The University of British Columbia

Join us in congratulating Laura Diatz, Marie Howton, Janet Kidd, Tania Lam, Mary Stewart, Jane White and Wendy Wong who will be graduating with a Master degree in ECE on May 24, 2012.

Dr. Jodi Streelasky will lead this course which will address the importance of designing early learning environments in collaboration with young children. The course critically examines the link between early learning spaces and children's identities, funds of knowledge, and their family practices and values. More

IDSC Summer Institute (July 9-20, 2012) explores relations between cognitive development and cognitive delays to other developmental domains (i.e., language, social, motor) and provides practical intervention strategies to help children with cognitive delays reach their maximum potential. more

The traveling exhibit from Reggio Emilia, Italy: The Wonder of Learning: The hundred languages of children, will open in New Westminster, BC on July 17, 2012. It will be hosted in B.C. from July to December, 2012 and a number of professional development opportunties for early childhood educators will be available. more

The ECE summer institute (ECED 480/565 July 23-27, 2012) with Dr. Sylvia Kind engages with the Wonder of Learning exhibit as it explores the idea of art as inquiry in early childhood contexts. Through visits to the exhibit and daily artistic investigations, the course will consider ideas within the exhibit, young children’s artistic and poetic languages, issues in art and pedagogy, and the studio as a space of research.