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EDST 498E (3): Reflective Autobiography: A teaching/teacher’s way of being for productively navigating school landscapes
July 4 – July 21 (Tuesday to friday) 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Format: Online
This course invites educators (inservice, preservice, and future) to undertake an autobiographical examination of their education experiences. Through Pinar’s notion of the Currere Method, students are positioned to reflect on educational experiences that shape an individual’s self-understanding in relation to teaching practices and curriculum. By focusing on autobiography as a method for personal development, this summer course intends to help participants surface new points of view on school, schooling, and teaching. Your theorizing voice will be mobilized for engaged pedagogical action—articulating what you are doing and why, challenging your values, introspectively exploring your assumptions and beliefs, and seeking ways to further all learners and learning. This course starts as a seminar and moves into a workshop model where we will regularly write and then give and get feedback on each other’s written work. We will grow together; learning from ourselves and those in our class community. You will leave with a Currere autobiographical paper by the end of the two weeks.
After completing this seminar, students should be able to:
- engage in collaborative group work and provide effective feedback on peer autobiographical writing
- better understand the issues on the education landscape
- demonstrate ability to use the reflective steps of the Currere method to explore personal experiences of the education landscape
- gain an awareness of policies, systemic structures, and discourses on the education landscape and their impact
- demonstrate engagement with class concepts in both in-class discussions and in written assignments
- critically reflect on experiences, beliefs, assumptions, and integrate insights into a Currere autobiographical reflection narrative paper
Dr. Sumer Seiki
Dr. Seiki, associate professor in the School of Education, has served in education for well over twenty years. For her research contributions to teacher education and interdisciplinary research, Dr. Seiki recently won the 2020 American Education Research Association Early Career Award from the Narrative SIG. Recently at the University of California, Riverside School of Education she was the Assistant Dean and Director of Teacher Education Programs. In this role, she directed the teacher education credential programs and partnered with local school districts. She was also an associate professor of teacher education at the University of San Francisco exploring familial curriculum, ethic studies, community cultural wealth, and science teacher education.
How to register
This course is restricted to Okanagan School of Education students and practicing educators.
To register for courses, please visit the Student Information Service Centre (SISC).
Register for Term two (July/August) courses via the Student Information Service Centre (SISC).
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 Information Service Centre (SISC). You must have 2021 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.