Andrea Hoff
Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)
Future Tense: Exploring young people’s agency and resilience towards the future through the creation of autobiographical comics
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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.
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).
Mission
To advance education's role in the well-being of people and communities.
Research Centres
- Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE)
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA)
- Centre for Sport and Sustainability (CSS)
- Centre for the Study of Teacher Education (CSTE)
- Psychological Services and Counselling Training Centre (PSCTC)
- Centre for Early Childhood Education & Research (CECER)
- Institute for Veterans Education and Transition (IVET)
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.
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.
Research Highlights
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.
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| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Talmy, Steven | Department of Language & Literacy Education | ESL, TESOL, LOTE and sign language curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; teacher education |
| Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Science Education, Outdoor Education and learning, collaborative teacher inquiry, and teacher education; equipping teachers (both pre- and in-service teachers) with innovative pedagogical tools to support learning, both for science learners and beyond the domains of science; teachers |
| Taylor, Alison | Department of Educational Studies | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Higher education; Specialized studies in education; Education, Knowledge and Skills; Educational Context; Political Contexts; Social Contexts; Social Policies |
| Tomfohr-Madsen, Lianne | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | |
| Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | cultural-historical psychology, child/parent relationships, student/ teacher relationships, play and performance based learning, bridging school and out of school contexts for learning, Alternative schooling and pedagogies, Critical theory, Discourse and critical discourse analysis, ethnography, Qualitative research, Socially constructing knowledge and identity, Sociocultural approaches to learning and teaching, Young people placed |
| Vanwynsberghe, Robert | Department of Educational Studies | Citizenship and democracy, Social justice, Sustainability; Sustainability; Environmental Education; Theory and Method |
| Vertinsky, Patricia | School of Kinesiology | social and cultural history of the body, gender relations, health, sport and exercise, social history of women and health, social/cultural aspects of sport and physical activity, health education, promotion and policy, Social and cultural history of sport and physical activity, gender, race, aging and disability, modern olympics |
| Walker, Judith | Department of Educational Studies | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Sociology of education; Educational policy; Adult education; Higher Education; policy studies; Health Professions Education |
| Wang, Fei | Department of Educational Studies | Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Educational administration and leadership; Leadership; the role of the school principals; social justice and diversity; comparative policy studies; Education and Training Management; Ideology and Social Policy; Social Contract and Social Justice; Offshore school and its leadership |
| Warburton, Darren | School of Kinesiology | cardiovascular physiology, clinical exercise rehabilitation, interactive video games, , Sport cardiology and clinical exercise rehabilitation, elite athletic performance, childhood health, treatments for patients with chronic disease, cardiac rehabilitation |
| Webb, P. Taylor | Department of Educational Studies | Education systems; Philosophy; Education governance, policy, and politics; Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Neoliberalism; Governmentality; Micropolitics; Biopolitics; Subjectivity; Artificial Intelligence |
| Weber, Barbara | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Embodiment and Public Space; ethics; Multiculturalism; Multiculturalism and Recognition; Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; Philosophy for Children; Social justice |
| Wernicke, Meike | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Specialized studies in education; Intercultural Education; Language Planning and Policy; Multi-/Plurilingualism; Second Language Education (French); teacher education |
| Whitehead, George | ||
| Wilson, Brian | School of Kinesiology | Cultural studies and sociology with focus on media, consumer culture, youth, social inequality, social movements, the environment, qualitative methods, and sport and leisure studies |
| Wong, Melanie | ESL, TESOL, LOTE and sign language curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Technology-Enhanced Classrooms; English Language Learners; K-12 | |
| Wright, Handel | Department of Educational Studies | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; (post)multiculturalism and multicultural education; Africana studies; Critical Race Theory; Cultural Studies; Educational Approaches; identity, citizenship and belonging; postcolonialism and decolonization; Transcultural Studies; Youth Studies; anti-racism |
| Wright, David | School of Kinesiology | How exercise modulates adipose tissue, liver and skeletal muscle metabolism, impact of exercise, nutrition and pharmaceutical interventions on fat tissue |
