Ardavan Eizadirad
Biographic Data
| ID | 290368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ardavan Eizadirad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ardavan |
| FAMILY NAME | Eizadirad |
| SIGNATURE | EIZADIRAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5821-1076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Restorative justice in preservice teacher education in Canada
This article explores strengths and challenges of integrating restorative justice pedagogies into preservice teacher education programs at two universities in southern Ontario, Canada. Teaching for peace and conflict transformation offers a transformative approach to education that centres relationship building, shared accountability, and holistic understanding. Restorative justice in education also addresses issues of scholasticide, by advocatin…
Racialized Lived Experiences of No-knock Raids in Canadian Policing
A no-knock police raid is a law enforcement tactic where officers enter a private dwelling without prior notice. In Canada, there is a significant lack of comprehensive data, on the frequency and outcomes of no-knock police raids and their unintended damages and consequences. While quantitative studies on police violence have been informative, there is a significant gap in documenting racialized lived experiences with no-knock police raids in Can…
Asian Educators Experiencing the Bamboo Ceiling
Our study amplifies the voices of Asian educators undergoing career advancement in a large district school board with a significant Asian student population in Ontario, Canada. Our data sources included survey results from 234 Asian educators and focus group transcriptions from 83 Asian educators. Grounded in Asian critical race theory (“AsianCrit”), our findings show that Asian educators faced the “bamboo ceiling,” wherein institutional barriers…
Disrupting the Colonizing Gaze and Mobilizing for Systemic Decolonization
The Pain of Experiencing Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination
The poem addresses various forms of oppression and discrimination experienced by individuals of Asian heritage in Canada. It is a summary of a report for one of the largest school boards in Canada. The poem humanizes the experiences of the research participants. It reflects the voices of 1,300+ research participants which included Grades 7 to 12 students, educators, and administrators
Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering As Critical Pedagogy
Cultivating Brave Spaces to Take Risks to Challenge Systemic Oppression
This chapter is written by two racialized professors: Andrew B. Campbell who is Jamaican-Canadian and Ardavan Eizadirad who is Iranian-Canadian. Reflecting and sharing our identities and experiences via duoethnography and from a critical race theory paradigm, we argue that there is no such thing as a safe space. We outline and theorize brave spaces as a counternarrative to safe spaces to facilitate unlearning and promote risk-taking to challenge …
Amadeusz
AMADEUSZ IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION IN ONTARIO that provides access to education, community supports, mentorship, and exceptional care for young adults ages eighteen to thirty-five who are or have been incarcerated. Using case studies of three participants from Amadeusz, we centre the lived experiences of racialized persons with a criminal record, outlining the challenges to accessing, and being approved for, a record suspension. Although the r…
Visibilizing our Pain and Wounds as Resistance and Activist Pedagogy to Heal and Hope
This article reflects experiences of two racialized professors from a Critical Race Theory (CRT) paradigm teaching in Canadian teacher preparation and educational leadership programs across multiple universities. The analysis of their lived experiences as counter-stories through storytelling focuses on how their identities, bodies, course content, and activist pedagogies are read and received teaching predominantly white students and working with…
Pedagogy of visibilizing pain and suffering
We began planning for this special issue in May 2020. An upcoming book, Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts, co-edited also w
External assessment as stereotyping
Is it “bad” kids or “bad” places? Where is all the violence originating from? Youth violence in the City of Toronto
Various high profile case studies involving youth violence in the City of Toronto resulted in sentimental public outrage and consequentially evoked an institutionalized and systemic response from the government. This part of the article will examine the meta-narratives of these high profile cases and the problematic nature of their narratives and the role they play in perpetuating a racial hierarchy that normalizes and privileges Whiteness and ne…
The Pain of Experiencing Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination
The poem addresses various forms of oppression and discrimination experienced by individuals of Asian heritage in Canada. It is a summary of a report for one of the largest school boards in Canada. The poem humanizes the experiences of the research participants. It reflects the voices of 1,300+ research participants which included Grades 7 to 12 students, educators, and administrators
Visibilizing our Pain and Wounds as Resistance and Activist Pedagogy to Heal and Hope
This article reflects experiences of two racialized professors from a Critical Race Theory (CRT) paradigm teaching in Canadian teacher preparation and educational leadership programs across multiple universities. The analysis of their lived experiences as counter-stories through storytelling focuses on how their identities, bodies, course content, and activist pedagogies are read and received teaching predominantly white students and working with…
