Pedagogy and Participation
Dr. Schnellert and research partners’ community-based collaborative work contributes a counterargument to top-down positivist approaches that operate from a deficit model often grounded in elitism, streaming, and tokenism and instead recognizes the need to draw from communities’ funds of knowledge to build participatory, collaborative, place-conscious, and culturally responsive practices in formal and informal settings. On this site, you’ll find research-based inclusive education resources.
This website shines light on many research-based practices, projects, and initiatives in British Columbia, and in the larger context of participatory research with/in diverse communities. With the guidance of Dr. Leyton Schnellert, UBC’s Pedagogy and Participation Cluster Leader, this website is associated with theoretically-informed and research-based initiatives addressing critical gaps in our fields and includes video documentation and practical teaching resources. Documentation on this site was created with support from a number of sources: The BC Ministry of Education and Child Care, UBC’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, Inclusion BC, The Community Living Society, The Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship, UBC’s Community-University Engagement Support Fund, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and The Vancouver Foundation.
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Leyton Schnellert, Lead of the Pedagogy and Participation Cluster, Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) at UBC, seeks to address calls in Education and elsewhere for communities’ knowledge, practices and voices to be recognized and included in pedagogy and related research – a long identified gap.
A curated collection of resources, links, videos, documentation and more organized into categories relevant to teachers across contexts (Assessment, Indigenous Pedagogies, Inclusion, Numeracy, Literacy, Age level and more…)
Rural education in British Columbia is vast and diverse – and full of a diversity of historic innovation in education. Contextualizing this work and highlighting innovative projects in rural education in BC including “Small School Think Tanks” and “Growing Innovation”
The Small Secondary School Think is an annual event where educators from across the province come together to share ideas and collaborate on the unique challenges faced by small schools in B.C.
Video documentation is a vital part of the work of supporting innovation in education. Our collection is growing and includes Webinars and Pedagogical Films produced in the field on themes significant to educators including Assessment, Disability Justice, Inclusive Learning Communities; Indigenous Education; Place; Literacy; Numeracy; Middle, Secondary and Primary Years; Multi-Age Classes
