The Iranian Gifted Schools
Graduate Students (MA in Education) Sareh Karami and Mehdi Ghahremani presented The Iranian Gifted Schools at a glance Their presentation focused on the current Iranian education system. Mehdi began the presentation with a history of education in Iran. Sareh continued the presentation by explaining the Iranian organization for gifted students called The National Organization for Development of […]
Trials and tribulations of writing, peer review and revisions
Dr. Karen Ragoonaden presented Trial and tribulations of writing, peer review and revisions This interactive presentation focused on issues surrounding content and process of writing academic articles. Likening her journey to climbing Mount Everest, Dr. Ragoonaden encouraged graduate students and new faculty to become involved with the publishing process as quickly as possible. After Dr. […]
Stirring Minds: From STEM to SoTL
From STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to SoTL (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning): A Difficult Journey On February 23, 2012, Engineer Susan Nesbit and Scientist Niamh Kelly discussed their transition from STEM practitioners to SoTL scholars. The story of their journey inspired their audience of scholars and graduate students to begin a dialogue. […]
DIY Academic Journal Publishing
Dr. Lawrence D. Berg presented Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Academic Journal Publishing in the Age of the Knowledge Enclosure. This presentation outlined opportunities for creating new scholarly publication venues in the age of academic capitalism and the knowledge enclosure. Dr. Berg began his discussion about the wider cultural and political economic context within which one needs to […]
Faculty of Education helps to open new horizons
The Faculty of Education is pleased to be a contributor and participant in the Penticton Herald-Kelowna Courier Okanagan Spelling Bee on February 18.
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Congratulations to Starleigh Grass
Alumna and current master’s student Starleigh Grass receives the 2011 BC Aboriginal Student Award A self-described “teacher, blogger, and mother” from the Tsilhqot’in Nation received the 2011 BC Aboriginal Student Award from The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society, in partnership with the Victoria Foundation. The recipient, Starleigh Grass, is currently on leave from […]
You want to be a teacher? Then get out of the classroom
UBC’s Okanagan campus education students go beyond their textbooks
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4th Annual Interprofessional Workshop
On November 9th, UNC 200 will become a ‘village’ of over 140 students, faculty and community practitioners involved in nursing, social work and education. The purpose of the workshop is to model interprofessional practice through case studies and panel discussions that focus on issues of child welfare. As Dr. Judy Gillespie commented last year in […]
New book publication: Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens
Veronica Gaylie, associate professor of education, has just published a […]
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Campus Support for Graduate Students
Dr. Susan Crichton, Director of Graduate Programs, introduced special campus friends during orientation… Beginning on the Mezzanine of the EME building, Dr. Susan Crichton welcomed incoming graduate students to the Faculty of Education. In her remarks, Dean Lynn Bosetti encouraged the students to think, engage and challenge not only themselves, but also challenge their professors […]