Antiracist teacher education for multilingual learners: Praxis, challenges, and future directions. In H. Hong & A. C. Da Silva Iddings (Eds.), Empowering multilingual learners: Innovative approaches to foster equity and inclusivity in teacher education (pp. 146-162). Routledge.
Arts-Based Educational Research Group x Antiracist Caucuses Meeting
Event Details
Date: February 3, 2026
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM PDT
Location: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012)
Arts-Based Educational Research Group x Antiracist Caucuses Meeting:
Raising critical race media literacy in the BC education system
LLED will soon be hosting our next Arts-based Educational Research (ABER) & Antiracist Caucuses (ARC) collaborative gathering on February 3rd.
These joint gatherings are part of our ongoing commitment to advancing the intersections of antiracist and arts-based work, research, and teaching within the department. All faculty, graduate students, and staff are warmly invited to attend, whether you are currently engaged in arts-based/ antiracist research, are curious to experiment with arts-based/antiracist approaches, or are interested in finding inspiration and building connections across the department.
In this session, participants will be invited to engage with collaborative arts-based activities grounded in antiracist discourses. Together, we will look at examples of poetry circulating in our local BC public transit and play with creating our own poetry as a way to think about antiracist meaning-making and critical media literacy. If they wish, participants will also have the option to share their poetry or other arts-based work with the group, and/or to make it visible to others beyond the session.
We invite you to explore these materials before our meeting:
- Degand, D. (2020). Introducing critical race media literacy in an undergraduate education course about technology and arts-based inquiry. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 22(3), 96-117. https://doi.org/10.1251/ijme.v22i3.2461
- Examples of poetry:
- Neworld Theatre, Unbound Reading Series: https://neworldtheatre.com/the-unbound-reading-series/ | https://hopeadrift.ca/unbound/
- Poetry featured on BC public transit: https://www.readlocalbc.ca/resources/poetry-in-transit/
- Some questions to think about while you explore the materials:
- What are the shared aims, overlapping tenets and priorities between arts-based and antiracist work?
- How does arts-based and antiracist work engage with spaces and feelings of discomfort?
- How can we ‘un-silo’ ourselves and our communities?
Ahmed, A., & Morgan, B. (2026)
Exploring the transformative potential of duoethnography for critical language teaching. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2025.2612469
LLED 553 in 2025-26 W2
LLED 553: Theoretical Foundations of ESL/EL Reading Pedagogy
Winter Term 2
Wednesday, 4:30 to 7:30 PM
Neville Scarfe Building (SCRF), Room 1005
Instructor: Dr. Anwar Ahmed
Course Overview:
This course is designed for graduate students and is intended as an in-depth exploration of issues, methods, and techniques related to ESL/EFL reading research and pedagogy. The focus of the course is research related to the teaching and learning of reading in English as an Additional Language (EAL) in English and non-English settings; traditionally referred to as English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. The different theories and models related to reading instruction in ESL and EFL contexts will be described and explored. Students will learn about the major models ranging from bottom-up to critical pedagogy formulations related to literacy instruction.
Macfadyen, L. P., Morales, E., & Roche, J. (2025)
Culture and communication in digital worlds. A scoping review of literature from the Third Age of internet studies. The University of British Columbia. https://doi.org/10.14288/r5xm-qn87
Wernicke, M. (2025)
Les réalités multilingues dans l’enseignement du français au Canada: Une conversation compliquée. Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, 16(2), 135–153.