DR. ZUHRA ABAWI
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Abawi, Z. Mind the Gap: Exploring Hiring Practices to Diversifying the Teacher Workforce. American Education Research Association. (AERA). Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 2023

Abawi, Z.
Hiring for Representation? Exploring Pandemic Teacher Hiring Practices in Ontario. Research Speaker Series. Centre for Leadership and Diversity, OISE/University of Toronto
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Abawi, Z., Eizadirad, A. Neutrality Always Benefits the Oppressor: The Need to Rupture the Normalized Teacher Education Programs to Diversify the Teacher Workforce. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Congress of the Humanities and Social Science. Virtual, 2022
 
Abawi, Z., Eizadirad, A., Berman, R.
Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care Book Panel. Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood. Congress of the Humanities and Social Science. Virtual, 2022

Abawi, Z. Educational Leadership and Diversity: Challenging the Underrepresentation of Racialized Leaders in Ontario. Reshaping Educational Leadership: Building on Collective Action in Challenging Times. Centre for Leadership and Diversity 2nd Annual International Conference. Virtual, 2021

Tuters, S. & Abawi, Z. Understanding our Identities for Equitable and Inclusive Schools. Blue Water District School Board. Virtual, 2021

Abawi, Z., Ahmed, A., & Androon, S. Dismantling Islamophobia. Critical Conversation Series. Niagara University. Virtual, 2021
 
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Reflective and Diverse Hiring Panel. Back to Basics: Addressing Racism in Ontario’s School Systems. Coalition for Racial Equity in Education. Virtual, 2021

Abawi, Z. Decolonizing Early Childhood Education Curricula: A Canadian Perspective. Pandemic, Protests, Recovery, Opportunity: What’s next for research in education? University of Brighton, School of Education Research and Enterprise Conference, Virtual 2021

Abawi, Z. Race(ing) Canadian Childhoods: A Reconceptualist Approach to Rethinking Racial Socialization in Early Childhood Education and Care. European Early Childhood Education Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021

Abawi. Z. Race and Representation: Problematizing the Educational Administrator Diversity Gap. British Educational Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021

Abawi, Z. Unpacking the Salience of Race in Early Childhood Education and Care in Ontario. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Virtual Conference, 2021

Abawi, Z. Racializing Narratives of Bias-Free Teacher Hiring: An Ontario Perspective. British Educational Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z.
Reframing Childhoods: Race, Racialization and Early Childhood Education and Care. British Educational Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z.
Privileging Power: Early Childhood Educators, Teachers and Racial Socialization in Full Day Kindergarten. Canadian Sociological Association. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi. Z.
Race(ing) to the Top: Interrogating the Underrepresentation of BIPOC Education Leaders in Ontario Public Schools. Canadian Sociological Association. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z.
Diversity Our Strength? Problematizing the underrepresentation of BIPOC teachers in Ontario. World Education Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z.
Contesting Belonging: Refugee Students and Ontario Schools. World Education Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z.
The Don’t See Colour: Dismantling Racial Innocence in Early Childhood Education and Care in Ontario. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Butler, A., & Abawi, Z.
Canadian Perspectives on Microaggressions in Schools: Understanding and Combatting Covert Violence. Book Symposium with Corkett, J., Cho, C.L., & Steele, A. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Eizadirad, A., & Abawi, Z.
Interrogating the Effectiveness of Bias-Free Hiring Policies in Increasing Diversity of the Ontario Teacher Workforce. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z.
Deconstructing Development: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education from a Critical Race Approach. International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z.
Who’s Allowed to Teach? Troubling White Privilege in Education Leadership: An Ontario Perspective. International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z. 
Equity as Practice in School Leadership: The Equity Hiring Toolkit. World Education Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021
 
Abawi, Z. 
Equity as Practice in School Leadership: the Equity Hiring Toolkit. World Education Research Association. Virtual Conference 
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Abawi, Z., Eizadirad, A., & Berman, R.
Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care. American Educational Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021 
 
Abawi, Z., & Eizadirad, A.
Unpacking Teacher Diversity: Race, Racialization and Teacher Hiring in Ontario. American Educational Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021 
 
Abawi, Z.
Deconstructing Racial Innocence: Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education and Care in Ontario. American Educational Research Association. Virtual Conference, 2021 

Abawi, Z. Leadership for Representation: Encouraging Self-Reflective Practice for Ontario School Administrators. Centre for Leadership and Diversity 1st Annual International Symposium. OISE/University of Toronto (virtual), 2020
 
Abawi, Z., & Tuters, S.
Deconstructing Educational Leadership: Advocating for Educational Change by Diversifying the Administrator Workforce. International Society for Educational Planning, Washington, DC (virtual), 2020
 
Shalimo, D., Portelli, J., & Abawi, Z.
Neoliberal Influences on Early Childhood Policy and Practice in Canada: Democratic Tensions. European Early Childhood Education Research Association Conference. Zagreb, Croatia, 2020 
 
Abawi, Z., & Tuters, S.
Social Justice Leadership: Encouraging Self Reflective Praxis for Ontario School Leaders.  Canadian Society for Studies in Education. London, ON, 2020

Abawi, Z., & Doyle-Jones, C. Human Rights 101. Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic School Board. Brantford, Ontario, 2020
 
Abawi, Z.
Race, Identity and Socialization in Canadian Children. British Educational Research Association. Liverpool, UK, 2020  
 
Abawi, Z., & Berman, R.
Reconceptualizing Belonging: Identity and Social Location in Early Childhood Education and Care. Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, CA, 2020
 
Abawi, Z.
Gendered Layers of Devaluation: Early Childhood Educators and Contract Faculty in the Ontario Context. Gender and Education Association International Conference. Calgary, AB, 2020
 
