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Opini, Bathseba

Associate Professor

604–822–5361

bathseba.opini@ubc.ca

About

Research Interests

Disability studies, Equity, Foundations of Education, Policy and leadership, Race and ethnicity, Research methodologies, Sociology of Education, Teaching and Practice

Research Supervision Interests

Individual research Interests

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


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