EDCP events
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Oct
8
Globalization of Education
Professor Joel Spring
Queens College and Graduate Center City University of New York
Scarfe Room 310
Joel Spring is a leading scholar on US and global educational policy with over twenty books on these topics. His great-great-grandfather was the first Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and his grandfather, Joel S. Spring, was a local district chief at the time Indian Territory became Oklahoma. Joel Spring worked as a railroad conductor on the Illinois Central Railroad and for many years lived each summer on an island off the coast of Sitka, Alaska. His novel, Alaskan Visions, includes many of his Alaskan experiences. Spring's major research interests are history of education, globalization and education, multicultural education, Native American culture, the politics of education, and human rights education. His most recent books are Globalization of Education and A New Paradigm for Global School Systems: Education for a Long and Happy Life. Some of Spring's other books are Pedagogies of Globalization: The Rise of the Educational Security State; How Educational Ideologies are Shaping Global Society; and Education and the Rise of the Global Economy. His most important textbooks are American Education (now in its 13th edition); American School 1642-2004 (now in its 6th edition) and Conflict of Interests: The Politics of American Education (now in its 5th edition).
Oct
5
The Googlization of Everything
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, Media Studies, University of Virginia
Digital Literacy Center, Ponderosa F, Rm. 103, 2008 Lower Mall, UBC
Free and Open to the Public, Lunch with RSVP (ccfi@interchange.ubc.ca)
In little over 10 years since its search engine first appeared, Google has utterly changed our lives. In this unique analysis of the company that has recently infiltrated our culture more than any other, academic and media star Siva Vaidhyanathan examines Google's extraordinary rise. Is it a benevolent force, or are we at its mercy? This smart, bold book shows how Google is taking on governments and entire industries - and the unforeseen impact of this still-growing force. One of the great attractions of Google is that it appears to offer so many powerful services for "free". But there is a non-monetary transaction at work between Google and its users that may not be immediately apparent. We get Web search, email and YouTube videos; Google gets our habits and predilections so it can more efficiently target its advertisements. Google knows a tremendous amount about us; we know far too little about it. The Googlization of Everything redresses this imbalance, considering everything from Google's role as the anti-Microsoft and the diversification of its interests into books and mobile phones to life as an employee at the company. Vaidhyanathan also addresses the challenge Google poses to big media, its engagements and conflicts with countries such as China and India, and what we as consumers can and should do in the face of this remarkable company.
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia. He has written two books: Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). His third book is The Googlization of Everything (University of California Press) http://googlizationofeverything.com/. Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net , Columbia Journalism Review, and The Nation. After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He is an associate professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia. Co-sponsors: College for Interdisciplinary Studies; Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy; and School of Library, Archival and Information Studies.
Oct
1
Seminar Presentations by Delegates from the North East Normal University, China
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Scarfe Room 2415
All are welcome!
Light refreshments will be served.
Sep
24
Seminar by Dr. Sandra Weber
Forget the movie Juno! Using art and photography with pregnant teens in a community shelter: Issues for teachers and researchers
Dr. Sandra Weber, Concordia University
Sept 24, 2009 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Scarfe room 310
Sandra Weber is Professor of Education at Concordia University, Montreal where she teaches courses about children's toys and popular culture, media literacy, gender, and digital technologies. Co-director of the Image and Identity Research Collective ([ http://www.iirc.mcgill.ca ]www. iirc.mcgill.ca), her research centers on arts-based visual methods, the roles and significance of clothing and the body, and ways to involve young people more actively in research. Among her publications are 5 books: That's Funny, You Don't Look Like A Teacher: Interrogating Images and Identity in Popular Culture; Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers: Beyond Nostalgia; Just Who Do We Think We Are? Arts-based Methodologies for Self-Study; and Growing Up Online: Young People and Technologies.
Sep
4
EDCP Graduate Student Orientation
4 September 2009 (Friday)
3.00 pm - 5.00 pm Scarfe 310
Graduate Students, Please plan to attend the annual EDCP Graduate Student Orientation! Download the agenda for details.
Welcome to the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy
Stephen Petrina
August 2009
Problems that preoccupied scholars two generations ago, primarily defined by curriculum development, are much less germane to researchers today. "The curriculum," whether it is official, unofficial, taught, ignored or lived in any variety of schools, is only one among many possible plural curricula that attract scholars today. Curricula, literacies and pedagogies of the malls, parks, streets, or web 2.0 are as likely to be of interest to scholars today as the British Columbia elementary school curriculum or curriculum of liberal arts majors in the universities. Subjects or disciplines common to schooling for the last century (i.e., art, business, home economics, language arts, math, music, physical education, social studies, science, technology) are few in comparison to the proliferation of new disciplines and their articulation into hybrids and interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary forms. Profound, new issues have arisen, partially through globalization, environmental degradation, multiculturalism, and digitalization, which cannot be contained by any single discipline or the ten historical subjects of the North American school curriculum.
Look around-- there is a proliferation of discourses, disciplines, inter-disciplines, web 2.0 interactions, patterns, and etc. Academic publishing-- books, journals, monographs-- has shot through the roof! In my discipline alone, media and technology in education, there are 110 journals and counting. If I extend this to just media and technology w/o educational foci, there are another 140 and counting-- that's 250 journals for the media and technology specialization alone. And if you want to do interdisciplinarity, which I do, then what??? So what does this mean for a graduate student? How do you survive and how much sympathy can we give? What can or should we offer?
Jul
21
Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Shirley R. Steinberg
Christotainment: UBC a year later
July 21, 2009 (Tuesday)
12:30-1:30 pm
Scarfe Building Room 1210
On Tuesday, 21 July, EDCP will host a Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Shirley Steinberg. Shirley will give a brief talk on Christotainment: UBC a year later. Please see the attached for details. Read an excerpt from her book (with Joe Kincheloe).
Jul
16
A free public reading by Edmund White and Claire Robson with introductory comments by Professor Peter Dickinson (Simon Fraser University)
July 16th at 7.00 p.m.
Little Sister's Books
1238 Davie Street (604-669-1753)
Edmund White
Edmund White's novels, which include "A Boy's Own Story", "Forgetting Elena", and "The Farewell Symphony", have been widely praised by such writers as Vladimir Nabokov and Susan Sontag. White has also had great influence as a cultural critic. Urbane, knowing, and sophisticated, he has chronicled gay life in the seventies through the nineties with wit and insight. His 1980 travelogue "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America" remains a classic look at gay life at a particular cultural moment just before the onslaught of AIDS. His pioneering book "The Joy of Gay Sex: An Intimate Guide for Gay Men to the Pleasures of a Gay Life", written in 1977 with Dr. Charles Silverstein, introduced millions, gay and straight and curious alike, to a brave new world of sexual practices and lifestyle.
Claire Robson
Claire Robson was named Pink Triangle Press Writer of the Year in 2007. She has published a memoir, "Love in Good Time" as well as numerous works of short fiction and poetry. She is currently host artist for Quirk-e, the Queer Imaging & Riting Kollective for Elders, and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia. She is pleased to honour Edmund White on this occasion, as an important literary influence, a generous mentor, and a good friend.
Cosponsored by Little Sister's Books & Faculty of Education, UBC.
Jul
10
Celebration of Books
Co-hosted by the Department of Language and Literacy Education and the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, this event will take place on Friday, July 10th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in Scarfe Room 2414.
Colleagues and graduate students in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, as well as several colleagues from other universities (Simon Fraser University, the University of Lethbridge, and City University), will present the books that they have published in 2009.
All Welcome!
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