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Education can end double discrimination faced by girls around the world
Globally, there is an effort to end the double discrimination of gender and age experienced by girls.
Click here to read the full article in the Vancouver Sun, written by Daphne Bramham.
These Boots Were Made for Walking
October is International Walk to School Month and two Vancouver elementary schools are celebrating by participating in Beat the Street, a competition that challenges students to walk the most miles.
Click here to read the full Vancouver Sun article, written by Daphne Bramham.
Teacher Becomes Millionaire by Selling Lesson Plans Online
This Huffington Post-Education article features Deanna Jump, a kindergarten teacher in Macon, Georgia who became a millionaire by selling her lesson plans on TeachersPayTeachers.com.
FIRE Talk: Who Else Cares About Your Research?
The Graduate Research Commons FIRE (Facilitated Interdisciplinary Research Exchange) Talk explores ways to help graduate researchers extend the influence of their research beyond their own disciplines, faculties and even beyond the confines of academia. Contribute your ideas, thoughts, anecdotes, concerns and hopes about developing the potential of academic researchers to contribute to an audience beyond disciplinary and academic boundaries! (photo courtesy of Loving Earth, Flickr)
The first Talk is taking place on 3 October 2012, from 4pm-6pm in Koerner Library (Room 216)
Topics to be explored include:
- What are the challenges and benefits of presenting to audiences outside your discipline or the academic community?
- What are the problems your discipline faces when communicating or collaborating with other disciplines and communities?
- How has your research been enriched or hampered by interdisciplinary work?
Be a FIRE Presenter (Deadline to submit extended!):
It isn’t too late to present at the FIRE Talks! Send your responses to any of the above questions or your own thoughts and anecdotes on the topic to research.commons@ubc.ca or post them on our Facebook event page by the 2nd of October 2012!
Be a FIRE Participant:
Join us on October 3rd and contribute to the discussion around these and related issues. Contribute to the development of an interdisciplinary research exchange series by graduate students, for graduate students!
For more information, check out our webpage : http://researchcommons.library.ubc.ca
Register here: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3301
Light refreshments will be provided!
Got Class?
The Class (Entre les murs) is an award-winning film directed by Lauren Cantet. It’s set in a tough school in Paris and highlight’s one teacher’s experiences teaching French language and literature.
Come to the Education Library to borrow it (PN 1997.2.C 5784 2009 dvd) and be sure to let us know what you think about it!