EDST Holiday Dinner

EDST hosted a very successful holiday dinner at UBC on December 13. We welcomed our staff, faculty, students, and a number of professors emeritus to celebrate the EDST community and the year’s achievements.

NITEP at Heiltsuk College

The University of British Columbia’s Native Indian Teacher Education Program (NITEP) is excited to announce Heiltsuk College as the new host of the NITEP rotating field centre as of September 2012! Heiltsuk College and the UBC Faculty of Education’s NITEP will partner to offer arts/science and education courses for the next four years (2012–2016), allowing students to remain in their home community of Bella Bella, for years 1–3. The students will transition to the UBC Vancouver campus for their final year in order to complete their Bachelor of Education Degree.

For more information, please visit the NITEP website.

Contesting White Supremacy

Don’t miss Dr. Tim Stanley, on Tuesday, November 22, when he will present his book Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Antiracism and the Making of Chinese Canadians, new from UBC Press. He will give a presentation on his book and other projects at 12:30–2 p.m. in the Ponderosa G Lounge. That evening there will be a reception and talk at 5–7 p.m. at St. John’s College, UBC Point Grey Campus. See the EDST website and UBC Events calendar for more details.

IOP 2012 – Call for Proposals

Investigating Our Practices 2012. 15th annual conference. Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Education and the BC Teachers’ Federation. Saturday, May 5, 2012, Scarfe Education Building, 2125 Main Mall. Practicing teachers, graduate students, teacher candidates and university educators from different educational contexts convene at UBC to share their investigations, understandings and questions. Proposals for presentations can be submitted online at eplt.educ.ubc.ca/iop-cfp. The deadline for submissions is February 20, 2012. Registration fee: $25, $15 for students. Lunch and refreshments included. For more information, visit www.eplt.educ.ubc.ca/iop or contact Judy Paley at 604.822.2733, judy.paley@ubc.ca.

Olympic Games Impact Study

British Columbia’s economy grew in 2010 with new businesses, jobs and an increase in visitor spending, all likely related to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, says a University of British Columbia study that measured the impact of the Games.

More information on the report is available on the UBC News Release.

Sports Mega-Events Conference

EDST faculty member Rob Vanwynsberghe will co-chair a conference on sports mega-events in November 2011. This second annual two-day think tank will meet to hear presentations for two days, on the subject of event impacts, leverage, and legacy. The event itself is not open to the public; following the event, each paper will be revised and the discussants will edit and collect them as a book for publishing by the University of Texas Press.

Interview with Professor Hans Pechar

CHET presents a video interview with Professor Hans Pechar (University of Klagenfurt, Vienna) about the Humboldt Myth and the Bologna process in Europe, filmed September 6, 2011.