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Kumari Beck
Co-Director, CRIE
My primary area of research is internationalization of higher education; my research interests span international education, internationalization of curriculum, social education, anti-racist and multicultural education, globalization, postcolonial theory, pedagogy in post-secondary institutions, and the ethics of care.
I am interested in how the experiences of those who participate in international education and internationalization processes can inform ways in which we understand and practice internationalization.
The courses I teach reflect these diverse and inter-related interests: intercultural and international education, contemporary issues in curriculum, multicultural and anti-racist education, the politics of difference, secondary social studies, and teaching for social justice (with the Professional Development Program).
school PhD Supervision Status: Not Accepting New Students
Research Highlights
Supervisory Experience
Doctoral Supervision
- Laird, Chelsey (EdD, 2025), Higher education staff: understandings and experiences of internationalization
- Pastrana, Sergio (EdD, 2020), Experiences of Latin Americans seeking professional jobs in Greater Vancouver
- Zhang, Zhihua (PhD, 2017), Past Expectations, Current Experiences, and Imagined Futures: Narrative Accounts of Chinese International Students in Canada
- Young, Jane Melanie (PhD, 2014), Systems thinking and global education: Towards a framework for a transformative global education
- Begalka, Barton Elwin (EdD, 2013), A transnational collaboration in the establishment of a graduate program in counselling psychology
Master's Supervision
- Randhawa, Harshaan Singh (MA, 2025), "I didn't know you were that smart": brown teachers in the racial microclime of Surrey
- Le, Ngoc Bao (MA, 2024), Vietnamese international and Vietnamese-Canadian students' experience of English use at Simon Fraser University
- Cooper, Daniel (MA, 2022), How to teach bad boys a lesson: Student experiences of behaviour support in mainstream schools and secondary alternate education programs
- Lam, Victoria Hai Quynh (MA, 2018), Challenging racial privilege in international experiential learning programs with Canadian university students (Co-supervisor)