Sheila Batacharya
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Sheila holds a Ph.D. in Adult Education and Community Development from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. She has been teaching university and college courses since 2007, and this experience inspired her to specialize in English language learning and teaching. Sheila became a certified member of TESL Ontario in 2018 and completed a Master of Arts degree in Applied Linguistics at York University in 2020.
Sheila prioritizes critical pedagogy and learner-centred approaches that develop students’ metacognition and agency. She accomplishes course learning outcomes by acknowledging students’ lived experiences and ensuring that learning objectives are relevant, achievable, and transparent. Sheila thoroughly enjoys working with undergraduate students to foster their confidence and competence as knowledge producers in their distinct academic journeys.
Sheila’s academic work in Women and Gender Studies, Sociology and Equity Studies, Adult Education, and Applied Linguistics provides her with an interdisciplinary foundation for her teaching and research. Her publications include two co-edited volumes, Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder (2010) and Sharing Breath: Embodied Learning and Decolonization (2018). Sheila presented Watershed Memory, Drainpipe Story (2018) at The Work of Wind Air Land Sea, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, and her co-authored research on Professional English Language Skills (PELS) was published in the Journal for Second Language Writing in 2023.