Month: May 2014

Registration is now open for the following Graduate Pathways to Success (GPS) sessions:

GPS/UBC Life & Career Centre Workshop: Breaking Patterns of Procrastination

Thursday, June 5, 2014, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

For a session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11537-gpsubc-life-career-centre-workshop-breaking-patterns-procrastination

To register, see https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3484

 

Centre for Student Involvement & Careers and GPS will be hosting a graduate student career exploration symposium on Tuesday, June 10^th.

Details can be found at: http://students.ubc.ca/career/resources/graduate-career-exploration-symposium.  Registration will open later this week.   Registration for the June 9^th pre-symposium workshops will open next Monday.  Join us on facebook at UBC Grad School for further updates.

Public Lecture:

A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric in a South African Post-Conflict University Context

12:00PM, Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

 

Dr. Carol Rodgers, Associate Professor, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA

 

Bio:

Dr. Carol Rodgers is associate professor of education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Before coming to SUNY Albany in 2000, she taught for 19 years with the Experiment in International Living and in the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Dr. Rodgers’ teaching and research interests include reflective practice, the historical roots of reflection in the work of John Dewey and early progressive teacher education efforts, reflective teacher education and professional development. She is currently interested in understanding the definition and practice of a humanizing pedagogy, both in the United States and in South Africa where she spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011.

Dr. Rodgers holds an Ed.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Education.  She received an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Bates College.

The PDCE has a summer student job opportunity and I’m wondering if you’d be willing to make the attached job description available to your networks, if you think it is appropriate?

 

The job is to support the UBC Vancouver International Summer Program, which is a month-long summer exchange program aimed at visiting students from partner universities in China. This year, the Faculty of Education will be offering one cohort: Positive Behaviour Support, and the attached job description is for a Cultural Coordinator to support the program. To see the PDF, click: Vancouver Summer Program Cultural Coordinator – job description

 

Thanks very much for your consideration.

 

All the best,

Sarah

Alternative notions of schooling in Australia: The story of engaging and reflecting on relational ways of supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

 

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

 

UBC First Nations Longhouse, Sty-Wet-Tan Hall (1985 West Mall),

UBC Point Grey Campus, Vancouver, BC

 

In Australia, ‘Indigenous Education’ policy remains focused on dominant discourses and western notions of success and achievement. Relatively new in Australian education is a mode of schooling termed ‘flexi schools’ or ‘alternative schools’ that offers a different approach to schooling. This session will explore recent research about the views of principals (Shay, 2013) and educators (Morgan, 2013) that have transitioned into this new way of working with young people. It will explore the practical implications of this new approach to schooling for students, educators and leaders with a focus on possibilities for Indigenous education relevant for schooling sectors.

 

Presenters:

Marnee Shay

Aunty Denise Proud

Ann Morgan

 

Light refreshments provided.

No RSVP necessary.

 

Co-sponsored by the Professorship of Indigenous Education in Teacher Education,

the Indigenous Education Office, and Human Development, Learning and Culture.

 

 

 

 

jan.hare@ubc.ca

j.vadeboncoeur@ubc.ca

jo-ann.archibald@ubc.ca

ear UBC Faculty of Education community,

 

The UBC Faculty of Education is pleased to announce this summer’s series of courses and public presentations by scholars from the international education community.

 

Our visiting Noted Summer Scholars for 2014 are:

• Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Professor, School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
• Dr. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets), Professor, Human Development and Indigenous Studies, Antioch University, USA
• Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China
• Dr. Carol Rodgers, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University at Albany State University of New York, USA
• Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman,  Professor, Division of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota  Medical School, USA
• Dr. Hua Zhang, Professor & Dean, Graduate School of Education Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Province, China

 

Noted Summer Scholars will be instructing a special topic course for the 2014S term and presenting a free public lecture.  For complete listings of Noted Summer Scholar courses, please visit http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014

 

Public Lectures:

These lectures will be of interest to a broad range of people concerned with education. There is no registration process or fee.

 

A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric in a South African Post-Conflict University Context

Dr. Carol Rodgers

12:00, Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

Looking Into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an Institutional Orientation for Graduate Education

Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy

12:00, Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us About the Underpinnings of Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman

13:00, Monday, July 14, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

Towards Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up

Dr. Angel M.Y. Lin

13:00, Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

Towards a Research-based Pedagogy

Dr. Hua Zhang

12:00, Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

Scholarship as Leadership: Carving New Pathways in Education

Dr. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets)

15:30, Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Room: Scarfe 310

 

Complete details of the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series can be found at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014

 

Registration is now open for next week’s Graduate Pathways to Success (GPS)/CSI&C Resume Clinic.

Thursday, May 29, 2014 – 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

For a complete session description, please visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11523-gpscsic-event-resume-clinic

To register, see https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3483

 

Several new workshops including the writing week series, procrastination and from resume to online profile have been posted athttps://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events .

