Month: May 2013

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Graduate Program Opportunities Office of Graduate Programs - FoE

May 30 (Research Day) – “Making Research Mutually Beneficial” – A keynote lecture by Shelley Hymel

Thursday, May 30, 2013 – Register now!

The day will open with a keynote lecture by
Dr. Shelley Hymel
Professor, Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education

Making Research Mutually Beneficial:
Community Collaborations that Make a Difference

at 1 pm in the Sty-Wet-Tan Hall, First Nations House of Learning

Research Day also includes

–          Methodology Minglers

–          Ignite Research… in 3 minutes or less!

–          Indigenous Alumni Panel – Research Careers that Matter

Please register… but do come even if you didn’t sign up first.

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

June 7 – Graduate Students’ Education Researcher Network (GSERN)

The first meeting is JUNE 7th from 12-1:30pm. 

Graduate Students’ Education Researcher Network (GSERN)

As a graduate student, it can be difficult to create a community around your research interests.  For those of us doing research at the intersections of disciplines, this is made even more complicated because we often do not know who is doing work in our area and what kind of research is being done across campus, tackling questions from multiple perspectives.  GSERN is a community of graduate students actively doing education research at UBC, hailing from many different disciplinary backgrounds across campus.  This group has three purposes:

1.     To provide a space to share the diversity of education research occurring on campus.

2.     To create a community and network of education researchers, who share methodologies, research questions and perspectives.

3.     To grapple with questions about education research which often reaches across disciplines, epistemological frameworks and methodologies.

Time: First Friday of each month, 12:00-1:30pm

Location: Graduate Research Commons Meeting Room, Koerner Library

RSVP: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4122

This project is intended to be collaborative.  Any feedback, opinions, or interest in getting involved in the planning of it are welcome!

Each meeting will have two parts – one, a central question that is integral to education research and that we believe is important to ask ourselves as education researchers, and two, a networking opportunity around a different theme.

We are also in the process of creating a UBC blog to provide more updates on the events and resources, and to potentially create a mailing list.  More information will be coming about this soon.

First Meeting – June 7th

Major questions:

1.     What is education research?

2.     Networking around research interest

 

Note: this meeting will be a little shorter on the discussion so we can deal with administrative tasks.

 

Second Meeting – July 5th

Major Questions:

1.     What methodologies are available in education research?

2.     Is education research interdisciplinary?

3.     Networking around (inter)disciplinary interests

 

Have ideas about themes for future meetings?  Email heather.fisher@alumni.ubc.ca

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Announcements

TEACHER EDUCATOR AWARD‏

I am very pleased to inform you that our colleague Dr. Linda Farr Darling is the winner of the TEACHER EDUCATOR award for outstanding service, presented by the Association of BC Deans of Education (ABCDE). Dr. Farr Darling is the Eleanor Rix Professor of Rural Education. The position builds on Linda’s work with a well-established Faculty of Education/UBC teacher education cohort located in the West Kootenays in the southeastern corner of British Columbia (WKTEP). She has provided exceptional mentoring of pre-service teachers whose aim is to teach in rural schools. She is also instrumental in bringing several exciting new changes to U.B.C.’s teacher education programs.

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Killam Faculty Teaching Prize Announcement‏

The Faculty of Education has a long history of interest in good teaching.  To emphasize the importance of exceptional teaching the Faculty of Education awards up to two Killam Faculty Teaching Prizes  each year.  I am pleased to announce that this year’s recipients are  Dr. Maureen Kendrick and Dr. Pierre Walter.  The awards were presented at the Faculty meeting on May 13, 2013.

Supporters of Dr. Maureen Kendrick’s nomination describe her as someone who  works hard to create learning environments in which diverse perspectives are valued.  Dr. Kendrick is committed to equity and social justice, as can be seen not only in her everyday interactions with students, but also in her course content and the ways that she teaches.  Inquiry-based pedagogy is at the core of her work: by giving students a voice in class, they not only benefit from collaborative learning by enriching the course material with personal experiences and knowledge, they also take responsibility for their own learning, which enhances the integration of their new knowledge into practice.

Dr. Pierre Walter’s students describe his teaching as transformative, inclusive, culturally sensitive, empowering, extremely knowledgeable, inspiring, equitable, innovative and student-centered.  This high praise continues with the personal traits of being ever respectful, enthusiastic, dependable, caring, generous and a supportive human being. His greatest hope is that students will unlearn schooled patterns of formal, hierarchical learning and as adults, re-engage themselves in the excitement and joy of intellectual discovery and open-mindedness, and moreover, democratic dialogue in community.  He does this by inspiring students to produce their best work, by challenging them intellectually, and by caring for them as learners who are becoming self-reflective, critical and informed educators.

Congratulations Dr. Kendrick and Dr. Walter!

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Announcements

Orchard Garden produce sales

We only have a couple of CSA boxes remaining for this summer’s produce sales coming from your very own Orchard Garden here on campus.

Check out our blog for more details; however, there are full shares, half shares, and even very affordable working shares if you can commit to volunteering in the garden this summer.

http://theorchardgarden.blogspot.ca/2013/05/csas-now-available-from-orchard-garden.html

Last I heard was that there were only 4 “shares” remaining so contact lfsgarden@gmail.com as soon as possible to order your fresh veggies these season.

 

Also, the garden is a beautiful place to hold classes now that spring/summer are here. Contact Julia at theorchardgarden.educ@gmail.com if you want to schedule a class.

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Announcements

Congratulations to the SSHRC doctoral awardees‏

Congratulations to the following doctoral students for their success in the 2013/2014 SSHRC competition:

Brooke Madden (24 months),

Anita Prest (12 months),

Diana Royea(Canada Graduate Scholarship for 36 months),

Ashley Welsh(24 months).

The Department is very proud of their success!

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Announcements Funding and Awards Graduate Program Opportunities

Friedman Scholars Program‏

Friedman Scholars Program

Deadline: September 13, 2013 4:00pm

The goal of this program is to extend the global reach of UBC graduate students and UBC Medical Resident Trainees and to enrich our scholarly community by investing in our learners in the health sciences. To increase the sources and perspectives of our future researchers and health professionals’ learning in order to expand their horizons.

The grants are open to any UBC graduate student studying health sciences or UBC Medical Resident Trainees. Health sciences will be interpreted broadly as long as the study involves the promotion and dissemination of health related education or research. To be clear, the field of study not only includes the obvious health related fields such as medicine, dentistry, audiology etc. but also includes any complementary work being done in other disciplines that relates to the promotion and dissemination of health related education or research. An example could be an economist working on a new funding model for health care or a botanist working on herbal remedies for specific ailments. Friedman Scholars are expected to travel to other areas of the world to seek new perspectives on their education or research. In order to be considered, travel must be outside of Western Canada (East of Manitoba) and beyond.

Scholarships range from $25,000 to $50,000 annually and are open to renewal for one time only. The amount of the scholarship will be at the discretion of the adjudication committee within the above stated range. Financial needs for the opportunity should be outlined in the application.

The monies received from this scholarship are to be used for expenses related to an opportunity to learn outside of British Columbia. None of the monies shall be used to pay down or reduce current or past educational debt. It is expected that these monies will be used in full to experience an educational or research opportunity in another culture or institution.

Please visit the website for more information: http://med.ubc.ca/research/grad_pdf/funding-opportunities/friedman-scholars/

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