Allison Cloth
Adolescents; School-based behavioral interventions; School-based mental health; Alternative education; Dropout prevention; School-based mentoring; Motivational Interviewing; Social justice in education.
Her research focuses on prevention/intervention activities with youth who are disengaged from school and at-risk for truancy/dropout. Strategies of interest include mentoring, behavioral consultation and motivational enhancement. Dr. Cloth’s research brings Motivational Interviewing, a strengths-based and effective behavior change communication approach, to new populations who may benefit. Other scholarship includes examination of school psychology intervention research that has a social justice focus.
Anthony Clarke
Teacher education; Teacher inquiry; Cooperating teachers; Student teachers; Practicum; Comparative Education; Self-study.
Dr. Clarke’s research is primarily in Teacher Education with a focus of ways in which teacher candidates, cooperating teachers, and faculty advisors conceive of and enact their work within the context of the field-based practicum. These studies have progressively revealed the factors that enhance or constrain optimum practicum environments for all participants. A second line of research involves self-study as a method for identifying, articulating, and reflecting on practice.
Penney Clark
History of education; History of curriculum; History of educational publishing; History teaching and learning; Social studies education.
Dr. Clark has published widely on the production and provision of school textbooks in historical contexts, the historical development of history and social studies curricula in Canada, and history teaching and learning. Two co-authored publications have recently received awards from the Canadian Association for Foundations in Education and the Canadian History of Education Association. She is Director of the pan-Canadian SSHRC-supported organization, The History Education Network (THEN/HiER).
Mary Bryson
Cultural studies; Media studies; Communications; Community health informatics; Transgender and
gender studies; Critical sexuality studies; Knowledge mobilization; Cancer education.
The trajectory of the interdisciplinary program of my CIHR-funded research (http://www.lgbtcancer.ca) advances knowledge concerning how sexual and/or gender marginalization impact the role of networked social media and information literacies and shape access to breast and gynecologic cancer health knowledge and its mobilization and the formation of networks of support. The Cancer’s Margins research project charts new directions for sociocultural work in educational, curricular and post-colonial transferminist health media studies and queer bioinformatics.
Jennifer Chan
Social movements; Human rights; Gender; Antiracism; Multiculturalism; Global health; Asia.
Her research looks at community mobilization of human rights norms in advancing socio-political change. Dr. Chan has examined a wide range of social movements from feminism to antiracism, HIV and AIDS, indigenous rights, labor, and environmentalism. Her scholarship has had a major impact in our understanding of how international human rights norms can bring about local political change through painstaking educational processes.
Wendy Carr
French language education; Teacher education; Teacher professional learning; Second language education; International Baccalaureate.
Dr. Carr has demonstrated educational leadership by developing innovative, literacy-based approaches to teaching French as a second language: curriculum reform in BC, authorship of FSL resources used in schools across Canada, award-winning teaching at UBC, and roles as president of provincial and national language teacher associations. Her 2006 research on BC French teachers led to innovations at UBC: a new cohort (FLAGS, 2007-13) and French methods course for all elementary teacher candidates.
Faculty-Wide Programs Speaker Series: Dr. Asselin
Wed., Nov. 19th, 2014. Scarfe Rm 310 . 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Sponsored by the CFI, ECED and MET programs.
PhD Connections Lunch for 1st year PhD students
Building your Community at UBC. Thursday, November 6th, 12:00 – 1:30 PM. Register for this lunch session by Nov 4th at http://stjohns.ubc.ca/phd-connections/