Past Events
2026 DARE Seminar 3
Education in a Time of Metacrisis
What kind of education becomes possible when progress, growth, and human control can no longer be taken for granted? This DARE research seminar brings together scholars from the Faculty of Education to explore how education might respond to a world shaped by ecological instability, colonial legacies, ethical uncertainty, and the limits of modern assumptions about progress. The event also celebrates the publication of their recent contributions to the special issue , highlighting the Faculty鈥檚 ongoing engagement with urgent educational, ecological, and social questions. At a time when familiar educational narratives no longer feel sufficient, this seminar invites deeper reflection on how education may be reimagined through questions of relationship, responsibility, agency, and collective futures. Rather than offering simple answers, the session opens a space for thoughtful engagement with the challenges and possibilities of education in a changing world. Join us for an important conversation on what education might become, and on how we might begin to imagine more just, relational, and sustainable futures together.
Moderator:
- Dr. Gillian Judson
Presenters:
- Dr. Cary Campbell
- Dr. Mark Fettes
- Dr. Cristiano Barbosa de Moura
- Dr. Sean Blenkinsop
- Thomas Hoeller
- Marion Benkaiouche
Date/Time
Wednesday, June 10
1:30 鈥� 3:00 p.m. PST
Hybrid Event
- In person:
51社区黑料Burnaby Campus
Education building 7610 - Zoom:
Link will be sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.
2026 DARE Seminar 2
Narrative Approaches to Educational Research
You are invited to join a DARE roundtable discussion on narrative approaches to educational research. This roundtable features three distinct ways of utilizing narrative methods to gain deeper insights into the experiences of teachers and students. Instead of formal presentations, we will share some finished work, and some 鈥渨ork in progress.鈥� We hope you will join us for an engaging conversation and collaborative brainstorming!
Presenters
- Gabriely Lolli de Oliveira
(Re)Discovering Myself in the Scenes: The Construction of Teaching Personality Through Self-Narratives - Hadar Hamid
Educational Resilience: Navigation of Higher Education Access Among Resettled Students with Experiences of Forced Displacement - Dr. Robyn Ilten-Gee
Digital Racial Literacies: Exploring Interactive Mosaics through Narrative Methods
Date/Time
Tuesday, May 19
1:00 鈥� 2:15 p.m. PST
Hybrid Event
2026 DARE Seminar 1
Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling
Come celebrate the release of faculty member Cary Campbell's new book,
This book argues that the root of education鈥檚 failure to address the complex problems of climate change lies in the stories we tell. At once too complex, too simplistic, and overly focused on communicating and accumulating scientific facts, the stories we tell about climate change often reduce the problem to singular issues, such as CO2 emissions, while advocating out-of-this-world technofixes. Against this challenge, the term 鈥減olycrisis鈥� has emerged to describe the interconnected environmental and social crises we are confronting in the 21st century. The polycrisis encompasses much more than catch-all terms such as climate change and global warming, connecting issues as diverse as biodiversity and habitat loss, water and food scarcity, pollution, and resource depletion, as well as growing economic and social precarity. Through a series of essays and interviews with scholars, scientists, artists, and activists, this volume seeks to articulate existential and educational responses and interventions to the polycrisis. The author presents a terrestrial vision for critical eco-pedagogy, arguing that educational freedom in this time is not unlimited or unbounded, but rather cultivated through an engagement with limits and limitations鈥攎ost fundamentally, the limits of a planet with limited resources and carrying capacity.
Presenters
- Marion Benkaiouche
- Dr. Tim Lilburn
- Dr. Michael Ling
- Dr. William Pinar
- Dr. William Rees
- Dr. Charles Scott
- Dr. Zuzana Vasko
Date/Time
Friday, May 8
1:00 鈥� 3:00 p.m. PST
Hybrid Event
- In person:
51社区黑料Burnaby Campus
Education building 7610 - Zoom:
Link will be sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.