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Fikile Nxumalo

Associate Professor

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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  • Associate Professor
    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Curriculum, Teaaching & Learning, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, M5S 1V6, Canada

BIO

Dr Nxumalo is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where she directs the Childhood Place Pedagogy Lab. She is also affiliated faculty in the School of the Environment. Her scholarship focuses on reconceptualizing place-based and environmental education within current times of ecological precarity. This scholarship is rooted in insights from Indigenous knowledges and Black feminist geographies. Her book, Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education (Routledge, 2019) examines the entanglements of place, environmental education, childhood, race, and settler colonialism in early learning contexts. She supervises graduate students interested in interrogations of racism and colonialism in education, particularIy in relation to early childhood education, climate change education, environmental education and science education.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States1 Sep 2015 - 1 Jun 2019

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Early Childhood Education
    University of Victoria, Victoria, CanadaMay 2015
  • M.Sc.
    Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
  • B.Sc. Hon.
    Trent University, Peterborough, Canada

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • School of Cities
  • Climate Positive Energy (CPE)
  • Black Research Network (BRN)