Refugees share their stories of struggle and success in resettlement
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October 8 2018 Local How children can make silenced voices heard
UBC Public Scholars Award recipient Claudia Diaz worked as a manager of social education programs in Chilean inner city schools before moving to Canada for graduate school, including a PhD in …
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October 8 2018 Local In/Flux: Art of Korean Diaspora
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September 24 2018 Local Satellite kids: negotiating two worlds
Mainland Chinese people have been emigrating from China for years, and yet, the recent experiences of mainland Chinese immigrant families have been largely ignored, says Henry Li.
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September 24 2018 Local Cultural intelligence builds empathy
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September 10 2018 Local Exploring Muslim youth identities and their sense of belonging in Canada
With the growing number of Muslims in Canadian schools, Neila Miled, a PhD Candidate of the Faculty of Education at UBC, explores how Muslim youth negotiate their identities as Muslims and …
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September 10 2018 Local Promoting social change through the media
Joanna Chiu is a journalist who serves as the editor and founder of WAM! Vancouver (Women Action and the Media), a non-profit dedicated to creating gender justice in the media, and NüVoices, an …
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August 27 2018 Local A critical conversation
“When you start getting into those scary, emotional and triggering conversations, that’s where the most revolutionary education happens; that’s where you change a person’s perception,” says…
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August 27 2018 Local Mathematics: beyond abstraction
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August 27 2018 Local The odyssey of a djembefola
Master drummer Bolokada Condé.Master drummer Bolokada Condé will be hosting a series of djembe workshops at the …