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Deadline for November 2013 Graduation

Please be aware of the following deadline for November 2013 Graduation

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Friday, 25 October 2013

Last day for final master’s theses and doctoral dissertations to be accepted by the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for November graduation.  Must be approved and accepted by 4:00 pm.

Last day for graduate programs to notify the Faculty of Graduate Studies that all requirements (including major papers) have been met for non-thesis master’s degrees for November graduation.

Last day for late applications for Graduation.  Forms must be received by Enrolment Services before 4:00 pm.

The late application form is available on our website at the following link:

https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/late-application-graduation-november-2013

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Graduate Program Opportunities

GPS workshops: Thesis Planning + Project Management‏

Voting for the U21 3MT Global competition is underway Oct 11 – 25th.  Help UBC’s Serbulent Turan win the People’s Choice award by voting at

http://vimeo.com/channels/u213mt2013/page:4 .

 

Registration is now open for:

Getting on Track with your Thesis

Tuesday, Oct 22nd, 2013, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

For a complete session description, please visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10417-gps-workshop-getting-track-your-thesis

To register, see  http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2c07

 

Foundations of Project Management I (offered with the Mitacs Step program)

Thursday, Oct 24th and Friday, October 25th, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (students must attend both days).

For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/9905-gpsmitacs-event-foundations-project-management-i-team-based-approach-2-days

To register, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2c7e

 

Space is still available in this week’s GPS/CSI&C  Job Search Strategies workshop, Thursday, October 17, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:15pm; Registration is open at:  http://bit.ly/1hwTyGD .

 

For upcoming GPS workshops, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events

For CTLT, Library and Career Services workshops, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/ubc-graduate-student-events .

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Speakers

Oct 21 Resistance to Norms: Listening to Youth Indigenous Voices

Social Justice @UBC Lecture Event: Indigenous Pedagogies Social Justice
Monday October 21, 1-2:30 pm - Snacks provided!
First Nations Longhouse, UBC
1895 West Mall

Resistance to Norms: Listening to Youth Indigenous Voices Jessica Danforth Founder & Executive Director Native Youth Sexual Health 
Network The NYSHN is an organization for and by indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, 
rights, and justice throughout the United States and Canada. NYSHN are resistors of violence from the state, violence on the land
and violence on bodies. Restoration of knowledge, justice, and ways to be safer in communities is critical to their work.

And yes, resistance is sexy!
 
Ronnie Dean Harris
Ronnie is a St?:lo/St'=E1t'imc multimedia artist based in Vancouver, B.C. In the past years he's worked along side many amazing 
people on equally amazing projects. Most prominently as an actor and composer for APTN/Showcase dramatic series Moccasin Flats. 
Ron has performed in numerous festivals and has opened for acts including Guru, K'naan, Abstract Rude and Snoop Dogg to name a 
few. In the last 10 years Ronnie has also been active in facilitating and crating workshop programs for youth empowerment in 
media arts and hip-hop.
 
Jerilyn Webster
Jerilyn is a Vancouver based female hip-hop artist, beat-boxer, performing artist, aboriginal educator, single mother, award-
winning actor, and member of the Nuxalk and Cayauga Nations who is using [her] words to go upwards/not backwards. She is an Idle 
No More organizer.
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Oct 28 – Upcoming CILS event

Seminar Presentation on 'Dizionario delle Collocazioni' or how words combine in Italian. Lessons for Language Teachers
When: Monday, October 28, from 4:30 to 6 pm
Where: Italian Cultural centre click on link for details on directions http://italianculturalcentre.ca/
 
 
Il dizionario delle collocazioni
Le combinazioni delle parole in italiano
 
In linguistics the term 'collocation' is used to mean a combination of lexical items that regularly or habitually occurs together, 
and sounds natural, in speech or writing. The way words combine in a language is not determined by rules of  syntax or grammar but 
is instead established through repeated context-dependent use within the language community.
 
The Dizionario delle collocazioni is specifically designed to help choose t= he right words to express ideas in an effective way. 
With a selection of about 200,000 collocations it is a useful tool to develop an increased range of vocabulary and facility of 
expression in idiomatic Italian.
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Funding and Awards

Upcoming External Award Competitions

Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation are offered by The Simons Foundation and The International Security Research and Outreach Programme (ISROP) of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD). The primary objective of the Graduate Research Awards is to enhance Canadian graduate level scholarship on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation issues.

Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2013

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/graduate-research-awards-disarmament-arms-control-non-proliferation

 

 

Northern Scientific Training Program

The Northern Scientific Training Program supports student research in the North by supplying supplementary funds to offset the additional costs of Northern research.

Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2013

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/northern-scientific-training-program

 

 

IODE War Memorial Scholarship

The National Chapter of Canada IODE initiated War Memorial Doctoral Scholarships in 1918 to commemorate Canadians who sacrificed their lives for peace and freedom. Initially, bursaries were granted to children of men and women who lost their lives or who were permanently disabled while fighting for Canada. Today, applicants are judged on academic excellence and potential. Candidates must be Canadian citizens and in at least their second year of doctoral program at a Canadian or Commonwealth university.

