2023 TEC Expo: Whose names are these? Learning about Indigenous plants and animals

2023 TEC Expo: Whose names are these? Learning about Indigenous plants and animals

Join Wendy Traas, Education Librarian, and Yvonne Dawydiak, Learning Design Manager, at the 2023 TEC Expo. We will invite participants to respond to the provocation: Whose names are these? We will explore materials from the Education Library, freely available digital tools, and open educational online resources to help identify and learn more about Indigenous plants […]

Langmann photographs on display at Education Library: Critical Literacy, Learning, and Place

Langmann photographs on display at Education Library: Critical Literacy, Learning, and Place

(On display until Dec 13, 2023) Langmann exhibit photos are on the main floor of the Education Library.  These photographs were selected to invite a critically literate approach to exploration of the images and how these relate to the history of education in British Columbia.

New Books at Education Library: October 2023

New Books at Education Library: October 2023

D790.253 477th .B56 2022 Unlawful orders: a portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee airman, surgeon, and activist / Barbara Binns. E185.615 .M37 2022 Freedom! : the story of the Black Panther Party / Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin, Jr. FC165 .C65 2013 Canada: a history / Margaret Conrad, Alvin Finkel, Donald Fyson. LA419.T6 V56 […]

Collection Spotlight: Resources supporting the Core Competencies in BC Education

Collection Spotlight: Resources supporting the Core Competencies in BC Education

The UBC Education Library Collection Spotlight features resources supporting the Core Competencies in BC Education, both professional and picture books. In October 2019, the Core Competencies were updated. What changed? A few of the updates included: Collaboration was added as a second sub-competency to the Communication Core Competency, the second Thinking sub-competency was changed to […]

Collection Spotlight: Science Literacy Week, September 18-24, 2023
New Books at Education Library: August 2023

New Books at Education Library: August 2023

BF789.C7 S64 2017 The secret lives of color / Kassia St. Clair. E841 .S54 2021 Fallout: spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown / Steve Sheinkin. LB1028.24 .M388 2023 Doing critical research in education: from theory to practice / Kathryn Bell McKenzie and Linda Skrla. LB1584 .T67 2023 Toward a stranger and more posthuman social studies / edited […]

Collection Spotlight: New French Picture Books

Collection Spotlight: New French Picture Books

Our new Collection Spotlight is up.  “French Picture Books” is a gathering of current French titles in the Children’s Literature genre.

New Books at Education Library: July 2023

New Books at Education Library: July 2023

BD450 .A94 2020 Discovering people / Neepin Auger. BF39 .G72 2017 Statistics for the behavioral sciences / Frederick J. Gravetter, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, Larry B. Wallnau, The College at Brockport, State University of New York. HM883 .M39 2021 If the world were 100 people: a visual guide to our global village / […]

New Books at Education Library: June 2023

New Books at Education Library: June 2023

D769.8.A6 P365 2022 Seen and unseen: what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams’s photographs reveal about the Japanese American incarceration / Elizabeth Partridge, Lauren Tamaki. D774.I5 S73 2022 In harm’s way: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the story of its survivors: an adaptation for young readers / Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias. E185.61 […]

Collection Spotlight: Asian Heritage Month

Collection Spotlight: Asian Heritage Month

May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. Celebrate with books by Asian Canadian authors and/or illustrators.