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Education News Update from The Tyee

By Jenn on April 4, 2012

The Ministry of Education has put money saved during the BC teacher’s strike towards a learning fund.

Read the full Tyee “The Hook” blog here. Written by Katie Hyslop April 2, 2012 02:45 pm.

“Katie Hyslop reports on education and youth-issues for the Tyee Solutions Society“. © The Tyee News

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Need some help with qualitative research? This just in: New book at the Education Library

By Jenn on April 3, 2012

Qualitative Research in Action: A Canadian Primer

by Deborah K. van den Hoonaard

Part of a Series from Oxford University Press Canada: Themes in Canadian Sociology

Publisher’s Information here.

Author Information here.

UBC Library Holdings information here.

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The Art Zone – Educational Resource

By Jenn on April 2, 2012

Check out The Art Zone – from the National Gallery of Art interactive educational resource website.

Make a work of art online!

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This Just In: New Book at the Education Library

By Jenn on March 28, 2012

Creating Caring Classrooms: How to encourage students to communicate, create, and be compassionate of others

This passionate book is about community, compassion, and creativity; it is about caring for others. It is also about helping students care about their work. Teachers will learn how to establish inclusive classrooms where kindness and concern become crucial backdrops for critical conversations. They will be introduced to simple but profound strategies that initiate and maintain respectful dialogue, promote collaboration over competition, and confront difficult issues such as bullying and exclusion.

Creating Caring Classrooms is committed to building respectful relationships among students, teachers, and the school community. Through active, engaging, relevant, open-ended activities, students will be encouraged to explore events, ideas, themes, texts, stories, and relationships from different perspectives, and then represent those new understandings in innovative and creative ways.

Authors: Kathleen Gould Lundy and Larry Swartz

Publication Date: 2011 ISBN: 9781551382708 Pages: 160

~from the Pembroke Publishers Website

UBC Library Holdings Information here.

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BC post-secondary presidents warn about implications of spending cuts

By Jenn on March 28, 2012

Post-secondary institutions have sent a stern letter to the B.C. government in response to the recent provincial budget, which ordered them to trim administrative spending by $70 million in 2013-14 and 2014-15.

“It is critical for government to understand that the $70 million reduction to institutional grants over the last two years of the fiscal plan, combined with five years of unfunded inflationary pressures, creates a strain on the operations of post-secondary institutions,” the presidents of 25 schools write in a letter to Advanced Education Minister Naomi Yamamoto.

“It is particularly concerning that in Budget 2012, the post-secondary sector is the only social sector to receive an absolute budget reduction, with the inference that other sectors, such as health, have taken action where we have not.

“We must be clear that it is unrealistic to assume that the reductions contemplated by Budget 2012 can be achieved without implications for service levels.”

The letter was described as unprecedented in an NDP release in mid-March (which would have been reported here earlier had it not been landed on the eve of the BCTF AGM). Find the letter here.

“We have a shared commitment to a strong post-secondary education systen and we do not want to see a decline in a system that is seen as one of the best in the world,” says the letter, whose signatories include Stephen Toope of UBC, Andrew Petter of SFU and David Turpin of the University of Victoria.

Read The Vancouver Sun full article here.

By JANET STEFFENHAGEN March 26, 2012. 11:58 am • Section: Report Card

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