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EDST 498U: Reimagining Classroom Management as Curriculum
July 23 – August 9 (Tuesday to Friday) | 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Format: In-Person
This course aims to help teachers rethink classroom management as a means of leadership and curriculum, emphasizing the cultivation of humane classrooms that promote self-expression, agency in learning, questioning, reflection, creativity, play, and imagination, while exploring key distinctions between imposed control and emergent control through experiential learning.
By the end of this course, students will:
- be able to identify and critically reflect on educational aims in relation to leadership (management) and curriculum from historical, sociological, political, and philosophical perspectives and consider how, “Learning takes patience and time” and “Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors” (FNESC First Peoples Principles of Learning).
- deepen their understandings of the moral, political, and economic contexts of education, and their impacts on students, gaining greater conscientiousness about inequalities that arise from social class, race, gender and sexual orientation differences and social stratification.
- identify what humane classrooms look, sound, and feel like and develop a deeper understanding of the role of freedom and agency in learning. Students will develop a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the experience of the subjective self in relation to the everydayness of classrooms, schools, and communities.
- critically examine the notion of control, including key distinctions between imposed control and emergent control.
- be able to identify key attributes of schools and classrooms in a democratic society and begin to develop a language for their practice grounded in these aims.
Kyle Hamilton
Kyle Hamilton is a passionate educator having taught at the middle, secondary and post-secondary levels. He values complex teaching and learning environments that seek to grapple with human well-being, agency, diverse knowledges, praxis, subjective reconstruction, and democratization. His masters work explored the philosophy of cosmopolitanism in relation to K-12 settings and his PhD work focuses on foregrounding K-12 classrooms and schools as sites for developing more democratic and more just societies. In his spare time, he loves to mountain bike, ski, hike, play ice hockey, and travel.
How to register
To register for courses, please visit the Student Service Centre (SSC).
Please note, this course requires third-year standing or above. Those who do not meet the requirements will be dropped from the course.
Register for Term two (July/August) courses via the Student Service Centre (SSC).
If you are looking to transfer a course into UBC Vancouver, or another institution, please confirm transfer credit will be approved prior to registering for a UBC Okanagan course.
*It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the course is accepted towards the completion of a program.
Register for Term two (July/August) courses via the Student Service Centre (SSC). You must have current Summer registration eligibility. If not, please email sie.education@ubc.ca.
If you are looking to transfer a course into UBC Vancouver, or another institution, please confirm approval of transfer credit prior to registration.
*It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the course is accepted towards the completion of a program.
To register for a course, you will first need to submit an online application via Education Planner BC portal.
- Sign up for your EducationPlannerBC Account and follow the instructions to complete your applicant profile.
- Select University of British Columbia as the institution you want to apply to
- Select the upcoming Winter Session: September – December
- Select “Access Studies”
- Under “Access Studies” section, indicate that your program of interest is the Okanagan School of Education’s Summer Institute in Education Summer Session May – August.
- Once all necessary fields are filled in, click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.
- You will be prompted to review your EPBC application and pay an application fee.
Once you have paid the application fee, email nondegree.ok@ubc.ca if you want UBC to process it quicker. If not, it will take three to five business days for UBC to admit you.
Please contact sie.education@ubc.ca with your UBC student number and courses of interest.