Vidya Shah
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 358311 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vidya Shah |
| PRENOMES | Vidya |
| SOBRENOME | Shah |
| ASSINATURA | SHAH V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0472-4287 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A Tool of Critical Accountability or Neoliberal Trickery? A Critical Analysis of Public School Board Reviews in Ontario, Canada
This article critically examines public school board reviews in Ontario, Canada, as tools for accountability, democratic governance, and anti-racist reform. Using qualitative document analysis of four reviews conducted between 2013 and 2019 – Near North, Toronto, York Region, and Peel District School Boards – the study analyzes responses to governance failures, financial mismanagement, and systemic racism. Informed by Critical Race Theory, Critic…
Can improved handwashing infrastructure and soap change behavior? findings from a randomized control study in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya
Enhanced handwashing facilities, consistent soap provision, and improved water access substantially increased HWWS in this refugee setting. Soap availability was critical for sustaining behaviors, while the Jengu facility prompted short-term gains. Integrated WASH interventions combining infrastructure, supply continuity, and behavior change strategies are essential for lasting hygiene improvements in humanitarian contexts
Introduction to the special issue
As scholars studying school districts, we became increasingly concerned with how research from the Global North dominates global understandings of school governance, organization, and reform—what we term coloniality in global education reform. This special issue seeks to broaden these perspectives by examining how schools might be governed and organized with a focus on power, history, local and regional contexts, multiple ways of knowing, and soc…
Handwashing with soap and influencing factors in crisis-affected refugee populations in Kenya and Uganda
Our study shows that handwashing with soap is lowly practiced, with the availability of soap and water for handwashing needs and presence of handwashing facilities fundamental. For improvements in handwashing with soap by all household members for collective effect on reducing diarrheal infections in crisis-affected populations, interventions could benefit from further research on the influence of fixed handwashing facilities as prompts to behavi…
In between jockeying and resisting proximities to whiteness
Community-school-university partnerships
Lies, Denials, and Cover-Ups
This study explores whiteness as property in parent engagement as experienced by Black and racialized parents in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on counter-storytelling methodology, we explore the active harm endured by parents who have challenged racist educators, policies, and practices. We also explore how educators uphold whiteness as property (and intersections with “smartness” and “goodness”) through a spec…
Brown Identities, Complicities, and Complexities
Complicities and complexities in racialization simultaneously create possibilities and foreclose opportunities for cross-racial solidarities. In this auto-ethnographic paper, we share our learning and theorizing of Brown-Black solidarities since we filmed a webinar titled, “Brown Complicity in White Supremacy: Towards Solidarity for Black Lives” (SultyDee, 2020), one of several efforts towards Brown (South Asian)-Black solidarities in North Ameri…
Tempering Applied Critical Leadership
How do leaders make the impossible choice between harm enacted on racially oppressed students and families, and harm enacted on them as advocates for racial justice in systems steeped in whiteness? How do they negotiate multiple harms in Black and Brown bodies? Purpose: Situated in between the literature on tempered radicalism and Applied Critical Leadership (ACL), this study explores the experiences of six Black and Brown mid-level and senior-le…
Handwashing adherence during the Covid-19 pandemic
Effects of Menstrual Health and Hygiene on School Absenteeism and Drop-Out among Adolescent Girls in Rural Gambia
Poor knowledge and management of menstruation impacts girls' school attendance and academic performance. This paper aims to explore how menstrual hygiene management practices and related factors influence school absenteeism and drop-out among primary and secondary school girls in rural Gambia. Mixed-method studies were conducted among students and key informants from 19 schools from July 2015-December 2017. Focus group discussions, in-depth inter…
In/Visible POC
In this article, I reflect on experiences of Brown (or South Asian) in/visibility in teacher education. Using an autoethnographic approach, I share reflexive personal and professional counternarratives of my experiences as a Brown person and Brown teacher-educator committed to issues of justice in the diverse context of Toronto, Canada. I explore how Brown invisibility operates in desiring recognition, insider knowings, investments in ambiguity, …
The trajectory of Covid-19 pandemic and handwashing adherence
Clinical Trials.Gov, # NCT04367337
A rite of passage
Taboos, secrecy and embarrassment associated with discussing menstruation hinder adolescents from seeking advice from parents and teachers on appropriate MHM practices. Strategies to encourage positive social norms towards menstruation would help to promote more open discussions about it at the family, community and national level, which will support improvements in MHM in this and similar communities in low and middle income settings
Think Creatively and Act Decisively
Each month throughout the New York City (NYC) area, more than 20 separate gatherings bring social workers and other professionals together to discuss one thing: undoing structural racism in their organization, community, university, and profession. Over 8,000 strong in 2014, the Anti-Racist Alliance (ARA) began in 2002 in the living room of one very motivated social worker and a small group of dedicated colleagues. They had all attended an Undoin…
Brokered livelihoods
Seasonal labour migration is an increasingly important aspect of rural livelihoods in tribal areas of Western India. Such migration can no longer be viewed merely as an adjunct to an essentially agrarian way of life, but has to be seen as integral to the coping, survival and livelihood strategies of tribal farming families. Rural to urban migration is often viewed as a consequence of environmental crisis in which migrants as 'ecological refugees'…
Lies, Denials, and Cover-Ups
This study explores whiteness as property in parent engagement as experienced by Black and racialized parents in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on counter-storytelling methodology, we explore the active harm endured by parents who have challenged racist educators, policies, and practices. We also explore how educators uphold whiteness as property (and intersections with “smartness” and “goodness”) through a spec…
