Shireen Keyl

Field:
Areas of Focus: Diversity, Pedagogy

Expertise

• Refugee/Immigrant Education
• Girls' and Women's Education in Global Context
• Critical Pedagogy
• Teaching English Abroad
• Anthropology of Education
• Multicultural Education

Bio

Shireen Keyl is an associate professor at Utah State University in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership where she teaches Foundations of Education, Diversity in Education, and Anthropology of Education. She also leads a Study Abroad course, TEAL 5560/6560 Education in Refugee Populations in Amman, Jordan. Her research interests are in nonformal education related to refugee and migrant education in the U.S. and abroad. She utilizes decolonizing and critical praxis and engages in activist-oriented research with non-governmental organizations especially as it relates to English as a Foreign Language education and community-led research. She has focused on refugee and migrant populations’ ways of knowing and how that intersects with community education. Her research and teaching, critical in their orientation toward attempts to work for social justice, stem from her experiences as an educator in the United States and in the Middle East region. Shireen was a Fulbright scholar in Amman, Jordan and has completed fieldwork in several Middle East countries.