Ardavan Eizadirad
Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad (@DrEizadirad) is Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Innovation and Inclusion in Education for Thriving School-Community Ecosystems and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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), co-author of DEI Undone: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2026 with Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui), and co-editor of 6 books including: 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 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, and decolonization.
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), co-author of DEI Undone: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2026 with Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui), and co-editor of 6 books including: 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 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, and decolonization.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-village-and-the-new-jane-finch/id1517419086?i=1000479939405
YVHA was joined by professors Yasir Hameed and Ardavan Eizadirad to overview some of the socio-spatial developments and processes in the Jane & Finch community in North York, Toronto. The podcast looks at the relationship between the Village, York University, and the Jane-Finch community over the course of the last few decades, and how the rise of York University has impacted the broader community. The goal is to identify the social and political barriers separating the Jane and Finch community from the Village and York University, and to analyze the pervasive effects of urbanization in the City of Toronto, and it’s direct/indirect impact on the Jane-Finch community.