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  • Congratulations to Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen on being selected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Education

    We are delighted to share that Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen has been selected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Education (IAE) (http://www.iaoed.org), an important recognition of her exceptional contributions to the field of education. Election to the IAE is reserved for scholars who have demonstrated a sustained record of excellence in educational research and […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Dr. Melanie Wong on receiving the 2025 Emerging Teacher Educator Award

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Melanie Wong on receiving the 2025 Emerging Teacher Educator Award at the ABCDE Roundtable! This well-deserved recognition acknowledges Melanie’s outstanding dedication, innovation, and numerous contributions to the field of teacher education. She is a passionate educator and an advocate for using technologies as a tool to support all learners.  […] Read More

  • LLED Graduate Student Conference 2025 Recap

    Thank you to everyone who came out to the LLED Graduate Student Conference on April 16. It was wonderful to see so many of you there. Special thanks to our GPA Team: Firth, Nicholle, Chinazam, and Charu. The event would not be possible without your thoughtful planning, organization and execution. Very best wishes to everyone […] Read More

  • Critical Conversation with Dr. Gerald Roche

    Event Details Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025Time: 1 – 2 PMMode: Online via Zoom RSVP for the Zoom link by May 13: The Global Research Collective on Anti-Oppressive Language Education would like to invite you to our next event in the Critical Conversation series: A Critical Conversation with Dr. Gerald Roche. The event will feature a moderated conversation […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Caroline Hamilton on being awarded the FoE PhD Dissertation Prize

    We are excited to announce that Caroline Hamilton has been awarded the Faculty of Education PhD Dissertation Prize for her dissertation: “(Re)Mapping Youth Mobilities and Citizenships with Young Adult Literature“! She successfully defended in March 2024, and was nominated by her supervisor, Dr. Theresa Rogers. The Faculty of Education PhD Dissertation Prize is awarded annually […] Read More

We are a collective of educators committed to social justice in our work with students, colleagues, partners, and community members. We are privileged to learn, teach, and conduct our research on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

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Our commitment is enacted through the interrelated areas of interest and expertise:

Language and literacy learning and teaching in multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal contexts


Critical and anti-oppressive approaches to literacy and language education

Indigenous Language & Literacy Education


Arts-based, literary, and embodied learning in language and literacy education

Digital media, cultures and technologies in language and literacy education


Theories and methodologies for literacy and language education research

Recent Publications

Conceptualizing Relational Technologies for Native Hawaiian (HI)stories and Contemporary Realities in the Pacific Northwest. BC Studies, 224, 91-114
Galla, C.K., Zhuravleva, A., & MacEachern, F. (2025)
Monologues from the minoritized: Racialized students’ experiences in French immersion. Canadian Modern Language Review, 81(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.3138/cmlr-2024-0001
Kunnas, M. (2025)
“I’m going to stay…”: Exploring Factors Impacting English Language Teachers Occupational and Organizational Commitment. English Teaching & Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42321-025-00209-z
Whitehead, G.E.K., Moodie, I. & Al-Hoorie, A.H. (2025)
Identity and English for specific purposes. In S. Starfield & C. Hafner (eds.) The handbook of English for specific purposes, (2nd ed.). Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119985068.ch30
Darvin, R. & Zhang, Y. (2025)
Linguistic diversity in the classroom: Embracing multilingual perspectives and pedagogies. Futurum, 31, https://doi.org/10.33424/FUTURUM570
Zappa-Hollman, S. (2025)
Digital storytelling and intersectional identities: Youth with refugee experiences (re)claiming life stories. International Multilingual Research Journal, 19(2), 99-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2024.2332119
Kendrick, M., & Early, M. (2025)
Financing clean technologies within Canada’s Indigenous communities: Perspectives on sustainable energy transition from practitioners and academics. Energy (online-ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2025.134930
Krupa, J., Busch, F., Gladwin, D., & Ellis, N. (2025)
A relational unfolding: Reflecting on fostering conditions for transdisciplinary education. World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 81(2), 138-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2024.2445997
Sutherland, I., Giroux, F., Gladwin, D., & Ellis, N. (2024)
Critical Approaches to CALL. In: McCallum, L., Tafazoli, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51447-0_11-1
Darvin, R. (2025)

News & Events

Congratulations to Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen on being selected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Education
May 13, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Melanie Wong on receiving the 2025 Emerging Teacher Educator Award
May 07, 2025

LLED Graduate Student Conference 2025 Recap
May 06, 2025

Critical Conversation with Dr. Gerald Roche
Apr 29, 2025

Research Seminar: What are the affordances and constraints of doing ethnography for language and literacy education research?
Apr 24, 2025

ECHOing Ecological Imagination: Children’s Storying with Nordic Folktales and the More-than-Human World
Apr 17, 2025

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Job Postings

2025W Graduate Teaching Assistants in LLED (Anticipated)
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2025W Graduate Teaching Assistants in Rits (Anticipated)
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2025S Part Time Instructors for Vancouver Summer Program
Application Deadline: May 23, 2025

2025W Graduate Academic Assistant (GAA) for Online LITR
Application Deadline: May 27, 2025

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