Abawi, Z.
Gendered Devaluation: Positioning the Voices of Early Childhood Educators and Contract Faculty in Dialogue. Canadian Sociological Association, London, ON, 2020
 
Abawi, Z., & Butler, A.
Deconstructing Citizenship and Belonging: Refugee Student Integration in Ontario Schools. Canadian Sociological Association, London, ON, 2020
 
Abawi, Z., & Eizadirad, A.
Race in Education: Racialized Perspectives on the Teacher Diversity Gap. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. London, ON, 2020
 
Abawi, Z. Berman, R., & Powell, A.
Gender, Equity and Education: Situating the Experiences of Early Childhood Educators and Contract Faculty in Ontario. Canadian Society for Studies in Education. London, ON, 2020
 
Abawi, Z., & Eizadirad, A.
Bias-Free or Biased Hiring? Racialized Teachers’ Perspectives on Educational Hiring Practices in Ontario. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2020
 
Abawi, Z.
Reimagining Girlhood in Early Learning Spaces through a Reconceptualist Framework. The Girl: from Expansive Imaginings to Embodied Experience. York University, Toronto ON, 2019

Abawi, Z. Counter Narratives as Resistance in the Teaching Profession. Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) Knowledge of Self-Racialized Members Conference, Toronto, ON, 2019 (Keynote Presentation)
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Berman, R., & Abawi, Z.
Thinking and Doing Otherwise: Reconceptualist Contributions to Early Childhood Education and Care. Reconceptualist Early Childhood Education Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 2019
 
Abawi, Z.
Politicizing Early Childhood Education and Care: Race, Identity and Belonging. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Sociological Association, Vancouver, BC, 2019
 
Abawi, Z.
Gendered Precarity: Examining the Parallels between Early Childhood Educators and Contract Faculty in Ontario. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Sociological Association, Vancouver, BC, 2019
 
Wane, N., & Abawi, Z.
Navigating the Politics of the Academe. CIARS Conference, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 2018
 
Abawi, Z.
Academic Apartheid: the Racialization of Precarious Faculty in Canadian Universities. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, New York City, NY, 2018
 
Abawi, Z.
Deconstructing Meritocracy: the Fallacy of 'Bias Free Hiring' in Ontario School Boards. Graduate Student Research Conference, York University, Toronto, ON, 2017
 
Abawi, Z.
Indigenous Educational Policies and the Settler State. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Toronto, ON, 2017
 
Abawi, Z.
Unpacking the Teacher Diversity Gap in Ontario Schools. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, 2017
 
Abawi, Z.
Decolonizing Educational Dialogue. Canadian Sociology of Education Conference. Hamilton, ON, 2017  
 
Abawi, Z.
Diverse Students, White Teachers: Contemplating Equitable and Inclusive Hiring Practices in Major Southern Ontario School Boards. The Rosa Bruno Jofre Symposium in Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON 2017
 
Abawi, Z.
Uneven Playing Field: Race and Precarious Faculty in Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions. Addressing Inequalities, Mobility and Dislocation: Insights from International and Domestic Research and Practice. Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, 2017
 
Abawi, Z.
Decolonizing Indigenous Education Policies, VI. International Conference on Critical Education. Middlesex University, London UK, 2016
 
Brady, J., & Abawi, Z.
Re-Imagining Education in Ontario through Decolonial Practice. 10th Annual Decolonizing the Spirit Conference, Embu Kenya, 2016
 
Abawi, Z.
Citizenship and Belonging in the Canadian Education System: Race, Class and Gender. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Society for Studies in Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 2016
 
Abawi, Z.
Diversity Initiatives and the Liberal Multicultural Institution. The Centre for Research on International Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 2016
 
Abawi, Z.
Marginal Voices: Immigrant and Indigenous Dialogue in Education. Rosa Bruno Jofre Symposium in Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, 2016
 
Abawi, Z.
Neoliberalism in Higher Education A Comparative Analysis: Ontario, Finland and Japan. York University Graduate Conference in Education, Toronto, ON, 2014
 
Abawi, Z.
A Policy Analysis of Ontario’s Realizing the Promise of Diversity: Deconstructing Narratives of Equity and Inclusion in Education. York University Graduate Conference in Education, Toronto, ON, 2014 
 
Abawi, Z., & Tuters, S.
Unpacking Teacher Identities: Locating Ourselves As Pedagogical Practice. Mobilizing for Justice: Developing Social Justice Communities for Women. Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), Toronto, ON, 2019
 
Abawi, Z.
Beyond Samosas and Cultural Dance: Classroom and Community Transformation for Student Identity through ‘Courageous Conversations' Workshop Educating for Peace and Justice: Action for Safe and Equitable Classrooms, Schools and Communities, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 2017
 
Sinclair, C., Brady, J. and Abawi, Z.
Awakening of Sensual Food, De/colonization and Spirituality in an Internationally Diverse Socialization of Learning Experiences from the African Continent to the North American Continent. Organized and led a conversation on the above. CUPE 3902 Micro-Campaign Children’s Orphanages in Embu, Kenya, Toronto ON, 2017
 
Abawi, Z, Brady, J, Eizadirad, A & Villegas, F.
Citizenship, Democracy, and Dialogue for whom? Challenging the Colonial Histories and Trajectories of “National” Ideals. Decolonizing Conference. CIARS, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON 2016
 
Abawi, Z., Brady, J., & Lafond-Kwan D.
Facilitating Courageous Conversations in the Classroom. York University Faculty of Education Summer Institute, Re/defining Educational Success: Purposeful Advocacy for Change. York University Faculty of Education Summer Institute, Toronto, ON, 2016
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