Research Presentation and Panel Discuss
Living Democracy: Examining the vital connections between education and engaged citizenship.
Dr. Catherine Broom, Dr. Christopher Martin and Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta will be presenting research on Canadian democracy and recent publications.
Kyle Hamilton and Ryan Holly, teachers from School District 23, will also be presenting about their work on citizenship, democracy and social justice through education.
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UBC professors conduct research in local community school
UBC researchers are collaborating with educators to re-imagine the future of education at Vernon Community School (VCS), an alternative school that’s reconstructing the way we think about learning.
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Education reform in BC historically not democratic
How and what BC children learn in schools has traditionally been politically driven and largely ignored the input of educators, a UBC study has found.
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After School Reading Program/Vernon
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Stirring Minds Speaker Series: Dr. Kim McDonough
Kim McDonough is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Applied Linguistics in the Department of Education and the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University. She previously taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northern Arizona University. Her research interests include interaction and usage-based approaches to second language acquisition, structural priming, and task-based language teaching. She has published empirical research in applied linguistics journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, The Modern Language Journal, Language Learning and TESOL Quarterly. Her book publications include Using priming methods in second language (Routledge, 2008) and Insights from psycholinguistics: Applying priming research to L2 teaching and learning (Benjamins, 2011), both with Pavel Trofimovic, and Second language interactions in diverse educational contexts (Benjamins, 2013) with Alison Mackey. Her current research projects are investigating the role of joint attention in face-to-face communications and the timing of collaboration during L2 writing tasks.