PROGRAM

PROGRAM
Thursday February 20th 2020

8:30-10:00 BREAKFEST
9:00-9:10 Welcome/Greetings - Dr. Robin Yates (Faculty of Graduate Studies)
ROOM: 353
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9:10-10:00 Keynote Speaker - Dr. Gabriela Alonso-Yanez (Educational Research)

ROOM: 353
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ROOM EDC 353 EDC 351

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10:00- Using interactive library STEM resources to Researching Executive Leadership Teams: A
facilitate inquiry-based [philosophical] Research Proposal to Find Adaptive Spaces
11:00
discussions for the Possible in Health Care Systems
Bartlomiej Lenart, Research and Learning Eugene Kowch, Associate Professor, Learning
Librarian, Education & Philosophy Sciences, Werklund School of Education
Kathy Wise, Research and Learning Richard Fossey, PhD student, Learning
Librarian, Instructional Technologies Sciences, Werklund School of Education
11:00- Designing Online Faculty Development for Weaving A-loom-ni Together: The UCalgary
Graduate Supervisors Education Alumni Beyond the Classroom
12:00
Network
Dr. Michele Jacobsen, Professor, Learning
Sciences, Werklund School of Education Alicia Adlington, Distance Programs
Coordinator, Werklund School of Education
Dr. Hawazen Alharbi, Assistant Professor,
King Abdulaziz University Ryan HanĐŽĐŬ
Lisa Taylor, PhD student, Learning Sciences, Aaron Park
Werklund School of Education Jessica Park

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Thursday February 20th 2020

12:00-12:50 LUNCH
Peer Mentorship for Graduate Student Success (Poster)
Brit Paris PhD Candidate in Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
Stephanie Hladik PhD Candidate in Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education

Multiple Medication Use Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum
Disorder: A Systematic Review (Poster)
Katie Hewitt MSc Student Clinician, School and Applied Child Psychology, Werklund School of
Education

Master’s Thesis: Young Children’s Understanding of Quantity: Conceptualizing Quantities

Beyond that which can be Held in their Hand (Poster)
Allison Van Rosendaal PhD Student, Curriculum and Learning, Werklund School of Education

Room EDC 353 EDC 351

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1:00- Imagining Literacy: Enriching Parental Divorce: The Experience Among Second
Curriculum Through the Arts Generation Chinese-Canadian Women
1:15
Harrison Campbell, PhD student, Alysha Chan Kent, Student Clinician/PhD Doctoral
Curriculum and Learning, Werklund Student, Counselling Psychology, Werklund School
School of Education of Education
1:15- Studying the impact of Raising a Bilingual Child as a Non-native
Comprehensive School Health Speaker: Family Language Policy in China
1:30
initiatives on the wellness of students. Yue Ma, PhD student, Language and Literacy,
Lisa Taylor, PhD student, Learning Werklund School of Education
Sciences, Werklund School of
Education
1:30- Computational Thinking through An Introduction to Indigenous Educational
Ethnocentrism Philosophies
1:45
Apoorve Chokshi, PhD student, Noah Arney, M.Ed Student, Adult Learning,
Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Werklund School of Education
Education
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1:45- Niitsipoh’sin and Land-Based Understanding how STEM instructors make
Learning with Napi meaning from scientific creativity in
2:00
Shelly Eli, PhD student, Language and postsecondary education and teaching
Literacy, Werklund School of Education Kristal Turner, MA Student, Learning Sciences,
Werklund School of Education
2:00- Instructional Development of Elementary Teachers’ Conceptions of Authentic
Graduate Teaching Assistants in Language Assessment Tasks for Developing
2:15
STEM: A Phenomenological Inquiry Students’ Academic Language Proficiency
into the Experiences of Practice and Ali Abidi, PhD Candidate, Werklund School of
Preparation for College Teaching Education
Adil Arshad, PhD student, Learning
Sciences, Werklund School of
Education
2:15- Just child’s play, or is it?: The critical Arts-Based School Wellness Action: From a
role of play in oral language and early Transformative Activist Stance
2:30
literacy acquisition Karena Munroe, Learning Sciences EdD Candidate,
Michelle Mathezer, PhD student, Werklund School of Education
Curriculum and Learning, Werklund
School of Education
2:30- Exploring New Canadians’ Mental Wellbeing and Transition: Reflections on
Perceptions of Reconciliation Being a First-Year Student
2:45
Sulyn Bodnaresko, PhD student, Helen Pethrick, MA student, Adult Learning,
Werklund School of Education Werklund School of Education
2:45- The many meanings of teacher Na’a’s Heartbeat: Decolonization and
silences in class discussions Reconciliation as Lived Praxis
3:00
Galicia Blackman, PhD Candidate, Stephanie Bartlett, PhD student, Werklund School
Curriculum and Learning, Werklund of Education
School of Education