PhD students… as you are planning your schedules for the upcoming year, I thought you might be interested in the following special topics course in Term 2.

If you have questions, please contact me.


EPSE 681B 074              

NARRATIVE INQUIRY

The story reveals the meaning of what otherwise would remain an unbearable sequence of sheer happenings. Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

Sandra Mathison
Th 4:30 – 7:30 pm, W2
Pre-requisite: an introductory graduate level course in qualitative research This course is for doctoral students.
Course Description:

This course focuses on the philosophical and technical aspects of narrative inquiry, including:

the origins of narrative inquiry in life histories (such as Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant, Goffman, Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,  Garfinkel study of Agnes), the philosophical grounding of narrative inquiry (the historical roots of narrative inquiry in German idealism, the postmodern views of Lyotard and Foucault, Bruner naturalist conception of narrative knowledge,  Ricoeurs conception of time, and John Deweys notions of  experience), and the pragmatics (data collection and analysis) of doing narrative inquiry.
Narratives take many forms (spoken, written, performed) and occur in a variety of situations (conversations, political speeches, media, online forums, social interactions) and at many levels (individual, community, nation states). Narratives are told by a single speaker, co-constructed by interlocutors, or manifest in cultural artifacts. Narratives can unfold in a single context or be developed across different settings and sites of interaction. Narrative analysis examines how social life is conceptualized in the form of stories, with characters, plot structures and time boundaries, and in both descriptive and critical ways.


Sandra Mathison
Professor
Co-Editor, Critical Education

Faculty of Education
University of British Columbia
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z4

https://blogs.ubc.ca/evaluation/
https://blogs.ubc.ca/qualresearch/
http://ices-vancouver.org/=20

To Graduate Students and Graduate Advisors:  

I am pleased to offer EDCI 591: Ecology, Pedagogy, and Practice as a prospective course for graduate students to take this summer.

This special topics course requires EOI (expression of student interest) no later than Wednesday, June 4^th in order for EDCI 591 to run.

As your university is part of the Western Canadian Dean’s Agreement, students would be eligible to apply to enrol in the course without additional tuition fees.

UVic has affordable on campus housing and food services during the summer months.

To download the PDF, please click here: EDCI 591 July

Best regards,

Dr. Jennifer S. Thom

Curriculum and Instruction

Faculty of Education

University of Victoria

 Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot!

 

Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about the nuts and bolts of formatting: tables of contents, page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more! As well, find out more about the resources that are available to help you in writing your thesis/dissertation. Graduate students at any stage of the writing process are welcome; some prior knowledge of Microsoft Word will be helpful.

 

Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 at 10:30AM – 12:30PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4940

 

Thursday, May 29th, 2014 at 3:00PM – 5:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4941

 

Monday, June 9th, 2014 at 2:00PM – 4:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4942

 

Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

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Citation Management Using RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley

 

Need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work? Citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work.

 

Sign up for a tool specific hands-on workshop about the core concepts of citation management and detailed instruction for use of either RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley.

 

Are you new to citation management tools entirely, or do you have advanced-user questions? See our Consultations page to book a one-on-one session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

 

Citation Management Using RefWorks:

Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4972

 

Citation Management Using Mendeley:

Thursday, May 30^th, 3-5pm

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4973

Citation Management Using Zotero

 

Wednesday, June 25th, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

Location: Koerner Library, RM217

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4975

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SPSS

Workshop 1- Basic SPSS

 

Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Let us help you learn the basics.

 

No previous knowledge of SPSS is required for the first workshop:

 

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4949

 

Workshop 2- SPSS Data Management

Do you know how to edit your data using effective data management software? Do you want to work with user-friendly software without going through a hassle of writing code? SPSS can do this for you with a few clicks. Attend this workshop and learn how to manage your data fast.

 

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

Location: Koerner Library, RM217

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4952

 

Workshop 3 – Descriptive/Graphing Analysis with SPSS

 

Do you have trouble summarizing your data? Do you want to analyze your data with t-test, ANOVA, Pearson-test, etc. using SPSS? Do you have trouble graphing and presenting your data with SPSS? Well, we can help you with all of these questions. Enroll in this workshop and learn how to analyze your data hassle-free!

 

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4950

 

Workshop 4 –Regression Analysis

 

Regression analysis is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. We can use regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another. Do you wonder how to do linear and logistic regression analysis with SPSS? Do you want to learn about simple and multivariate regression modeling? Register for the SPSS Regression workshop to get a sense of it all!

 

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 at 1:00PM – 3:00PM

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4953

 

Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

Save the date for Tuesday, June 10^th.  The Centre for Student Involvement & Careers and GPS are planning a full day career symposium including sessions by Mitacs and entrepreneurship at UBC followed by several expert panels and a networking event.

 

Several new sessions, including the Writing Week series, have also recently been posted here https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events.