Fatima Jalali-Tehrani

: BA-English Translation, MEd- Curriculum and Instruction: Imaginative Education (SFU), PhD candidate- Languages, Cultures, and Literacies (SFU)
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Fatima comes from a mixed cultural, linguistic, and ethnic background. She completed her Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and continued her studies in a doctoral level with a focus on language, culture and identity at SFU. Her current PhD research aims to better understand the dynamics of language acquisition, acculturation, and ideology in relation to social integration of newcomers in Canada. Fatima has over 15 years of experience in teaching, curriculum development, as well as managing and coordinating educational groups in diverse multicultural and multilingual settings such as Iran, United Arab Emirates, China, and Canada. She has been teaching in the Faculty of Education at SFU since 2018 and has joined KPU in 2022 teaching EDUC1100/1150 courses. Teaching is her lifelong passion and with the experience gained through her master’s program, she aims to implement cognitive tools from the Imaginative Education framework in post-secondary teaching. Fatima believes in the power of education in overcoming oppression and taking steps towards more just societies.

Courses taught

  • EDUC 1100
  • EDUC 1150

Areas of Interest

Fatima’s ongoing interest in adding to the dialogue on the critically important issue of mass migration has led her to research how language, identity, and gender ideologies play key roles in resettlement.  Using poststructural and postcolonial lenses, Fatima’s doctoral research is looking at the navigation of employment practices in the refugee context as a form of social integration. Fatima is especially interested in the role of gender, race, and social class in (re)formation of transnational identity of immigrants and the systematic (in)equities in the discourse

Scholarly Work

  • Jalali F. (2022, May) “Gender Role and Employment Practices of Refugee Newcomers in Canada”, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Society of the Study of Education (CSSE), The Citizenship Education Research Network (CERN)Association, Online Forj Platform.
  • Jalali F. (2021, June) “Dynamics of social integration and employment in the diasporic community in Canada”, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Society of the Study of Education (CSSE), The Citizenship Education Research Network (CERN)Association, University of Alberta, Alberta.
  • Jalali F. (2021, March) “Landing a Job: Employment Dynamics for Immigrants in Canada”, 3 Minute Thesis Presentation Competition, Faculty first place and people’s choice winner, Simon Fraser University
  • Jalali, F. (2020, October). “Social integration of newcomers living in a diaspora: What is the role of language?”, Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Day, Language Sciences, University of British Columbia, BC.
  • Jalali, F. (2019, June). “The Dynamic Relation of Linguistic Landscapes and Social Identity”, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Society of the Study of Education (CSSE), University of British Columbia, BC.
  • Jalali, F. (2019, May). “Critical and Multimodal Curriculum Design in Language Learning Context”, Learning Together 2019 Conference, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
  • Jalali, F. (2019, February). “Critical Thinking in Writing”, Developing Minds 2019 Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. (Breakout session moderator)
  • Cao, L., Jalali, F., Ohta, A., Poljak, L. (2018, February). “Verbal Mosaics: A Visual Ethnographic Study of Linguistic Landscapes in the Greater Vancouver Area Representing Multilingual/Multicultural Identities”, Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC), Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Jalali-Tehrani, F. (2017). “Engaging teachers and students in the multicultural ESL classroom: A journey”. Unpublished manuscript, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Jalali-Tehrani, F. (2016) “Success in the ESL classroom: Integrating Vygotsky with IE”, SFU Summit.