Day: July 25, 2014

Date:            Wednesday, July 30^th 2014

Venue:         Scarfe Room 1107

Time:            12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Title:             Digital Ethnography as a New Trend of Ethnographic Studies in Education in Brazil

Speaker:       Dr. Carmen de Mattos, Associate Professor, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract:

Digital Technology and Ethnographic Research are subjects that reflect the demands of education in the postmodern age. Research agencies, researchers, teachers and students emphasize both subjects in order to meet these demands. This presentation illuminates the different nature of these two topics which have been addressed by research in the field of education in Brazil. It will outline the imbrication of the two subjects and introduce the notion of Digital Ethnography as a new trend in ethnographic studies in Education. It discusses, also, how digital technology and critical ethnography carry potential to tackle inequalities and injustices in the Brazilian public education system.

Bio:

Carmen de Mattos is an Associate Professor of Education at the Department of Applied Studies in Education of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil since 1998. Her B.A degree is in Pedagogy from the Faculty of Philosophy Saint Dorothy in Brazil, her M.S. is in Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development (1987) and Ph.D. (1992) is in Educational Leadership from The University of Pennsylvania, in USA. She has been a visiting scholar at University of Cambridge, in UK (2011), University of Sydney, in Australia  (2009) and in Université René Descartes, Sorbonne, in France (2000). Her interests in Pedagogy focus on how ethnographic studies have been examined issues related to: educational processes inequalities, social injustice and school failure in the Basic School System in Brazil. She is coordinator of the Nucleus of Ethnography in Education at UERJ since 2004.

LLED  441 an online course on Children’s Literature K-12  is an opportunity to study children’s literature as a resource for developing multiliteracies across the curriculum. The multimodal forms of literature offer content and inspiration for transformative activities and reflective thinking that serve students literacy and literary development needs.

Assignments include multimodal responses to key issues such as

the purpose and value of a literary canon, the creation of canons that serve particular student populations,  popular sequential visual narrative forms, and  literature as a resource for developing empathy and motivating social action. This course is taught by Kathryn Shoemaker, PhD, LLED Sessional Instructor, Ischool Adjunct Faculty. The course is offered this fall and runs from September 2- November 28, 2014.

GRADUATE ACADEMIC ASSISTANT (GAA) IN THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH

The OGPR is looking to hire a Faculty of Education graduate student who can provide consultation to peers on navigating the web forms for the upcoming SSHRC graduate fellowship and scholarship competition.

Job Title: Faculty of Education SSHRC GAA

Duration: 3 weeks (September 2 – 22, 2014)

Time: 10 hours per week (approximately two hours per day)

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, August 15, 2014 at 4:00pm.

A cover memo, current resume and references should be emailed to Christine Wallsworth, Office Manager, in the OGPR at: christine.wallsworth@ubc.ca.

Applicants are expected to have good communications skills, as well as experience with using web forms. Preference will be given to Education graduate student applicants with

• Applying online to SSHRC graduate student fellowship competitions, including the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship competition and/ or the SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship competition

• Teaching web or software skills

• Understanding national granting agency policies and procedures

• Meeting with Faculty of Education graduate students for short sessions in the OGPR and providing them with advice on the SSHRC web forms navigation

• Understanding the SSHRC graduate fellowship and if possible, the affiliated awards application guidelines, policies and procedures and how they support the online application process.

• Liaising with SSHRC fellowship program coordinators in Ottawa to clarify policies and procedures and to report problems with web forms

For more information, contact: Christine Wallsworth in the Office of Graduate

Programs and Research, Faculty of Education, Telephone: 604-822-5217, Email: Christine Wallsworth <christine.wallsworth@ubc.ca>

New Graduate Student Orientation, hosted by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, International Student Development, and the Graduate Student Society (GSS), is quickly approaching.  All incoming graduate students have been invited.  Events include:

*        Wednesday, August 27: International Student Welcome – an afternoon session designed to help international students make the most of their UBC experience

*        Thursday, August 28: Main Orientation Day – a warm welcome and opportunity for all new graduate students to learn important campus and academic information.

*        Friday, August 29: GSS Orientation – an opportunity to tour campus and learn more about arts, culture and clubs at UBC from the Graduate Student Society.  The evening will end with a boat cruise, the first of several outings planned by the GSS for orientation.

The complete schedule of events will be posted here by early August: http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/august-2014/

Interested in getting involved in Orientation?  The following opportunities are available for current graduate students:

To volunteer for Main Orientation Day or other orientation events, please register here: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g366d

To learn about and apply for a position as an Information Officer (35 hour paid position), please click here:http://gss.ubc.ca/main/gss-opportunity-summer-orientation-info-officer/