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EDST Blog: Call for Papers (and Introduction to Editorial Board) (2/24/2023) - The EDST blog editorial board is pleased to invite EDST students, staff, and faculty to submit contributions to the EDST blog. Department head André Mazawi described EDST as our “common home,” “in the sense of a space we all share in the pursuit of our work, studies, and contributions.”…
Not Free Inside, Not Free Outside: School Expulsion And The Problem Of Freedom (11/27/2024) - In this blog post: Yotam Ronen recaps Addyson Frattura’s EDST doctoral colloquium on the link between school expulsion and freedom. Frattura’s work explores how expulsion disproportionately impacts marginalized students, and argues for a vision of freedom rooted in love and liberation, challenging punitive educational systems. What happens to a student…
Harnessing Queer Community Learning and Adult Learning to Increase PrEP Access and Prevent HIV in Vancouver (9/18/2024) - In this blog post: Colloquium Coordinator Yotam Ronen recaps Jonathan Easey's colloquium on improving access to HIV prevention in Vancouver. Easey's research focuses on how queer patients can educate healthcare providers about PrEP, addressing the stigma and knowledge gaps in the system to improve care for the queer community. How…
Winner of 2024 Research Day Blog Publication Award: Mahfida Tahniat! (8/2/2024) - We are happy to announce the winner of the 2024 Research Day Blog Publication Award... Mahfida Tahniat! Mahfida is a PhD student in EDST— her Research Day Post below discusses "floating schools" in Bangladesh, highlighting their role in providing education to communities impacted by climate change. Mahfida currently has an…
Remembering Sandy Abah (5/23/2024) - From Alison Taylor and Claudia Ruitenberg Sandy was the Graduate Program Assistant in Educational Studies between 2013 and 2019. When Alison was Graduate Advisor from 2017 to 2019, she worked closely with her. In the same role, Claudia worked closely with her from 2014 to 2017. She worked at UBC…
Letters and Journals of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin: Insights into Colonial Governance Across Continents (5/3/2024) - This is the third and final post in the series from the course "Topics in the History of Education: Histories Confronting White Supremacy," led by Professor Mona Gleason. This course delves into colonialization, racism, and systemic oppression, exploring how historical understanding shapes our world today. In this series, students collaborated…
Challenging Tropes in Canadian History Education: Lidia Jendzjowsky and Serena Pattar (4/25/2024) - This is the second post in a new series from the course "Topics in the History of Education: Histories Confronting White Supremacy," led by Professor Mona Gleason. This course delves into colonialization, racism, and systemic oppression, exploring how historical understanding shapes our world today. In this series, students collaborated to…