Deadline: Sunday, December 1, 2013

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/iode-war-memorial-scholarship

 

These awards are externally reviewed. Please contact the awarding agencies with any questions.

 

POGO Research Fellowship Program

The PhD/Post Doctoral Fellowship will be awarded to either an applicant working toward a PhD or to a post doctoral research candidate, with a background in any of the relevant disciplines including medicine and nursing. While applicants may have training and/or experience in areas not directly related to POGO activities, they will be required to demonstrate relevance to pediatric oncology. The award includes a yearly salary of $45,000 and the ability to apply for $5,000 in project-specific one-time operating support.

Deadline: Registration emails must be received by October 15; completed applications must be received by Nov 25, 2013

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/pogo-research-fellowship-program

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NewsFlash #642, October 11, 2013‏

For more information on any of the items below or copies of previous NewsFlashes, please e-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca, or call: 604-822-5512, Fax: 604-822-8971.  The NewsFlash is also posted online at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/newsflash. For UBC-wide events, please visit Live @ UBC: http://www.liveat.ubc.ca.

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Oct 22 Invitation to a Mock Defense

YOU ARE INVITED

To attend a mock PhD defence and discussion next Wednesday afternoon 16th October in room 2108 from 3:00 pm-4:15pm with:

 

Pamela Hagen

PhD Candidate

EDCP

 

RSVP (pamelahagen@elus.net)

 

(The actual defence is on Tuesday 22nd October at 9:00 am in FoGs 203).

Listening to Students’  – An Examination of Elementary Students’ Engagement in Mathematics Through the Lens of Imaginative Education

 

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the problem of student engagement in elementary mathematics with a particular theoretical framework of imaginative education (IE) (Egan, 1997, 2005).  The question at the centre of this study is what the use of imaginative education and imaginative lesson planning frameworks means to children and for their engagement in elementary mathematics.

 

For this study, five intermediate aged elementary students were tracked through a unit of shape and space (geometry).  The unit framed with the binary opposites of vision and blindness asked students how they might come to understand shape and space as a sighted and visually impaired person.  Thus a humanized perspective was brought to learning of mathematics.  After the unit five focus students took part in an individual and a whole group semi-structured interview with the teacher/researcher.

 

Using qualitative instrumental case study methods, data sources included students’ mathematics journals, activity pages, transcripts of audio and videotaped semi-structured individual and group interviews, a teacher/researcher diary and a detailed unit overview and lesson plans.  The study gathered rich descriptive data focused on bringing out the students’ perspective of their experience.

 

Results indicate the students’ demonstrated positive engagement with mathematics and that use of the IE theory utilizing the students’ imagination and affective responses allowed multiple access points to connect with the mathematical concepts.  Three conclusions of the study were that the students expanded their mathematical awareness through making a variety of connections, they were able to develop self-confidence in their learning of mathematics through using emotions and imagination, and they were able to use cognitive tools, particularly a sense of wonder, to engage with mathematics.  The dissertation concludes with a discussion of implications and recommendations in four areas.  This includes further research in different contexts, in the interaction of imagination and affective responses, and into characteristics of mathematical engagement such as self-confidence.

Recommendations for how future pedagogical practice might include use of the IE theory and how expansion of student’s perspectives in classroom practice could be embraced bring the dissertation to a close.

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VHEC – Reception & School Program‏

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s acclaimed traveling exhibition explores the Third Reich’s efforts to destroy all internal biological threats to the “Aryan” nation’s health, leading to the imprisonment and deaths of thousands of homosexual males.

Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945 was produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The United States  Holocaust Memorial Museum’s exhibitions program is supported in part by the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund established in 1990. Exhibition and School Program is co-presented by the VHEC and Egale Canada Human Rights Trust.

The Opening Reception will be held:  Tuesday, October 29 • 6 – 8 PM

 

The School Program, recommended for grades eight to twelve, promotes human rights and social responsibility through the lens of the exhibit. Teachers’ Guide available in October.

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GSS Weekly Newsletter

From: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo [mailto:communications@gss.ubc.ca]
Sent: October-09-13 2:41 PM
Hello Folks,

I hope you are enjoying this particularly lovely week in Vancouver, weather-wise anyway. Vitamin D is the best! So, Halloween’s coming up, and we’ll have a party. Who/what will you be? Here’s what we’re up to:

– Volunteer & DJ Opportunities ahead of Nov. 1st GSS 2013 Halloween Party & Pumpkin Carving Event (bring the kids!)

– Coffee’ll Fix It tomorrow, and Next week too!

– Whodunit? A GSS Murder Mystery Party on Halloween (Oct. 31st)

– Opportunities: Become a GSS Advocacy Officer

– Want to learn visual art? Take a GSS Art Class

– You can still Learn Mandarin

– You Should Join our mailing list

Thanks for reading. So did you see this comic strip on data privacy?
Yes, why not, send me your favorite chuckles too.

