Shahrzad Mojab

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Illinois)

Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology
Workplace Learning and Change Specialization

Telephone: (416) 923 - 6641 ext. 2242
Fax: (416) 926 - 4749
email: smojab@oise.utoronto.ca

Address:

AECDCP
OISE/UT
252 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 1V6

Research Interests

Dr. Mojab's specialty is educational policy, adult education and feminist studies. She participated in initiating, developing, and implementing employment and educational equity programs at several Canadian universities. Her areas of research and teaching are adult education and emancipatory theories; adult education and civil society; the impact of war and violence on women's learning; minority and immigrant women's access to education; women, state, and globalization; anti-racism education; critical and feminist pedagogy; social justice and equality; equity and diversity in the workplace; feminism and nationalism; and gender relations in the Middle East.

Courses:

AEC 1156H Power and Difference in the Workplace

AEC1146H Women, Globalization, and Citizenship

AEC3113H Adult Education Approaches to Theories of State, Equity, and Democracy

AEC3140H Political Economy of Adult Education in Global Perspectives

AEC3114H Comparative Studies in Adult Education

Latest Publications (1997-98)

"The state, university, and the construction of civil society in the Middle

East," Futures, special issue on "The Future of the University", Vol. 30,

No. 7, September 1998.

"Radical pedagogy of race and gender," International Journal of University

Adult Education, July 1998.

"Muslim' women and 'Western' Feminists: The debate on particulars and

universals," Monthly Review, December 1998, Vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 19-30.

"Crossing boundaries of nationalism, patriarchy, and Eurocentrism: The

struggle for a Kurdish Women Studies Network," Canadian Woman Studies, Vol.

17, No. 2, Spring 1997, pp. 68-72.

Field activities

Immigrant women and adult education

Peace, human rights, and civic education: enhancing literacy among Kurdish

women

The impact of war and violence on women's learning

Adult education and emancipatory theories

State, equity, and democracy

Links

http://www.frauenlinks.de/

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/projects/kwnet/