Our Story
Guiding Principles
Broadly speaking, we take inspiration from the advocacy by Syilx elders (Christina Marchand, Eric Mitchell) and aim to move forward together to reimagine and improve student learning experiences in UBC science and engineering courses that engage students with the Land. In this initiative, we strive towards equitable partnerships, trusting relationships, and transparency in our intentions and activities.
These principles guide EaSEIL’s work and activity outputs:
- FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (Wilkinson at al., 2016)
- CARE: Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics (Carroll et. al., 2020)
- TRUST: Transparency, Responsibility, User focus, Sustainability, Technology (Lin et al., 2020)
As such, we amplify good practices and work already happening. We meet people where they are. We collaborate and consult. We pause, reflect, and aim to do no harm.
Community Guidelines
Within the Community of Practice we aimed to create a learning environment where respect for one another and collaboration to enhance understanding or produce resources/ideas were at the forefront. Every member was invited to participate as a partner in knowledge building.
We co-constructed community guidelines for collaboration and learning together with instructors and partners and revisited these in every meeting:
