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Books for Me! Book Drive to November 1, 2014
UBC Faculty of Education and Education Library are hosting a book drive to help out the non-profit organization Books for Me!
For many families, buying children’s books just isn’t possible. Books for Me! provides children from these families an opportunity to build a personal library and experience the excitement of book ownership. The program comes to life as children choose their own book to take home and keep.
Please consider dropping off gently used children’s books in the plastic bin at the South West Entrance in the Scarfe Building just outside the library.
Since October 2011 Books for Me!’s volunteers have helped children and families choose over 22,000 books. With your help
we would like to reach even more.
For more information about Books for Me! check out www.booksformevancouver.org
Historical textbooks: Yours to explore!
At UBC’s Education Library, there is an emphasis on the study of education in the last 50 years, however material about the history of education from 1800 on is also collected.
There are vast arrays of historical texts and textbooks available on the lower level of the library. Although the collection is library use only and cannot be borrowed, patrons have direct access and can feel free to browse.
From the old 1950s Dick and Jane style reading and spelling books, to even older health, science and math books from the 1800s, I’m sure you’ll find the books in this section to be fascinating, informative and often humorous due to the now less than current content. Many of them are also quite beautiful!
‘Fairy Tales: Grow Your Imagination’ display now up at Education Library
A new month is just around the corner and that means a new display is up at Education library! “Fairy Tales: Grow Your Imagination” showcases just a few of the many fairy tales and fairy tale themed books we have here at this branch.
Please feel free to browse our Fairy Tale Guide:
Fairy Tales / Myths / Nursery Rhymes: Alternate Versions Bibliography
- Aesop’s Fables
- Baba Yaga
- Beauty and the Beast
- Bremen Town Musicians
- Chicken Little / Henny Penny
- Elves and the Shoemaker
- Emperor’s New Clothes
- Fisherman and his Wfe
- Frog Prince
- Gingerbread Man
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Hansel and Gretel
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- House That Jack Built
- Humpty Dumpty
- Jack and Jill
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- King Midas
- Little Red Hen
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Mother Goose
- Old MacDonald
- Princess and the Pea
- Rapunzel
- Rip van Winkle
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Shakespeare
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White
- Stone Soup
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Three Little Pigs
- Tortoise and the Hare
- Thumbelina
- Collections of Characters and Stories
- Teaching Resources
UBC Faculty of Education announces ‘Noted Summer Scholars’ for 2014: Courses and Public presentations
The UBC Faculty of Education is pleased to announce this summer’s series of courses and public presentations by scholars from the international education community.
Our visiting Noted Summer Scholars for 2014 are:
· Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Professor, School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
· Dr. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets), Professor, Human Development and Indigenous Studies, Antioch University, USA
· Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China
· Dr. Carol Rodgers, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University at Albany State University of New York, USA
· Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Professor, Division of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA
· Dr. Hua Zhang, Professor & Dean, Graduate School of Education Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Province, China
A bibliography of their works can be found here:
bibliography-summer-lectures
Noted Summer Scholars will be instructing a special topic course for the 2014S term and presenting a free public lecture. For complete listings of Noted Summer Scholar courses, please visit http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014
Public Lectures:
These lectures will be of interest to a broad range of people concerned with education. There is no registration process or fee.
A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric in a South African Post-Conflict University Context
Dr. Carol Rodgers
12:00, Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Room: Scarfe 310
Looking Into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an Institutional Orientation for Graduate Education
Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
12:00, Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Room: Scarfe 310
What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us About the Underpinnings of Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman
13:00, Monday, July 14, 2014
Room: Scarfe 310
Towards Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up
Dr. Angel M.Y. Lin
13:00, Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Room: Scarfe 310
Towards a Research-based Pedagogy
Dr. Hua Zhang
12:00, Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Room: Scarfe 310
Scholarship as Leadership: Carving New Pathways in Education
Dr. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets)
15:30, Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Room: Scarfe 310
Complete details of the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series can be found at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014
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