Dr. Erin Keith
Assistant Professor
Dr. Erin Keith is an Assistant Professor at Cape Breton University. Her teaching and research focus on foundations in teacher education, I-EDIADB—Indigenizing, equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, decolonization, belonging—literacy, and mental health and well-being praxes in education that fully embrace pedagogies of flourishing, identity-affirming classroom spaces that center heartwork, care, and listening, and student at-center empathy mapping. Erin uses a decolonizing praxis in her research methodologies inspired and guided by many Indigenous, Black, and racialized scholars. She obtained her Doctor of Education from Western University, her Master of Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her Bachelor of Arts from Queen’s University. As an Ontario Certified teacher (OCT), Erin has worked for over 16 years in public education primarily focused on Special Education roles such as ASD Itinerant, Special Needs Itinerant, Behaviour Support Itinerant, and in-school Special Education teacher. Erin’s recent co-authored book entitled, Reframing Mental Health in Schools: Using Case Stories to Promote Global Dialogue shares stories of students from across the globe and how mental health is advocated within their country. Her latest edited manuscript is entitled, Decolonizing Inclusive Education: Centering Heartwork, Care, and Listening. Erin has also contributed and written book chapters on topics such as leadership in Early Childhood education, embracing math inquiry, ‘whiteness’ in principal leadership, among several others in development. She is a member of the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals. She has also written for EdCan Network, NAEYC, and been featured on TVOLearn. In addition to her scholarship, Erin partners and learns alongside teacher leaders from across the country including educators and administrators within various Regional Centres for Education in Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Language Teachers Association (NSLTA), public and separate school boards in Ontario, Ontario private schools, and school districts in British Columbia.
TwitterX: @DrErinKeith
LinkedIn: @DrErinKeith
Research interests:
- inclusion / special education
- UDL / foundations in teacher education
- educational leadership
- well-being and teacher self-care
