Dip Kapoor

Kapoor

Dip Kapoor

Associate Professor, Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies Coordinator

Educational Policy Studies
7-113 Education North
780-492-7617
780-492-2024 (fax)
dkapoor@ualberta.ca
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dkapoor/dkapoor.htm

Research Interests:

  • Political-sociology of education and development
  • Critical globalization and education studies
  • Anti/critical colonial studies in education
  • Social movements, NGOs and adult education
  • Global education (capitalism, poverty and ecological degradation)
  • Participatory/qualitative research methodology

Biography:

Dip received his PhD from this department and took up a tenure track position at McGill University in Montreal before returning to the U of A as a professor in International Education in 2006. He is a voluntary Research Associate, Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), a rural people’s organization in Orissa, India and President/founding member of a voluntary development organization that has been working with Adivasi (original dweller) and Dalit (“downtrodden” castes) communities on land, forest and food sovereignty struggles/movements in India since 1995. 

Projects:

  • Adivasi-Dalit social movements, adult education/learning and land, forest and food sovereignty in rural India (Participatory Action Research/PAR initiative with CRDS and other rural organizations since 1997)
  • Learning in Adivasi (original dweller) social movements in India (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, 2006-2009)
  • Caste, “untouchability” and schooling in rural India (introductory stage)

Community Service:

  • Advisory/Editorial Board Member,Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements (on-line/open access)
  • Editorial Board member, Journal of International Education, University of Tennessee, USA.
  • Editorial Board member, Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, Guild of Independent Scholars (USA)(on-line/open-access journal)
  • Book Reviews Editor, Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (on-line/open access journal)
  • Research Associate, Center for Research and Development Solidarity, Orissa, India.
  • Founder/current President, HELP Society, an Edmonton-based voluntary international development organization with initiatives in India