Enhancing the learning experiences of students.
Dr. Christine Ho Younghusband is passionate about teaching, learning, and leadership. Her mission is to enhance 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). The title of her dissertation is “The Professional Learning Experiences of Non-Mathematics Subject Specialists: A Descriptive Study,” which focused on out-of-field teaching, teacher professional development, and subject matter content knowledge. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in the School of Education and continues her sessional work with St. Mark’s College at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and supports the UBC Teacher Education Program (NITEP) as a Faculty Associate in Prince George, BC. Christine is a former secondary mathematics teacher in BC public schools (16-years) and she served as a 2-term school trustee (7-years) in School District No. 46 (Sunshine Coast) and as director (3-years) on the BC School Trustees Association Board of Directors. She has also served the Math K-9 Curriculum Development Team for the BC Ministry of Education, Math K-12 Competencies Group for OpenEd BC, and Math K-12 First Nations Teachers Resource Guide (revised) writing team for the First Nations Education Steering Committee – FNESC. Christine also contributed to the curriculum redesign teams for the B.Ed. and M.Ed. programs at the UNBC School of Education in 2018-2020. Christine is driven by creative pedagogy, critical reflection, action research, and THINKING FORMATIVELY. Her research interests include program evaluation, professional learning, subject matter acquisition, identity development, and policy and practice.
Assistant Professor (Full-Time Term) School of Education
August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2028 (renewed for 3-years)
Teaching Workload (70%):
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
- Curriculum Mapping for the B.Ed. Program at UNBC
Sessional Work:
- CALR 526 – Curriculum, Assessment, and Evaluation in Catholic Schools (@ St.Marks College)
Research Workload (10%):
- Climate Education in Teacher Education (CETE) – Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Hart Banack)
- Northern STARS (Social, Tailored, and Assistive Robots for Schools) – Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Shruti Chandra)
- Recruitment and Retention in Rural British Columbia for K-12 Teachers – Principal Investigator
- Grounded Connections: Land-Based Learning in Teacher Education – Principal Investigator
Current Service for 2025-2026 (20%):
- UNBC President Search Committee 2025 – Member – FHHS Faculty
- Canadian Association for Action Research Education (CAARE) – Vice-President/Program Manager
- UNBC School of Education – Social Media – Moderator
- UNBC Senate – Faculty Senator (from the Faculty of Human and Health Sciences)
- UNBC Steering Committee of Senate (SCS) – Committee Member
- UNBC Senate Committee on Calendar and Curriculum (SCCC) – Committee Member
- BC Teacher Education Network (BCTEN) – Communications/Member
- EdCan Network – Editorial Committee Member
- Open Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association (OTESSA) – Reviewer
- International Journal of Educational Policy and Leadership (IJEPL) – Reviewer
- Canadian Association in Teacher Education (CATE) – Reviewer
- Canadian Association in Action Research in Education (CAARE) – Reviewer
UNBC Our Stories – Learning to Embrace Identity – Asian Heritage Month 2023
https://www2.unbc.ca/newsroom/unbc-stories/learning-embrace-identity 
Recent publications:
Banack, H., Litz, D., Younghusband, C. H., Lautensach, A., Crandall, J., & Thielmann, G. (2025). Mapping climate change education: Considerations on an education design-based research project from northern British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Action Research. https://journals.nipissingu.ca/index.php/cjar/article/download/756/422
Lautensach, A., Litz, D., Younghusband, C., Banack, H., Thielmann, G., & Crandall, J. (2025). The What, Why, and How of Climate Change Education: Strengthening Teacher Education for Resilience. Sustainability, 17(8816). https://doi.org/10.3390/su17198816
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
