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  • Happy Holidays 2025!

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  • Congratulations to Our Graduating Students

    Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our students who graduated this morning at the 8:30am ceremony! We are incredibly proud of their hard work, dedication, and contributions to our community. StudentProgram of StudySupervisorCheung, Lam Yin CandyMEd in Literacy EducationDr. Iris BergerWhite, ChelannaMEd in TESLDr. Andreea CervatiucYung, Siu YungMEd in TESLDr. Guofang Li LLED’s […] Read More

  • Congratulations to recipients of the 2025–2026 Faculty of Education Graduate Student Endowed Awards

    Please join us in congratulating the following LLED graduate students on being recipients of the 2025–2026 Faculty of Education Graduate Student Endowed Award! Student NameAwardSupervisor(s)Takamitsu MamashitaLOMCIRA Harold Covell Memorial ScholarshipDr. Derek Gladwin, Dr. Kristiina KumpulainenRosa DavidJoseph Katz Memorial ScholarshipDr. Ryuko Kubota, Dr. Meghan CorellaAika IshigeJoseph Katz Memorial ScholarshipDr. Ryuko Kubota  Kyu Yun LimMary Elizabeth Simpson […] Read More

  • MEd in French 2026

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  • Online MEd in Literacy Education 2026

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  • Congratulations to Simangele Mabena on successfully defending her dissertation

    We are delighted to announce that Simangele Mabena has successfully defended her PhD dissertation: “Teaching and Learning Together: A Multiple-Case Study of D/deaf and Hearing Teaching Partnerships in South Africa.”  Co-supervised by Drs. Maureen Kendrick and George Belliveau, with committee member Dr. Janet Jamieson (ECPS).  Many thanks to the University Examiners, Drs. Bonny Norton (LLED) […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Dr. Candace Galla on being appointed as a UNESCO Co-Chair

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Candace Galla on being appointed as a UNESCO Co-Chair, alongside Drs. Shannon Bischoff and Mary Encabo Bischoff at Purdue University Fort Wayne (Indiana, USA). The official location of this UNESCO Chair is Purdue Fort Wayne. UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, is a network that brings […] 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

Doing ‘Nothing’ as Ecological Practice. The Arrow: Journal of Wakeful Society, Culture, & Politics 12(2). https://arrow-journal.org/doing-nothing-as-ecological-practice/
Gladwin, D., & Ellis, N. (2025)
Romance, erotics, and intimacy in a work of Nancy Drew fanfiction: Cross-reading personal pedagogies and literacies. Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 14, https://doi.org/10.70138/ORZE9956
Moore, A. & Hare, K. A. (2025)
Initial teacher education and the emotional geography of languages: A conceptual intervention. TESOL in Context, 33(2). https://doi.org/10.21153/tesol2025vol33no2art2096
Ahmed, A. (2025)
A place to call home: Stories of a young refugee-background child navigating classroom, marginal, and neighbourhood places. Multicultural Perspectives, 27(3), 141–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2025.2575736
Rajagopal, H. (2025)
“Tribalizing Linguistic Inquiry”, Living Languages 4(1), 47-84. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/livinglanguages.2238
Dupris, J. J. (2025)
The ‘hesitant multilingual’: why do some students who use multiple languages not identify as multilingual? International Journal of Multilingualism, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2025.2505916
Griffiths, E., Neumann, H., Zappa-Hollman, S., & Van Viegen, S. (2025)
Language proficiency and linguistic citizenship: Rethinking multilingual TESOL through an emotional geography of languages. In K. Raza et al. (eds.), Multilingual TESOL: De-constructing and re-constructing power ‘in,’ ‘of,’ and ‘for’ language classrooms (pp. 111-126). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9278-1_7
Ahmed, A. (2025)
Critical digital literacies, generative AI, and the negotiation of agency: Canadian multilingual youth in human–AI interactions. System, 136, 103904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2025.103904
Lim, K. Y., & Darvin, R. (2025)
Sexual trauma and feminist self-portraiture in Sex Education. MAI Feminism & Visual Culture, 15. https://www.maifeminism.com/sexual-trauma-feminist-self-portraiture-in-sex-education/
Moore, A. (2025)

News & Events

Congratulations to Our Graduating Students
Nov 26, 2025

Congratulations to recipients of the 2025–2026 Faculty of Education Graduate Student Endowed Awards
Nov 25, 2025

Scholarship Stories: Dr. Marika Kunnas
Nov 20, 2025

MEd in French 2026
Nov 18, 2025

LLED Arts-Based Educational Research Gathering: “Artful Listening: Meaning Making through/with Sound”
Nov 17, 2025

REACH Workshop: Nothing, Anything, and Everything: Introducing Postqualitative Research through Conversation
Nov 12, 2025

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2025W2 Graduate Academic Assistant – Research, Engagement and Collaboration Hub
Application Deadline: December 11, 2025

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