The Department of Language & Literacy Education has opportunities for part-time sessional lecturer appointments in the UBC – Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Programs (UBC-Rits) for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Updated CV and cover letter can be sent as a pdf or a word document to lled-posting.educ@ubc.ca. Please indicate in the subject area of the email, “LLED/RITS Sessional” and indicate the course(s) that you are interested in teaching.
Application deadline is Friday, May 23rd 2014 at 4pm
The Department of Language & Literacy Education has opportunities for Graduate Teaching Assistantships in the UBC-Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Program (UBC-Rits) for the 2014-2015 Academic year.
Updated CV and cover letter can be sent as a pdf or word document to lled-posting.educ@ubc.ca. Please indicate in the subject area of the email, “LLED/RITS GTA” and indicate the course(s) that you are interested in teaching.
Application deadline is Friday, May 23rd 2014 at 4pm
A great big thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the end of term at the LLED Spring Social. A special thanks go to the Social Committee, Lee Gunderson, Margaret Early, and Anneke Van Enk, and our Graduate Peer Advisors, Melanie Wong, Harini Rajagopal, and Espen Stranger-Johannessen. Thanks is also be extended to Kathie Shoemaker, Ernesto Peña, and Ron Darvin for the beautiful set-up and entertainment throughout the evening.
If you missed the fun and creative video put together by the 2nd year PhD cohort you can watch it on YouTube.
LLED wishes everyone a wonderful end of term and a happy spring season!
| Code: | LLED 336 |
| Section: | 626 |
| Title: | Speech Communication for Teachers |
| Credit: | 3 |
| Term: | 1 |
| Start/End Date: | 09/02/2014 – 11/28/2014 |
| Day(s): | N/A |
| Time: | – |
| Location: | OFF CAMPUS Kamloops |
| Instructor: | Nirmal Bawa |
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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 art form that creates moments of intense beauty and joy. The importance of teachers seeking for beauty and surprise in the classroom is conceived as a necessary political response to the factory models that dominate current education policy.
Biography: Peter O’Connor is an Associate Professor and Director of the Critical Research Unit in Applied Theatre in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland. His most recent work has involved creating the Teaspoon of Light Theatre Company to work with children in Christchurch and a Romeo and Juliet project in Youth Justice. He is an international leader in the field of Drama/Theatre Education.
LLED Research Seminar Series invites you:
New/digital literacies and the socio-economic empowerment of women: A case study of a Botswana basket-weaving cooperative
Theresa Rogers, Penelope Moanakwena, and Brigid Conteh, UBC
(with Pierre Walter, UBC and Glorious Bolokwe, UB, Ernesto Pena, DLC)
Date/Time: Thursday, April 24, 2014 – 12:30-1:30pm
Location: Digital Literacy Centre, Pon F, room 103
In this project we are exploring how digital literacies can be productively connected to local languages, economies, social capital and sustainable production in one village in northwest Botswana. We draw on convergences among new literacy studies, multimodality, multiliteracies, and, more recently, the broader rubric of “new literacies” (e.g. Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear & Leu, 2008). Taken together, these perspectives help us to view new languages and literacies as practices embedded in social activity that can be best understood in relation to specific cultural contexts. Other areas of research central to this study are adult literacy, gender and community development (Rogers, 1999; Walter, 2005), and the “gender digital divide” in Africa (Eneh, 2010). We will report on the first two phases of our qualitative case study (Stake, 1995) of one group of women basketweavers in Etsha who took up the resources of digital literacies in the context of ongoing workshops to develop and market their baskets. This work supports the women in their goals to receive fair market prices for their craft and to become more financially independent.
| Code: | LLED 353 |
| Section: | 109 |
| Title: | Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language: Elementary |
| Credit: | 2 |
| Term: | 1 |
| Start/End Date: | 09/02/2014 – 12/12/2014 |
| Day(s): | W |
| Time: | 09:30 am – 12:30 pm |
| Location: | SCRF 1003 |
| Instructor: | Jeannie Kerr |
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Critical analysis of the rhetoric and workings of government, faith-based, donor-based and non-government initiatives responding to global agendas for literacy and education. Contexts include teacher training programs, schools, libraries and local language publications/materials as targeted to early literacy, adolescent/youth literacy and adult literacy. Political, economic and social factors related to accountability/monitoring and evaluation; cultural conceptions of literacy and learning; and government agendas are examined.
| Code: | LLED 565C |
| Section: | 061 |
| Title: | A Critical Examination of Global Agendas for Literacy |
| Credit: | 3 |
| Term: | 2 |
| Start/End Date: | 01/05/2015 – 04/10/2015 |
| Day(s): | W |
| Time: | 04:30 pm – 07:30 pm |
| Location: | Pon E 121 |
| Instructor: | Marlene Asselin |
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| Code: | LLED 602 |
| Section: | 062 |
| Title: | Critical Analysis of Issues and Methodology in Language and Literacy Education |
| Credit: | 3 |
| Term: | 2 |
| Start/End Date: | 01/05/2015 – 04/10/2015 |
| Day(s): | T |
| Time: | 01:00 pm – 04:00 pm |
| Location: | SCRF 200 |
| Instructor: | Patsy Duff |
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| Code: | LLED 574 |
| Section: | 061 |
| Title: | Theory and Research in Teaching Second Language Writing |
| Credit: | 3 |
| Term: | 2 |
| Start/End Date: | 01/05/2015 – 04/10/2015 |
| Day(s): | R |
| Time: | 04:30 pm – 07:30 pm |
| Location: | PON E 127 |
| Instructor: | Ling Shi |
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