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Service Opportunities

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

The Department of Physical Therapy at UBC is in need of patient model volunteers for an upcoming practical exam:

Thursday, April 10, 2014 from approximately 7:30am – 5:30pm.

This is a great way to find out more about physiotherapy!  Lunch, snacks and refreshments will be provided on the day, and volunteers will also receive a Chapters gift card as a small token of our appreciation.

Please review the attached volunteer requirements and contact me by reply email at cailen.ogley@ubc.ca by no later than March 31, 2014 if you are interested in this opportunity.

Please include:

·                     Confirmation that you are available from 7:30am to 5:30pm on Thursday, April 10, 2014.

·                     Any physical limitations you may have (i.e. back/knee problems)

***NOTE: Please carefully consider your availability on this date before responding. Volunteers are needed for the full day***

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Mar 17 Experiences With Indigenous Knowledges in Teacher Education

Please join us for the following panel presentation and interactive discuss= ion on Monday March 17th from 12 to 2 p.m. in Sty-wet-tan Hall at the First=  Nations House of Learning. Light snacks and refreshments provided. All are=  welcome!
 Experiences With Indigenous Knowledges in Teacher Education Please join us for a panel presentation with four scholars and educators fr= om three universities in British Columbia who will share their experiences = working with Indigenous knowledge perspectives, content and pedagogies in teacher education. They will be sharing successful strategies, innovative approaches, controversial events, and the complexities of this work in the te= aching and learning of pre-service candidates and beyond.

Panel presenters include:
Tina Fraser (UNBC)
Kau=92i Kelipio (SFU)
Jeannie Kerr (UBC), and
Cynthia Nichol (UBC)

Following the panel we will engage in an interactive discussion in smaller groups taking up conversations that support our teaching and learning for I= ndigenous education.
This event is supported by the Indigenous Leadership and Mentoring Initiative, Office of the Associate Dean of Indigenous Education, Indigenous Educat= ion Institute of Canada, NITEP, TEO, and the Professorship of Indigenous Ed= ucation in Teacher Education.
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invitation to ‘babies in prison?’ – public panel discussion

You are invited to a public panel discussion entitled, ‘Babies in Prison? Mother and Baby Prison Health’

Thursday March 13th 6-8pm, UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room C300, 800 Robson St.

Join us for a free lively discussion regarding the rights of an infant to stay with their mother in prison (BC Supreme Court decision, November 2013).

Panelists will discuss why prison Mother Baby Units are essential for the health or women and their families in Canada, and how they might be implemented in all provinces and territories across Canada.

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Conferences

ASSESSING ASSESSMENT – Best Practice and New Research

 
The 12th Annual Assessment Conference
When:
May 1, 2014
8:00 am to 4:00 pm

Where:
Neville Scarfe
2125 Main Mall
Auditorium (Keynotes) and
2nd and 3rd Floors

How to register: Complete registration form (end of registration program)
http://includingallchildren.educ.ubc.ca/files/2014/02/2014-Assessment-Conference-Program-Final.pdf

Collaborators:
Steering Committee members-IECER and the Psycho-educational Research and Training Centre (Faculty of Education, UBC), Kidsclub UBC, IDP, SCDP and AIDP/ASCDP of BC; BC Council for Families, Parent Child Mother Goose Program, Aboriginal Head Start Program of BC

Speakers:
Dr Marilyn Chapman, Director, Institute for Early Childhood Education & Research and Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, UBC (Opening Keynote) and Dr Jill Houbé, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Pediatrics at BC Children’s Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre. (Closing Keynote)

Panelist(s): 13 Workshops with UBC Faculty and ECE Community Professionals

Cost: 

$150 (Students $125)

Mail, fax, or scan and return to Conference Coordinator: Joyce Branscombe

jbbran@telus.net
604-953-5140

For information about the program, contact:
mari.pighini@ubc.ca

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Mar 10 Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Public Lecture+Lunch

The campus visits by the GRSJ short-listed candidates continue in the coming week, with our third and final GRSJ Search visitor to UBC, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s public lecture+lunch ‘Reading The Dead – The Method of the Critique of Postcolonial Capitalism’    Monday March 10th @Noon (Liu Inst). See you there! You are all invited.
ASSOCIATE Professor – Critical Race Theory/Ethnic Studies and Humanities/Cultural Studies
Monday, March 10, 2014.

Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor & Chair, Ethics & Director, The Center for Ethics and Politics, School of Business and Management-Queen Mary, University of London http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/staff/ferreiradasilvad.html).

Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s schedule will be as follows:
12:00 – 1:00pm                Public Lecture ‘Reading The Dead – The Method of the Critique of Postcolonial Capitalism’

Liu Institute, Multipurpose room

Denise Ferreira da Silva holds the inaugural chair in Ethics, in the School of Business and Management and is the Director of the Centre for Ethics and Politics, at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). Her writings contribute to the fields of Political Theory, Critical Legal Theory, Global Studies, Critical Racial and Ethnic Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies. From a feminist theoretical perspective, her work addresses the conceptual, political, ethical challenges of the global present.  Her publications include Toward a Global Idea of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2007); “No-bodies: Law, Raciality and Violence” (Griffith Law Review, 2009); Special Issue on “Race, Empire, and the Subprime Crisis” (American Quarterly, 2012).
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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities Speakers

March Sessional/TA ‘Lunch and Learn’‏

Save the date. The next TA/Sessional/Seconded teacher/Instructor Lunch and Learn session is next Wednesday, March 12, from 12:00-1:00 PM in SCARFE (Room to be determined). The topic for this session is “Diverse teaching for diverse learners”.

Come join Marny Point, Keith McPherson and Shawna Faber as we explore the University’s policy on diversity and discuss and share methods for teaching to, and learning with, Faculty of Education students who come from very different backgrounds and who draw upon very different learning styles. Marny is eager to speak with attendees about her own experience as an indigenous learner, and to share what she has learned about teaching to, and learning with, indigenous learners in the NITEP program.

The session will largely follow an informal discussion format.
Did I mention that the session will include a free lunch?  

To help us order food, please RSVP Shawna Faber at: shawna.faber@ubc.ca

Keith McPherson and Shawna Faber
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Funding and Awards

Arts Researchers Teachers Graduate Research Award 2014

The award is offered for a completed scholarly project, thesis, or dissertation in the area of arts research and teaching. The work must have been accepted between January – December, 2013.

Graduates of Canadian universities or Canadians who have studied abroad are eligible for the award.

Criteria
All modes of inquiry are invited as are all modes of reporting. The submission will be examined by three experienced and active members of the ARTS SIG for the following:

Significance

* Relevance for contemporary arts researching and teaching
* Contribution to innovative arts teaching and/or arts research practices

Substance

* Compelling and provocative questions
* Adequate summary of the supporting literature
* Methodology and research process clearly explained
* Quality of reporting and writing

Distinctiveness

* Artistic merit
* Offers important new perspectives or ways of thinking about arts research and teaching

Eligibility

The winner must be a member of CSSE, CACS, and ARTS.

Submission Requirements

1. Interested applicants should submit the following:

2. A PDF copy of the signed committee acceptance of the dissertation/thesis/project.

3. An abstract of 1000-1500 words outlining: the problem(s) / question(s) addressed in the study, a brief review of the major literature, the design methodology, the major conclusions, and a statement of significance.

4. A PDF or link to the full project, thesis, or dissertation.

Deadline: March 15, 2014.
Please send applications to: John J. Guiney Yallop: johnj.guineyyallop@acadiau.ca
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Publication Opportunities

CAP Journal – Spring Edition 2014 – Call For Submissions‏

Greetings,

My name is K.J. White. I am the Eastern Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Principals (CAP) http://cdnprincipals.org/.  As part of my role as Eastern VP, I am editor for our CAP Journal. CAP advocates for Principals and Vice-Principals at the national level. Working with other national educational groups, CAP presents the views and opinions of Principals, Assistant-Principals, Vice-Principals and other school administrators regarding a variety of issues and in many different forums.

CAP is requesting written submissions for our next publication with the theme: Principal Leadership – Building Instructional Capacity.  If you have articles or studies of approximately 1000 – 1250 words, CAP would be pleased to view them for consideration in our next edition. The deadline for submissions is March 11th, 2014.

Please note the CAP journal has a print version and an electronic publication. Amendments to accommodate space requirements may be necessary, however any revision would be approved prior to publication.

