A roundtable discussion on the Teachers’ strike is now being planned by Charles Menzies, Steve Petrina and Wayne Ross.

WHEN: Wednesday November 9th at 4:30 pm
WHERE: Chemistry Building, room 126. CHEMISTRY BUILDING EAST WING; Also called Building C(Wayfinding at UBC).
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Speakers:
Jinny Sims, President BCTF.
Catherine Evans, President BC Society for Public Education.
Paul Orlowski, Vancouver Secondary Teacher.
Kevin Millsip, Trustee Vancouver School Board.
Larry Kuehn, Director of Research and Technology, BCTF.
Charles Menzies, Parent Advisory Council member and Associate Professor of Anthropology, UBC.
E. Wayne Ross, Professor Dept. of Curriculum Studies, UBC

THEME: A roundtable discussion on the significance of the teachers’ strike and struggle for public education in British Columbia.

FORMAT: A panel of presenters representing teachers, parents, and researchers will each speaker for 5 to 10 minutes each. This will be followed by a moderated discussion of the significance of the teachers’ strike.

SPONSORS:
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, UBC
Department of Curriculum Studies, UBC
Canadian Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts, UBC
Department of Political Science, UBC
Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations
First Nations House of Learning, UBC
Workplace: A journal for academic labor
New Proposals Publishing Society

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