The Urgency of (Explicitly) Teaching Against Islamophobia

Abstract

I serve as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Concordia University of Edmonton (CUE), former Elementary and Secondary school teacher, and the author of “Stories We Live and Grow By: (Re)Telling Our Experiences as Muslim Mothers and Daughters.” I have grown up in Edmonton, also known as Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Cree for Beaver Mountain House), on Treaty Six lands. My ultimate goal is to relationally co-compose more educative ways of teaching, learning, and living, in community. I am interested in multi-perspectival narrative inquiry, (Muslim) mothering and motherhood, curriculum studies, social studies education, and familial curriculum-making. Through my current narrative inquiry research alongside Muslim refugee mothers of children with disabilities, I have been learning more about Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality, dis/citizenship, and disability justice. I am blessed to mother three amazing humans who teach me what love looks like in practice every single day.