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Graduate Symposium on Creating Space to Conceptualize Different Families

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Matthew Isherwood and Naoki Takemura organized an extremely dynamic Symposium on Creating Space to Conceptualize Different Families last week. I really appreciated the depth of presentations and challenges to consider and celebrate different families & ways of conceptualizing mothers and fathers. As well, the audience members all deserve a raucous round of applause! Special thanks for arranging with Dr. Kedrick James to attend,  speak, and interact with us throughout!

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Graduate symposium on Turning Spaces into Places of Learning

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Amanda Fritzlan, Ildiko Kovaks, Kari Marken, and Matthew Yanko organized a dynamic, experiential, embodied symposium last week on “Turning Spaces into Places of Learning.” The symposium explored the challenge of shaping places and spaces through the panelists’ research. I really appreciate the attention to various campus places and spaces and give thanks to the weather for cooperating! The pineapple express rolled through Vancouver for the day!

Thank you!

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601 Graduate Symposium, Wed Nov 9, 1:00

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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
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Turning Spaces into Places of Learning

Panelists:
Amanda Fritzlan, Ildiko Kovaks, Kari Marken, Matthew Yanko

* You are invited to a conversation that explores the thinking/being/doing of turning traditional and nontraditional spaces into learning places. Dress for all weather. Bring your student card. Wear comfortable clothing for movement.

Readings

Gandini., L. (2012). Connecting through caring and learning spaces. In C.P. Edwards, L. Gandini & G.E. Forman (Eds.), The hundred languages of children: The Reggio Emilia experience in transformation (3rd ed.) (pp. 317-341). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Garoian, C. (2001). Performing the museum. Studies in Art Education, 42(3), 234-248.

Hart, R. (1997). The development of children’s environmental knowledge, concern, and action. In Chapter 1, Children’s participation. The theory and practice of involving young citizens in community development and environmental care ( pp. 17-22). New York, NY: Unicef.

Sobel, D. (2005). Reconceptualising environmental education. In Place-based education: Connection classrooms and communities (pp. 9-12). Great Barringtom, MA: Orion Society.

Yeager, D.S. and Walton, G.M. (2011). Social-psychological interventions in education: They’re not magic. Review of Educational Research, 81(2), pp. 267–301.

Recommended 

Derr, V., Chawla, L., Mintzer, M., Flanders Cushing, D., & Van Vliet, W. (2013). A city for all citizens: Integrating children and youth from marginalized populations into city planning. Buildings, 3(3), 482-505.

Foucault, M. & Miskowiec, J. (1986). Of other spaces. Diacritics. 16(1), 22-27. Gruenewald, D. A. (2003b). The best of both worlds: A critical pedagogy of place. Educational Researcher, 82(4), pp.3-12.

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Graduate symposium on Exploring curriculum-as-plan and curriculum-as-lived

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Alexis Gonzalez, Gerald Tembrevilla, Tsubasa Saito, and Elise (Ling-Hui) Chu organized an exciting, engaging symposium last week on “Exploring Curriculum-as-plan and Curriculum-as-lived in Science and Math Education.” The balance of theory and practice had us thinking and acting throughout out. I also really liked the balance of epistemologies and philosophies, including a very attentive engagement with the work of Ted Aoki.

As well, I would like to extend a heartfelt acknowledgement and appreciation for Prof. Keith Taber, who skyped in and talked with us from Cambridge, and to Prof. Anne Phelan, who interacted with us for the entire symposium and walked us through a really interesting essay by Aoki. Thank you!

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601 Graduate Symposium, Wed Oct 26, 1:00

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
1:00-4:00         Scarfe 1214

Exploring Curriculum-as-plan and Curriculum-as-lived in Science and Math Education

Guest Speaker
Dr. Keith Taber (via Skype)
(On Science and Math Education)
Professor of Science Education Chair of Science, Technology & Mathematics Education Academic Group University of Cambridge

Guest Speaker
Dr. Anne Phelan Professor
(On Aoki and Curriculum)
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy University of British Columbia

Panelists:
Alexis Gonzalez, Gerald Tembrevilla, Tsubasa Saito, (Elise) Ling-Hui Chu

Readings

Taber, K. S., Ruthven, K., Mercer, N., Riga, F., Luthman, S., & Hofmann, R. (2016). Developing teaching with an explicit focus on scientific thinking. SSR, 97(361), 75-85.

Shulman, L. (1986). Those who understand: Knowledge growth in teaching. Educational Researcher, 15(2), 4-14.

Aoki, T. T. (2004). Legitimating lived curriculum: Toward a curricular landscape of multiplicity. In W. F. Pinar & R. L. Irwin (Eds.), Curriculum in a new key: The collected works of Ted T. Aoki (pp. 199-215). New York, NY: Routledge. (Original work published 1993)

References

Aoki, T. T. (2004). Teaching as indwelling between two curriculum worlds. In W. F. Pinar & R. L. Irwin (Eds.), Curriculum in a new key: The collected works of Ted T. Aoki (pp. 159- 165). New York, NY: Routledge. (Original work published 1986)

Fatah, A., Suryadi, D., Sabandar, J., & Turmudi, T. (2016). Open-ended approach: An effort in cultivating students’ mathematical creative thinking ability and self-esteem in mathematics. Journal on Mathematics Education, 7(01), 11-20.

