The Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED) in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track Instructor I position in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). The appointment is expected to commence July 1, 2014.
It is anticipated that shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in March/April, 2014. While applications will be received until the position is filled, interested parties are encouraged to submit by March 7, 2014, to ensure optimal consideration.
Dr. Mary Bryson will be a featured speaker this Saturday, January 18, 2014 at the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Centre in New York, giving a talk titled “The experience of cancer for LGBT patients: From medical decision making through survivorship” based on the ongoing Cancer’s Margins project research. This project brings together co-investigators and collaborators from across the country in public health and cancer research. The CIHR funded project seeks to understand how the LGBQT community in Canada experience breast and gynecological cancers from diagnosis through treatment and onwards, and hopes to improve the ways in which previously overlooked sexual and/or gender minority groups access cancer knowledge, support networks and care.
For more information on the Cancer’s Margins project, please visit the website, and follow Dr. Bryson on Twitter @CancersMargins
Dr. Jan Hare has been appointed the Principal Investigator of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled “Reconciliation through Indigenous Education”. It is one of three courses approved and supported by the UBC Vice Provost’s Office and Flexible Learning. This course will engage educators in opportunities that explore how their teaching practices and school programs may be modified in order to integrate respectfully and meaningfully Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies into the curriculum with the goal of improving educational outcomes for Indigenous/Aboriginal learners and enhancing the learning experiences for all students. Congratulations Jan!
Nest Wednesday, we will be celebrating the graduating students of LLED! The graduation ceremony will be in the Chan Centre at 12:30pm, and LLED will be hosting our own department celebration afterwards.
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Location: Ponderosa Annex F, DLC (room 103)
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Non-alcoholic wine, sparkling drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Family and friends are welcome to attend, to celebrate our students’ wonderful accomplishment!
Klara Abdi (TESL) will present her Ph.D. proposal, titled: Bilingual Language Socialization across Transnational Social Fields: An Ethnographic Multiple Case Study of Chinese-Canadian Returnee Families. (Abstract available here.)
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013.
Location: Ponderosa Annex E Boardroom (room 105)
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
We will have approximately 20-25 min for the presentation itself and then about half an hour for Q&A and discussion, followed by a private meeting of her dissertation supervisory committee.
All are welcome to attend. Coffee/tea and snacks will be provided.
Supervisory committee: Patsy Duff (supervisor), Maureen Kendrick, Steven Talmy, and Hongxia Shan (EDST).
Dr. Bonny Norton of LLED, has been appointed the Research Advisor of the groundbreaking African Storybook Project, an initiative of the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide). Funded by Comic Relief, UK, the project makes innovative use of the web to promote the multilingual literacy of children across sub-Saharan Africa. As Chair of the Research Advisory Committee, Dr. Norton is coordinating an expanding research network of scholars in Africa and the international community, in collaboration with the University of Cape Town, Makerere University, and Oxford University. Former LLED graduate students are providing outstanding leadership in the project. Other Canadian partners include Aboriginal language educators in the NWT, and the long-established literacy development agency, CODE. The African Storybook Research Network was launched at the Peter Wall Colloquium Abroad held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in October, 2013.
The African Storybook Project goes viral! Check out the YouTube video and distribute widely.
Congratulations to Dr. Norton, and to all the LLED community involved in this exciting project.
There is a Graduate Teaching Assistant opportunity in the Faculty of Arts, Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Program. Deadline for applications is Friday, November 15, 2013.
The Department of Language & Literacy Education has opportunities for Graduate Teaching Assistantships in the UBC-Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Program for the 2013-2014 Academic year. Applications will be accepted until Friday, October 25, 2013.
