Past Events

DARE Seminar 5

A Designer’s Journey of Lifelong Learning

Please join us for a casual lunch and talk by Dr. Iain Macdonald, entitled ‘A Designer’s Journey of Lifelong Learning’. Iain's scholarship focuses on design pedagogy, art practice, and education in art and design. He has come to Coast Salish territories to retrace the steps of his great-uncle, artist Jock Macdonald who spent nearly two years in Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) territories, upon the encouragement of Emily Carr. 

Presenter:

Dr. Iain Macdonald is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Design Innovation at Mynooth University (Ireland). He has over 25 years of previous creative industry experience as a motion graphic designer at the BBC, and as a commercials director in London, before becoming a Design academic with posts at Ravensbourne University, Edinburgh Napier University and London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

His current research activity is focused on HPV vaccine awareness using STEAM workshops in post-primary settings, and a book on the BBC Motion Graphics Archive. Recent grant funded research projects include Irish Research Council (2021) and Science Foundation Ireland (2023) working with the Irish Cancer Society. His research has used film and photography examining design pedagogy, art practice and community co-design in the UK, Ireland and further afield in Mozambique.

He is Vice President of the National Society for Education in Art & Design (NSEAD) and is on the Editorial Committee for the International Journal of Art and Design Education.

Date/Time
Friday, October 2
Time: Talk starts at 12pm. Come any time after 11:30 for lunch.

Place
EDB 8620.1, SFU Burnaby campus
(Online with Zoom is optional) 

DARE Seminar 4

Innovating Science and Chemistry Education Curricula by Integrating Indigenous Knowledge

In this DARE talk, Dr. Robby Zidny will explore how Indigenous Knowledge can be integrated into science and chemistry education to make learning more culturally relevant, meaningful, and responsive to sustainability challenges. Drawing on research with the Baduy community in Indonesia, the presentation will discuss how local knowledge, cultural practices, and perspectives on environmental conservation can be reconstructed as contexts for science learning. The presentation will also highlight the potential of Indigenous Knowledge to promote Education for Sustainable Development, systems thinking, and intercultural understanding, and will reflect on challenges and future directions for curriculum innovation and collaboration with Indigenous communities.

Presenter: 

Dr. Robby Zidny is an associate professor at Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (UNTIRTA), Indonesia. He is a recipient of the SEAMEO-Jasper Research Award 2024/2025 and the Best Poster Presenter award at a Chemistry Education Conference held by ACS-IUPAC in Thailand. His research focuses on science and chemistry education, curriculum innovation, and education for sustainability. He has led research and capacity-building projects in science education, including the PRESS Project (Promoting Relevant Education in Science for Sustainability) and a project on smartphone-based spectroscopy for microplastic detection and citizen science.

Date/Time
Thursday, October 1
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Place
EDB 7509, SFU Burnaby campus
(Online with Zoom is optional) 

2026 DARE Seminar 3

Education in a Time of Metacrisis

What kind of education becomes possible when progress, growth, and human control can no longer be taken for granted? This DARE research seminar brings together scholars from the Faculty of Education to explore how education might respond to a world shaped by ecological instability, colonial legacies, ethical uncertainty, and the limits of modern assumptions about progress. The event also celebrates the publication of their recent contributions to the special issue Beyond the Metacrisis: Educating for the World to Come, highlighting the Faculty’s ongoing engagement with urgent educational, ecological, and social questions. At a time when familiar educational narratives no longer feel sufficient, this seminar invites deeper reflection on how education may be reimagined through questions of relationship, responsibility, agency, and collective futures. Rather than offering simple answers, the session opens a space for thoughtful engagement with the challenges and possibilities of education in a changing world. Join us for an important conversation on what education might become, and on how we might begin to imagine more just, relational, and sustainable futures together.

Moderator:

• Dr. Gillian Judson 

Presenters:

• Dr. Cary Campbell
• Dr. Mark Fettes
• Dr. Cristiano Barbosa de Moura 
• Dr. Sean Blenkinsop 
• Thomas Hoeller 
• Marion Benkaiouche 

Date/Time
Wednesday, June 10
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. PST

Hybrid Event

• In person:
  SFU Burnaby Campus
  Education building 7610
• Zoom:
  Link will be sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.

2026 DARE Seminar 2

Narrative Approaches to Educational Research

You are invited to join a DARE roundtable discussion on narrative approaches to educational research. This roundtable features three distinct ways of utilizing narrative methods to gain deeper insights into the experiences of teachers and students. Instead of formal presentations, we will share some finished work, and some “work in progress.” We hope you will join us for an engaging conversation and collaborative brainstorming!

Presenters

• Gabriely Lolli de Oliveira
  (Re)Discovering Myself in the Scenes: The Construction of Teaching Personality Through Self-Narratives
• Hadar Hamid
  Educational Resilience: Navigation of Higher Education Access Among Resettled Students with Experiences of Forced Displacement
• Dr. Robyn Ilten-Gee 
  Digital Racial Literacies: Exploring Interactive Mosaics through Narrative Methods

Date/Time
Tuesday, May 19
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. PST

Hybrid Event

2026 DARE Seminar 1

Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling

Come celebrate the release of faculty member Cary Campbell's new book, Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling.

This book argues that the root of education’s failure to address the complex problems of climate change lies in the stories we tell. At once too complex, too simplistic, and overly focused on communicating and accumulating scientific facts, the stories we tell about climate change often reduce the problem to singular issues, such as CO2 emissions, while advocating out-of-this-world technofixes. Against this challenge, the term “polycrisis” has emerged to describe the interconnected environmental and social crises we are confronting in the 21st century. The polycrisis encompasses much more than catch-all terms such as climate change and global warming, connecting issues as diverse as biodiversity and habitat loss, water and food scarcity, pollution, and resource depletion, as well as growing economic and social precarity. Through a series of essays and interviews with scholars, scientists, artists, and activists, this volume seeks to articulate existential and educational responses and interventions to the polycrisis. The author presents a terrestrial vision for critical eco-pedagogy, arguing that educational freedom in this time is not unlimited or unbounded, but rather cultivated through an engagement with limits and limitations—most fundamentally, the limits of a planet with limited resources and carrying capacity.

Presenters

• Marion Benkaiouche
• Dr. Tim Lilburn
• Dr. Michael Ling
• Dr. William Pinar
• Dr. William Rees
• Dr. Charles Scott
• Dr. Zuzana Vasko

Date/Time
Friday, May 8
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. PST

Hybrid Event

• In person:
  SFU Burnaby Campus
  Education building 7610
• Zoom:
  Link will be sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.