Rahat Zaidi

Dr. Zaidi (Naqvi) is an Associate Professor in Second Language Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. She holds an M.A, an M.Phil and a PhD in the Didactics of Languages and Cultures from the Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris, France. She has taught in various international settings that include the Institut National des Languages et des Civilizations Orientales, Paris, France and most recently at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Zaidi (Naqvi) has served as the Associate Director of the Language Research Center at the University of Calgary from 2010 to 2012. She is currently on sabbatical and is Visiting Faculty at the Center for Educational Research in Languages and Literacies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

As Research Chair and Chair of Language and Literacy in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Zaidi represents a sustained and unique voice in the field of curriculum, teaching, and learning,  within scholarship that reflects the priorities embraced by many education systems today, During her 18 years (13 years as tenured) at the University of Calgary,  she has received approximately $1 500 000 as PI and Co-PI in major research grants through competition (SSHRC Insight, Partner Engage and Connection grants, Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research, CIHR, Alberta Education, and Canadian Islamic Congress). She have been the PI on 13 externally funded projects, 24 internally funded, and co-investigator on six externally funded ones.

While undertaking her research, she has maintained the privilege of being able to mentor, collaborate and build relationships with scholars, graduate students, classroom teachers, children, families, and community leaders at the local, national, and international levels. Dr. Zaidi continues to uphold the cruciality of her scholarship, especially considering the responsibility universities, education systems, and pre- and in-service educators carry as they anticipate working with what is now the norm in most of the developed world: a multilingual, multi-ethnic classroom demographic. Visit her website to learn more about her latest research at www.rahatzaidi.com

PHD Didactologie des Langues et des Cultures
Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France

Diplome D’Etudes Approfondie Didactologie des Langues et des Cultures
Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France

MA
Didactique du Francais Language Seconde Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France

Dr. Zaidi (Naqvi) is a member of the State alumni and participates in programs organized by the American Embassy in Canada.

Dr. Zaidi (Naqvi) is a regular participant in events organized by the Intercultural Dialogue Institute in Calgary. Most recently she was a key note speaker at the Annual friendship dinner “United through Diversity: An Inspiration for Albertans”. Intercultural Dialogue Institute hosts the Dialogue and Friendship Dinner in many cities, including Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver. Since 2004, each of these dinners has served approximately 200 attendees; who come from all walks of life; including the members of the government, members of parliament; ambassadors, bureaucrats, business people, media members, professors, as well as religious and community leaders.

• State Alumni
• Intercultural Dialogue Institute

Naqvi R. (forthcoming). Anti-Islamophobic Curriculums. New York: Peter Lang.

Naqvi, R. (PI) & Rowsell J., Literacy in Transcultural and Cosmopolitan Times: A Call for Change, University of Calgary & Brock University, Complete. $25,000, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant. http://werklund.ucalgary.ca/ltct/

Smits H. & Naqvi R. (Eds.). Framing Peace: Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum as “Radical Hope”. New York: Peter Lang.

Naqvi R. & Smits H. (Eds.). (2011). Thinking About and Enacting Curriculum in “Frames of War”. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Naqvi R. (Ed.). (2008). Living Together: Muslims in a Changing World, Curriculum Series http://www.islamichistorymonth.com/ihmc2010/education/students/

Dr. Zaidi (Naqvi) was nominated in 2009 to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program on inter-religious dialogue, November 29th – December 18th, 2009, sponsored by the State Department in Washington, DC. The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program. Launched in 1940, the IVLP seeks to build mutual understanding between the U.S. and other nations through carefully designed short-term visits to the U.S. for current and emerging foreign leaders. More on the program can be found at: http://exchanges.state.gov/ivlp/ivlp.html

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