Welcome to the website

of the

Association of BC Deans of Education

(ABCDE)

Dr. Harry Janzen

Dean, Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, B.C.

and

Chair, Association of BC Deans of Education

Dr. Harry Janzen welcomes you to the ABCDE website. He assumed the ABCDE Chair’s position on July 1, 2010 and will continue in this position for the academic year 2011-2012. He invites you to get in touch with him at his email address harry.janzen@viu.ca or by telephone @ 250-740-6220.

The other members of ABCDE Executive Committee during 2011-2012 are Dr. Blye Frank (UBC), ABCDE Treasurer, and Dr. Ted Riecken (UVic) Past ABCDE Chair.

For information about the member institutions of ABCDE, the work they’re doing, and their deans of education, please click on About ABCDE on our homepage menu.

• Read the Deans of Education Task Force Report on Aboriginal Teacher Education. See what’s happening around the province in nine teacher education programs. “A Plan for 2006-2011” (PDF)
• Click on Aboriginal Teacher Education on the Menu.
• Read about plans at BC’s nine teacher education institutions for extending and enhancing graduate courses and programs in Education Leadership.
• Click on Education Leadership on the Menu.