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Student stress relief: wagging tails and smiling faces

By Okanagan School of Education on February 28, 2017

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Building on kindness for Kelowna’s Pink Shirt Day

By Okanagan School of Education on February 20, 2017

Posted in BARK, Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged anti-bullying, B.A.R.K., community, Dr. John Tyler Binfet, Kindness, Kindness study, Pink Shirt Day | Leave a response

The Science Behind Kindness

By Okanagan School of Education on November 13, 2016

Why is it important to acknowledge kindness and kind acts? We sat down with kindness expert and UBC Assist. Prof. John-Tyler Binfet on World Kindness Day to discuss his kindness research in schools and how it relates to everyday life. Q: Dr. Binfet, could you please give us a brief background about the kindness research […]

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Teaching: An Act of Kindness? University of British Columbia Research Suggests students Believe so

By Okanagan School of Education on November 2, 2016

Posted in Featured Programs, Media Releases, Our Faculty, Our Students, Research & Teaching | Tagged Dr. John Tyler Binfet, Education Professor, Faculty of Education, Kindness, Kindness study, Research, Research Grant, sd23, spotlight, study | Leave a response

Seeing kindness in teaching

By Okanagan School of Education on October 6, 2016

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UBC Okanagan study finds kids see teaching as an act of kindness

By Okanagan School of Education on October 5, 2016

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UBC Okanagan study finds kids see teaching as an act of kindness

By Okanagan School of Education on October 5, 2016

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Okanagan students see teaching as an act of kindness

By Okanagan School of Education on October 5, 2016

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Students see Teaching as an act of kindness

By Okanagan School of Education on October 5, 2016

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Students see Teaching as an act of kindness

By Okanagan School of Education on October 5, 2016

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