Social Justice Education
David Livingstone
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Education and employment
- Learning (formal and informal) and work (paid and unpaid)
- Public opinion about public education
- Social class and education
- Underemployment
Office: N/A
Mobile: 647 238-4771
Languages: French
Website
Email: david.livingstone@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
George Dei
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-racism education and inclusive schooling
- Black youth dropouts/academic success
- Critical ethnography
- History of Africentric schools
- Indigenous knowledges and anti-Colonialism
- Race
Office: (416) 978-0460
Languages: Twi
Website
Email: george.dei@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Critique of Olympic Industry
- FIFA Men's World Cup 2026
- Gender and sport
- Physical and health education
- Sports law
Office: N/A
Website
Email: helen.lenskyj@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
John Portelli
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Critical democracy and education
- Critical pedagogy and Paulo Freire
- Democracy and education
- Leadership and social justice and policy
- Maltese in Canada
- Narratives of migration and exile
- Social justice and equity issues in educational leadership and policy
- Student engagement
- Tahar Ben Jelloun and Laila Lalami and Education
Office: +1 416-978-1277
Home: 416-622-1439
Languages: Maltese, Italian, some French and Arabic
Website
Email: john.portelli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Lauren Bialystok
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Ethical controversies in education
- Gender and sexual diversity
- Liberalism and democracy in education
Office: N/A
Languages: French,German
Website
Email: lauren.bialystok@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Megan Boler
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- 2024 US election
- Digital activism and social media
- digital propaganda and emotions
- Media representation of gender and women
- online hate and disinformation targeting 2SLGBTQ communities
- polarization and social media
- Post-truth politics
- racism and rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in U.S. and Canada
- social justice education
- weaponization of emotions in politics and digital media
Office: (416) 978-1231
Website
Email: megan.boler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Monica Heller
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Bilingualism
- Francophone Canada
- Immigration
- Language and education
- Language and globalization
- Language policy
- Linguistic minorities
- Nationalism
Office: 416-978-1987
Languages: French,Spanish - Latin American
Email: monica.heller@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Shozab Raza
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Fields: critical theory; anthropology; post/decolonial studies
- Regions: global South; South Asia; Pakistan
- Themes: revolutionary politics and social movements; political economy; decolonization; Marxism
Office: N/A
Website
Email: shozab.raza@utoronto.ca
Tanya Titchkosky
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Bureaucracy Studies
- Critical disability studies
- Cultural disability studies
- Cultural studies
- Disability studies
- Disability studies in education
- Interpretive methods
- Interpretive sociology
- Normalcy studies
- Phenomenology
- Sociological imagination
- Sociology of disability
- Sociology of the body
Office: (416) 978-0451
Website
Email: tanya.titchkosky@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online