Xiao, Yao

Sessional Lecturer

Steering Committee Member, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education


Email: yao.xiao@ubc.ca

Website: https://ccie.educ.ubc.ca

About

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Individual research Interests

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Bio

As a sessional lecturer affiliated with the Department of Educational Studies, I aim to align my teaching and research with anti-racist, anti-colonial, and broadly anti-oppressive movements. Since 2018 I have been serving on the Steering Committee of The Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE), working in the Faculty of Education as well as The Social Justice Institute (GRSJ) at UBC. My scholarship involves collaborative publication in journals such as Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, Postcolonial Directions in Education, Cultural Studies, Critical Arts, as well as collaboration in community education projects including How Water Remembers, The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act, and 360 Riot Walk. My Cantonese-Hakka family heritage comes from a multiethnic mountainous region that inspired me epistemologically, and my pronouns are he/they. I have been migrating to and living on Turtle Island, first as an international student, later a temporary migrant worker, and now an immigrant settler of color. I enjoy music, poetry, learning languages, kung fu, and making food.

Research and Education

Education

University of British Columbia, PhD (Educational Studies)

University of Calgary, MA (Educational Contexts)

Research Projects

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Selected Publications

  • Tomaselli, K. G., & Xiao, Y. (in press). Cultural studies in interhemispheric perspective: China, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.
  • Wright, H. K., & Xiao, Y. (2022). “We’ve worn out the use of that word”: Australian new youth on multiculturalism, and the politics of identity, difference and belonging. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2022.2028136
  • Xiao, Y., & Wright, H. K. (2022). Culture. In R. Tierney, F. Rizvi, and K. Ercikan (eds.). International Encyclopedia of Education (4th edition).
  • Shan, H., Hua, Q., & Xiao, Y. (2022). Work and learning: Power, politics, and approaches. In R. Tierney, F. Rizvi, and K. Ercikan (eds.). International Encyclopedia of Education (4th edition). Elsevier.
  • Wright, H. K., & Xiao, Y. (2021). Decolonization and higher education: Theory, politics and global praxis. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 10 (1), 23-50.
  • Wright, H. K., & Xiao, Y. (2020). African cultural studies: An overview. Critical Arts, 34 (4), 1-31.
  • Xiao, Y. (2017). Who needs Cantonese, who speaks? Whispers across mountains, delta, and waterfronts. Cultural Studies, 31 (4), 489-522.
  • Xiao, Y. (2015). Radical feelings in the ‘liberation zone’: Active Chinese Canadian citizenship in Richmond, BC. Citizenship Education Research Journal, 4 (1), 13 – 28.
  • Xiao, Y. (2013). China’s peopleship education: Conceptual issues and policy analysis. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 8 (1), 21-39.

EDST Activity

Courses taught

  • EDST578: Multiculturalism and its Critical Alternatives: Diversity in Education and Society
  • EDST575: Work and Learning
  • EDST401: Education, School, and Social Institutions
  • EDST403: Knowledge, Education, and Curriculum
  • EDST404: Ethics and Teaching

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