Thashika has extensive research and teaching experience in K-12 and higher education in Canada, Australia, and Ethiopia. Thashika’s research program explores questions of social, cultural, economic, political, and epistemic justice and the possibilities for anticolonial educational policy in formal and informal contexts.
Thashika Pillay Research Interests include:
Anti-colonial educational policy
Anti-racist feminist pedagogies
Critical global citizenship
Comparative & international education
Indigenous knowledge systems
Intersectionality
Migration and diasporic studies
Teacher education
Selected Degrees
M.Ed. – Master of Education: Educational Policy Studies – University of Alberta
Ph.D. – Doctor of Philosophy: Educational Policy Studies – University of Alberta
Biography
Dr. Thashika Pillay is an Assistant Professor in Educational Policy in the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University. Thashika completed her PhD in Social Justice and International Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta.
Thashika is co-editor of Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education (2015) and Global Citizenship, Common Wealth and Uncommon Citizenships (2018). Her current research project with Drs. Lynette Shultz and Anna Kirova (University of Alberta) examines teaching for and learning about equity, justice, and advocacy for First Nations’ children; this project brings together grade seven to grade nine youth from across “Canada” in order to better understand the pedagogies and learnings of anti-oppressive education for educators and students.
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