Professor
Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
As an educational researcher interested in race, gender, culture, and language, Dr. Henry has five interrelated areas of inquiry: a) the epistemology and practice of Black; b) life histories of African Canadian women; c) the academic achievement and learning of Black students in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean; d) the applications of ethnographic and alternative methodologies in educational research; e) Black feminist thought applied to educational contexts.
Contributions:
Twenty years of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Canada: Reflections Regarding Black students (in press) Teachers College Record
Henry, A. (2011). Feminist theory in S. Tozer, B. Gallegos, and A. Henry, Eds. Handbook of research in the social foundations of education. New York: Routledge.
Henry, A. (2006). Historical studies: Groups/institutions. In G. Camilli, P. Elmore, and J. Green, (Eds.) Complementary methods for research in education. (pp. 271-293). Washington, D.C.: American Educational Research Association.
Henry, A. (1998). Speaking up and speaking out: Examining voice in a reading/writing program with adolescent African Caribbean girls. Journal of literacy research. 30(2), 233-252.
Henry, A. (1998). Taking back control: Black women teachers' activism and the education of African Canadian children. New York: State University of New York Press.
Keywords:
Race, gender, language, culture in the classroom; Black feminist thought. Alternative and narrative epistemologies.
annette.henry@ubc.ca
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