Ardavan Eizadirad

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Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also a community activist and Manager of Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Mobilization with the charitable, Black-led non-profit organization Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE) in the Jane and Finch community in Toronto. He was an educator with the Toronto District School Board and a former member of the Race and Identity-Based Data Collection Community Advisory Panel with the Toronto Police Service (2021-2023). Dr. Eizadirad is the author of Decolonizing Educational Assessment: Ontario Elementary Students and the EQAO (2019), and co-editor of Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care (2021 with Drs. Zuhra Abawi & Rachel Berman), Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts (2022 with Drs. Andrew Campbell & Steve Sider), The Power of Oral Culture in Education: Theorizing Proverbs, Idioms, and Folklore Tales (2023 with Dr. Njoki Wane), Enacting Anti-racism and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education: Canadian Perspectives (2023 with Drs. Zuhra Abawi & Andrew Campbell), Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools: Canadian Insights (2025 with Drs. Zuhra Abawi, Stephanie Tuters, and Andrew Campbell) and a major international handbook approximately 56 chapters titled "The International Handbook of Anti-Discriminatory Education" (2025 with Dr. Peter Trifonas).

Dr. Eizadirad is also the founder and Director of EDIcation Consulting (www.EDIcation.org) offering equity, diversity, and inclusion training, audits, and capacity-building sessions to organizations, corporations, and schools to thrive and achieve to their full potential. His research interests include equity, restorative practices, standardized testing, oral culture, community engagement, youth violence prevention and intervention, anti-oppressive practices, critical pedagogy, social justice education, resistance, and decolonization.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Assistant Professor , Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University

Education

  • 2018 
    University of Toronto, PhD
  • 2013 
    University of Toronto, M. Ed

Publications

  • 2024
    Amadeusz’s Prosper: Effective reintegration of adults facing firearm-related charges in Ontario, Canada, Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
  • 2024
    Impact of Race and Culture Assessments (IRCAs) in combatting anti-Black racism and reducing recidivism, Journal of Community Safety & Well-Being
  • 2024
    The pain of experiencing anti-Asian racism and discrimination, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies
  • 2024
    Remembering lost lives and healing from trauma: Homicides, incarceration, and pain-driven advocacy in the Jane and Finch community, Journal of Culture and Values in Education
  • 2023
    Experiences of learners who are incarcerated with accessing educational opportunities in Ontario, Canada, Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice
  • 2023
    Enacting anti-racism and activist pedagogies in teacher education: Canadian perspectives, Canadian Scholars Press
  • 2023
    The power of oral culture in education: Theorizing proverbs, idioms and folklore tales, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2023
    The summer of the pivot: Prioritizing equity in remote instruction through a multidisciplinary community of practice initiative at a Canadian university., Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
  • 2022
    The Community School Initiative in Toronto: Mitigating opportunity gaps in the Jane and Finch community in the wake of COVID-19, Radical Teacher
  • 2022
    Performative commitments to diversity and inclusion in Canadian educational institutions: Considerations for equity efforts in comparative and international education, Global Comparative Education: Journal of the WCCES
  • 2022
    Emotional vulnerability in researchers conducting trauma-triggering research, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies
  • 2022
    Counternarratives of pain and suffering as critical pedagogy: Disrupting oppression in educational contexts, Routledge
  • 2021
    A case study of teacher candidates’ experiences: Writing the pilot Math Proficiency Test in Ontario, Canada, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies
  • 2021
    Equity as praxis in early childhood education and care, Canadian Scholars Press
  • 2020
    Bias-free or biased hiring? Racialized teachers’ perspectives on educational hiring practices in Ontario , Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy
  • 2020
    External assessment as stereotyping: Experiences of racialized grade 3 children, parents and educators with standardized testing in elementary schools, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
  • 2019
    Decolonizing educational assessment: Ontario elementary students and the EQAO., Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2018
    Subversion in education: Common misunderstandings and myths, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
  • 2018
    Legitimization and normalization of EQAO standardized testing as an accountability tool in Ontario: Rise of quantifiable outcome-based education and inequitable educational practices, OISE Graduate Student Research Conference Journal
  • 2017
    The university as a neoliberal and colonizing institute; A spatial case study analysis of the invisible fence between York University and the Jane and Finch neighbourhood in the City of Toronto, Journal of Critical Race Inquiry
  • 2016
    International experience in a non-Western country, teacher habitus, and level of inclusion in the classroom, International Journal of Teaching and Education
  • 2016
    Is it “bad” kids or “bad” places? Where is all the violence originating from? Youth violence in the City of Toronto, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
  • 2016
    Comparative analysis of educational systems of accountability and quality of education in Ontario, Canada and Chile: Standardized testing and its role in perpetuation of educational inequity, Interfaces Brasil/Canada

Professional Memberships

  • Canadian Association for Teacher Education
  • Canadian Society for Studies in Education
  • Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
  • Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers’ Federation
  • American Educational Research Association
  • Ontario College of Teachers

Contact Ardavan for

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  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision