2014
Your EDCP Graduate Student Conference:
You are invited to the First annual EDCP Graduate Student Conference (EGS)
The General Theme for EGS Conference 2014 is: Education and discourse: Sharing our journeys across disciplines
The first annual EGS Conference is planned to provide community space for peer communication of research, scholarly work, and practice within our community of contemporary EDCP Graduate Students. EGS also serves as an opportunity to connect with our peers in other departments within the faculty of Education.
Please note that the EGS Conference has a general theme in order to provide space for the scholarly voice of all EDCP graduate students in contemporary disciplines and areas of study. We invite you to bring in your own specific topic according to your interest, experience and scholarly journey.
- EGS Conference Important Dates: Abstract submissions Deadline: February 15, 2014
- Participants will receive Peer Review feedback by: March 1, 2014
- Notification of finalized schedule: March 15, 2014
- Conference Date: March 28, 2014 Conference Submissions:
You are invited to submit your abstracts of a maximum of 400 words to edcpgradpeeradvisor@gmail.com The abstracts are reviewed by a group of volunteer conference committee members: The volunteer conference committee members are EDCP students who respond to the volunteer call sent to all EDCP students.
Your final presentation on the day of conference can be in any of the following formats:
- Papers and writings, Posters, Panels and symposia, Contemporary Art work, Poetry, Ritual, Contemporary Media, Showcase or workshop.
- Please notify us in what format your final presentation is going to be.
Papers are suggested to be a maximum of 2,000 words and one (1) page of references. Every paper presentation will be given 20 minutes (including five minutes for questions). Panels, Workshops and showcases will be given a maximum one-hour time limit. All submissions are accepted in order to provide opportunity for everyone’s inclusion. All submissions will receive peer review feedback from the group of volunteer committee members.
Conference Participants: All EDCP graduate students including full-time, part-time, cohort and non-cohort peers, EDST graduate students, LLED graduate students, ECPS graduate students, KIN graduate students, PDCE graduate students and IECER graduate students are encouraged to submit and participate.
Communications and updates: The following page on EDCP blog serves as the communication site for updates about the EGS Conference: https://blogs.ubc.ca/edcp/graduate-student-conference/
Call for Volunteers:
You are invited to volunteer in the First annual EDCP Graduate Student Conference (EGS)
The first annual EGS Conference is planned to provide community space for peer communication of research, scholarly work, and practice within our community of contemporary EDCP Graduate Students. EGS also serves as an opportunity to connect with our peers in other departments within the faculty of Education.
EGS conference is a student run initiative and we invite you to join the EGS conference committee and become a volunteer committee member. The volunteer positions are designed to provide space to all interested EDCP graduate students to be involved in the following tasks:
- Conference planning and organization
- Conference poster design
- Peer Review of submitted abstracts
- Identification of themes for planning conference sessions and panels based on received abstracts
- Full day Conference moderation on March 28, 2014
Schedule of proposed meetings:
- Conference committee “Planning meeting”: January 23, 2014 at 2:30-4:30 in EDCP Den (Room 6a).
- Conference committee “Peer Review meeting”: February 27 at 2:30-4:30 in the Den.
- Conference committee “Finalizing meeting”: March 13 at 2:30-4:30 in the Den.
- Committee members Moderate conference sessions: March 28, 2014 in Scarfe Third floor.
EGS Conference Important Dates:
- Abstract submissions Deadline:
December 9, 2013February 15, 2014 - Participants will receive Peer Review feedback by: March 1, 2014
- Notification of finalized schedule: March 15, 2014
- Conference Date: March 28, 2014
To become a volunteer committee member for 2014 conference, please email:
EDCP. Peer Advisor: Mahtab Eskandari at mahtabeskandari22@yahoo.ca
Conference Schedule:
Downloadable Conference Schedule
- Morning Opening session:
Room 310, Third floor, Neville Scarfe Building
9-9:15
- Art and poster display:
Room 310, Third floor, Neville Scarfe Building
9:15-9:30
Poster presenters:
– Learning to participate: Mathematical argumentation in the primary years.
Sylvia Mclellan, PhD. EDCP.
– Interruption of a learning/gathering space.
Joanne Ursino, MA.EDCP.
Art installations:
– Animation art painting. Mu Yang, MA.EDCP.
– Contemporary installations. Joanne Ursino, MA.EDCP.
– Nourouz the sacred spring: Ecological literacies. Mahtab Eskandari, PhD. EDCP.
- Session 1: Morning Multiple room presentations:
9:30-11:00 am.
Room 310:
Workshop: Exploring Book Arts alongside the academic page (Part One).
Joanne Ursino, MA. EDCP.
Moderator: A. Elizabeth Beattie, PhD. EDCP.
Room 308:
Presentations:
-Museum Educators’ perspectives on virtual museums.
Annie Hung, Master of Museum Education, EDCP.
