Megan Ryland
Master of Arts in Educational Studies (MA)
Understanding how informal media and digital literacy learning happens through digital practices, social networks, and public pedagogy
The Faculty of Education at UBC is advancing educational research and understanding in ways that celebrate diversity, equity, and innovation, and welcomes international collaboration in an increasingly borderless world.
For over 50 years, the Faculty of Education has served the international education community through leadership in research, service, and advocacy. Our faculty, students, and alumni advance research on learning and teaching; collaborate with Indigenous communities; and solve human problems across the lifespan and in diverse contexts. Our internationally renowned scholars and talented graduate students link educational research to local and global community needs, inform theory, practice and policy, and introduce innovative research methods.
We prepare professionals for practice in a wide range of education-related fields, from preschool through adulthood. In British Columbia, more than 45% of the province’s elementary teachers, the majority of secondary teachers, and a significant proportion of BC’s special needs and First Nations teachers, counsellors, school administrators, school psychologists, and vocational rehabilitation counsellors, are prepared by the UBC Faculty of Education for their important roles.
Mission
To advance education's role in the well-being of people and communities.
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Research Centres
- Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE)
- Centre for Group Counselling and Trauma (CGCT)
- Centre for Intercultural Language Studies (CILS)
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA)
- Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training (CHET)
- Centre for Sport and Sustainability (CSS)
- Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness (CSHC)
- Centre for the Study of Teacher Education (CSTE)
- Edudata Canada
- Indigenous Education Institute of Canada
- Institute for Early Childhood Education and Research (IECER)
- Psychoeducational Research and Training Centre (PRTC)
Research Facilities
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.
We have also broken ground on BC’s most exciting new centre for education. Education Centre at Ponderosa Commons will be over 32,000 sq ft of distinct Faculty of Education space within the Ponderosa Commons Phase 2 complex, one of five live-work-learn communities proposed for the UBC campus.
Opening in January 2016, Education Centre will showcase the merging of our academic mandate with innovation, and will feature technology-enhanced teaching and learning spaces, an Education Research and Learning Commons, informal learning spaces, and will be the new home of two of our academic departments, Educational Studies (EDST) and Language & Literacy Education (LLED).
Research Highlights
Notable strengths are in literacy, struggling and marginalized youth, Indigenous education and research, transformational curriculum design, social-emotional well-being, autism, kinesiology and exercise physiology, and multidisciplinary research in diversity, health, and digital media.
We are the national leader in the number of education graduate student fellowships received from the Social Sciences and Humanities research council (SSHRC), and are home to 4 Canada Research Chairs and 10 donor-funded research chairs and professorships.
Schools / Departments
Departments
- Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS)
- Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP)
- Educational Studies (EDST)
- Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
Schools
- Kinesiology, School of (HKIN)
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors in Faculty
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
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| Abdi, Ali | Department of Educational Studies | Citizenship and human rights education, International Development Education, Multi-centric Philosophies and Methodologies of Education, postcolonial studies in education, Social and Cultural Foundations of Education |
| Ahenakew, Cash | Department of Educational Studies | Cultural studies, Higher Education, Indigenous Studies, Leadership and Organizations, Post-colonial studies, Race/ethnicity, Research methodologies, Social justice, Sociology of Education |
| Amundson, Norman | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Creativity, imagination and metaphors |
| Anderson, Ann | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Math education |
| Anderson, Jim | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Children and youth, cross-cultural education, early childhood, languages and literary education, linguistic minorities education, literacy, sociological issues, writing and reading |
| Anderson, David | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.), Museum Education, Visitor Studies, Informal Learning, Metacognition, Science Education, Long-term Memory, Nostalgia |
| Andres, Lesley | Department of Educational Studies | Equity, Higher education, International and Comparative Education, International comparative higher education, Life Course research, Lifelong learning, Policy, Research methodologies, Social justice, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Higher Education |
| Asselin, Marlene | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Language Acquisition and Development, International Development, Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.), early literacy, literacy and international development, libraries and education |
| Beauchamp, Mark | School of Kinesiology | Social Determinants of Health, Health Promotion, Quality of Life and Aging, Mental Health and Society, Physical Activity, Health Psychology, Exercise Psychology, Sport Psychology, Group Processes, Leadership, Intervention, Social Cognition, Older Adults, Children |
| Bedi, Robinder | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Educational Counselling, Substance use counselling, Counselling/psychotherapy in India, Counselling/mental health with Indo-Canadians, Counselling psychology disciplinary and professional issues |
| Belliveau, George | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Theatre, Arts-based research |
| Berard, Marie-France | Publics, Artistic and Literary Theories, Social Impact of Artistic Education, Educational Approaches, Emerging Forms of Art, Cultural Industries, Modes and strategies of dissemination | |
| Blouin, Jean-Sebastien | School of Kinesiology | Sensorimotor Integration, Motor System, Robotics and Automation, Trauma / Injuries, Physiology, Sensorimotor physiology, Standing balance, Balance robot, Sensory virtualisation, Computational approaches, Head and neck, Whiplash injuries |
| Borgen, William | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Career Counselling, Career/life transitions, Developmental approaches to counselling, Group counselling |
| Bournot-Trites, Monique | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Teaching and Learning Systems, Bilingualism, French immersion, Assessment, Intercultural communication, Reading |
