Day: January 15, 2014

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Funding and Awards

Graduate Student Funding Opportunity – Early Childhood Education

2013-2014 WENDY K. SUTTON GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

IN EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY (#1998)

We are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for Education graduate students.  The Wendy K. Sutton Graduate Scholarship in Early Childhood Literacy are scholarships totaling $315 that have been endowed by Dr. Wendy K. Sutton, a specialist in children’s literature and a dedicated educator, for Education graduate students whose scholarly work advances the understanding and practice of early childhood literacy, with priority given to those focusing on the preschool years.  The awards are made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Education in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

2013-2014 LUKASEVICH MEMORIAL GRADUATE PRIZE (#1968)

The Lukasevich Memorial Graduate Prize is a $300 prize endowed in memory of Margaret and Peter Lukasevich by their daughters, Dr. Ann Lukasevich and Mrs. Margaret Tousignant. It is awarded to a graduate student whose scholarly work informs practice in early childhood education. Preference will be given to students who have experience working with, or teaching, young children between the ages of three and eight. The award is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Education, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

The competition award eligibility guidelines, application instructions, award descriptions and criteria, application forms for both of the above awards are available on the OGPR web site at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/grad/funding/opportunities/

Completed packages FOR BOTH AWARDS are due in the OGPR by 4:00 pm, February 21, 2014.

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Conferences

Call for Proposals: Investigating Our Practices

Teaching is demanding and complex work, made more difficult if we try to do it in isolation or without sharing and exploring our understandings together. In order to better understand and improve our teaching practice, many of us engage in classroom, program or institution-based investigations focusing on the what, the how and the why of our practice.

On May 3, 2014 UBC hosts the 17th Annual IOP Conference, where practicing education professionals and students come together to share their questions, investigations and understandings about their practice.

The conference stresses dialogue among participants; presentations are intended to provoke and inform discussion. These exchanges typically fall within the following areas of inquiry:

·      the preparation of practitioners

·      the ongoing education of practitioners

·      the focus on classroom practice

·      the context of practice (e.g., social, political and cultural analysis of practice)

·      researching practice (e.g., teacher inquiry/action)

The Call for Proposals is now open. Proposals are submitted online and the closing date is March 3, 2014. We invite proposals in three formats:

·      Submit a proposal for an individual or group session. We want challenging, relevant, interactive presentations that showcase how you have been investigating some dimension of teaching practice. Session time should be divided equally between provoking discussion by providing access to your understandings and providing opportunity for others to discuss your conclusions.

·      Host a roundtable discussion. You have a critical question you would like to discuss with other practitioners and you are willing to initiate and moderate a conversation, perhaps based on your own experience or research.

·      Prepare a poster session. The poster format is ideal for the visual presentation of research results, a program of research or research activities of a group.

Learn More & Submit Online  iop.educ.ubc.ca

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Graduate Program Opportunities Speakers

Instructional Skills Workshop February 28, March 1, 2‏

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop February 28, March 1, 2, 2014.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.  Please find attached the new policy for registration in the ISW.

The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience.  Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.

This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the February 28, March 1, 2 ISW, please go to:

http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/3149

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Funding and Awards Graduate Program Opportunities

Funded PhD Studentship at the University of Leeds‏

PhD Studentship at the University of Leeds

The research project Translation and translanguaging: Investigating linguistic and cultural transformations in superdiverse wards in four UK cities, funded by the AHRC, is running at the Universities of Birmingham Cardiff and Leeds, and Birkbeck College, University of London, from April 2014 to March 2018. The project is led by colleagues at the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham.

We are seeking applications for a three-year PhD studentship at the School of Education, University of Leeds, as part of the project. The title of the PhD studentship project is Investigating Translation Zones in Community Arts. The starting date of the PhD will be 1 October 2014.

The successful applicant will receive an annual maintenance grant of £13,726 and an annual contribution of £3,900 towards payment of their fees. (2013/14 rates: the annual fee for UK home and EU students in 2013/14 is £3,950; the fee for students in other categories is higher and the difference cannot be funded from this award. Figures are subject to confirmation.) The successful applicant will have already completed Master’s study at the time of beginning their PhD.

The PhD will focus on translanguaging in production and performance in community arts. The study will be located in the Gipton and Harehills area of Leeds, and will adopt the same broad research aims as the wider project. This will enable the PhD candidate to work in liaison with the project team, and under the supervision of Dr James Simpson. The precise focus of the research will be negotiated with the successful applicant. Throughout, the PhD candidate will fully engage in team meetings, research training and capacity development, workshops and dissemination events. The first year of the studentship will include intensive research training.

The doctoral candidate selected for this post will be expected to become fully involved in the life of the wider project. For example, they might take a turn at coordinating the social media and news elements of the project website, be responsible for recording team meetings and organising the team’s data processing. The successful applicant will need to be willing to travel to meetings and research training and development sessions which may be away from Leeds.

Further information
Qualifications: you will have very good undergraduate and Master’s degrees in relevant disciplines, e.g. contemporary arts/cultural studies, applied/sociolinguistics, intercultural communication. Language skills will be an advantage. Only applicants who are not already reading for a PhD are eligible for this studentship.
Application: send electronic copies of the documents listed below to Dr James Simpson by 1 March 2014.

  1. CV including your educational history with degree and exam results, and any awards; special skills or experience (e.g. language proficiency, other relevant expertise); and publications (if any).
  2. Covering letter of one A4 side only, describing your preparation and qualification for, and interest in, this studentship.
  3. A sample of your post-graduate academic writing (up to 3000 words), or a short academic publication.
  4. A proposal of not more than 2000 words, outlining the PhD research you would undertake within the parameters of the Leeds studentship for this project as described in the summary above.

In addition, you need to supply two letters of reference, one of which should be from a tutor on your post-graduate course, preferably your dissertation supervisor. Ask your referees to send their letters directly by email to j.e.b.simpson@education.leeds.ac.uk

Interviews will be conducted as soon as possible after the closing date, in Leeds.

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Announcements

Registering for Computer Lab Accounts‏

Dear Students,

You can now register for computer lab accounts in the Education Library.  All the public computers now have access.

Please log on to: http://lab.cms.educ.ubc.ca:3000/register/

 

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Note that it can take up to one business day for computer lab account registrations to be processed.

Please carefully record your username and password, since there may be a delay if you need to recover it.  The recovery procedure is as follows:

Using the email account that you have registered with UBC (http://students.ubc.ca/), send an email message to educ.labs@ubc.ca requesting to recover your Education computer lab password.  Include the following information:

·         Full name

·         Computer lab account username

·         Student number

After your information has been verified, the password will be emailed back to your UBC-registered email address by the end of the next business day, unless otherwise notified.

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