Storybooks Canada Launch! Friday Nov 2nd, 3:00pm

October 22, 2018

Join the Storybooks Canada team and UBC Language Sciences for the public launch of Storybooks Canada on Friday, November 2nd, co-organized by Dr. Bonny Norton (LLED) and Dr. Janet Jamieson (ECPS). The launch will include opening and welcoming remarks from Dr. Gail Murphy, VP Research & Innovation and Dean Blye Frank, Faculty of Education, and feature a panel presentation, Storybooks Canada: Local and Global, chaired by Dr. Bonny Norton, with Dr. Uchenna Okeja, PWIAS Invited Scholar and discussant.  A reception will follow.

To register for the Storybooks Canada Launch, please email Dr. Bonny Norton at bonny.norton@ubc.ca.

Storybooks Canada Public Launch
Friday, November 2nd
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Ponderosa Commons Oak House Ballroom
6445 University Boulevard
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2

The Storybooks Canada Public Launch is supported by the UBC Faculty of Education, UBC Early Childhood Education, The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and UBC Language Sciences.


First Nations land acknowledegement

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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