| Boushel, Robert | School of Kinesiology | Kinesiology |
| Bredin, Shannon | School of Kinesiology | human motor learning, expertise and development, physical education, teacher preparation and effectiveness, Human motor behaviour (motor learning, development, and expertise), life span physical activity and health, physical and health literacy, health knowledge, health-related physical fitness, interactive gaming, telehealth, psychomotor markers of performance |
| Bryson, Mary | Department of Language & Literacy Education, Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice | technology, media, cultural studies, gender, queer theory, deviance studies, post-colonial pedagogies, Sociology, Women's Studies, Education, media and gender, media and education |
| Buchanan, Marla | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Counsellor Stress, Narrative Inquiry, School Counselling, Traumatic Stress |
| Bundon, Andrea | School of Kinesiology | Digital qualitative research, Disability, Disability sport, Paralympics, Qualitative methodologies, Social and new media, Sport and exercise culture. |
| Butler, Joy | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | action research, human movement, physical education, teacher development, Action Research, Assessment, Children & Youth, Curriculum Studies Research, Pedagogy, Teacher Education Research, Teacher Research |
| Butler, Deborah | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | special education, learning disabilities, inclusive educational practices, intervention research for students with learning disabilities, Collaboration and co-regulation in teachers' professional learning, collaborative professional development models, learning disabilities in adolescence and adulhood, mathematics, metagocnition and self-regulated learning, research methods in educaiton, strategic performanc ein reading, writing |
| Cannon, Joanna | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Special Education and Social Adaptation, Teacher Education, Educational Approaches, Speech and Language Development Disorders, Language Acquisition and Development, Cognition and Language, Literacy Training, Education of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing with complex language or cognitive needs |
| Carpenter, Mark | School of Kinesiology | neural control of movement, fear of falling, Neural control of movement, postural control, fears of falling, balance disorders, Parkinson's disease |
| Chan, Jennifer | Department of Educational Studies | transnational social movements, international and comparative education, Japanese civil society, Islam in multicultural societies, Adult education, Citizenship and democracy, Gender studies, International and Comparative Education, Multiculturalism, Post-colonial studies |
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Graduate Student Profiles
Alumni on Success
Recent Thesis Submissions
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An investigation of how chronic pain has affected individuals' personally significant activities (Counselling Psychology - MA)
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The story of an idea : moving with a playmaking education (Language and Literacy Education - PHD)
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Veterans’ experiences of natural horsemanship : a phenomenological investigation (Counselling Psychology - MA)
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Exploring postsecondary students' use of proofreading services at a Canadian university (Teaching English as a Second Language - MA)
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"Hey, where can I go for help?" : Aboriginal people and "good medicine" at an urban Aboriginal health agency (Educational Leadership and Policy - EDD)
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Is Freire's critical pedagogy applicable to China's higher education? a philosophical examination (Educational Studies - MA)
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Pulling together in the academic canoe : the experiences of indigenous doctoral students (Educational Studies - PHD)
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Educational leaders’ understandings of internationalization : a case study (Educational Leadership and Policy - EDD)
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Visual rhetoric in environmental documentaries (Language and Literacy Education - PHD)
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Voices unheard : the academic and social experiences of university students who are hard of hearing (Educational Studies - PHD)
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Job displacement and its implications for adult education and retraining policy : subtitle the case of Hong Kon (Educational Studies - PHD)
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A professional development model based on interrelated principles of teacher learning (Curriculum Studies - PHD)
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University students’ conceptual understanding and application of meiosis (Curriculum Studies - PHD)
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"Sociologics" as an analytical framework to examine students’ discourse on socioscientific issues (Curriculum Studies - PHD)
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Freezing "The perfect moment" (Curriculum Studies - MA)
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Collaborative cultures in public schools : A review and analysis (Curriculum Studies - MA)
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Priorities in the recruitment of French immersion teachers in British Columbia (Literacy Education - MA)
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Exploring the relations of emotional functioning to psychopathology and aggression among deliquent boys and girls (Counselling Psychology - MA)
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Entrance testing at a private English language institute : toward more accurate placements (Literacy Education - MA)
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Adult ESL learners constructing knowledge by writing texts (Literacy Education - MA)
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Involuntary childlessness : the lived experiences of three women (Counselling Psychology - MA)
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The experience of reworking shame through psychodrama (Counselling Psychology - MA)
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Concept-mapping the client’s perspective on counselling alliance formation (Counselling Psychology - PHD)
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Beckoning the heart: a guided autobiographical approach to understanding women’s recovery following myocardial infarction (Counselling Psychology - PHD)
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Curriculum orientations and program realities: negotiated agendas? (Literacy Education - MA)
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Society's child (Educational Studies - MA)