About
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Research Supervision Interests
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Bio
Research and Education
Education
Toronto, PhD
Research Projects
Disabled youths & post-secondary education
Africanizing education & curriculum
Selected Publications
Opini, B. & Abdi, A. (2025). The potentialities of African indigeneity in East Africa’s harmonized curriculum structure and framework. In G.J.S. Dei, W. Karanja, E. A.Nsoh and D. Yelkpieri (Eds). De/anti-colonial African education futurities. Challenges and responsibilities, pp. 17-41. Peter Lang.
Opini, B., Radebe, P. & Fester, N. (2024). The underrepresentation of Black educators and administrators in British Columbia’s education system: Some thoughts for change. Education and Society, 42 (2), 73-95.
Opini, B. (2022). Students with disabilities in British Columbia’s (Canada) K to 12 education system: A critical disability and intersectional perspective. In The Palgrave handbook on critical theories of education (pp. 113-127). Springer.
Radebe, P. & Opini, B. (2021). Racialization of knowledge: How the marginalization of Black history and knowledges fosters a lack of racial literacy among teacher candidates. Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 16 (2), 1-18.
Abshire, L. & Opini, B. (2021). Disability studies and socially just teacher preparation: Implications for curriculum and praxis. In A.A. Abdi (Ed.). Critical theorizations of education, pp. 87-100. Brill.
Opini, B. & Neeganagwedgin, E. (2020). Decolonizing pedagogy: The complexities, tension and possibilities of doing spirit work in teacher education. In A. E. Mazawi& M. Stack (Eds.) Course syllabi in faculties of education across the world: Bodies of knowledge and their discontents, pp.132-150. Bloomsbury Academic Publishers.
Neeganagwedgin, E. & Opini, B. (2020). Instructional design: Re-conceptualizing practices. In A. E. Mazawi & M. Stack (Eds.) Course syllabi in faculties of education across the world: Bodies of knowledge and their discontents, pp. 245 – 257. Bloomsbury Academic Publishers.
Opini, B. (2019). Inclusive education as exclusive practice: One parent’s experience advocating for children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders within the school system. Exceptionality Education International, 29(2), 72-90.
Easterbrook, A., Bulk, L.Y., Jarus, T., Hahn, B., Ghanouni, P., Lee, M., Groening, M., Opini, B. &Parhar, G. (2019). University gatekeepers’ use of the rhetoric of citizenship to relegate the status of students with disabilities in Canada. Disability & Society, 34(1), 1-23.
Opini, B. (2016). Walking the talk: Towards a more inclusive field of disability studies. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 20(1), 67-90.
Opini, B. & Onditi, H. (2016). Education for all and students with disabilities in Tanzanian primary schools: Challenges and successes. International Journal of Educational Studies, 3(2), 65-76.
EDST Activity
Students Supervised
Courses taught
EDST 401 – Education, School and Social Institutions
EDST 402 – Education and Media
EDST 403 – Knowledge and Curriculum
EDST 404 – Ethics and Education
EDUC 452 – Inquiry Seminar
EDST 565 – Antiracism Education
EDST 579 – School Community Relations
EDST 581 – Leadership and Aims of Education