If you have another friend or colleague that may be interested in writing an article, please forward this e-mail, along with my contact information, to any faculty member who may be interested. Works can be e-mailed directly to me at  kjwhite@edu.pe.ca preferably as a Word document, 1000 – 1250 words in length. Authors should include a writer’s biography, not to exceed 40 words, containing designation, credentials and/or any relevant experience. No e-mails will be printed in the CAP Journal.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions.

K.J. White – CAP Eastern Vice President – CAP Journal Editor
kjwhite@edu.pe.ca

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities Publication Opportunities

Change to Thesis/Dissertation Licence for UBC Library‏

The UBC Library has developed a new online cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License, very similar to the current UBC Thesis Licence Agreement which students have been using up to now. The License will be applicable to theses and dissertations as well as to all non-thesis work in cIRcle, and will likely go into effect on Friday March 7, 2014 (tomorrow). The current UBC Thesis Licence Agreement form will be discontinued.

NOTE: This new online cIRcle Licence will be presented to students as part of the submission process. They do NOT have to submit a paper License form. None of the other procedures have changed. Our website will be updated tomorrow when I get confirmation from the Library that they are ready to launch the online License.

Key information:

·         Students retain full copyright to their theses, as always.

·         The new cIRcle License clearly states the restrictions on theses via a Creative Commons license. It specifies that, by default, works deposited in cIRcle will correspond to the most restrictive of the Creative Commons licenses. Please see the links below for details.

The text of the new License is here: http://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/46029

Description of changes to the Licence here: http://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/forms/distribution-license/

or here – the Library will likely be moving the information to this link: http://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/licensing-copyright/

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Employment

Tutoring – paid position

We home school our daughter. She is 5 years old and she is attending Grade 2 under correspondence with Laurel Springs School. Her English reading and speaking ability is beyond grade 2, probably about grade 4. Her math tests at 85% grade 2 level. She is a happy child, very friendly and compassionate. 
 
We are looking for a teacher to help us with her home schooling. We would prefer to engage someone of post graduate level. A graduate student or someone who is already teaching. Someone who enjoys working with younger children. Time is reasonably flexible but preferably between 9 – 5. The number of hours per day and number of days per week is also flexible but no less than 2 days/3 hours per week. We would require the  candidate to commit at lease 1 semester. 
We would like a tutor particularly for the science portion of Julia's schoolwork since neither of us have any science background. Therefor a candidate with a science major would be looked upon more favourably. If the science tutoring works out well, and the person is happy with more hours we could add Math and/or Health.
 
There is a very clear curriculum that is outlined, broken down by week, with one assignment due each week. The assignment is usually an experiment or written response. I take a mastery based approach - we do the experiment or talk about the topic and then Julia answers the questions. If she doesn't give the correct answers then we go through it again until she understands. 
The goal would be to work with Julia to complete the assignment each week. If she expresses interest in delving deeper into something, that would be great if further exploration could take place after the assignment is done.
 
We live right in the campus next to the Law Faculty. 
 
We will pay $25.00 per hour to start with for the successful candidate. 
 
Thank you,
 
Cecilia (pcj@shaw.ca)
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Mar 20 CIRCA Winter Colloquium Series 2014

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA) www.circa.educ.ubc.ca <http://circa.educ.ubc.ca>
 
presents
 
CIRCA Winter Colloquium Series 2014
 
Social Attention in Autism Spectrum
 
Disorders: Past, Present, and
 
Future Research
 
Presenter: Elina Birmingham, PhD
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
 
Thursday March 20, 2014
1:00 pm  - 2:30 pm
Neville Scarfe Building
2125 Main Mall Room 308A
http://tinyurl.com/MaptoScarfe
 
RSVP: <http://tinyurl.com/LetsFaceIt-CIRCA> <http://tinyurl.com/EBirmingham-Mar20> http://tinyurl.com/
 
This presentation will discuss recent findings on how children, adolescents, and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
attend to and interpret social information. In particular, research on social attention in both laboratory and naturalistic 
environments will be highlighted, along with practical implications relating to social functioning.

