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Revitalizing Kinship Connections through an Indigenous Urban Leadership Program

This research partnership aims to explore how kinship reconnections occur at the individual and community levels through a grassroots leadership program for urban Indigenous women.

Michelle Pidgeon (Principal Investigator)
Rebecca Cox (Co-Investigator*)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Partnership Development Grants

Understanding and Assessing Learning in Computing and Maker Classrooms: Participatory Design Research

This research aims to advance our understanding of student learning and its assessment in computing and maker education classrooms in public school settings through participatory design research.

Yumiko Murai  (Principal Investigator)
Kristiina Kumpulainen (Co-Investigator)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Development Grants

Infusing Climate Education into the BC Curriculum

This three-year action research project updates the BC Ministry of Education framework document, Environmental Learning and Experience: An Interdisciplinary Guide for Teachers. It assists teachers of all subjects and grades to integrate climate education into teaching and learning. 

David Zandvliet (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions & BC Ministry of Education

Northern Rural and Remote Teacher Recruitment and Retention Project: Evaluation Framework

Masahiro Minami (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: Ministry of Education and Child Care (ECC)

Latin American Nikkei Japanese in Japanese Society: Languages, Migration, Otherness, and Plurilingual Pedagogy

The project aims to uncover the complexities that Nikkei Japanese face in Japan and to promote plurilingual/pluricultural educational strategies, from K–12 through to higher/adult education, that benefit all minority groups in Japanese education and elsewhere.

Steve Marshall (Principal Investigator)

Agency: Faculty of Education, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Program: International Research in Education (FIRE)

Teacher Recertification as a Site for Overlapping Discourses of Migration and Diversification: A Comparative Analysis

This project conducts a comparative analysis of Iceland, Germany, and British Columbia to understand their distinct contexts and approaches to teacher education and recertification policies as well as curriculum in an era of migration and internationalisation.

Lilach Marom (Principal Investigator)

Agency: Faculty of Education, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Program: International Research in Education (FIRE)

Instructors’ Views and Ways of Integrating International Perspectives in University Teaching

This project aims to raise awareness about the importance of international dimensions in teaching and learning in Ethiopian universities by interviewing faculty members and conducting a focus group with instructors at Bahir Dar University.

Engida Gebre (Principal Investigator)

Agency: Faculty of Education, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Program: International Research in Education (FIRE)

Empower a Public University for Teaching/Learning Literacy and Numeracy in Haiti

The goal of this project is to establish a technology platform to allow an ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV-Haiti working group to collaborate online and develop an academic program in numeracy and literacy to be offered at the Faculty of Education at Southeast Public University of Jacmel, Haiti.

Magally Constant (Principal Investigator)

Agency: Faculty of Education, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Program: Funds for International Research in Education (FIRE)

Faculty Development in Environmental Learning (Indonesia)

This project aims to develop a faculty development program in inquiry-based environmental education to enhance the future offerings of the Faculty of Education international field school program in Indonesia for pre-service and in-service teachers.

David Zandvliet (Principal Investigator)

Agency: Faculty of Education, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
Program: Funds for International Research in Education (FIRE)

First Steps for a Healthy Climate: Exploring Grassroots/Parent-Led Community Resiliency, Civic Empowerment and Location-Based Education for Climate Change

In response to calls for climate change curriculum, this community action research seeks to determine the best practices for supporting parents in facing challenges including community building, civic empowerment, adaptation, lifestyle changes, eco-parenting and resource development.

Lynn Fels (Academic Supervisor)
Intern: Laurel Hart

Funding Agency: MITACS
Program: Accelerate
Partner Organizations: City of Vancouver and Five Family Place Partnership