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David Lam Chair
Chair History I David Lam Chair I Past Chairs I Graduate Research Assistants I Administrative Support
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Honourable Lieutenant David Lam |
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The David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education is an endowed Chair established by the Honourable David Lam, former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, and the Governments of British Columbia and Canada. The Honourable David See-Chai Lam was sworn-in as British Columbia's 25th Lieutenant-Governor in September, 1988. With his wife, Dorothy, and their three young daughters, he emigrated to Canada in 1967, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1972. Born in Hong Kong, the grandson of a Baptist minister, he received a Christian upbringing before taking an Economics degree at Lingnan University in China and an MBA from Temple University in Philadelphia. He pursued a career in banking in Hong Kong for 18 years before making Canada his home in 1967. He entered the development field, eventually founding his own investment firm. In 1982, he concluded his professional business interests, and at that time devoted his life to philanthropic pursuits. He and Dorothy provided substantial gifts to higher educational institutions and worthy community projects through their charitable Foundations. In 1987 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from The University of British Columbia, and in 1988, the prestigious Order of Canada at an investiture ceremony in Ottawa. Honorary degrees were subsequently awarded by Baylor University (1990), Simon Fraser University (1991), Eastern College (1991), Royal Roads Military College (1991), and Hong Kong Baptist College (1992). Dr. Lam attributed his business and personal success to combining the best of Christian and Confucian ideals. As Lieutenant Governor he shared those experiences which contributed positively to the challenges of a changing world. Dr. Lam's vision of Canada included a place where immigrants will not only find refuge and opportunity, but also contribute the best of their cultures and unique backgrounds to the rich pluralism of this land. The combination of his imagination and generosity has had an enormous impact on the British Columbia community.
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Handel Kashope Wright
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Handel Kashope Wright is the current David Lam Chair and was appointed to this position in 2006. Dr. Wright also is Canada Research Chair of Comparative Cultural Studies, David Lam Chair of Multicultural Education, Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education and associate professor in the Educational Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa, Handel’s first degree was a BA (Hons.) in English from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He did his graduate studies in Canada (MA English- University of Windsor, MEd- Queen’s University, Ph.D. Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto). He then moved to the United States where he taught at the University of Tennessee for several years before his return to Canada in 2005. Handel’s principal activist and progressive community organizing work is with the Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, Tennessee, where he serves on the executive committee of the Center’s working board of directors. He is co-editor of International Education, and serves on the editorial board of several cultural studies and education journals including Cultural Studies, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Topia, Critical Arts, the Canadian Journal of Education and the Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education. He has published extensively on African and diasporic cultural studies, cultural studies of education, post-reconceptualization curriculum theorizing, critical multiculturalism, anti-racist education and qualitative research. His recent publications include A Prescience of African Cultural Studies (Lang, 2004), and several edited and co-edited journal issues, including a co-edited themed issue of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 26, 2-3, 2004 on Cultural Studies and Education; a co-edited themed issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education on Paradigm Proliferation in Educational Research; and an edited themed issue of International Education, 36, 1, 2006 on Africans and Western Discourses of Empowerment.
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Graeme Chalmers (2001-2004)
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| Graeme Chalmers is Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies and served as David Lam Chair from 1995-2001. Dr. Chalmer's research interests focus on the socio-cultural foundations of art education. Recent projects have included examining art education; a biography of 19th century art educator: Walter Smith; and a SSHRC funded project examining art education in a 19th century boys' school, a convent, and a mechanics institute. Current work studies: the implementation of multicultural and anti-racist arts education programs and a new teacher education cohort focusing on diversity.
Dr. Chalmers has interests in international art education, and served a 7-year term as Chief Examiner in Art/Design for the International Baccalaureate Organization. He has also served as a vice-president of the International Society for Education through Art, and is past-editor of Studies in Art Education. Dr. Chalmers was recently designated a "Distinguished University Scholar." |
Ishu Ishiyama (1998-2001)
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| Ishu Ishiyama held the David Lam Chair from 1998 to 2001 and is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Special Education. His research interests include Multicultural counseling process; Japanese Morita therapy and counseling application, personal and cross-cultural transition experience; Spiritual issues in counseling; Anti-racism education and prejudice reduction methods. His most recent research projects have included exploring culturally-based differences in learning styles, a cross-cultural comparison of help-seeking attitudes between Asian and Caucasian students and the development and evaluation of an Anti-racist Response Training (A.R.T.) |
Kogila Adam-Moodley (1995-1998)
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Kogila-Moodley is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies and was appointed as the first David Lam Chair in 1995. Dr. Adam-Moodley's special areas of interest include comparative ethnic and race relations, multicultural and anti-racism education, and comparative educational policy in multi-ethnic societies, particularly in the Canadian and South African context. She also has served as the University's multicultural liaison in the President's Office 1998-93, and chaired both the Ad-Hoc Consultative Committee on Multiculturalism, 1988-92, and the President's Advisory Committee on Race Relations, 1990-92. In addition to her administrative roles, Dr. Adam-Moodley is the author and co-author of five books and over 60 chapters, reports and other articles.
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Caroline Rueckert
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| Caroline Rueckert is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC. Her research interests are in a hybrid cultural studies, critical multiculturalism, and postcolonial & feminist approaches to diversity and pedagogy. Her thesis work focuses on affect and the ways in which emotions are bound up with stories of justice and injustice. In addition to her scholarly work, Caroline is the co-author of The Study Abroad Handbook (Palgrave 2007) and the editor of Tools for Equity in the Classroom, an online resource manual for student teachers. Her work with the Centre includes everything from design and organizing of symposia to the design, management and updating of the CCIE website, from research on recent developments in multiculturalism and multicultural education to contributions to the organization of the CCIE research space. |
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Maryam Nabavi
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Maryam Nabavi is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Studies. Her academic and professional background has intersected in the areas of anti-oppression research, policy and activism. Her interests in social justice education and transformative learning drive her research in the areas of citizenship engagement, global education, and leadership. Maryam has (co)published on youth activism and anti-colonialism and has completed her Masters in Adult Education and Community Development at OISE/UT, focusing on Comparative and International Development Education. She is also a firm believer that dreaming is essential to creating cultures of equality where social norms are challenged and individuals realize their potential for harvesting change. Her work with the Centre involves data collection and analysis for the "Expressing and Exploring Youth Identities in a Multicultural Context" Research Project.
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Carole Wallace, Judy Paley, and Joanne O'Connor
The NCIE administrative team provides support services and program activities for The David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education.
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