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Deirdre Kelly

Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)

Dr. Kelly has developed a body of scholarly work centered on social justice in education that aims to: inform efforts to create equitable schooling; help teachers craft social justice pedagogies; and frame policy reforms for alternative programs, teacher education, teachers’ assessment practices, and gender equity.

Contributions:

Kelly, D. M. Pregnant with meaning: Teen mothers and the politics of inclusive schooling. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 257 pages.
Kelly, D. M. Last chance high: How girls and boys drop in and out of alternative schools. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. 276 pages.
Currie, D. H., Kelly, D. M., & Pomerantz, S. “Girl power”: Girls reinventing girlhood. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2009. 282 pages.
Kelly, D. M. Practicing democracy in the margins of school: The Teen-Age Parents Program as feminist counterpublic. American Educational Research Journal. 40.1 (2003): 123-146. doi: 10.3102/00028312040001123
5. Kelly, D. (2012). Teaching for social justice: Translating an anti-oppression approach into practice. Our Schools/Our Selves, 21(2), 135-154. Available: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2012/02/osos106_Teaching_Social_Justice.pdf

Keywords:

Feminist studies; Gender studies; Children and youth; Teaching for social justice; Sociology of education; Cultural studies; Media and democracy; Critical policy studies.
deirdre.kelly@ubc.ca 
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