AGES Conference Schedule
Friday, April 17
Opening Session
8:45 to 9:15
Room D282
We warmly invite you to begin the day with our Opening Session, where we gather in shared presence to set intentions and welcome the collective journey of learning ahead.
Workshops
9:15 to 10:00
| Room | Presenter | Title |
| D287 | Valeria Cortes | Weaving Community, Land, and Cycles: Reframing Curriculum through Socio-Natural Calendars |
| D288 | Faraz Forghan Parast | What Did I Truly Do? Epistemic Honesty and AI Disclosure as Reflective Pedagogy |
| D283 | Caifang Zou | Connecting Through Music |
Paper Presentations
10:15 to 11:15
| Room | Presenter | Title |
| D282 | Sema Kaya | Educating Creative Producers: Lessons from Köy Enstitüleri for Contemporary Education |
| D282 | Steve Hundiak | The Exemplarist Case for Reweighted Duration Cues in the Implementation of HVPT for the L2 Acquisition of Tense-Lax Contrast in English |
| D283 | Covel Hall-Golding, Diana Sanchez, Leonard Misana | Graduate Mentorship through Apprenticeship: A Transnational Metissage |
| D283 | Stanislaus Asaale | Exploring Student Perspectives of Indigenous Knowledge Systems on the UVic Campus |
| D287 | Tara Poole | Promoting School Belonging: A Multiple-Case Study Investigation in Early Elementary Classrooms |
| D287 | Valeria Montaya | Autistic Girls’ Experiences of Educational Support in Mainstream Elementary Schools: A Participatory Arts-Based Study |
| D288 | Ann Fisher | A Review of Children and Youth in Mediation within Canadian and International Legal Frameworks |
| D288 | Daniella Roze des Ordons | Land and Place-Responsive Learning: A Framework for Collective Flourishing and Eco-Social Justice |
Online Presentations
11:15 to 12:00
Room A341 and online via Zoom
| Presenter | Title |
| Adrian Granchelli | Addressing the Dissertation Hypocrisy: Aligning Research Outputs with Learning Science |
| Mervit Siffledeen | Bridging Worlds: The Experiences of Middle Eastern Refugee and Immigrant Children and Youth in Canada |
Poster Presentations
11:15 to 12:00
Room D287
| Presenter | Title |
| Asiya Mohamed | Defining Success in Mathematics for Refugee Students in British Columbia |
| Lucy Nana Konadu Arthur | Between Tradition and Classroom: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Gendered Pathways in Girls’ Education in Maase-Offinso, Ghana |
| Deborah Otoo-Ansah | Transforming Pedagogical Practices: Exploring the Impact of a Multiliteracies Approach on Student Engagement in English Language and Literature in Senior High Schools in Ghana and Canada |
| Caifang Zou | Performative Excellence and Administrative Alienation: A Narrative Inquiry into Music Teacher Professional Development in China |
| Christina Shock | Understanding Educator Capacity for SEL in Inclusive Classrooms: A Survey Examination of Self-Efficacy and Beliefs About Educating Students with Disabilities |
| Isabella Guo | Rethinking Dance as a Creative Ecology: A Post-Qualitative Inquiry in Early Childhood Education |
| Lyndsay McKay | In Relation: Thinking Through Transcorporeal Research |
Lunch
12:00 to 12:45
Room D282
Roundtables
12:45 to 1:30
| Room | Presenter | Title |
| D282 | Andrea Clarke | Conversations with Myself: Re-imagining the Oppressive Cave as Anti-Colonial Awakening |
| D282 | Han Li | Bridging the Theory-Practice Gap: Comparing Teacher Training in BC’s SOGI 123 and Taiwan’s GEEA |
| D287 | Carmen Rodriguez de France | Possibility as Practice: Opening Our Hearts and Minds to Reconciliation |
| D283 | Aidan Michael Lawson Hodson | Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Psychoeducational Assessment: Innovation, Ethics, and Clinical Judgment |
| D283 | Aleks Waliszewska | Literacies in the More-than-Human World: Traversing Qualitative and Post-Qualitative Inquiry |
Workshops
1:15 to 2:30
| Room | Presenter | Title |
| D283 | Phil Duchene, Makayla Madill, Mariah Madill | Accessing Embodied Wisdom: Story Dramas for Social Reflection |
| D287 | Kristy McLeod | Métis Sash-Weaving Inquiry as (Re)Search: Post-Qualitative Indigenous Research Approach |
| D288 | Daniella Roze des Ordons | Land and Place-Responsive Learning: A Framework for Collective Flourishing and Eco-Social Justice — Part 2 |
Coffee Break
2:30 to 2:45
Room D282
Paper Presentations
2:45 to 3:30
| Room | Presenter | Title |
| D282 | Fengnan Wu | The Structural Costs of the Creative Black Box: vvvv as a Counterpoint to Generative Creation |
| D282 | Justin Harrison | Media Bites and Democratic Strain: News Literacy Lessons from Canada’s Recent Election Debate-Scrum Conflict |
| D283 | Shina Khan | Cultivating Computational Thinking as Pedagogical Practice: Professional Development as a Space of Presence and Possibility |
| D283 | Shabnam Huseynova | How Task Design Shapes Accuracy, Fluency, and Complexity in EFL Classrooms |
| D287 | Phil Duchene | The Magic Wrench and the Sticky Bottle (On Practicum Candidates, Field Advising and Mentoring) |
| D287 | Hyo Jung Jung | Musical Journeys Beyond Borders: Diasporic Positionality and Decolonial Praxis among Korean Musicians and Music Teachers in Canada |
| D288 | Diana Sánchez | Celebration and Resistance: Community-Based Festivals as Spaces of Learning and Social Justice |
| D288 | Leonard Misana | When the Researcher Becomes the Interviewee: Heshima and a Decolonial Turn in Qualitative Interviewing |
Closing Session
3:30 to 4:00
Room D282