Presentations

Nicki Benson (PhD)

Benson, N., Soderlund, C. & mayor, n. (2020, October). The Spanish for Social Justice Teacher Network: Why we meet and what we do. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Southern California Chapter: Bringing Social Justice to the L2 Classroom, Azusca, CA.

Benson, N. (2020, June). Promising trends in second language acquisition for Indigenous language revitalization. Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, Kingston, ON. (Conference canceled)

Benson, N. & McIvor, O. (2020, March) Language education and Indigenous language revitalization: Inviting collaboration across disciplines. Association of Graduate Education Students Conference, Victoria, BC. (Conference canceled)

Benson, N. (2019, November). Indigenous language revitalization: Why and how? University of Victoria Deans’ Lecture Series. Victoria, BC. 

Thomas, C.A., Benson, N. & Lemon, M. (2019, June). (Be)Coming together: Making kin through language and literacy conversations. Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 16th Annual Pre-Conference. Vancouver, BC.

Rhonda Geres-Smith (PhD)

Geres-Smith, R., Stacey, S., Webster, S. (2020, February). Transdisciplinary inquiry: Facilitating educator and student learning regarding metacognitive strategies. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Baltimore, MA.

Geres-Smith, R.L. (2019, July). Transdisciplinary inquiry as a dual-purpose approach: facilitating both educator and student learning. Paper presented at the meeting of the International School Psychology Association, Basal, Switzerland.

Eugenia Kowalczyk (PhD)

Educational Leadership Exploring Overlapping Consensus of Catholic Identity through Narrative Inquiry. Presented at International Conference on Catholic Religious Education in Schools, Melbourne, Australia, February, 2020.

Xiaopei Peng (PhD)

Peng, X. P. (2020, May/June). Analyzing emergent roles in group process: Does it contribute critical thinking in collaborative learning? 2020 meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. (Conference cancelled)

Hanh Pham (PhD)

Understanding the context and its effect on assessment in EFL class in higher education in Vietnam, The Eighth CLS International Conference. National University of Singapore, Singapore. (2018)

Gillian Saunders (PhD)

Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China, October 28, 2020
"Academic Publishing in English" (remote guest lecture)

Anderson, T., Alexander, I., & Saunders, G. (2020, May/June). An examination of education-based dissertation macrostructures. 2020 meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. (Conference cancelled)

CSSE Conference, UBC, Vancouver, BC, June 1–5, 2019
"’No Editing Allowed’: Canadian Writing Centres’ Stances on Assisting with Sentence-Level Concerns" (poster presentation)

CWCA Conference, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, May 29 & 30, 2019
• "Supporting Sustainable Collaboration between Writing Centres and Writing Instructors" (panel)
• "Citation Analysis: Helping Students Navigate Writing from Sources" (presentation)

Hector Vazquez-Cordoba (PhD)

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2020, August). Can music education embrace the voices of Indigenous culture bearers in Mexico’s educational system? 34th World Conference for the International Society for Music Education, Helsinki, Finland.

Prest, A., Goble, S., & Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2020, July). On Sharing Circles and Educational Policies: Learning to Enact Indigenous Worldviews in BC Music. 20th Biennial International Seminar Commission on Music Policy: Culture, Education, and Media, Helsinki, Finland.

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2020, July). Indigenous methodologies in music education: Towards a meaningful collaboration with Indigenous culture bearers. Closing Plenary, Decolonizing the Music University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2020, June). "He told me that his daughter wants to learn nice music, classical music; she does not want to learn Huasteco music": Can the rhetoric of cultural production serve to reframe the role of the music educator? MayDay Group Colloquium 32, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

Prest, A., Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2020, March). Features and complexities of research on Indigenous musics and music with Indigenous roots in Mexican and Canadian educational contexts. AGES 2020 Bridging Connections Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2020, Jan/Feb). Análisis de la implementación de músicas indígenas y músicas de raíces indígenas en el contexto educativo internacional. Segundo Foro Internacional de Educación Musical Veracruz 2020, Xalapa, Veracruz, México.

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2019, October). Is it possible to unveil the aftermath of internal colonialism through music education in Mexico? 2019 Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) and the Peace and Conflict Studies Canadian Association (PACS-Can), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2019, July). Learning music with Indigenous roots in Mexico from the perspectives of culture bearers. 4th Research Symposium on Social Impact of Making Music, Bogota, Colombia.

Rosabal-Cota, G., Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M., & Lafontant Di Niscia, A. (2019, June). Why decolonial? Why here? Why now?: What sociology of music education can learn from Latin American decolonial thinking and Epistemologies of the South. International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, Denton, Texas. USA.

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2019, Jan/Feb). Música de raíces indígenas como oportunidad para fomentar el aprecio por las culturas locales y el desarrollo de las habilidades musicales. Primer Foro Internacional de Educación Musical Veracruz 2019. Xalapa, Veracruz, México.

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2018, July). Is the national curriculum reform in Mexico ready to deliver equity and inclusion through music education? Commission on Music Policy: Cultural, Educational, and Mass Media. International Society for Music Education, Munich, Germany.

Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M. (2018, May). Fostering music identities through local musics: The case of Mexico’s national education reform. 3rd Research Symposium on Social Impact of Making Music. Escola Superior De Educação Do Porto. Porto, Portugal. May 2018.

Prest, A., Goble, S., & Vazquez-Cordoba, H. M., Tuistra, B., Liu, C. (2017, October). Culturally responsive music in action: K–12 music teachers and local culture bearers Indigenizing music education in BC together. BC Music Educators Conference, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.

Ian Alexander (MA)

Anderson, T., Alexander, I., & Saunders, G. (2020, May/June). An examination of education-based dissertation macrostructures. 2020 meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. (Conference cancelled)

Alexander, I. (2020, February). Chinese international student perspectives of their British Columbia offshore School experience. BC Teachers of English as an Additional Language (BC TEAL) - Vancouver Island Regional Conference, Camosun College, Victoria, Canada.

Alexander, I. (2019, June). Chinese international student perspectives of socializing with students in their first year of university. Families in Canada Conference - Satellite Event, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

Alexander, I. (2019, June). Chinese international student perspectives of their British Columbia offshore School experience. Canadian Society for the Study of Education - Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Alexander, I. (2019, March). British Columbia offshore schools and students in China. Association of Graduate Education Students Annual Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.