Soudeh Oladi
Biography
Dr. Soudeh Oladi is an Assistant Professor in the Social Justice Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
Research interests
Her research interests include immigrant students’ schooling experiences in Canada, decolonial education, Eastern spirituality in education and Rumi. At OISE, she is teaching courses on critical pedagogy and linguistic and cultural diversity, anti-Islamophobia education, sociology of race and ethnicity, migration and globalization, marginality and the politics of resistance, and reading Rumi as ethical resistance. Currently, she is the lead researcher on a Jackman Humanities Institute funded Working Group entitled Mapping Immigrant Students’ Stories: Mothers and the Burden of Knowledge. Dr. Oladi’s research brings to voice narratives of students’ perceptions of belonging, social inclusion, identity, displacement, home, invisibility, as well as experiences of pain and joy in educational settings.