In/Visible POC
In this article, I reflect on experiences of Brown (or South Asian) in/visibility in teacher education. Using an autoethnographic approach, I share reflexive personal and professional counternarratives of my experiences as a Brown person and Brown teacher-educator committed to issues of justice in the diverse context of Toronto, Canada. I explore how Brown invisibility operates in desiring recognition, insider knowings, investments in ambiguity, …
Brokered livelihoods
Seasonal labour migration is an increasingly important aspect of rural livelihoods in tribal areas of Western India. Such migration can no longer be viewed merely as an adjunct to an essentially agrarian way of life, but has to be seen as integral to the coping, survival and livelihood strategies of tribal farming families. Rural to urban migration is often viewed as a consequence of environmental crisis in which migrants as 'ecological refugees'…
Think Creatively and Act Decisively
Each month throughout the New York City (NYC) area, more than 20 separate gatherings bring social workers and other professionals together to discuss one thing: undoing structural racism in their organization, community, university, and profession. Over 8,000 strong in 2014, the Anti-Racist Alliance (ARA) began in 2002 in the living room of one very motivated social worker and a small group of dedicated colleagues. They had all attended an Undoin…
A rite of passage
Taboos, secrecy and embarrassment associated with discussing menstruation hinder adolescents from seeking advice from parents and teachers on appropriate MHM practices. Strategies to encourage positive social norms towards menstruation would help to promote more open discussions about it at the family, community and national level, which will support improvements in MHM in this and similar communities in low and middle income settings
The trajectory of Covid-19 pandemic and handwashing adherence
Clinical Trials.Gov, # NCT04367337
Effects of Menstrual Health and Hygiene on School Absenteeism and Drop-Out among Adolescent Girls in Rural Gambia
Poor knowledge and management of menstruation impacts girls' school attendance and academic performance. This paper aims to explore how menstrual hygiene management practices and related factors influence school absenteeism and drop-out among primary and secondary school girls in rural Gambia. Mixed-method studies were conducted among students and key informants from 19 schools from July 2015-December 2017. Focus group discussions, in-depth inter…
In/Visible POC
In this article, I reflect on experiences of Brown (or South Asian) in/visibility in teacher education. Using an autoethnographic approach, I share reflexive personal and professional counternarratives of my experiences as a Brown person and Brown teacher-educator committed to issues of justice in the diverse context of Toronto, Canada. I explore how Brown invisibility operates in desiring recognition, insider knowings, investments in ambiguity, …
Brown Identities, Complicities, and Complexities
Complicities and complexities in racialization simultaneously create possibilities and foreclose opportunities for cross-racial solidarities. In this auto-ethnographic paper, we share our learning and theorizing of Brown-Black solidarities since we filmed a webinar titled, “Brown Complicity in White Supremacy: Towards Solidarity for Black Lives” (SultyDee, 2020), one of several efforts towards Brown (South Asian)-Black solidarities in North Ameri…
Tempering Applied Critical Leadership
How do leaders make the impossible choice between harm enacted on racially oppressed students and families, and harm enacted on them as advocates for racial justice in systems steeped in whiteness? How do they negotiate multiple harms in Black and Brown bodies? Purpose: Situated in between the literature on tempered radicalism and Applied Critical Leadership (ACL), this study explores the experiences of six Black and Brown mid-level and senior-le…
Handwashing adherence during the Covid-19 pandemic
In between jockeying and resisting proximities to whiteness
Community-school-university partnerships
Lies, Denials, and Cover-Ups
This study explores whiteness as property in parent engagement as experienced by Black and racialized parents in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on counter-storytelling methodology, we explore the active harm endured by parents who have challenged racist educators, policies, and practices. We also explore how educators uphold whiteness as property (and intersections with “smartness” and “goodness”) through a spec…
Introduction to the special issue
As scholars studying school districts, we became increasingly concerned with how research from the Global North dominates global understandings of school governance, organization, and reform—what we term coloniality in global education reform. This special issue seeks to broaden these perspectives by examining how schools might be governed and organized with a focus on power, history, local and regional contexts, multiple ways of knowing, and soc…
Handwashing with soap and influencing factors in crisis-affected refugee populations in Kenya and Uganda
Our study shows that handwashing with soap is lowly practiced, with the availability of soap and water for handwashing needs and presence of handwashing facilities fundamental. For improvements in handwashing with soap by all household members for collective effect on reducing diarrheal infections in crisis-affected populations, interventions could benefit from further research on the influence of fixed handwashing facilities as prompts to behavi…
A Tool of Critical Accountability or Neoliberal Trickery? A Critical Analysis of Public School Board Reviews in Ontario, Canada
This article critically examines public school board reviews in Ontario, Canada, as tools for accountability, democratic governance, and anti-racist reform. Using qualitative document analysis of four reviews conducted between 2013 and 2019 – Near North, Toronto, York Region, and Peel District School Boards – the study analyzes responses to governance failures, financial mismanagement, and systemic racism. Informed by Critical Race Theory, Critic…
Can improved handwashing infrastructure and soap change behavior? findings from a randomized control study in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya
Enhanced handwashing facilities, consistent soap provision, and improved water access substantially increased HWWS in this refugee setting. Soap availability was critical for sustaining behaviors, while the Jengu facility prompted short-term gains. Integrated WASH interventions combining infrastructure, supply continuity, and behavior change strategies are essential for lasting hygiene improvements in humanitarian contexts
Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Racism (5 obras) · Environmental health (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Law (4 obras)