3:00-3:15 Farewell and Wrap Up - Harrison Campbell (Graduate

Programs in Education Students’ Association) ROOM: 353

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Friday February 21st 2020

8:30-9:50 BREAKFEST

9:00-9:50 Keynote Speaker - Dr. Carly McMorris (School and Applied Child
Psychology) ROOM: 353
Understanding the mental health needs of children and youth with
neurodevelopmental disorders: Implications for educational and clinical settings
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Room EDC 353 EDC 351

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10:00- Knit Two Together: Orienting Online Discovering the Potential of
Graduate Students to their Program of Duoethnography as a Methodology
11:00
Study Darren E. Lund, Professor, Curriculum and
Alicia Adlington, Distance Programs Learning, Werklund School of Education
Coordinator, Werklund School of Education
11:00- Language Ideologies in the Classrooms Faculty of Graduate Studies: Overview of
Services and Supports
12:00 Sylvie Roy, Professor, Language and
Literacy, Associate Dean of Research, Tara Christie, Manager My Grad Skills,
Werklund School of Education Faculty of Graduate Studies

12:00-12:50 LUNCH
How do adult learners contextualize discomfort within organizational learning? (Oral
Presentation) Room: EDC 351 (12:15-12:30)
Jason A. Kingsley MEd – Adult, Community, and Higher Education, Werklund School of
Education
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 Friday February 21st 2020
Re-Imagining a Sound Education through Musical Boundary Play (Oral Presentation)
Room: EDC 354
(12:30-12:45)
Michael Cutler, EdD Candidate, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
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Mentoring a Maker Mindset: Fostering the Conditions for Learning Through Making (Oral
Presentation)
Room: EDC 353 (12:10-12:50)
Kristi-Mari Fedorko-Bartos MA Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
Kristal Turner, MA Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
Kathy Wise, Research and Learning Librarian, Instructional Technologies
Jennifer Lock, Professor and Vice Dean, Werklund School of Education
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Room EDC 353

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1:00-1:15 How do International Students Reconstruct their Identity as Readers when they
Transition into Canadian Post-Secondary Education?
Danni Chen, PhD student, Curriculum and Learning, Werklund School of Education
1:15-1:30 Designing Visual Counter-Storytelling
Shima Dadkhahfard, PhD student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
1:30-1:45 Why the persistent gap? Investigating barriers to elementary teachers using
technologies for learning
Simren Trehin, PhD student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
1:45-2:00 Exploring Opportunities for Connection between the Knowledge in Pieces
Framework and Learning to Program
Marc Schroeder, PhD student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
2:00-2:15 Exploring Student Teachers’ Spatial Reasoning Abilities in the STEM Education
Course
Mawuli Tay, PhD student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education

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 2:15-2:30 pHenomenology
Brian Gilbert, MA student, Curriculum and Learning, Werklund School of Education

2:30-2:45 Farewell and Wrap Up - Harrison Campbell (Graduate Programs in

Education Students’ Association) ROOM: 353

Acknowledgements:
This symposium would not have been possible without the generous support of the Graduate
Students' Association (GSA) Quality Money Program!

Graduate Programs in Education Students' Association (GPESA) received $10,000 from this
program to fund everything from space bookings, to equipment rentals, and food. We are all
incredibly grateful and encourage others in the UCalgary community to look into this amazing
program.

We would not be at the university without our amazing faculty who have also assisted us with
logistics, hosted us in their spaces, and presented and attended this event. For their ongoing
support in all GPESA does we thank them!

We also thank the Office of Research specifically for partnering with us in running the
Graduate Student Poster Fair and for their support with promotions and logistics!