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UBC’s Faculty of Education, one of the world’s leading education faculties, has served the local, national, and international education community through leadership in research, teaching, service and advocacy for more than 60 years. As the largest Faculty of Education in British Columbia, it plays a critical and influential role in the advancement of education in the province, shaping and participating in education’s possibilities and potential as a social good.
Today, the Faculty of Education creates conditions for transformative teaching, innovative learning, and leading-edge research guided by the highest standards of scholarship and the principles of collaboration, social justice, inclusion and equity. Offering undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional development opportunities, the Faculty of Education enrolls thousands of students each year on two campuses and ranks 10th in the world, according to QS World University Rankings (2021).
UBC’s Faculty of Education prepares more than 45% of the elementary and the majority of secondary educators in British Columbia, and a significant proportion of British Columbia’s school counsellors, administrators, special education professionals, and school psychologists. With more than 57,000 alum located in 100 countries, the UBC Faculty of Education truly is a global entity.
The Faculty of Education is home to four departments (Curriculum and Pedagogy, Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Educational Studies, and Language and Literacy Education) and two schools (the School of Kinesiology and the Okanagan School of Education).
We provide outstanding research facilities for faculty and graduate students that promote leading-edge research. Our Education Library is a specialized resource with access to all of UBC’s research and special collections, including the X̱wi7x̱wa Library with materials produced by Indigenous organizations, tribal councils, schools, researchers and publishers.
The Faculty’s Education Research and Learning Commons at Ponderosa Commons features technology-enhanced teaching and learning spaces and also informal learning spaces. A number of faculty manage their own research labs, situated throughout campus.
Many of our PhD students have been selected as UBC Public Scholars and have received other honours.
https://ivet.educ.ubc.ca/Notable strengths are in literacy education and multilingualism; struggling and marginalized youth; Indigenous education, decolonization, and research; transformational program and curriculum design and inclusive pedagogies for schools, community organizations and higher education; sexual orientation and gender-identity inclusive education; social-emotional learning and well-being; autism; exercise physiology, socio-cultural aspects of health; neuromechanical studies; and multidisciplinary research in diversity, health, early childhood education, and digital media. The School of Kinesiology ranks 1st in Canada and 4th in the world by QS World University Rankings (2021).
UBC’s Faculty of Education is the national leader in the number of education graduate student fellowships received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Additionally, the Faculty of Education is home to six Canada Research Chairs, one CIHR chair and nine donor-funded research chairs and professorships.
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Education.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Dr. Hunter explored changing views on higher education at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. She contends that the construction of the "knowledge-based economy" as a framing context fortifies market-capitalist assumptions about education and economics. Meanwhile OECD shifts from these perspectives in other social policy fields. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Weegar studied Appreciative Leadership in BC colleges. Appreciative Leadership is a strength-based approach to leadership which focuses on seeing possibilities and opportunities. Appreciative Leadership in education can help address the leadership "skills shortages" and the challenges facing BC colleges in the twenty-first century. | Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Policy (EdD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Bowles studied how simulation eases the transition of paramedics from being students into operational roles. He found that effective simulations focus not just on patient care, but on interaction with other people and factors in the environment. These results have influenced paramedic curriculum and informed policy on paramedic certification. | Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Kim explored ways of listening to and relating to children's perspectives. She has shed light on their links to learning in both theory and practice. She is committed to engagIng in theorizing the idea of children's participation in the early childhood curriculum, and broadening our understanding of children's participation in practice. | Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Jones examined teachers' perceptions of the influence of technology integration on their relationships with students. The study revealed that open access to technology has the potential to alter the traditional roles of teachers and students in the learning process, mitigate power imbalances, and strengthen relational bonds. | Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Policy (EdD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Williams conducted focus groups to learn about the experiences of adults who had grown up in globally mobile families. New ways of understanding those adults, as well as cultures in general, will help professionals working with diverse populations to provide more effective support. It will also inform future research into cultural diversity. | Doctor of Philosophy in Counselling Psychology (PhD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Rostam examined how counsellors understand and incorporate ethno-cultural diversity in substance-use counselling. While some counsellors recognized differences in their practice, those who subscribed to a prevailing disease model viewed them as secondary. The findings show alcohol and drug counselling is largely untouched by debates on diversity. | Doctor of Philosophy in Counselling Psychology (PhD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Yoon conducted a study of school choice in Vancouver. Her findings suggest that those who choose and get selected into popular alternative public schools benefit from an enriched learning environment. However, those schools generate a new hierarchy in the public education system that contributes to maintaining educational and social inequality. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Dadson investigated the process of recovery for men who have been psychologically injured in their relationships with their fathers. The results show those men experience a convergence of trauma. The patterns of recovery provide counselling psychologists with the critical components of treatment and recovery for men who experience this injury. | Doctor of Philosophy in Counselling Psychology (PhD) |
| 2013 | Dr. Gibb's research was in the field of adult education policy studies. She analyzed the policies that regulate the English language assessment of new immigrants seeking entry into the professions in Canada. Her research will assist educators, policy makers, employers and professional regulatory bodies to develop policy and educational practices. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |