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Jeannie Kerr, Dr

Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University

Jeannie Kerr is an educational philosopher, theorist and mixed-methods researcher of Irish maternal and Settler identity. She is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Dr Kerr’s scholarship examines the reproduction of societal inequalities in preschool–grade 12, teacher education and higher education settings, and is directed towards collaboratively repairing and renewing relations in educational settings, urban landscapes and Canadian society. Drawing on her significant experience in culturally enriched urban classrooms, her theorising, research and teaching centre on the complications and complicities in educational activities and works to disrupt the centring of Euro-Western approaches and knowledges in the broader interest of systemic change. Dr Kerr is the academic co-ordinator of the PhD and MA/MEd programmes in Educational Theory and Practice at Simon Fraser University. She is also the Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Education with Dr Ee-Seul Yoon.

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