Anwar Ahmed

Dr. Anwar Ahmed

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Anwar Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Language Education as Anti-oppressive Transformation in Multilingual Settings in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC’s Faculty of Education. He completed PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto.

Anwar’s recent books are Exploring Silences in the Field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), TESOL Teacher Education in a Transnational World: Turning Challenges into Innovative Prospects (edited with O. Barnawi, Routledge, 2021), Mobility of Knowledge, Practice and Pedagogy in TESOL Teacher Education: Implications for Transnational Contexts (edited with O. Barnawi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Knowledge Mobilization in TESOL: Connecting Research and Practice (edited, Brill, 2019).  

Anwar is a co-editor of the journal Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

Projects

The Global Research Collective for Anti-Oppressive Practices in Language Education (2024 – 2025)
RITs Seed Grant (PI)

Fostering Linguistic Citizenship through Writing Pedagogy (2024 – 2025)
Faculty of Education Inception Grants (PI)

Teacher Emotions and Knowledge Mobilization in TESL (2023 – 2025)
Hampton Fund Research Grant (PI)

Arguing for Democratic Citizenship: An Exploration of Multilingual Students’ Argumentative Writing in English as an Additional Language (2023 – 2024)
SSHRC Explore Grant (PI)

Selected Publications

Ahmed, A., Morgan, B. (2025)

Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration. System, Vol 131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2025.103642

Ahmed, A. (2025)

Towards an affective approach to critical thinking pedagogy. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2025.2451793

Ahmed, A. (2024)

Toward an emotional geography of language for rethinking Canadian identity in a transnational world. In V. Tavares & M. J. Maciel Jorge (Eds.), Reconstructions of Canadian identity: Towards diversity and inclusion (pp. 55-72). University of Manitoba Press. https://uofmpress.ca/books/reconstructions-of-canadian-identity

Morgan, B. & Ahmed, A. (2023)

Teaching the Nation(s): A Duoethnography on Affect and Citizenship in a Content-Based EAP Program. TESOL J. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3213

Ahmed, A. (2023)

Mapping the intersections of critical language awareness and affective approaches to second language writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 60, 100969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2023.100969

Ahmed, A., & Morgan, B. (2021)

Postmemory and multilingual identities in English language teaching: a duoethnography. The Language Learning Journal, 49(4), 483-498. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2021.1906301

Ahmed, A. (2019)

How language teachers address the crisis of praxis in educational research. Oxford Review of Education, 45(6), 715-730. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2019.1612342

Ahmed, A. (2016)

Why critical literacy should turn to “the affective turn”: Making a case for critical affective literacy. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37(3), 381-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2015.1042429