David Anderson, Professor, Curriculum & Pedagogy
I am a Professor in the fields of Visitor Studies, Museum Education and Science Education, and direct the Master of Museum Education (MMEd) degree program, as well as other new on-line degree program initiatives within STEM Education at UBC. Over the last 19 years as a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, I have made significant contributions to these fields through initiating, reforming and strengthening collaborations between museums, schools and universities. My work has been dedicated to releasing and revitalizing the extraordinary educational wealth of culture and history held in museums and other institutions throughout the world. Further, I have worked on the leading edge of the trends in educational reforms, working harmoniously within the changes, and bridged disconnected groups in ways that are yielding considerable benefits to the faculty and the field of education. I have been a Deputy Department Head of EDCP as well as served on important faculty and departmental committees including the Faculty Personnel Committee and the Department’s Graduate Advisory Committee. As a UBC professor with almost two decades experience in the Faculty of Education, I have a keen contemporary as well as an historic knowledge of the workings of the Faculty of Education – a knowledge which will be invaluable to the service and work of the 2020 President's Advisory Committee for the selection of a new Dean. As a representative on this committee, I will strive collaboratively to identify the best possible candidate to secure, who will lead the Faculty of Education forward over the next 10 years. I believe strongly in the principles of collective governance through departments, schools and committees; democracy in decision making; and a bottom up approach to policy development. I will represent this philosophy in the section process to identify our new Dean.