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Graduate symposium on ethics in education

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Bruce Moghtader, Phuong Huynh, Kshamta Hunter and  Lesley Liu organized an excellent, engaging symposium on Ethics and Education last week. I really liked the scope of the engagement, from ancient history and theory, Buddhist, Confucian, Greek & Taoist, to experimental pedagogy to ethnographic reports of affinity space designs for youth peer relations.

I am grateful for the insightful participation of the 601 PhD students! Special thanks to Professor Samson Nashon for helping us work through ethical questions and dilemmas related to research!

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601 Graduate Symposium, Wed Oct 12, 1:00

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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
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Chained to the Chariot: Bridging Ethics in Education

Guest Speaker: Dr. Samson Nashon

Panelists:

Bruce Moghtader
Ethics from Socrates and Foucault

Phuong Huynh
Morality in Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism

Kshamta Hunter
Ethics to Social Change

Lesley Liu
Ethics of Affinity Spaces

Readings

  1. Aoki, T. T. (2005). Imaginaries of “East and West”: Slippery curricular signifiers in education (1996). In W. Pinar & R. L. Irwin (Eds.), Curriculum in a new key: The collected works of Ted T. Aoki (pp. 313-320). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  2. Fornet-Betancourt, R., Becker, H., Gomez-Muller, A., & Gauthier, J. D. (1987). The ethics of care for the self as a practice of freedom: An interview with Michel Foucault on January 20, 1984. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 12, 112-131.
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601 Graduate Symposium, Wed Oct 5, 1:00

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
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Lost in Queer
A Symposium on Queer Theory in Education: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Visual Art

Guest Speaker: Dr. William F. Pinar

Panelists:
Hector Gomez, Joanne Ursino, Kevin Day, Nicole Lee, Xinyan Fan

Readings

  1. King, T. L. (2016). Post-indentitarian and post-intersectional anxiety in the neoliberal corporate university. Feminist Formations, 27(3), 114-138.
  2. Luhman, S. (1998). Queering/queering pedagogy? Or, pedagogy is a pretty queer thing. In Pinar, W (Ed.). Queer theory in education (pp. 141-155). New York, NY: Routledge.
  3. Muñoz, J. (1995). The autoethnographic performance: Reading Richard Fung’s queer hybridity. Screen, 36(2), 83-99.
  4. Pinar, W. F. (2015). Queer theory. Unpublished Work.
  5. Popkewitz, T. S. (1997). The production of reason and power: Curriculum history and intellectual traditions. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 29(2), 131-164.

Resource

  1. Chang, D. (2016, Winter). Shout, shout let it all out. C Magazine, 128, 34–37.
  2. Kher, B. (2016). Matter. Vancouver, BC: Vancouver Art Gallery. (Exhibit, July 9 – October, 10, 2016). Retrieved from: https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_kher.html
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Students “are not here to worship what is known” #ubc #ubcnews #highered

Posted on September 7, 2016 by | Leave a comment

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.”
(Bronowski, 1973/2011, pp. 341-342)

“… barefoot irreverence to their studies”? “not here to worship what is known”?

Is this true? What does it mean?

postcard_an_85In Chapter 11 of The Ascent of Man— yes, ascent, not descent– Bronowski makes a point about the “irony of history:”

When the future looks back on the 1930s it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it, the ascent of man, against the throwback to the despots’ belief that they have absolute certainty. (p. 348)

Heisenberg was a graduate of the University of Göttingen, so Bronowski wants to make a point of the culture that eventually shaped the “uncertainty principle.” “The symbol of the University,” he says,

is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goose girl [the Gänseliesel] that every student kisses at graduation. The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. (p. 341)

Now comes the famous pronouncement on academic expectations: “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.”

Is this true?

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601 Graduate Symposium, Wed Nov 18, 1:00

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
1:00-4:00         Scarfe 1214

Exploring The Relationships and Roles Of Technology, Community, Schools and Families in Children’s Mathematics

Kwesi Yaro & Ting Zhang

1:00pm Welcome everyone, Introduction
1: 05 – 1:45pm Presentation on Constructivism by Dr. Samson Nashon (Guest Speaker)
1:45 – 2:15pm Presentation on Parental Involvement in Children’s math learning by Kwesi Yaro
2.15pm – 2:30pm Break
2:30 – 3:00pm Presentation on Robotics in Math Classrooms by Ting Zhang
3:00-3:45pm

  • Presentation on Families Involvement in Children’s mathematics learning by Dr. Ann Anderson (Guest Speaker)
  • Presentation on Community-based Learning by Dr. Cynthia Nicol (Guest Speaker) 

3:45 – 3:55pm Large group feedback/Reflections -Experience with the speakers and presenters -how does this topic apply to YOUR research / interests?
3:55 – 4:00pm Wrap-up and housekeeping for the class for the upcoming week(s)
4:00pm End of class

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