Upcoming Doctoral Defence – Amanda Wager
LLED PhD student Amanda Wager will defend her doctoral dissertation on Friday, September 26, 2014. All are welcome to attend. Title: Applied Drama as Engaging Pedagogy: Critical Multimodal Literacies with Street Youth When: Friday, September 26, 2014 at 9:00 am Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 Co-Supervisor: Drs. George Belliveau and Theresa Rogers Doctoral defences […]
Upcoming Doctoral Defence – Ji Eun Kim
LLED PhD studnet Ji Eun Kim will defend her doctoral dissertation on Wednesday, September 10, 2014. All are welcome to attend. Title: Parent-Child Shared Reading: The Affordances of Print, Digital and Hand-Held Electronic Storybooks When: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 9:00 am Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 Supervisor: Dr. Jim Anderson Doctoral defences are public. Examinations […]
Upcoming PhD Defence – Kerri Mesner
Rev. Kerri A. Mesner, completing her degree within Department of Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education, will be defending her thesis, Wrestling with the Angels of Ambiguity: Scholarship in the In-Between: Queer Theology/Performative Autoethnography When: Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:00 AM Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, Room 200 Supervisor: Dr. Carl Leggo All are welcome to attend and support […]
Upcoming PhD Defence – Laura Nimmon
LLED’s Laura E. Nimmon will be defending her thesis, Meaning Making within Social Activity Domain of Health Maintenance: Role of Social Networks. When: Monday, September 22, 2014 9:00 AM Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, Room 203 Supervisor: Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates All are welcome to attend and support Laura.
Maga Kijak’s MA thesis defence
The LLED community is welcome to attend the MA Thesis defence for Maga Kijak. When: Thursday, August 28 from 10:00 to 12:00 Where: LLED Boardroom, room 105, Ponderosa Annex E Thesis title: THE DIFFICULTIES OF POLISH SCHOLARS TRYING TO PUBLISH IN INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS Committee: Ling Shi (Supervisor), Patsy Duff, and Ryuko Kubota. Abstract: This […]
In the Signs of Silence: Research and Drama invited talk
As part of the Summer Drama Institute, LLED will be hosting a research talk with Professor Judith Ackroyd, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Regent’s University London. All are welcome to attend When: Wednesday, July 23rd, 3:30pm Location: Ponderosa Annex F, room 103 – Digital Literacy Centre Description: IN THE SIGNS OF SILENCE : […]
African Storybook Summit
You are cordially invited to an open session of the African Storybook Summit, to take place in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC, on Thursday, June 26, 2014. The event, co-sponsored by the Wall Institute, will take place from 9:00am to 10:30am in the DLC (Ponderosa F, Room 103). UBC President Stephen Toope […]
Upcoming Doctoral Defence – Samuel Andema
LLED’s, Samuel Andema, will defend his doctoral dissertation on Friday, July 4th. All are welcome to attend. Title: Promoting Digital Literacy in African Education: ICT Innovations in a Ugandan Primary Teachers’ College When: Friday, July 4, 2014 at 9:00 am Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200 Supervisor: Dr. Bonny Norton Doctoral defences are public. […]
LLED Research Seminar – Thursday, June 12
All are welcome to in LLED’s upcoming Research Seminar. We will be hosting Dr. Sarah Twomey from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Please see the abstract below. Where: Digital Literacy Centre (Ponderosa Annex F, room 103) When: Thursday, June 12, 12:15 – 1:15 pm Exploring the ‘geographical self’ through a feminist new literacies writing pedagogy: Women writers […]
The Beauty in Teaching – Invited talk by Dr. Peter O’Connor
All are welcome to the following LLED Research Seminar: The Beauty in Teaching Invited talk by Dr. Peter O’Connor, University of Auckland Wed. April 30th at 12:30 Digital Learning Centre, PON F, room 103 Abstract: By overcoming the constraints imposed on teaching in recent years, there remains the possibility teaching can be an improvisational […]