Dr. Jennifer C. Ingrey, PhD
Assistant Professor - Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies
PhD (Western University)
Dr. Jennifer C. Ingrey, PhD
Assistant Professor - Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies
PhD (Western University)
I am an Instructor at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Teacher Education Program and the Masters of Professional Program in the areas of educational foundations, equity and social justice.
While my research interests centre around transgender studies, school spaces, and gendered subjectivities for young people, as well as writer reflexivity, my teaching interests extend into equity and social justice more broadly to include anti-homonormative, anti-racist, decolonizing, anti-classist, and disability studies informed curriculum for teacher candidates and graduate students. My teaching experience at the research intensive and professional graduate levels has led me to highlight the degree to which unlearning and deconstruction can be uncomfortable, yet necessary, pursuits for students and myself. Disruptive pedagogies are productive as they make space for rethinking social norms that marginalize particular groups of people historically and systemically, which help students understand how to interpret the implications of oppression in schools and in wider contexts. My goal through my teaching is to support students to be able to provide authentic, effective and critically informed professional and research-based service.
Teaching in the teacher preparation program has also afforded me the opportunities to continually hone my own pedagogies both to include and challenge students and to maintain productive discourse and learning opportunities for everyone.
