Funké Aladejebi
Dr. Funké Aladejebi, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, is a scholar specializing in Black Canadian history. Her research and teaching interests focus on oral history, the history of education in Canada, Black Canadian women’s history, and transnationalism. Her writing explores the intersections of race and gender in historical and contemporary contexts, reviewing Black women’s distinct consciousness as a way of understanding their entrance into the professional workforce. This work contributes to an under-researched area of Canadian history through its examination of community and school initiatives where education supported Black women’s activism and agency. Her articles on Black Canadian history and feminist pedagogies have appeared in Education Matters, Ontario History, and the Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, and have won dissertation prizes from the Canadian History of Education Association and the Centre for Feminist Research at York University. With over 10 years of experience in anti-racism education, research and project management, her teaching challenges traditional learning paradigms and methods to critically examine the intersection of social difference and justice.
Her work seeks to understand how Canada’s role in the development of Black Internationalism was shaped by broader social criticisms about the scope of Black freedom.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4432-5977
– Unsettling The Great White North: Black Canadian History
– Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research
– Complicating Gender and Racial Identities Within the Study of Educational History
– A Transnational Examination of Black Teachers’ Affirmations of Learners’ Socioemotional and Mental Health Needs
– ‘We’ve Got Our Quota’: Black Female Educators and Resistive Pedagogies, 1960s-1980s
– ‘Send Little Outbursts Across the School’: Black Women Teachers and Micro-Resistive Strategies in Ontario Schools, 1960s – 1980s
– Schooling The System: A History of Black Women Teachers
– We The North? Race, Nation, And the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship
– Lessons In Relationality: Reconsidering The History of Education in North America
Transforming Black Lives was founded with the mission to transform the lives of Black children and youths in Canada. With a history rooted in advocacy and community engagement, we have continuously worked to address systemic issues affecting Black communities.
