Day: April 8, 2013

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Announcements Conferences

May 3: CILS 9th Symposium‏

Centre for Intercultural Language Studies (CILS) presents

9th Annual Symposium

Reflecting on Experiential Learning: What Lies beyond the Language Classroom?

Friday, May 3, 2013

9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

(Registration starts at 8 a.m.)

UBC Venue

Swing Space Building

2175 West Mall

Map: http://tinyurl.com/ylg7a4d

 Keynote Speakers

(Please note these will be videoconference presentations and discussions)

l   Dr. João A. Telles – Teletandem: Performativity of local identities in online trancontinental interactions

Associate Professor, Department of Education, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

2  Dr. Malama Tsimenis – When service meets learning in second language instruction: A look back at three years’ experience

Lecturer, French Department, University of Toronto

For more information, please visit: http://www.cils.educ.ubc.ca/events_details/events2013May03.html

Online registration is open at: http://pdce-educ-payportal.sites.olt.ubc.ca/cils-9th-annual-symposium/

Volunteers

CILS will waive the registration fee for all its volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Rachel Wang at rachel.wang@ubc.ca directly.

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Courses

EDST Course: Advanced Seminar in Lifelong Learning‏

EDST 583A Advanced Seminar in Lifelong Learning Summer Term 2a: July2-19, 2013 Ponderosa F, Room 203
 
Instructor: Nancy Jackson, Assoc. Prof Emerita, University of Toronto
Email: nancy.jackson@utoronto.ca
 
 
This course will explore the complex terrain of lifelong learning and its g= rowing presence in public policies and in popular imaginations. Western sys= tems of education have been built on the belief that most learning goes on = amongst the young. But in the post war era, the capacity of adults to go on=  learning has come to be seen as a vast, mostly untapped, 'human resource' = to be mobilized, managed and regulated to serve a variety of competing inte= rests.  The results are often a maze of contradictions.
 
In this course, we will examine several familiar domains in which discourse= s of learning increasingly shape policy and practice in public or private s= ectors. This might include the growing requirement for continuing professio= nal education, the mandating of employee development plans as a core manage= ment practice, and/or the advent of standardized international tools to mon= itor adult literacy levels as indicators of national competitiveness. We wi= ll explore the social relations that both give rise to and are sustained by=  these arrangements, including the forms of subjectivity that are construct= ed and normalized. We will explore, through both the scholarly literature a= nd through  reflection on life experiences, the range of outcomes and the d= istributions of benefits associated with these regimes of learning.
 
This is a 3-week intensive, participatory seminar; daily preparation time i= s essential.  There will be 1-2 required readings per day, and each student=  will be required to prepare and submit daily one question for class discus= sion, based on a close reading of these materials. Each week every student = will be required to submit a briefing paper based on readings and class dis= cussion.  The third briefing paper will be due a few days after the end of = the course and will serve as the final assignment.
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Nancy Jackson is a Professor Emerita from the Department of Adult Education=  and Counseling Psychology, OISE/UT. She has been researching in the area o= f adult literacy, workplace literacy, critical studies of work and working = knowledge, political economy of skills training, gender and skill, lifelong=  learning and policy and women and adult education.
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Announcements Service Opportunities

Inclusive Campus: Participants are needed for inclusive campus study‏

Hello Teacher Education program members,

We would like to invite you to participate in a study that investigates the barriers and facilitators of students with disabilities in the health and human service disciplines. In particular, we are interested in the following programs: Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Social Work, and Teacher Education. If you are astaff/faculty member, faculty advisor, practicum/clinical supervisor, practitioner, or representative from one of the regulatory bodies, we would like to invite you to attend a 60-90 minutes focus group discussion during which you will be asked a few questions regarding your experience or perceptions on the barriers, facilitators, strategies, and policies within your health and human service discipline for students with disabilities.

Who is eligible to participate?

Health and Human Service Professionals must

  • Identify as living with a disability OR supervised students with disabilities
  • Be working in at least one of the targeted professions,
  • Have at least two years of experience working in their profession and,
  • Willingly provide written consent to participate.

UBC and UBCO Faculty and Staff, and representatives from regulatory bodies must:

  • Have at least two years of experience in their profession, institution or position,
  • Be involved in at least one of the targeted professions and
  • Willingly provide written consent to participate

Location: UBC Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy: T325-2211, Wesbrook Mall (UBC hospital), Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5

When: The focus group will take place sometime between April-June.

Reimbursement/Time: You will be reimbursed $10 for your time.

Confidentiality: confidentiality will be strictly kept. Please contact the research team directly and not via your institution.

If you are interested, please email Kim Jensen, our research coordinator, at inclusive.campus@ubc.ca to let us know. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to email us as well.

Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you!

On behalf of the Inclusive Campus team,

Tal Jarus

Professor

Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy

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Conferences Service Opportunities

IOP 2013 – Call for Volunteers‏

IOP 2013 will be held from 8:30 – 1:30 on Saturday, May 11 on the second floor (centre block) of the Scarfe Building.  Coffee, tea and muffins will be available in our ‘food hall’ in Room 209 from 8:00 onwards.  We need volunteers to arrive at the conference by 8:15 on May 11 and stay until 2:00.  (If you are presenting and are only available for part of that time, please let me know.)

As a measure of our thanks, volunteers will be given free admission to the conference which includes breakfast, refreshments and a healthy lunch.  We have spiffy yellow T-shirts which you can borrow for the day that indicate you are helping at the conference (N.B. We need the T-shirts back).

There are a couple of things we need help with:

1) Set Up
On Friday, May 10, between 3.30 and 4.30, we will tidy up the rooms on the second floor to make sure they are ready for the conference and hang signs. If you are available on Friday, it would be great if you could meet Tony Clarke and Bob Hapke to do a quick run around and ensure that all the signs and rooms are ready for the next morning.  This should take no longer than 30 minutes if we have a half a dozen folks on hand.

2) Chairing IOP Sessions

There are a number of sessions that will require chairs, in other words people to make sure presentations begin promptly and end on time.  If you are comfortable taking on this task, please let me know.

 

3) Clean Up
Many hands make light work!  If everyone can stay around until 2:00pm on Saturday, May 11 and help make sure that everything is returned to its original state (e.g., rooms tidied, recycling bins returned to their original locations, etc.), that would be great.

4) Ambassadors for IOP throughout the Conference
Although the Scarfe Building is relatively easy to navigate, we need you to be very visible (hence the yellow T-shirts) to direct and assist people as they arrive, and then throughout the course of the conference. For example, it would be very useful if you could direct folks to the ‘food hall’ between 8:30 and 9:00, help them find the rooms for their presentations, seek out Bob Hapke for any AV assistance that the presenters require, assist presenters with any other requests they might have, and generally be highly visible and ready to assist.

The conference features 75 interactive presentations by practicing teachers, graduate and undergraduate students, and university educators from different educational contexts.  Please visit our website to view the List of Sessions: http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/iop2013.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Judy Paley at jpaley@mail.ubc.ca

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