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Preeti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, at the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining UBC, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Glasgow. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD in Adult Education and Urban Studies from the University of Glasgow.
Preeti’s research focuses on skills development, sustainable livelihoods, decent work, and social inclusion among marginalized populations in the Global South, including refugees and Indigenous communities.
Her professional experience spans international and community-based organizations, including UNIDO (Austria), the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (Germany), grassroots organizations in India, and refugee organizations, bringing practice-based perspectives to her teaching and research.
Research
Referred Publications
Dagar, Preeti (2025) Who can choose to aspire higher? Complex interlinkage of refugee education and aspirations in Global South. Globalisation, Societies and Education, (doi: 10.1080/14767724.2025.2537922)
Dagar, Preeti (2024) Building sustainable and decent refugee livelihoods through adult education? Interplay between policies and realities of five refugee groups.British Educational Research Journal, 50(2), pp. 713-731. (doi: 10.1002/berj.3943)
Dagar, Preeti (2024) Evaluating and reframing vocational education and training for refugees: Insights from five refugee groups across three cities of India. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 54(1), pp. 110-127. (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2022.2078957)
Dagar, Preeti (2023) Rethinking skills development and entrepreneurship for refugees: The case of five refugee communities in India. International Journal of Educational Development, 101, 102834. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102834)
Dagar, Preeti (2022) Vocational education and training for indigenous women in India: toward a participatory planning approach. International Journal of Training Research, 20(1), pp. 43-57. (doi: 10.1080/14480220.2021.1959379)
Dagar, Preeti (2019) Adult education In India from a subaltern perspective.Postcolonial Directions in Education, 8(1), pp. 61-77.
Book
The GLACIER Collective. (2026). Comparative and International Education: Key Questions, Tensions and Opportunities. Bristol: Bristol University Press. (Collective-authored book; Preeti Dagar is one of the contributing authors.)
Book Chapters
Sharma, Namita and Dagar, Preeti (2024) Critiquing the concept of ‘self-reliance’ in informal sector training: a case study of Afghan refugee women in India. In: Powell, Lesley, Cooper, Adam, Brown, Trent and McGrath, Simon (eds.) Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South: Theoretical and Methodological Lenses on Skills and the Informal Sector. Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education. Routledge. ISBN 9781032626475
Dagar, Preeti and Khurshid, Kainat (2024) Adult education in a postcolonial world.In: Slade, Bonnie, Mayo, Peter and Bogossian, Thi (eds.) Adult Education and Difference. Series: International issues in adult education (36). Brill: Leiden, pp. 246-257. ISBN 9789004692619 (doi: 10.1163/9789004692626_015)
Dagar, Preeti (2023) Subaltern perspectives in adult education. In: Deb, Prasenjitand Bhattacharya, Asoke (eds.) Adult Education in India. Series: International issues in adult education (35). Brill, pp. 160-173. ISBN 9789004688780 (doi: 10.1163/9789004688780_010)
Slade, Bonnie and Dagar, Preeti (2023) Tracing longitudinal impact of Professor Lalage Bown: international master in adult education for social change. In: Slowey, Maria, Hinzen, Heribert, Omolewa, Michael and Osborne, Michael (eds.) Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives. Series: Studies on adult learning and education (17). Firenze University Press, pp. 269-279. ISBN 9791221502527 (doi: 10.36253/979-12-215-0253-4.27)
Dagar, Preeti and Sharma, Namita (2022) Education and lifelong learning for refugees: Equity and inclusion in policy and practice. In: Rajan, S. Irudaya (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 318-330. ISBN 9780367531096 (doi: 10.4324/9781003246800-28)
Podcasts and Invited Scholarly Engagements
Nasir, Ramzi and Dagar, Preeti (2025) Adult Education: Exploring the inequalities in the world’s most populated country. [Audio]
Moskal, M. , Odena, O. , Arizpe, E. , Gormally, S. , Pacheco, E.-M. , Dagar, P. and Aldegheri, E. (2021) Education, Culture and Learning in Response to Conflict and Protracted Crisis [Symposium]. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 65th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 25-29 Apr 2021.
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