| Wu, Amery | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Development of new psychometric methods (e.g. reliability of complex assessment designs, validation methods using structural equation modeling or item response theory); methodology for group comparison in item responses (e.g. detection of differential option functioning in multiple choice tests); understanding response processes; large-scale educational assessment and English Language assessment |
| Yoon, Liv | School of Kinesiology | Social sciences; climate change; Social inequities; health; Climate and Environmental justice |
| Zappa, Sandra | Department of Language & Literacy Education | academic discourse socialization of (international) English language learners in higher education, examining the literacy socialization trajectories and the role their individual networks of practice (INoPs, a concept I coined) in becoming aware of the host culture values and expectations; projects examining the intercultural competence development of foreign language teachers studying abroad; foreign language-learning through peer exchange programs; academic English coaching for university-level English language learners; collaboration between language and subject specialists; and student perceptions of academic English language development in CBI courses. |
| Zebehazy, Kim | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Assessment, Instructional Strategies, Problem Solving, Visual Impairment |
| Zumbo, Bruno | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Psychological methodology design and analysis, and psychometrics; Statistical theory and modeling; Educational assessment and evaluation; Psychometrics and Test Theory; Mathematical sciences of measurement; Latent Variable Models, Item Response Theory, Factor Analysis, Mixed models; Validity Theory and Validation; Multivariate Analysis |
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Recent Publications
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Education.
Recent Thesis Submissions
Doctoral Citations
A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dr. Phuong Mai Huynh integrates the Zen views of life unto a pedagogy of home-inquiry that is inner discovery of one's subjective world. Through meditative, eco-poetic inquiry, she presents a pedagogy that reflects the embodied way of being, living, working, and creating in response to one's home-nature. | Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Ryu studied the practices of Canadian death educators, who educate adults in public domains. She found that to change the culture of denying and defying death, we need to put efforts to die well and care for the dying and dead. With mortality, she binds all human and non-human beings, proposing broader solidarity and different ways to educate. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Semenec looks at how discourses embedded in curriculum and everyday classroom practices position children as coherent, knowable, and agentic subjects who are responsible for their own mis/behaviour, and offers alternative, more speculative responses to the problem of in/attention among children. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Iwase examined why and how foreign national young migrants in Japan have been treated as problems despite the government's policies of multicultural coexistence. As a researcher-teacher-videographer, he collaborated with a group of young migrants to produce videos to find alternative ideas and hopes for their coexistence in the country. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Medina explored Indigenous mathematics through culture-based practices of his Maya Elders. His research demonstrates how Indigenous ways of knowing can engender greater awareness of meaningful mathematical heritages. Dr. Medina argues that mathematics, far from being immaterial and disembodied, is deeply material, human, and cultural. | Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | The global COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all. Dr. Detwyler studied its early impacts on instructors of English as a second language in Canada. Their talk about emergency remote teaching reflected pandemic vulnerability among learners, precarious employment in the sector, and Canada's settler-colonial past as ongoing professional challenges. | Doctor of Philosophy in Teaching English as a Second Language (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Ruissen applied a continuous-time framework to examine how the bidirectional relationship between affect and physical activity unfolds over time. This work introduced an innovative approach to studying dynamic psychological processes in relation to health behaviours. | Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Malik developed novel paradigms to study the planning and execution of skilled leg movements. His work provides new opportunities to understand the brain's use of peripheral vision when planning to step over obstacles and the importance of coordinating the joints of the lower limb for the recovery of skilled walking after partial paralysis. | Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Rampersaud explored a major change in Canadian nursing education policy concerning the introduction of a new nursing registration exam for baccalaureate nursing graduates. She showed how globalization and market-oriented policies were redefining Canadian nursing education, the role of the educator, and the nursing profession. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Hu's research integrates AI and statistics. Given a short form of a test, an AI was trained to guess what the results would have been had the respondents finished the full test. Traditional statistics was used to visualize how the AI made its decisions. Using the combined method, anyone interested can use AI to shorten a test and know why. | Doctor of Philosophy in Measurement, Evaluation and Research Methodology (PhD) |