Shannon Bredin
Physical activity; Skill acquisition; Human motor performance; Telehealth; Physical activity screening; Long-term athlete development; Systematic reviews; Knowledge translation.
Dr. Bredin is a leader in community-based initiatives in physical activity and health. She is a project lead for the innovative Physical Activity Line, a free telehealth resource for evidence-based physical activity information in BC. Her research examines factors that facilitate physical activity, and physical activity in relation to skill acquisition and human performance in childhood, early parenthood, in developing and elite athletes, and in persons living with chronic medical conditions.
Monique Bournot-Trites
Second language teaching and learning; French as a second language; French immersion; Second language assessment; Canadian Language Benchmarks; Common European Framework of Reference; Study Abroad; Tandem language learning; Literacy in second language; Online teaching and learning.
Her research focuses on L2 teaching and learning, L2 literacy and language assessment. Dr. Bournot-Trites researched reading development and the quality of French in immersion. She has also studied how French teachers study abroad influences their intercultural and language competence. At UBC, she researched tandem language learning. Recently, she wrote the Theoretical Language Framework for the Canadian Language Benchmarks. Furthermore, she studies online teaching and learning at the graduate level.
William Borgen
Career development; Career/life transitions; Unemployment; Workers and change.
Dr. Borgen conducts research and develops programs in the areas of life transitions and career development. His current research focuses on how workers do well with change that affects their work. His studies in this area have in included older, younger, mid-age and immigrant workers. His research has impacted employment counselling and career development programs in Canada and had been translated and adapted for use in Bhutan, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Sweden.
Marlene Asselin
Early literacy; Digital literacy; Early childhood and literacy education in Ethiopia; Community libraries and development in East Africa; Transnational research ethics.
Dr. Asselin’s research focuses on information literacy, digital literacy and social media in educational contexts; early literacy development and education with new technologies and media; international literacy program evaluation; and school and community librarian education. Her scholarship has contributed to transnational perspectives on school and community libraries; and ethical issues of global early literacy initiatives.
Lesley Andres
Sociology of higher education; International comparative higher education; Higher education policy; Survey, life course, mixed methods and longitudinal research; Welfare and production regimes.
Her research focuses on the intersecting domains of participation in post-secondary education, equitable opportunities, and the relationship between institutional structures and individuals as agents. Dr. Andres’s main research project is the 22 year longitudinal study – the Paths on Life’s Way Project – which provides a detailed account of individuals’ lives, choices, and post secondary education and work experiences across different points in time since high school graduation.
Norman Amundson
Career; Hope; Creativity.
His research focuses on the Action Oriented, Hope Centered Career Development model and the Hope Centered Career Inventory (HCCI). This research defines the various components of the career development process. Dr. Amundson also is assessing the impact of various interventions to be used in conjunction with this approach.
CSSE 2015 Annual Conference-Call for Presentations
The Canadian Society for the Study of Education invites UBC faculty, staff and graduate students to submit a presentation proposal for the 2015 CSSE Annual Conference in Ottawa, Ontario on 30 May – 3 June 2015 (pre-conferences on 30 May 2015). Held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, this bilingual […]
Research Methods Student Survey 2014
This survey is in response to students’ request for additional research methodology courses in the Faculty of Education. Data collected in this survey will be used to enhance student options for research methods course offerings in future terms. Thank you for completing the survey.
Rita Irwin
A/r/tography; Arts teacher education; Socially-engaged art in education; Teacher education in refugee camps; Mentoring early career teachers; Artists-in-residence programs; Participatory action research; Research creation.
Dr. Irwin facilitated a group of UBC faculty and students in conceptualizing a/r/tography, a form of arts based educational research first published in 2004. Since then countless theses and dissertations, journal articles and exhibitions/performances have been written/created using this form of research in over 20 countries in the world. In addition, her teacher education scholarship has advanced early career mentoring in BC, refugee education in Kenya, and arts education world-wide.
E. Wayne Ross
Critical pedagogy; Curriculum studies; Social studies education; Education reform; Teacher education; Academic labour.
Dr. Ross is interested in the influence of social and institutional contexts on teachers’ practice as well as the role of curriculum and teaching in building a democratic society. His most recent research develops a radical critique of schooling as social control and a collection of strategies that can be used disrupt and resist the conformative, anti-democratic, and oppressive potentialities of schooling, practices he describes as dangerous citizenship.