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Janelle Brady

Assistant Professor

Toronto, ON

Janelle Brady (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies, Faculty of Community Services at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is an anti-racist educator, activist-researcher and community organizer. Brady completed her PhD at the University of Toronto in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Her doctoral work explored Black mothering experiences of navigating anti-Black racism in the schooling and education system for their children. At OISE, Brady served as the senior coordinator and researcher of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS) and is now an advisor. She has been featured by CityNews, CBC, Global TV, the Toronto Star, the Huffington Post and other local media outfits. She taught for a number of years in postsecondary education institutions prior to joining the School of Early Childhood Studies.

Publications

  • (Re)claiming spirituality as anti-colonial resistance and decolonial praxis: An Africana-feminist discussion on spirituality and Indigenous knowledges in education
  • Education for whom? Exploring systems of oppression and domination
  • Rethinking curriculum through critical Blackness and African Indigenous knowledges: A Black educator’s response
  • Strategies for Resistance: A Study on Black Mothering as Practices of Disruption for the Schooling of Black children
  • “I had a good day today. I always have a good day when I am here”: Exploring best practices in teaching students with learning challenges as well as behavioural and emotional regulation issues.
  • In my Mother’s Kitchen: Spirituality and Decolonization
  • Critical Schooling: Transformative Theory and Practice
  • Kinship
  • Decolonizing indigenous educational policies
  • Perspectives of Black male students in secondary school: Understanding the successes and challenges--student focus group results
  • Book Review: CLARE LAND. Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles.
  • Continuing important conversations: an introduction
  • Supporting refugee students in Canada: Building on what we have learned in the past 20 years
  • Social justice education student caucus report: Academic planning 2017
  • Disrupting Dolls and Princesses: a pedagogical moment in dismantling colonial norms and representations of beauty through an anti-colonial theory
  • (Re)claiming spirituality as anti-colonial resistance and decolonial praxis: An Africana-feminist discussion on spirituality and Indigenous knowledges in education
  • Exploring the role of Black feminist thought in pre-service early childhood education: On the possibilities of embedded transformative change
  • Decolonizing Indigenous Educational Policies
  • We Rise Together: Perspectives of black male students in secondary school: Understanding the successes and challenges
  • Book Review: CLARE LAND. Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles. London, United Kingdom: Zed Books, Limited. (2015). 256 pp. $27.95 (paperback). (ISBN 978-1-783-60173-8).
  • Supporting Refugee Students in Canada: Building on What We Have Learned in the Past 20 Years
  • Education for Whom?: Exploring Systems of Oppression and Domination
  • Exploring the role of Black feminist thought in pre-service Early Childhood Education: on the possibilities of embedded transformative change

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Claire Ellis

Claire Ellis

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