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In Pursuit of Truth: Faculty of Education Researchers Present at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference 2023

April 12, 2023

Twenty-eight researchers from the Faculty of Education, including faculty, graduate students, and postdocs, will present a total of 31 sessions at the AERA annual conference from April 13 to May 5, 2023. The presentations will include 11 papers, five symposium presentations11 roundtables, three posters, and one business meeting, in response to the conference theme of "Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth." The conference will be held online and in-person.

Paper Sessions

  • Educational Transformation and Relational Accountability in Education Change Networks  
    Leyton Schnellert, The University of British Columbia; Sara Florence Davidson, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; Bonny-Lynn Donovan, University of British Columbia
  • Family (Hi)Story in My Dancing Body 
    Carolina Bergonzoni, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Interrogating Colonial/Postcolonial Educational Approaches in Working with Students Who Use English as Their Second Language 
    Michele Schmidt, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Kristina Berynets, City University of Seattle, Charles F. Scott, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Journalism Education as a Site for Civic Reasoning: Conceptual Change and Moral Resistance  
    Robyn Ilten-Gee, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; James Francom, Van Tech Secondary
  • Learning Contexts in Science Education: Perspectives From Secondary School Students
    Dawit Asrat Getahun, Bahir Dar University, Engida Hailye Gebre, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Henos Ejigu, Bahir Dar University, Getahun Tadesse, Bahir Dar University
  • Linguistic Landscape of Vancouver: Multilingualism and Translanguaging 
    Aylar Adeh, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Mapping Semiotic Cycles in the Trajectory of an International Student in a Canadian University 
    Pedro L dos Santos, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • New Language, New Identity: The Role of French in Group Belonging, Accent, and Identity Construction for British Columbia French Immersion Youths 
    Livia Poljak, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Romantic Rewritings of Respair in Young Adult Sexual Assault Narrative Fan Fiction  
    Amber Moore, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Teacher Education for Students with Refugee Experiences: A Literature Exploration 
    Amrit Kaur Cojocaru, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Whole-Being Responses to Oppression: Toward Holistic-Contemplative Learning
    Leslie P. Shayer, University of British Columbia, Heather Williams, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Renata Cueto de Souza, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Heesoon Bai, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Karen Ragoonaden, The University of British Columbia, Oren Ergas, Beit Berl College and Hebrew University

Symposium

  • Bridging the Research-Practice Gap: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teachers' and Schools' Engagement with and in Research
    Discussant: Daniel A. Laitsch, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Children's Augmented Storying With Trees: A Relational Inquiry
    Kristiina P. Kumpulainen, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Jenny Renlund, University of Helsinki, Jenny Byman, University of Helsinki, Chin Chin Wong, University of Helsinki
  • Interrogating What Counts as an Inclusive Classroom: Toward Power, Participation, and Voice
    Inna Stepaniuk, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Role of Objects-to-Think-With in an Online Distributed Teacher Professional Development
    Yumiko Murai, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Hiroyuki Murmatsu, Shinshu University
  • What's in a Name? The Signifiers and Empty Signifiers of Environmental Sustainability Education: Implications for Teacher Education  
    Douglas David Karrow, Brock University; Xavier Eric Fazio, Brock University; David B. Zandvliet, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Roundtable Sessions

  • A Place at the (Leadership) Table: Imagination as a Tool of Empowerment and Belonging  
    Gillian Judson, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; Meaghan Dougherty, Douglas College
  • Beyond the Indexical Role of Contexts in Educational Research and Learning Design
    Engida Hailye Gebre, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Addisu L. Bailie, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Joseph L. Polman, University of Colorado - Boulder
  • Biodiversity in Science Museums: Forms of Representation and Science-Technology-Society-and-Environment Perspectives
    Ana Maria Navas Iannini, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Martha Marandino, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Educaçao, Erminia G. Pedretti, OISE/University of Toronto
  • Community Connections: Understanding Preservice Teachers' Enactments of Community-Engaged Teaching Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies 
    Amrit Kaur Cojocaru, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; Pooja Dharamshi, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Dancing-Reading-Writing: An Embodied Arts-Based Research Practice 
    Carolina Bergonzoni, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Opening Decolonizing Possibilities in Introduction to Educational Psychology Courses: A Multimodal Narrative Analysis of Syllabi
    Lorna Andrews, University of the Fraser Valley, Robyn Ilten-Gee, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Nikki Yee, University of the Fraser Valley
  • Reconceptualizing Semiotic Resources in the Eco-Social System of an Online Language Tutoring Course 
    Qinghua Chen, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, Angel Mei Yi Lin, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Secondary School Teachers' Ways of Contextualizing Science Teaching and Learning  
    Engida Hailye Gebre, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; Dawit Asrat Getahun, Bahir Dar University; Getahun Tadesse, Bahir Dar University; Henos Ejigu, Bahir Dar University
  • Teaching Materials in Teaching English as an International Language: Teachers' Perceptions
    Aylar Adeh, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • The Walking Curriculum: Just "Good Ideas for Walks" or First Steps Toward Imaginative Ecological Pedagogy?
    Gillian Judson, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
  • Weaving Languages: Inuk's Truths About Her Plurilingualism
    Natacha Roudeix, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Poster Sessions

  • A Science Exhibit About Mental Health: Expectations and Engagement Perspectives 
    Ana Maria Navas lannini, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; Erminia G. Pedretti, OISE/University of Toronto; Kristen Schaffer, Mount Royal University; Daniel Atkinson, University of Toronto
  • Designing for Critical Digital Literacy: Counter-Fairy Tales and lnstagram Shape-Shifters 
    Robyn llten-Gee, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; Mark McLean, Vancouver School Board; Roberta Loo; James Francom, Van Tech Secondary
  • Exploring and Promoting Cross-Faculty Collaboration Through Data Visualization 
    Nathalie Sinclair, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV; Quincy Wang, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV

Business meeting

  • Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meanings, and Multimodality SIG Business Meeting
    Officer: Angel Mei Yi Lin, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV