Date:            Wednesday, July 30th 2014 Venue:         Scarfe Room 1107 Time:            12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Title:             Digital Ethnography as a New Trend of Ethnographic Studies in Education in Brazil   Speaker:       Dr. Carmen de Mattos, Associate Professor, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil   Abstract: Digital Technology and Ethnographic Research are subjects that reflect the demands of education in the […]

LLED  441 an online course on Children’s Literature K-12  is an opportunity to study children’s literature as a resource for developing multiliteracies across the curriculum. The multimodal forms of literature offer content and inspiration for transformative activities and reflective thinking that serve students literacy and literary development needs. Assignments include multimodal responses to key issues such […]

GRADUATE ACADEMIC ASSISTANT (GAA) IN THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH The OGPR is looking to hire a Faculty of Education graduate student who can provide consultation to peers on navigating the web forms for the upcoming SSHRC graduate fellowship and scholarship competition. Job Title: Faculty of Education SSHRC GAA Duration: 3 weeks (September […]

New Graduate Student Orientation, hosted by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, International Student Development, and the Graduate Student Society (GSS), is quickly approaching.  All incoming graduate students have been invited.  Events include: *        Wednesday, August 27: International Student Welcome – an afternoon session designed to help international students make the most of their UBC experience *        Thursday, August 28: […]

William Rea Fellowship in Television Award amount: $500 to $2,100 Deadline: Friday, 1 August, 2014   The fellowship is open to a University of British Columbia graduate student of either sex, who shows the greatest aptitude in terms of scholarship and extracurricular activity for a career in television through drama, music, writing, photography, engineering, or […]

The UBC Faculty of Education presents the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series:   Public Lecture: Towards Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up 1:00PM, Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310   Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China   […]