Pedagogy of visibilizing pain and suffering
We began planning for this special issue in May 2020. An upcoming book, Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts, co-edited also w
External assessment as stereotyping
Is it “bad” kids or “bad” places? Where is all the violence originating from? Youth violence in the City of Toronto
Various high profile case studies involving youth violence in the City of Toronto resulted in sentimental public outrage and consequentially evoked an institutionalized and systemic response from the government. This part of the article will examine the meta-narratives of these high profile cases and the problematic nature of their narratives and the role they play in perpetuating a racial hierarchy that normalizes and privileges Whiteness and ne…
Is it “bad” kids or “bad” places? Where is all the violence originating from? Youth violence in the City of Toronto
Various high profile case studies involving youth violence in the City of Toronto resulted in sentimental public outrage and consequentially evoked an institutionalized and systemic response from the government. This part of the article will examine the meta-narratives of these high profile cases and the problematic nature of their narratives and the role they play in perpetuating a racial hierarchy that normalizes and privileges Whiteness and ne…
External assessment as stereotyping
Amadeusz
AMADEUSZ IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION IN ONTARIO that provides access to education, community supports, mentorship, and exceptional care for young adults ages eighteen to thirty-five who are or have been incarcerated. Using case studies of three participants from Amadeusz, we centre the lived experiences of racialized persons with a criminal record, outlining the challenges to accessing, and being approved for, a record suspension. Although the r…
Visibilizing our Pain and Wounds as Resistance and Activist Pedagogy to Heal and Hope
This article reflects experiences of two racialized professors from a Critical Race Theory (CRT) paradigm teaching in Canadian teacher preparation and educational leadership programs across multiple universities. The analysis of their lived experiences as counter-stories through storytelling focuses on how their identities, bodies, course content, and activist pedagogies are read and received teaching predominantly white students and working with…
Pedagogy of visibilizing pain and suffering
We began planning for this special issue in May 2020. An upcoming book, Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts, co-edited also w
Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering As Critical Pedagogy
Cultivating Brave Spaces to Take Risks to Challenge Systemic Oppression
This chapter is written by two racialized professors: Andrew B. Campbell who is Jamaican-Canadian and Ardavan Eizadirad who is Iranian-Canadian. Reflecting and sharing our identities and experiences via duoethnography and from a critical race theory paradigm, we argue that there is no such thing as a safe space. We outline and theorize brave spaces as a counternarrative to safe spaces to facilitate unlearning and promote risk-taking to challenge …
Asian Educators Experiencing the Bamboo Ceiling
Our study amplifies the voices of Asian educators undergoing career advancement in a large district school board with a significant Asian student population in Ontario, Canada. Our data sources included survey results from 234 Asian educators and focus group transcriptions from 83 Asian educators. Grounded in Asian critical race theory (“AsianCrit”), our findings show that Asian educators faced the “bamboo ceiling,” wherein institutional barriers…
Disrupting the Colonizing Gaze and Mobilizing for Systemic Decolonization
The Pain of Experiencing Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination
The poem addresses various forms of oppression and discrimination experienced by individuals of Asian heritage in Canada. It is a summary of a report for one of the largest school boards in Canada. The poem humanizes the experiences of the research participants. It reflects the voices of 1,300+ research participants which included Grades 7 to 12 students, educators, and administrators
Racialized Lived Experiences of No-knock Raids in Canadian Policing
A no-knock police raid is a law enforcement tactic where officers enter a private dwelling without prior notice. In Canada, there is a significant lack of comprehensive data, on the frequency and outcomes of no-knock police raids and their unintended damages and consequences. While quantitative studies on police violence have been informative, there is a significant gap in documenting racialized lived experiences with no-knock police raids in Can…
Restorative justice in preservice teacher education in Canada
This article explores strengths and challenges of integrating restorative justice pedagogies into preservice teacher education programs at two universities in southern Ontario, Canada. Teaching for peace and conflict transformation offers a transformative approach to education that centres relationship building, shared accountability, and holistic understanding. Restorative justice in education also addresses issues of scholasticide, by advocatin…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (3 works) · Oppression (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)