The Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Point Grey campus) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor appointment in Early Childhood Literacy. The position is expected to commence August 1st, 2015.
While applications will be reviewed until the position is filled, interested parties are encouraged to submit by January 31, 2015 to ensure optimal consideration.
Questions regarding the position should be directed to Dr. Anthony Paré, Head LLED (anthony.pare@ubc.ca).
A complete application package should be directed to:
Dr. Anthony Paré, Head
Department of Language and Literacy
Faculty of Education
University of British Columbia
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Or electronically to: lled-posting.educ@ubc.ca (in Word/PDF format)
Language and Literacy Education (LLED) Research Seminar Series continues with Dr. Mary Bryson.
Date: Thursday December 4
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Location: Digital Literacy Center, Ponderosa Office Annex F, 2008 Lower Mall
Title: Biopolitics Under the Skin: Relating Cancer Narratives — An Archive of the “Talking Dead”
Abstract: This talk draws from a 3-year CIHR-funded project “Cancer’s Margins” which addresses memoro-politics, narrative and the intermedial poetic imaginary. In this paper, I trace “survivor” discourses, in terms of fields of mediatised knowledge—systems of knowledge that are shaped and organized within specific mediatically organized generational and institutional frames of reference. I take up cancer “survivor” autobiographical accounts as exemplary of a choreographic knowledge practice constitutive of a technological imaginary. My analysis tracks the complex improvisatory affective labour of mobilizing attachments in the face of precarity vis-à-vis the intersectionally linked right to health, right to knowledge, right to memory and the right to be human.
Dr. Mary K. Bryson (http://ubc.academia.edu/MaryKBryson) is Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education & Director and Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Faculty of Arts. Dr. Bryson is Project Leader of the CIHR-funded Cancer’s Margins research project (www.lgbtcancer.ca) and author of multiple publications concerning sexual and gender alterity and the role of networked social media in shaping access to health knowledge and its mobilization. Dr. Bryson is the recipient of multiple awards for their interdisciplinary scholarship, including the Significant Body of Work Award (American Educational Research Association), and a Senior Fellowship at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
All welcome!
Feel free to bring your lunch.
Family and friends, faculty and guests! Please join us to celebrate our fall graduates on their wonderful accomplishments.
Location: Digital Literacy Centre, Ponderosa Annex F
Date: Friday, November 28, 2014
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Food and drinks will be served. Feel free to bring family and friends.
The CFI Speaker Series, hosted by OGPR, draws inspiration from UBC Faculty of Education’s “Year of Research”. This year’s Speaker Series explores the possibilities and problematics produced through the process of doing research. Join us as Dr. Marlene Asselin delves into some reflections on international research in education.
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Time: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Where: Scarfe, room 310
Title:Critical Reflections on the Challenges and Dilemmas of International Research in Education
Description:
This session will explore some of the challenges and dilemmas facing researchers from Canada who initiate research in emerging countries like Ethiopia. Issues raised will include: differing world views of what counts as research; differing socio-cultural and political influences on conducting research; and major ethical differences in involving children in research. The challenges of collaboration and communication are highlighted, as well as reflections on aspects of the research process that are essential to building respectful and responsible research partnerships.
LLED Research Seminar
Thursday, Nov 6, 12.30-1.30, DLC
The multi/plural turn in applied linguistics and neoliberal multiculturalism
Ryuko Kubota
A trend in applied linguistics research has been to support pluralist perspectives of language, as seen in the popularity of such notions as multilingualism, multiliteracies, translanguaging, metrolingualism, World Englishes, and English as a lingua franca. They call into question a fixed understanding of linguistic forms and practices, encouraging us to explore multiplicity, hybridity, and fluidity. While the pluralist approaches conceptually parallel poststructuralism and postcolonial theory, they are also complicit with liberal and neoliberal multiculturalism which promote diversity but obscure social struggles and inequalities. More explicit attention to power and a theory/practice gap can enhance the criticality of multi/plural perspectives.
All welcome!
Feel free to bring your lunch
Upcoming LLED research seminar
LLED’s Research Seminar series is back up and running!
Join us: Thursday, October 30, 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm
In the: DLC
New literacies in a rural Kenyan girls’ secondary school journalism club
Maureen Kendrick and Margaret Early
During a year-long case study in a rural Kenyan secondary school, we applied a number of ethnographic techniques to document how 32 girls (aged 14-18 years) used local cultural and digital resources (i.e., donated digital cameras, voice recorders, and laptops with connectivity) within the context of their after-school journalism club. We take inspiration broadly from the concept of liminal spaces, which we bring together with notions of placed resources, New Literacy Studies (NLS), multiliteracies, multimodality, and identity work. We argue that the learning space of the journalism club, including its mediating digital tools, affords identities of empowerment to students’ writing and experimentation. We see the foundational practices of situated rehearsal, appropriation, and performance of the roles and linguistic repertoires that the learners associated with competent journalists. We conclude that the club as a learning space, including its “props” and digital resources, fostered new degrees of freedom, community, equality, and creativity. We are left with questions about the characteristics of transitional learning spaces and how these might serve as fertile ground for growing competent writers in a range of educational contexts.
All welcome!
Feel free to bring your lunch
Please note this course is cross listed with LLED 444/002
| Code: |
LLED 565D |
| Section: |
002 |
| Title: |
Multicultural Children’s Literature in the Elementary Classroom |
| Credit: |
3 |
| Term: |
2 |
| Start/End Date: |
01/05/2015 – 10/28/2014 |
| Day(s): |
R |
| Time: |
04:30 pm – 07:30 pm |
| Location: |
SCRF 201 |
| Instructor: |
Margot Filipenko |
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LLED’s Graduate Peer Advisors are hired on a yearly basis to facilitate the social and academic life of the graduate students in the department. The GPAs plan apprenticeship seminars focused on preparing students for a career in academia and to support the activities of graduate work. These include trial conference presentations, comps and proposal defence practice, and research practices. They also plan many social events throughout the year, including the September new student’s orientation, film nights, and pub socials.
Every other year, LLED hosts a Graduate Student Conference. Keep an eye on the Grad Student blog for conference theme and call for papers.
