At Rate My Professor dot com, Dr. Lee Beavington gets a whopping 4.5 rating from students. Let’s keep this in perspective though, he isn’t getting a 5.0. However, out of 56 professors, he’s in the top 10. Dr. Beavington goes above and beyond when talking about overall career impact between students and faculty. One of the reasons, he won BC’s “West Coast Teaching Excellence Award” for 2025 and “KPU’s Teaching Excellence Award” in 2024.
The roots of Dr. Beavington’s teaching philosophy has always aligned itself to holistic inquiry-based teaching, since his interests are broad and wide-ranging. With over twenty years of teaching, he has taught across many disciplines in “diverse courses as ecology, advanced molecular biology, expressive arts, genetics, botany and the Amazon Field School.”
A New Path: Decolonizing Education at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Currently, Dr. Beavington has taken more remote administrative roles like overseeing a variety of Kwantlen Polytechnique University projects. One such project was a KPU website platform that he spearheaded. It is the Decolonizing Educational Practices website. In collaboration with local Indigenous post-secondary educators and knowledge keepers, this website guide responds to the Calls to Action outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the xéʔelɬ KPU Pathway to Systemic Transformation. Where the Indigenous principles of learning and teaching become a pathway to follow for educational institutions.
Creating with Nature: Lee Beavington’s Artistic Vision and Family Projects
Recently, Lee escaped into the aura of the celebrity limelight. He created one of several videos accepted by Peter Gabriel for his 2023 released “i/o” album. Lee’s video was one of the headlined title songs “i/o” which stands for inside/out. It was a “pinch-me so I know I’m awake” moments. Lee has been a fan since he was 9 years old. The video titled as “I Run Like Water” aptly aligns itself with the worldview of the interconnection of life. It is “a true collaboration of human, nature, and AI—or human and artificial nature. This video often blurs the line between the natural and artificial.” says Beavington in the YouTube notes.
In his personal life, he loves creating with his family including his two children. He often attributes his wife as an inspiration for many of his projects. Some of these projects involve photography, videography and writing. He has produced many literary works alongside his photography being featured in four of LonePine’s field guidebooks. Living on Mayne Island, BC assists in his alignment with the natural world and Indigenous forms of teaching.
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