UBC Faculty of Education announces ‘Noted Summer Scholars’ for 2014: Courses and Public presentations

talkThe 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:
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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