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Beyhan Farhadi

Assistant Professor

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

  • Assistant Professor
    Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • EdTech policy
  • Critical policy sociology
  • Social and cultural geography
  • Surveillance studies
  • Teacher leadership
  • Power, justice, and resistance

    Dr. Beyhan Farhadi multidisciplinary research engages critical policy sociology, social and cultural geography, as well as surveillance studies, to understand the contexts within which inequity and injustice persist in schools. Notably, she has mobilized her scholarship on online education to influence education policy in Ontario.

    Dr. Beyhan Farhadi was formerly a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ontario, and the research cluster lead for Community Engagement and Public Scholarship at the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies at York University in Toronto.