Shakina_Rajendram

Dr. Shakina Rajendram

Dr. Shakina Rajendram (@ShakinaRaj) is an assistant professor, Teaching Stream at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in the University of Toronto, Canada. Her doctoral dissertation made a case for translanguaging as an agentive, collaborative, and socioculturally responsive pedagogy for multilingual learners. Dr. Rajendram started her career as an elementary school teacher in Malaysia, and she has worked with linguistically diverse learners in K–12 schools and higher education in Malaysia, England, and Canada for more than 12 years. Her current teaching and program of research focus on multilingualism, translanguaging, multiliteracies, and teacher education.


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