The Edith Lando VLC Digital Pedagogy Lab Grant provides funding for initiatives that align with the mission and intended audience of the Edith Lando VLC. Projects should address the Edith Lando VLC’s thematic priorities while aligning with UBC’s broader strategic objectives, and /or the Faculty of Education’s strategic plan.
Understanding settler colonial processes of Indigenous erasure and displacement is critical to fulfilling commitments to reconciliation and decolonization. It is also important to understand the role that seemingly mundane, everyday […]
It is important to consider online accessibility to course information for learners in post-secondary programs, particularly for d/Deaf or hard of hearing (d/Dhh) students who use American Sign Language (ASL) as their first language and English print as their second language. The graduate concentration in Special Education that focuses on learners who [...]
Especially since the watershed #MeToo movement’s 2017 global moment that brought an outpouring of disclosures and discussions about sexual trauma, violence, and rape culture in popular discourse, the classroom has increasingly become a space to navigate these issues and stories. In particular, literacy education generally and literature learning sites [...]
Lungs of the Earth is an immersive sound installation that strings together voices from the Brazilian diaspora responding to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest through spoken poetry, field recordings, original music, and tactile, visual, and haptic displays. These collective works encourage audiences to develop a personal relationship to the […]
The New Sound is an educational initiative aimed at democratizing access to quality music education for all students, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or geographical location. The project addresses the critical challenges facing public school music programs, including funding cuts, teacher shortages, and limited access, particularly in underserved […]
According to Statistics Canada (2021), nearly one-fifth of newcomers to Canada are youth between the ages of 15 to 24. This demographic is expanding and needs support integrating into the Canadian school system. School integration is defined as the academic, social, emotional, relational, […]
Needs Based Mentoring (NBM), an innovative and evidence-based approach, is poised to change the landscape of youth mentoring in schools. By embedding evidence-based strategies into adult-youth mentoring, we’re bridging the gap between research and practice to support students at risk for school disengagement, mental health challenges, and more. The possible […]
This project extends from a previous SSHRC Connection Grant (2020) and collaborations among nine researchers at six universities in four countries. The result was the creation of a publicly available online repository housing information about supporting self-regulated learning (SRL) in K-12 classrooms and schools. SRL reflects productive, adaptive, goal […]
In order to support their communication needs children with speech delays and disabilities often turn to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices. These devices can help them better express their needs, participate in classrooms, and interact with their peers. Until now there hasn’t been anything readily available for those needing to communicate with AAC users […]
Using strengths-based Indigenous research methodologies to plan for current and future pandemics and health emergencies Unpacking the complexity within Indigenous communities responding to displaced climate change refugees in central British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions have exacerbated the impacts of climate change issues on the health […]
Grant recipient: Dr. Robert Campbell This is the first grant being awarded to UBCO: Grant funding provided by the Edith Lando Digital Pedagogy Lab will be used to develop, implement, and document an immersive learning experience at the Komasket Park Gathering Space, where Augmented Reality (AR) technology will be used to enhance land-based learning. AR […]
Co-Primary Investigators — Kathryn Accurso & Jason D. Mizell Community and school-based K-12 educators working toward practices of antiracism and decolonization draw on community countertexts in their teaching. Community countertexts are texts by minoritized authors that reflect their experiences and knowledges and capture perspectives that are missing in dominating school curriculum. These texts may be […]
Edith Lando Virtual Learning Grant Grant recipients: Dr. Carly Christensen, Assistant Professor ECPS Dr. Nancy Perry, Professor ECPS Dr. Kim Zebehazy, Associate Professor ECPS Natalia Florez, Masters Student ECPS DPL Grant recipients Christensen, Perry, Zebehazy, and Florez seek to build a digital toolbox of children’s books and other materials for educators and to support people […]
Edith Lando Virtual Learning Grant Primary Investigator — Anusha Kassan, PhD, RPsych Let’s talk: A digital platform to share stories and promote dialogue among newcomer and non-newcomer secondary students Given that the number of newcomers to Canada is continuously growing, particularly amongst youth, increasing support is needed for this group during their process of school […]
Edith Lando Virtual Learning Grant Co-Primary Investigators — Angela Reynolds, Chris Rugo, Anneke Nussbaum, Dr. Keri Ewart: Teaching ‘Transformatively’ Toolkit: Critical and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Queering Curriculum & Practice for Rural and Remote Education Edith Lando VLC’S latest grant recipients will be developing a digital toolkit intended to support educators from rural and remote […]
Building ocean literacy with in-service and pre-service teachers and the wider education community through an education which shares stories of both the human and non-human world's live experience with the Ocean. This project features a web series and open educational resources shared through a learning hub.
Learning to identify and honour the 'individual strengths, aspirations, and capacities of children, strategies can be developed and implemented to better support learning and wholistic development across educational settings.
Creating high-quality, research-based multi-media resources around the theme of Indigeneity and Indigenous Perspectives, shared via an open educational repository and an existing online platform to support rural and remote faculty associates, mentor teachers, and teacher candidates
A re-design of an existing website - ruralteachers.com - to better meet the needs of rural educators and researchers interested in rural education. The re-designed web space will house research-based multi-media resources shared openly to support the rural and remote education community including faculty associates, mentor teachers, and teacher candidates as they prepare for and successfully work together during rural practica.
Dr. Laurel Forshaw receives a grant for this project which seeks to create spaces of dialogue and relationship building that will help to guide the next stages of engagement with reconciliation, decolonization, and Indigenization within higher music education.
Dr. Janet Jamieson is awarded the first DPL grant to improve the accessibility of the ECE Basic Certificate program to adult learners who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH).
