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UBC professor says teacher education programs should teach for public accountability

By Okanagan School of Education on March 6, 2017

Posted in Media Releases, Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged accountability, community, Dr. Christopher Martin, Education Professor, Faculty, Faculty of Education, Philosophy of Education, public, publication, Research, spotlight, teacher ed programs | Leave a response

Study says children’s success in schools tied to teachers’ wellbeing

By Okanagan School of Education on July 29, 2016

Posted in Media Releases, Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged Dr. Sabre Cherkowski, Education, Education Professor, Faculty, Faculty of Education, Philosophy of Education, Research, spotlight | Leave a response

Children’s success in schools tied to teachers’ wellbeing

By Okanagan School of Education on July 26, 2016

Posted in Media Releases, Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged Dr. Sabre Cherkowski, Education, Education Professor, Philosophy of Education, Research, spotlight | Leave a response

UBCO profesor calls education loans unfair for students

By Okanagan School of Education on June 19, 2016

Posted in Media Releases, Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged Dr. Christopher Martin, Education Professor, Faculty of Education, Philosophy of Education, Research, spotlight, teaching and learning | Leave a response

The threat of debt: UBC Okanagan professor raises concerns about student borrowing

By Okanagan School of Education on June 19, 2016

Posted in Media Releases, Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged Dr. Christopher Martin, Education, Education Professor, Faculty of Education, Graduate Studies, Philosophy of Education, Research, spotlight, teaching and learning | Leave a response

Prof says make it free

By Okanagan School of Education on June 17, 2016

Posted in Media Releases, Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged Dr. Christopher Martin, Faculty of Education, Philosophy of Education, Research, Research Grant, spotlight, teaching and learning | Leave a response

Tuition Fees ‘force students to pick degrees by salary prospects’

By Okanagan School of Education on May 26, 2016

Posted in Media Releases, Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged Dr. Christopher Martin, Education Professor, Faculty of Education, Philosophy of Education, Research, spotlight | Leave a response

The castle hosts the Jura Museum, a collection of fossils found just outside the town and beyond.

Dr. Martin’s German Research Fellowship – Post 1: Philosophy and Pretzels

By Okanagan School of Education on November 23, 2015

Eichstätt Arrival After a lengthy international flight, we arrived at Munich International Airport. It turns out that between the airport and the Munchen Train Station, Munich is a major transportation hub for much of Europe. Eichstatt is about an hour’s train ride North of Munich. The town is beautiful. You can’t throw a rock without […]

Posted in Our Faculty, Research & Teaching | Tagged Dr. Christopher Martin, Philosophy of Education, Research Grant, spotlight | 1 Response

Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta and Dr. David Hansen

Philosopher in Education asks the question, “What does it mean to be a person in the role of teacher today?”

By Okanagan School of Education on November 9, 2015

Columbia University’s David Hansen visits UBC’s Faculty of Education, Okanagan Campus When you can learn anything by looking it up online, what does it mean to be a person in the role of teacher today? For Dr. David Hansen, that’s the question that informed his “Person in the World” project. David Hansen is the Wineberg […]

Posted in Our Faculty | Tagged Centre for Mindful Engagement, Faculty of Education, Philosophy of Education, Visiting Scholar | Leave a response

Mindfulness and gym class: What’s the connection?

Mindfulness and gym class: What’s the connection?

By Okanagan School of Education on May 15, 2014

Faculty of Education professor presents paper with international colleague at Oxford University Dr. Christopher Martin, in collaboration with Dr. Oren Ergas of Hebrew University and Haifa University, presented their recent work exploring the educational value behind the concept of mindfulness. Their joint paper,  On the justification of physical education: Body-based mindfulness and R.S. Peters’ cognitive […]

Posted in Our Faculty, Research & Teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged Dr. Christopher Martin, Faculty of Education, Philosophy of Education | Leave a response

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