Jason Ellis, Associate Professor, Educational Studies
I am an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies (EDST) and a historian of education.
My PhD is from the Department of History at York University, where I studied under Dr. Paul Axelrod (then dean of education, cross-appointed to history). I also have MA and BAH degrees in History, and a B.Ed. degree from OISE-University of Toronto, with qualifications in Intermediate/Senior (7-12) History and French.
I began my post-secondary teaching career as a sessional instructor at Brock University in 2008. After teaching as a sessional in a faculty of education and several arts faculties in Ontario, I had the enormous privilege of coming to UBC as an assistant professor in 2013.
Since arriving, I have contributed to UBC’s teacher education program and graduate programs. I have taught seven sections of the required B.Ed. course, EDST 401 Education, Schools and Social Institutions, and would have taught more sections but for a parental leave and a fellowship buying me out of my teaching. In EDST’s graduate programs, I teach and supervise students in history of education.
I have served on several successful search committees, including the most recent successful search for an associate dean of teacher education and a successful search for an Educational Leadership stream professor in Indigenous education. My other service includes terms as chair of the EDST Undergraduate Program and Curriculum Committee (UPACC) and as coordinator of EDST’s Society, Culture, and Politics in Education (SCPE) graduate courses. I was program chair for the Canadian Foundations of Education conference at Congress 2019.
I maintain a valid British Columbia K-12 teaching certificate (professional certificate of qualification). I have given invited speeches to the BCTF and the British Columbia Public School Employers’ Association and have done over two-dozen newspaper, radio, and TV interviews about K-12 education in the province.