Registration is now open for the below two ECED summer courses:
KIJIKATIG Land and Art-Based Narrative Inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000)
Dates: July 7-11, 2025
Modality/Location: In person, UBC Vancouver Campus
Instructor: David Robinson
This course offers an immersive land- and art-based learning experience guided by the KIJIKATIG Education Model (Robinson 2020), focusing on traditional practices for nurturing wholistic development in childhood, as well as utilizing these practices in research. Students will participate in a traditional KIJIKATIG (cedar) carving program that emphasizes the strengthening of health and wellness for learners and educators alike. Through experiential learning, students will create a wood sculpture from a raw piece of wood, progressing through each stage of the sculpting process. As they work, students will explore narrative inquiry and reflective practice to draw connections between the process of shaping wood and insights into their personal learning journey. The course concludes with an oiling ceremony, symbolizing the transformation process. The sculpture created will be a collaborative sculpture and will be donated to the UBC Summer Institute to commemorate the anniversary year.
Undergraduates register in ECED_V 480-A 93Q. Graduate students register in ECED_V 565-B 951.
For 565 only:
1) Registration initially restricted to graduate students in Early Childhood Education.
2) Registration opens to all graduate students after 3 weeks (March 17, 2025, after 10am PT).
Inquiries: online.educ@ubc.ca
Children and Teachers as Co-Researchers in Early Childhood Communities of Practice
Dates: June 30 – July 25, 2025
Modality/Day & Time: Online Synchronous, Tues and Thurs 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Instructors: Dr. Iris Berger, Dr. Koichi Haseyama
This course centers on creating and sustaining early childhood environments that amplify curiosities, dialogues, and co-inquiry. Students will explore contemporary ECE theories and practices that position teachers and children as producers and not only translators of knowledge. The course promotes practices that generate situated questions and support the decolonization of early childhood education traditions and deficit discourses through valuing how multiple perspectives (e.g., colleagues, children, families and communities) enrich ongoing research on early childhood education pedagogy.
1) Registration initially restricted to graduate students in Early Childhood Education.
2) Registration opens to all graduate students after 3 weeks (March 17, 2025, after 10am PT).
Inquiries: online.educ@ubc.ca