Enhancing the learning experiences of students.
Dr. Christine Ho Younghusband is passionate about teaching, learning, and leadership. Her mission is to enhance and improve the student learning experience, challenge the status quo in education, and create space for learners to innovate and take action. Christine completed her doctorate in Educational Leadership in 2017 at Simon Fraser University (SFU). She is an Assistant Professor (Term) at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in the School of Education since 2018. Christine is a former secondary mathematics teacher in BC public schools (16-years) and 2-term school trustee (7-years) serving locally in School District No. 46 (Sunshine Coast) and provincially as director (3-years) on the BC School Trustees Association Board of Directors. She has been a member of the curriculum development teams for the Ministry of Education (Math K-9), OpenEd BC (Math Competencies), and First Nations Education Steering Committee – FNESC (Math K-12 First Nations Teachers Resource Guide). Christine has also served on the curriculum redesign teams for the B.Ed. and M.Ed. programs at the UNBC School of Education in 2018-2020. She also taught as a sessional instructor with St. Mark’s College at UBC, Simon Fraser University, and UBC Vancouver (as part of the practicum experience in Prince George). Christine is driven by innovating, action research, and THINKING FORMATIVE in her practice and her research interests include mathematics education, professional learning experiences, subject matter acquisition, identity development through portfolios, policy and practice, and ethnic identity.
Assistant Professor (Full-Time Term)
School of Education
August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2028 (renewed for 3-years)
Teaching Workload:
Fall 2026:
- EDUC 201 – Education Theory and Practice
- EDUC 376 – Foundations in Numeracy in the Elementary Years
- EDUC 421 – Assessment and Motivation (EY Cohort)
- EDUC 639 – School-Based Teams, Consultants and Families
Fall 2025:
- EDUC 394 – Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Instruction: Theory in Context
- EDUC 606 – Leading for Change
Current Service:
2025-2026
- Canadian Association for Action Research Education (CAARE) – Vice-President (Program)
- Canadian Association for Action Research Education (CAARE) – Recruitment Committee Member
- Two Rivers Art Gallery – Volunteer and Committee Member
- UNBC School of Education – Social Media – Moderator
- UNBC Senate – Faculty Senator (Faculty of Human and Health Sciences)
- UNBC Steering Committee of Senate (SCS) – Committee Member
- BC Teacher Education Network (BCTEN) – Communications/Member
- UNBC Senate Committee on Calendar and Curriculum (SCCC) – Committee Member
- Open Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) Journal – Reviewer
- International Journal of Educational Policy and Leadership (IJEPL) – Reviewer
- Canadian Association in Teacher Education (CATE) – Reviewer
- EdCan Network – Editorial Committee Member
UNBC Our Stories – Learning to Embrace Identity – Asian Heritage Month 2023
https://www2.unbc.ca/newsroom/unbc-stories/learning-embrace-identity
Recent publications:
Younghusband, C. H., Banack, H., Lautensach, A., Litz, D., Crandall, J., Thielmann, G., (2025). Climate education in teacher education: Researching our way into teacher leadership. In C. Smith & L. Schnellert (Eds.), Canadian research in teacher leadership: Transformative and contextualized agency (pp. 642-672). Canadian Association for Teacher Education. https://prism.ucalgary.ca/items/037514bf-a835-4894-bee0-889368ce6c73
Younghusband, C. H. (2023). [Review of the book Participatory action research: Ethics and decolonization, by C. Lennette]. Canadian Journal in Action Research, 23(3), 115-118. https://journals.nipissingu.ca/index.php/cjar/article/view/691
Younghusband, C. H. (2023). [Review of the book Researching with a decolonizing approach to community-based action research, by J. S. Gullion & A. Tilton]. Canadian Journal in Action Research, 23(2), 134-137.
https://journals.nipissingu.ca/index.php/cjar/article/view/669
Younghusband, C. H. (2022). Practicum during the pandemic: Zooming in. OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2(1), 1-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18357/OTESSA.2022.2.1.89 https://conference.otessa.org/index.php/conference/article/view/89
Younghusband, C. H. & Koehn, D. (2022). Teacher candidates peer-oriented triads: Transforming practice through peer assessment during field experience. Canadian Journal of Action Research. 22(2), 29-45.
https://journals.nipissingu.ca/index.php/cjar/article/view/553
