$1.2-million gift helps UBC educators promote mindfulness
Donation helps Okanagan campus Faculty of Education launch new program A Colorado educator and philanthropist has donated $1.2 million to the Faculty of Education to create a program of mindfulness at UBC’s Okanagan campus. SMARTinEducation (SMART) is a program in mindfulness—the intentional cultivation of moment-by-moment focused attention and awareness—for educators. Research into the neurobiology of […]
Education professor announced co-winner of 2013 Canadian Education Association Pat Clifford Award
The Canadian Education Association awards Dr. Leyton Schnellert the Pat Clifford Award for Early Career Research in Education. Faculty of Education Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Professional Development Leyton Schnellert was recently awarded the distinguished Canadian Education Association (CEA) Pat Clifford Award for Early Career Research in Education. The award recognizes Schnellert’s work in improving […]
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 […]
New program mixes English language skills with academic studies
Pilot program proves successful, 100 students register for intake.
Angela Finley recipient of Faculty of Education’s Vicki Green Graduate Award
Interdisciplinary student connected to nature and sustainable practices.
Faculty of Education professor receives grant from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
Dr. Susan Crichton, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, in collaboration with colleagues in East Africa, was awarded a grant from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, for her research in using technology to foster innovations in literacy. Crichton is the Director of the […]
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 […]
Faculty of Education: What’s new for 2013-2014
Faculty research, intimate learning environments, close ties and new programs.
What really matters in education?
Distinguished visiting scholar discusses the value of teaching in a changing world.