Month: June 2014

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Dr. Karen Pashby as a Visiting Scholar in AGORA

Karen Pashby received her PhD from University of Toronto in a combined program, Philosophy of Education and Comparative, International, and Development Education. Her dissertation, Related and Conflated: A Theoretical and Discursive Framing of Multiculturalism and Global Citizenship Education in the Canadian Context, combined theoretical and empirical work to map out overlapping and contradicting impulses in theory, research literature, policy, and lesson plans.

Currently, she is at the University of Oulu where she is the postdoctoral researcher on a large-scale international comparative project entitled Ethical Internationalism in Higher Education in Times of Global Crises which involves 28 universities in 10 countries.

A former secondary school teacher, Dr. Pashby was co-ordinator and instructor in the Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development cohort of teacher education at University of Toronto. She currently teacher Comparative Educational Research in the Globalisation and Education graduate program in Oulu. Previous research includes mapping ideologies and discourses of diversity in Canadian educational documents, perceptions of teachers and students to ethnic minority issues, and the impact of neoliberal reforms on teachers who identify as social-justice and equity activists.

She has also published a number of articles and book chapters on critical and postcolonial conceptualizations of global citizenship education.

During 2014 Dr. Pashby gives several lectures in AGORA. In addition she gives supervision to PhD-students.