

Graduate Student Q&A: Award Recipient Spotlight on Kelly Hanson

Graduate Student Q&A: Award Recipient Spotlight on Kelly Hanson

Our 2019 Stephen Daniel Pope Graduate Award recipient is PhD candidate, Kelly Hanson.

Director Announcement

Director Announcement

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta has been appointed Director of the Okanagan School of Education.

ABCDE Awards in Education for 2018

Recipients for the 2018 ABCDE Awards in Education have been announced with one of our own receiving the honour. The Association of BC Deans of Education (ABCDE) presented Terry-Lee Beaudry an award for Education Advocate of the Year. Ms. Beaudry serves as Deputy Superintendent, Central Okanagan S.D. 23, Kelowna. She also serves as an adjunct […]

Interdisciplinary speaker series announces 2018 winter speakers

PINTS Speaker Series welcomes new lineup of speakers It was over a beer that Dr. Christopher Martin, Assistant Professor in Education, and Dr. Ross Hickey, Assistant Professor in Economics, decided to launch their interdisciplinary speaker series PINTS ( Political Inquiry aNd Theory Studies). Designed to foster opportunities for faculty and graduate students to pilot work […]

UBC Okanagan becomes home for Father and Son researchers

UBC Okanagan becomes home for Father and Son researchers

Faculty of Education welcomes Iranian academic to UBC’s Okanagan campus The apple does not fall far from the tree in the Okanagan valley this year. Hamid Javdani says it is “a fortunate coincidence” that he has joined his son Assistant Professor Mohsen Javdani at UBC’s Okanagan campus as a visiting scholar in the Faculty of […]

Happy Holidays from Dean Blye Frank

Wishing you and yours a happy, safe, and warm holiday season! From Dr. Blye Frank, Dean pro tem, Faculty of Education, UBC Okanagan