Handel K. WrightEducation Thematic Lead
Professor Handel K. Wright is a Full Professor and the Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education in University of British Columbia. He is co-editor of the book series African and Diasporic Cultural Studies (University of Toronto Press), associate editor of Critical Arts, and serves on the editorial board of several cultural studies and education journals including Cultural Studies; the European Journal of Cultural Studies; Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education and Postcolonial Directions in Education. He held the Canada Research Chair (CRC) of Comparative Cultural Studies and David Lam Chair of Multicultural Education and was co-editor of the journal International Education.
His work and research now focus on children and youth, anti-racism, cultural studies, international and comparative education, multiculturalism, post-colonial studies, race/ethnicity, and research methodologies. Professor Wright is a Senior Research Associate, Department of Communication Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and has published extensively on continental African cultural studies, cultural studies of education, critical multiculturalism, anti-racist education, qualitative research, and post-reconceptualization curriculum theorizing. He has served on the international advisory board of the University of East London Cultural Studies Book Series Radical Cultural Studies and the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy book series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics.
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– Are We (T)Here Yet? Qualitative Research in Education’s Profuse and Contested Present
– An Endarkened Feminist Epistemology? Black Feminist Identity, Difference and The Politics of Educational Research
– Multiculturalism, Anti-Racism, And Afrocentrism: The Politics of Race in Educational Praxis
– Dare We De-Centre Birmingham? Troubling The Origin and Trajectories of Cultural Studies
– (Re)Conceptualizing Pedagogy as Cultural Praxis
– Stuart Hall’s Relevance for The Study of African Blackness
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