Karen Pashby

Professor of Global Citizenship Education and Lead for Research in the School of Education at ManMet

Karen Pashby is Professor of Global Citizenship Education and Lead for Research in the School of Education at ManMet. She is President of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (2023-2025) and Lead of the Education and Global Futures Research Group. A former secondary school educator (in Canada and Brazil) and experienced teacher educator, her research combines theoretical and empirical research with teachers, drawing on postcolonial and decolonial theoretical resources to identify productive pedagogical tensions in education for global citizenship. Recent work look specifically at bridging with environmental and sustainability education through connecting decolonial concepts with practice. Karen graduated from OISE/University of Toronto with her PhD in 2013 (Philosophy of Education + Comparative, International and Development Education) where she also taught in teacher education. She held postdoctoral research positions at University of Oulu (Finland) and the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research at University of Alberta where she taught Undergraduates. She publishes widely on the topic of critical global citizenship education, and her work has been drawn on by various educational organisations and non-governmental/civil-society organisation to support reflexive practice. Professor Pashby is Docent at University of Helsinki and Adjunct Professor at University of Alberta.