Please join The Institute for Early Childhood Education & Research (IECER) for:
Graduate Student Presentations: Current Research in Early Childhood with Keynote Speaker
In this annual event, graduate students in the area of early education share their graduating projects or theses about current research topics in early childhood education. Each presentation acts as an opportunity for knowledge mobilization as well as a point of departure for a dialogue and community engagement.
This event will begin with a keynote presentation titled:
Toward Multimodal Approaches to Transcultural Literacy Learning: Young Children’s Textual Re/production in Private Spaces by Dr. Marianne McTavish, Senior Instructor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, followed by students’ presentations.
WHEN: Thursday, April 28, 2016
TIME: 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: 2125 Main Mall, Neville Scarfe Bldg. Room 310
Drawing on data from a larger multiple case study, Dr. McTavish will focus on a young bilingual child from a lower socioeconomic community as he re/produced texts in playful, multimodal ways in spaces he considered private and highly personal. Framed by theories of multimodality and embodiment, Dr. McTavish will demonstrate how, in these private spaces, this child blended senses, emotions, and materiality to bring new identities to the foreground. She argues that children are competent managers of, and producers in, these spaces in ways that disrupt adult notions of literacy and making meaning.
STUDENTS’ PRESENTATIONS:
Karen Liska (ECED MEd Candidate):
Connecting Deeply: Educator and Child Relationships in Infant and Toddler Classrooms
Kathleen Ecclestone (ECED MEd Candidate):
Arts Integration and Young Children’s Meaning Making in Literacy
Susan Belliveau (LLED MEd):
How Primary Students Make Sense of Shakespeare through Drama and Playbuilding
Áurea M. Vericat-Rocha (Ph.D. student, CFI and GAA Early Childhood Education):
The Role of Early Childhood Educators Within Trauma Informed Systems of Care
Light dinner will be provided.
Contact: joanne.oconnor@ubc.ca