Critical consciousness and social work pedagogy

Izumi Sakamoto

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
• Centres
  • Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ)

Areas of Expertise

• Anti-Asian racism, Asian Canadian identities & model minority myth
• Anti-oppressive practice (AOP) and intersectionality
• Community-based, participatory, arts-based research
• Critical consciousness and social work pedagogy
• Critical international social work
• Critical tacit knowledge
• Homelessness and diversity
• Immigrants and refugees
• Integration and cultural adaptation of immigrants
• Japanese Canadian identities, arts, activism & communities
• Skilled immigrants and employment barriers
• “Canadian experience” (immigrant employment discrimination)

Office: 416-946-8224
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: izumi.sakamoto@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online