Until next week!

Ngwatilo

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GSS Communications Coordinator

communications@gss.ubc.ca

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Instructional Skills Workshop October 29, 31, November 2

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop October 29, 31, November 2, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.

 

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 October 29, 31, November 2 ISW, please go to:

http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/2953

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Publication Opportunities

Call for Submissions – Historical Encounters

Call for Submissions

Historical Encounters is a new interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the empirical and theoretical study of: 

  • historical consciousness (how we experience the past as something alien to the present; how we understand and relate, both cognitively and affectively, to the past; and how our historically-constituted consciousness shapes our understanding and interpretation of historical representations in the present and influences how we orient ourselves to possible futures);
  • historical cultures (the effective and affective relationship that a human group has with its own past; the agents who create and transform it; the oral, print, visual, dramatic, and interactive media representations by which it is disseminated; the personal, social, economic, and political uses to which it is put; and the processes of reception that shape encounters with it);
  • history education (how we know, teach, and learn history through: schools, universities, museums, public commemorations, tourist venues, heritage sites, local history societies, and other formal and informal settings).

We welcome submissions from across the various public history, history didactic/education, cultural studies, narrative theory, curriculum studies, and historical theory fields, where such topics are typically debated. 

The journal seeks to promote conversations within and across national borders, and therefore invites contributions from around the globe.

The journal editors are particularly interested in presenting a variety of voices from scholars at various career stages, and therefore encourages early career researchers to submit their work for review.


Historical Encounters is a new interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the empirical and theoretical study of historical consciousness, historical cultures, & history education. Submissions from across the fields of public history, history didactics, curriculum & pedagogy studies, cultural studies, narrative theory, and historical theory fields are all welcome.

For more details, please visit http://hej.hermes-history.net/index.php/hej

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities Service Opportunities

Graduate Student Society Caucus

Are you interested in getting involved at UBC? Have you thought about representing the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy on the GSS Council? You can find more information on the council at http://gss.ubc.ca/main/get-involved . Please contact Kristie Nevill <aa@gss.ubc.ca> if you are interested in standing for one of the two positions on the Council.

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Conferences Speakers

Oct 25 Leadership for Indigenous Education Symposium

Please join us for this symposium that presents Indigenous perspectives and facilitates dialogue.

Friday October 25, 2013
1:00 – 4:30 PM
UBC Robson Square
Theatre Room C300, Downtown Vancouver

Keynote Presenters:
Dr. Jaqueline Ottman, University of Calgary
Dr. Verna Billy-Minnabarriet, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology

Attendance is FREE

RSVP to roweena.bacchus@ubc.ca for catering purposes by October 16, 2013

Sponsors: The Office of Indigenous Education, Educational Administration and Leadership program, Ed.D. in Educational Leadership 
and Policy in the UBC Faculty of Education
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Employment

TEMPORARY TEACHING POSITION -Online MED ECE cohort‏

The Institute for Early Childhood and Research (IECER),  Office of Graduate Programs and Research (OGPR), in the Faculty of Education, UBC, Pt. Grey campus, is looking for a temporary instructor to teach:

ECED 531 (3) Supporting Young Children’s Social Emotional Learning in Early Childhood Programs 

for the 2013/14 Winter Term 2 (January to April, 2014). This course will be offered online. This is a restricted course offered to the current Online M.Ed. cohorts in Early Childhood Education.

Deadline for application is November 7, 2013. Application Package Information

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Funding and Awards

UBC Endowed Graduate Student Funding Opportunity‏

Dear Graduate Students:

We are pleased to announce the call for applications for a number of UBC endowed scholarships and prizes available to our Faculty of Education graduate students who are making the most outstanding contributions in their fields of study.  These awards are for take-up in December 2013.  The awards included in this call are:

THE DEAN OF EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP

THE JIMMAR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN EDUCATION

THE JOHN FRANCIS LIDSTONE SCHOLARSHIP

THE MARY ELIZABETH SIMPSON SCHOLARSHIP

THE JOSEPH KATZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

THE LOMCIRA HAROLD COVELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

THE DONALD AND ELLEN POULTER SCHOLARSHIP

Graduate students should discuss whether they meet the criteria for these awards with their Supervisor or Graduate Advisor prior to application.

The deadline for application packages to your academic unit is 4:00pm, Monday, October 28, 2013.

Please note: it is the responsibility of the student to ensure that the cover page is completed in full, with acknowledgement and signature from referee or supervisor(s) and department head’s signature before you submit to OGPR. 

Also note that past awardees were successful due to: 1) a strong student statement; 2) CV; 3) gpa.

All application packages must be complete with the signed Award Cover Sheet, the student statement, and a completed graduate student CV.  Incomplete application packages will not be accepted by the OGPR.

Please visit the following web page for award eligibility guidelines, application instructions, award descriptions and criteria, application forms and a graduate CV template at: http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/grad/funding/apply/

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