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LLINK: Literacy & Libraries: Investigating New Knowledges - Playfulness in K-12: Connecting Research to Practice

November 15, 2023, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

This event is the first in a series dedicated to connecting literacy research to practice in K-12 classrooms and school libraries. LLED graduate students, practicing teachers, scholars, and school librarians will discuss the significance of playfulness “in the gaps”; playful subversion towards self-making; playful pedagogy; playing with/in discomfort; and literacy play as ‘pushback’ against deficit perspectives. 

Speakers

  • Dr. Ava Becker (University of Alberta)
  • Dr. Shelby Boehm (Illinois State University)
  • Dr. Harini Rajagopal (University of British Columbia)
  • Dr. Kevin Wong (Pepperdine University)
  • Dr. Melanie Wong (University of British Columbia)

Moderators

  • Dr. Amber Moore (University of British Columbia)
  • LLED GPA Team

Respondent Panel Members

  • Jennifer Wilson (LLED MEd Student and K-12 Educator)
  • David Track (LLED MEd Student and K-12 Educator)
  • Nora Perry (LLED PhD Student)
  • Richard Beaudry (LLED Adjunct Professor; Coordinator Teacher-Librarianship Diploma and Certificate Program)

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We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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