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) and she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in the School of Education since 2018. She is a former secondary mathematics teacher in BC public schools and 2-term school trustee serving locally in School District No. 46 (Sunshine Coast) and provincially as director for 3-years on the BC School Trustees Association Board of Directors. Christine is also a sessional instructor at St. Mark’s College at the University of British Columbia teaching CALR 526 and have taught EDUC 430 and at Simon Fraser University, EDUC 471 and EDUC 454. She has co-developed curriculum in Mathematics Education with the Ministry of Education, OpenEd BC, and First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC). Christine is driven by learning, innovating, and THINKING FORMATIVE in her practice and her research interests include mathematics education, professional learning experiences, subject matter acquisition, self-assessment through portfolios, policy & practice, and ethnic identity.

Assistant Professor (Full-Time Regular Term)
UNBC School of Education (Teacher Education and Graduate Studies)

August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2025 (renewed for 3-years)

Teaching Workload:

Winter 2025: 

  • EDUC 201 – Education Theory and Practice
  • EDUC 376 – Foundations in Numeracy in the Elementary Years
  • EDUC 421 – Assessment and Motivation (EY Cohort)
  • EDUC 656 – Instructional Leadership

Fall 2024:

  • EDUC 394 (Block 1) – Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Instruction: Theory in Context
  • EDUC 405 (Block 5) – Reflective Practice Though Inquiry and Portfolio
  • EDUC 606 (Online) – Leading for Change (Multidisciplinary Leadership Program)
  • Curriculum Mapping and Micro-Credential Course Development

Current Service:

2024-2025

  • Two Rivers Art Gallery – Board Member
  • Canadian Association for Action Research Education (CAARE) – Recruitment Committee Member
  • UNBC Senate – Faculty Senator (Faculty of Human and Health Sciences)
  • UNBC Steering Committee of Senate (SCS) – Committee Member
  • UNBC Senate Committee on Calendar and Curriculum (SCCC) – Committee Member
  • UNBC Teaching & Learning Conference 2024 – Committee Member
  • EdCan Network – Editorial 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
  • BC Teacher Education Network (BCTEN) – Communications/Member
  • KOH-Learning Team – Watershed Project with UNBC and SD91 – Team Member
  • UNBC School of Education – Social Media – Moderator

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


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