Erin Keith

Erin Keith (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). Her teaching and research focuses on inclusion, EDIIADB literacy related to inclusive education, equity-based praxis, and decolonizing pedagogies that center heartwork, ethics of care, and listening. Erin is an Ontario Certified Teacher with extensive work supporting students with diverse and complex needs through an empathetic, culturally-responsive, strength-based lens that honours and engages families as partners in learning, belonging, and flourishing. Erin’s reflexive research is rooted in decolonizing methodologies inspired and guided by many Indigenous, Black, and racialized scholars whose rich knowledge guides and grows her own cultural humility, (un)learning, and renewed understanding of educational transformation.

Publications

Decolonizing Inclusive Education: Centering Heartwork, Care, and Listening
Decolonizing Inclusive Education: Centering Heartwork, Care, and Listening
Erin Keith. © 2024. 280 pages.
Inclusive education faces a critical challenge rooted in an outdated paradigm that treats students as fixer-upper projects rather than recognizing their holistic needs. The...
Reconciliatory Pedagogies: Embodying Our Walk as Settler Teachers in Canadian High Schools
Reconciliatory Pedagogies: Embodying Our Walk as Settler Teachers in Canadian High Schools
Erin Keith, Krista LaRue Keeley. © 2023. 22 pages.
Two Canadian settler teachers explore the intention and iterative, enduring process of reconciliation in high school classrooms through storytelling of their own lived...