Riyad Shahjahan

Riyad A. Shahjahan Postdoctoral Fellow Educational Leadership and Policy Studies N229c Lagomarcino Hall Telephone: (515) 294-0552 Fax: (515) 294-4942 Email: riyad@astate.edu

 

Areas of Research/Scholarship:

1. Equity and Knowledge Production
2. Anti-colonial Thought
3. Spirituality and Higher Education
4. Evidence-Based Education
5. Qualitative Research Methodologies (from a decolonizing perspective)
6. Racially Minoritized Faculty issues
7. Difference and Diversity in the International Context

 

Selected Publications in SJHE:

 

Book

Dei, G. J. S., Asgharzadeh, A., Eblaghie-Bahador, S., & Shahjahan, R.A. (2006). Schooling and difference in Africa : Democratic challenges in a contemporary context. Toronto : University of Toronto Press.

Shahjahan, R.A. (2008). In the belly of paradox: Teaching equity in an (in)equitable space as a graduate Teaching Assistant (TA). International Journal of Progressive Education, 4(1).

 

Shahjahan, R.A (2005). Spirituality in the academy: Reclaiming from the margins and evoking a transformative way of knowing the world. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Vol. 18(6), 685-711.

 

Shahjahan, R.A. (2005). Mapping the field of anti-colonial discourse to understand issues of indigenous knowledges: Decolonizing praxis. McGill Journal of Education , Vol. 40(2) , 213-240.

 

Wane, R., Shahjahan, R. & Wagner, A. (2004). Walking the Talk: Decolonizing the politics of equity of knowledge and charting the course for an inclusive curriculum in higher education. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. Vol. XXV(3), 499-510.

 

Selected Conference papers

Shahjahan, R.A. & Barker, L. (2006). Affirming spiritual epistemologies in graduate school: The experiences of racially minoritized scholars. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Women in Education (CASWE)/Canadian Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities , Toronto, Ontario, May 27 2006.

 

Shahjahan, R.A. & Portelli, J. (2006). The slogan of "evidence-based policy/practice/education": Whom does it serve? Paper presented at the 2nd International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, May 5, 2006.

 

Shahjahan, R.A. (2006). Centering spirituality in citizenship and activist spaces. Paper presented at the Engaging social justice: opening transformative dialogues conference, Montreal, Quebec, March 17, 2006 .

 

Muzzin, L.J. & Shahjahan, R. (2005). Privileged vs. subjugated knowledges in university curricula. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), Montreal, Quebec, April, 13, 2005.

 

Teaching in SJHE:

•  Pedagogies of Dissent: Radical Theories of Education, Social Justice, and Economic Democracy  

•  ResEv 580 Qualitative Research Methodology