For further information contact:   pat.mirenda@ubc.ca or joanne.oconnor@ubc.ca
Light refreshments provided. Feel free to bring your lunch.
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Announcements

Mar 26 – PhD Tea

All EDCP PhD students are invited to drop by the Den (Scarfe 6A) for some tea, cookies, and socializing.

No RSVP necessary. Just show up to chat with your colleagues!

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3R Workshops

Mar 26 3R Workshop – Preparing for Presentation

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Conferences

Call for Proposals CILS 10th Annual Symposium‏ (May 9)

Second Call for Proposals

10th Annual Symposium

“Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward”

Friday, May 9, 2014

8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

The University of British Columbia

We are accepting submissions  for presentations (20 minutes) followed by discussion (10 minutes) on topics related to intercultural issues in higher education. The theme for this year, “Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward” is intentionally broadly-stated so as to provide a forum where multiple perspectives from across a spectrum of issues can be shared and discussed.

Reports on small/large-scale research projects, research proposals, preliminary results of ongoing work, or teaching workshops on topics that may deal with intercultural issues are welcome. While the working language of the Symposium is English, we encourage proposals that are written in French, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin.

Summaries of presentations and selected peer reviewed full papers will be published in the online 2014 CILS Symposium proceedings after the event.

Submit your proposal at cils.ubc@ubc.ca

 Keynote address by Dr. Galina Elizarova [Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia]

“National Cultural Values and International Education in English: Conflict Resolution”

This talk will focus on a contrastive analysis of semantic interpretation of universals such as speakers’ attitudes toward the notion of time, responsibility, power, argumentation, plagiarism, among others, across different academic cultures from Russia and the US. Suggestions will be offered on how to deal with these intercultural differences in guided language learning.

Dr. Elizarova is a Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. She has been an active contributor in the development of new educational programs for training professional interpreters, translators, and foreign language educators in Russia. Her book “A Culture-Based Approach in Teaching Foreign Languages“ received an Honorable Mention from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Dr. Elizarova has received numerous awards and distinctions for her diffusion of intercultural reality in the Russian educational system. Some of her professional affiliations include UCG (University Contact Group) and Tempus projects funded by the European Commission. She is a member of the editorial board of “Virtimo Studijos”, an international journal on interpretation and translation (Vilnius, Lithuania).

Important dates

·         Submission deadline: April 25th, 2014

·         Notification deadline: April 30th, 2014

·         Registration deadline: May 6th, 2014

Registration is now open at: http://tinyurl.com/cils-10th-annual-symposium

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Early Bird Registration – Tri-Nations Education Conference‏ (Mar 29-30)

Internationalization in Education: Its Nature, Challenges and Possibilities in an Increasingly Globalized World

Internationalization in Education is being discussed and debated globally as universities compete for the best students and researchers expand their networks and collaborations across national borders. University reputation and rankings are influenced by the degree of international engagement and many institutions are responding to this imperative. Yet many concerns have been raised about the motives behind internationalization, its benefits and challenges, and the short- and long-term benefits of student and faculty mobility. This conference provides a forum for a critical examination of these and other issues arising from this powerful global phenomenon.

This conference, initiated by the Deans of Education of five partner universities in China, Australia and Canada, is intended to encourage research exchange and collaboration on topics of importance to educators from around the world, but especially of interest in the Asia-Pacific Region.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTES

William Pinar | Professor & Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia, Canada

Disciplinarity and the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies

Muhua Wang | Vice-Dean, Southwest University, China

Huapeng Dai | Center of International Programs, Southwest University, China

The advances and challenges of internationalization at Chinese universities under the context of globalization

Shafik Dharamsi | Associate Professor, Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada

Internationalism in Higher Education ­ a call for ethical engagement

Wang Fang | Lecturer, Northeast Normal University, China

Empty Success or Brilliant Failure: An Analysis of Students¹ International Learning Experience in a Collaborative Graduate Degree Program

Kris Magnusson | Dean, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada

The ACDE Accord on Internationalization of Education

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Presentations will be posted in early March.

Saturday, March 29

8:30am-5:00pm – Opening address | Keynotes | Presentations | Catered Lunch

6:00pm-8:00pm – Welcome Reception | Banquet Dinner

Sunday, March 30

9:00am-5:00pm

Keynotes | Presentations | Catered Lunch

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