Dr. Harini Rajagopal
Assistant Professor
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Arts-based research
Multiliteracy and multimodality
Bilingual/Multilingual education
Literacy Education
Decolonizing pedagogies and knowledges
English Language Arts
Critical literacies/pedagogies
Teacher Education
Race and antiracism
Biography
வணக்கம்! I am a listener of stories and enjoy working on collaborative and creative pedagogical designs. I am grateful to live and work on the traditional, unceded, ancestral territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people.
Rooted in antiracist perspectives, my work focuses on collaborating with children and teachers to mindfully include diverse communicative repertoires (especially multiple languages, photography, arts, playfulness) into mainstream classrooms, while paying attention to the realities of class, cultural, and systemic inequities. I engage with a feminist ethic of care, relationships and process, decolonizing and reflexive methodologies, and use participant-friendly methods that value multiliterate practices as resources for all students’ learning, and for designing caring justice-oriented pedagogies.
Selected Publications
