Handbook of Anti-Discriminatory Education

Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also a community activist and Senior Manager of Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Mobilization at the non-profit organization Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE) in the Jane and Finch community in Toronto. He was an educator with the Toronto District School Board and a former member of the Race and Identity-Based Data Collection Community Advisory Panel with the Toronto Police Service (2021-2023). Dr. Eizadirad is the author of Decolonizing Educational Assessment: Ontario Elementary Students and the EQAO (2019), and co-editor of Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care (2021 with Drs. Zuhra Abawi & Rachel Berman), Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts (2022 with Drs. Andrew Campbell & Steve Sider), The Power of Oral Culture in Education: Theorizing Proverbs, Idioms, and Folklore Tales (2023 with Dr. Njoki Wane), Enacting Anti-racism and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education: Canadian Perspectives (2023 with Drs. Zuhra Abawi & Andrew Campbell), Activist Leadership for Inclusive Schools: Canadian Insights (2025) and a major international handbook approximately 57 chapters titled The International Handbook of Anti-Discriminatory Education (2025). Dr. Eizadirad is also the founder and Director of EDIcation Consulting offering equity, diversity, and inclusion training, audits, and capacity-building sessions to organizations, corporations, and schools to thrive and achieve to their full potential.Peter Pericles Trifonas is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. His areas of interest include ethics, philosophy of education, cultural studies, and technology. Among his books are the following: Converging Literacies, Deconstructing the Machine (with Jacques Derrida), International Handbook of Semiotics, International Handbook of Research and Pedagogy in Heritage Language Education, CounterTexts:  Reading Culture, Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Instituting Education, and the Discourse of Theory, The Ethics of Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction, and Pedagogy, Institutions, Education, and the Right to Philosophy (with Jacques Derrida), Roland Barthes and the Empire of Signs, Umberto Eco & Football, Pedagogies of Difference.

• Anti-discriminatory practices in Early Childhood Education and Care.- Creating an Equal Playing Field.- Dismantling Racial Innocence: Anti-Black Racism and White Privilege in Early Learning Spaces.- The consequences of pushing equity education: Reflections from the educational frontlines in Toronto schools.- Implicit Race Bias Mitigation as Anti-Discriminatory Teachers’ Work.- The Question of Critical Pedagogy in Instructional Design.- The Self We Wish to Actualize Through Education: Anti-Black Racism and Our Emotional Realities.