July 4th: 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Public Lecture
The UBC Faculty of Education presents the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series:
Public Lecture:
Towards Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up
1:00PM, Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310
Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China
Bio:
Dr. Angel Lin is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. She is well-respected for her interdisciplinary research in classroom discourse analysis, bilingual education, language policy in postcolonial contexts, and criticalcultural studies. She has published over 90 research articles and co/authored/edited 6 research books.
Public Lecture:
What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about the Underpinnings of Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders
1:00PM, Monday, July 14, 2014
Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310
Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Professor of Pediatric & Division Head of Clinical Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA
Bio:
Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Ph.D. received her doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1990. She completed an internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school (MGH) and received a post-doctoral neuroscience fellowship at MGH from NIH to study neuropsychological and brain morphology in children with ADHD. Her dissertation was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from the Orton Dyslexia Society. She continues her research interests in the areas of ADHD and educational neuroscience. She is currently working on research in ADHD, 18q- syndrome, and autistic spectrum disorders. With Dr. Plizska at UTHSCSA, Dr. Semrud-Clikeman was awarded a NIH grant to study the effects of stimulant medication on neuropsychological functioning. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman and her students have developed a social competence intervention that has been successfully piloted. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman was awarded the 1999 Early Career Contributions award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology. She has also been awarded support for her work studying NVLD and Asperger Disorder from a private foundation. Moreover, Dr. Semrud-Clikeman was recently awarded intramural funding for her study of executive function and attentional problems in children who survive cerebral malaria in Malawi. She has published more than 60 articles, 75 chapters and 6 books as well as making over 200 presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman is currently a Professor of Pediatrics and Division Head of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.
Public Lecture:
Looking into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an Institutional Orientation for Graduate Education
12:00PM, Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310
Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Professor, School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Bio:
Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy is a citizen of the Lumbee Nation. He is President’s Professor, Borderlands Professor of Indigenous Education and Justice, and Director of the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the experiences of Indigenous students, staff, and faulty in institutions of higher education. More recently, he has been engaged in scholarship that seeks to explore the role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in educational research and its methodologies.
This lecture will be of interest to a broad range of people concerned with education. There is no registration process or fee.
Complete details of the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series can be found at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014