-Possibilities of using 3-D virtual environments for educational purposes.
Kwesi Yaro, MA, EDCP.
– Curriculum change or innovation: A study of Yuanpei program.
Wanying Wang, PhD. EDCP.
Moderator: Jung Jung Hoon, PhD. EDCP
Room 304:
Presentations:
-Reflections on an a/r/tographic approach to piano pedagogy.
Jee Yeon Ryu, PhD. EDCP
-Who am I as a learner, teacher & researcher? A journey to (Re)discover self-in-Relation. Latika Raisinghani, PhD. EDCP.
-The active resistance of being a “linguistic outsider” among Japanese Sojourners. Elisabeth Williams, MA. LLED
Moderator: Latika Raisinghani, PhD. EDCP & Nasim E. Azad, MEd. EDCP.
- Break: Hot drinks and assorted Baked goods from Agora cafe
11-11:15 am.
- Session 2: Morning Multiple room presentations continue:
11:15-12:45 pm.
Room 310:
Workshop: Exploring Book Arts alongside the academic page (Part Two).
Joanne Ursino, MA. EDCP.
Moderator: A. Elizabeth Beattie, PhD. EDCP.
Room 308:
Presentations:
– Curriculum as techno-theological text within an Aokian framework.
Yu Ling, PhD. EDCP.
-The reciprocity of currere, a reconstruction of self and autobiographical theory.
Jung Jung Hoon, PhD. EDCP.
– How place influences and/or shapes our understandings about our own identities.
Nasim E. Azad, Med. EDCP
Moderator: Katie Gemmel, MA. EDCP.
Room 304:
Presentations:
-Towards understanding politics of representation in the era of globalization.
Mahtab Eskandari, PhD. EDCP.
-A teacher goes back to school, back to square one? An auto-ethnographic analysis. Natalia Blyasnikova, PhD. LLED
-Mediating family literacy practices: Role of a multicultural worker in elementary school. Nicola Friedrich, PhD. LLED.
Moderator: Latika Raisinghani, PhD. EDCP.
- Socializing Lunch: Special farm to fork food from Agora cafe
12:45-1:15 pm.
- Art and poster afternoon session:
1:15-1:30 pm.
- Session 3: Workshop presentations:
1:30-2:30 pm.
Room 310:
Workshop: The magic of 7 and 13: Seven grammatical principles and thirteen grammatical terms that will transform constipated composers into writing wizards.
Anna Mendoza, MA. LLED.
Moderator: Katie Gemmel, MA. EDCP.
Room 308:
Group presentation: Outdoor classrooms: conversations surrounding global efforts.
Julia Ostertag, PhD. EDCP., Antonia Lazarova, MA. EDCP., Kwesi Yaro, MA. EDCP., Samira Thomas, PhD. EDCP.
Moderator: Joanne Price, PhD. EDCP.& A. Elizabeth Beattie, PhD. EDCP.
Room 304:
Roundtable: Ethical notions of “development” and challenging assumptions of ourselves and the “other”: A dialogue around international service learning and NGO work.
Sandra Delgado & Michelle Gautreaux EDCP.
Moderator: Latika Raisinghani, PhD. EDCP & Elizabeth Namazi, PhD. EDCP.
- Break: Hot drinks and assorted Baked goods from Agora cafe
2:30-2:45 pm.
- Session 4: Afternoon Multiple room presentations continue (short session):
2:45-3:45 pm.
Room 310:
Presentations:
– Art of abeyance- Curriculum as impermanence.
Joanne Price, PhD. EDCP.
– Environmental Education & kindergarten students.
A. Elizabeth Beattie, PhD. EDCP.
Moderator: Joanne Price, PhD. EDCP. & Mahtab Eskandari, PhD. EDCP.
Room 308:
Presentations:
– Community libraries in Africa: A critical review of the literature.
Espen Stranger-Johannessen, PhD. LLED.
– Teaching foreign language beginners with their own popular culture.
Sumin Fang, MA. LLED.
Moderator: Elizabeth Namazi, PhD. EDCP.
Room 304:
Presentations:
– The importance of digital tools in a 5 year old girl’s life: A case study.
Laura Teichert, PhD. LLED.
– Learning to participate: Mathematical argumentation in the primary years.
Sylvia Mclellan, PhD. EDCP.
Moderator: Kwesi Yaro, MA. EDCP.
- Closing session in room 310: Conference presenters and committee appreciation ceremony
3:45-4:30 pm.
With many thanks to:
All graduate student presenters and participants from across the faculty of Education, the conference committee volunteers and moderators from the department of Curriculum and Pedagogies and EDCP conference group of peer advisors.
Poster Design:
Courtesy of Joanne Price, PhD. EDCP and Nasim E.Azad, Med. EDCP.
Sponsored by:
The Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP)
The Graduate Student council of the Faculty of Education (GSFE)
On Traditional and Ancestral Land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ə (Musqueam) People
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