Lilach Marom

Teaching Experience

Department of Educational Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University 

• Arts guided study: Superdiversity and Canadian higher education (Spring, Summer 2021)
• Best Practices in Educational Settings (spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022)
• Social Justice and Diversity in Education (fall, 2019, fall 2020, fall 2021)
• Introduction to higher education (fall, 2018- spring 2021) 
• Introduction to higher education for international students (fall 2108, Summer 2019)

Teacher Education Program, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

• Education, School, and Social Institutions (fall 2015, fall 2016, fall 2017, TA sole instructor fall 2014)
• Ethics and Teaching (summer 2015, summer 2016, summer 2017, summer 2018)
• Aboriginal Education in Canada (summer 2016)
• Education, Knowledge, and Curriculum (summer 2014, winter 2017, spring 2018, summer 2018, TA sole instructor, spring 2014)
• Assessment and Learning in the Classroom (spring, 2016, three sections)

Department of Education, Simon Fraser University

• Studies of Educational Theory and Practice EDUC 402W (Spring 2023)
• Issues in Diversity in Education: Theories, Policies, Practices (fall 2016, spring 2017, winter 2017)
• Selected Questions in Education (WI) (spring 2016; Fall 2022; Spring 2023)
• Curriculum Development: Theory and Practice (fall, 2015)

Teacher Education program, Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel

• Inquiry Seminar (fall 2009, fall 2010)
• Project Based Learning (spring 2010, spring 2011)
• Critical Pedagogy (spring 2010)
• Community of Learning (fall 2009, fall 2010)

K-12

• Teacher on Call [TOC] Secondary history and social sciences (2006-2008)

Certificates and Licensures 

Teaching Certificate, Israel Ministry of Education (2005)

School Principal Certificate, Israel Ministry of Education (2006)

Service to Profession

External Examiner

• EdD. Internationalisation Centre for Higher Education Studies. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 2022
• Master Thesis. Master of Education. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, 2020                  

Journal Peer Reviews  

• Reviewer: proposal for a textbook for Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press, 2022 
• Reviewer Teaching and Teacher Education, 2022
• Reviewer, Alberta Journal for Educational Research, 2022
• Reviewer, Critical Studies in Education, 2021
• Reviewer, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2021
• Reviewer, Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
• Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Education, 2017, 2018
• Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016, 2018
• Reviewer, Journal of Contemporary Issues in education, 2016
• Associate editor of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies 8 (4), 2015
• Associate editor of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies 9(1), 2015

Conference Reviews

• Reviewer for the Canadian Society of the Study of Higher Education [CSSHE] for the annual meetings 2023
• Reviewer for the Canadian Society of the Study of Education [CSSE] for the annual meetings, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Reviewer for Division Division J - Postsecondary Education for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association [AERA] 2021
• Reviewer for Division K Teaching and Teacher Education for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association [AERA], 2018, 2019
• Reviewer for SIG-critical examination of race, ethnicity, class, and gender for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association [AERA], 2016

SSHRC Peer Reviews

• Peer Review, assessment of application submitted to the Insight Grants funding opportunity, 2022
• External reviewer, Canada Research Coordination Committee, multidisciplinary review panel for the New Frontiers in Research Fund – Research for Postpandemic Recovery, 2022

SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY

• KPU EDID Action plan working Group 2021- 2022
• KPU Senator (Faculty of Arts) 2021-2022
• Chair Department of Educational Studies 2021-2022
• Vice Chair Senate Committee on Research and Graduate Studies 2021-2022
• Intercultural Education and Internationalization Teaching Fellow, KPU 2020-2021
• Member of the Arts Faculty Council, KPU 2018- 2020
• Member of Senate Committee for Academic Planning and Priorities, KPU 2020-
• Member of the Academic Planning and Priorities Committee, Faculty of Arts, KPU, 2018-2021
• Member of the International Students and Internationalization Committee. Faculty of Arts, KPU, 2018-2021
• Member of the Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Indigenization Standing Committee (DRISC), Kwantlen Faculty Association, KPU, 2018-2019
• Member of PhD Management and Admission Committee, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, 2012-2014
• Representative of the Department of Educational Studies in the Graduate Students Council, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, 2012-2013
• Member of the Student Council, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, 2012-2013

Community Involvement/Outreach

• Co-organizer “On the land Indigenous Gathering,” youth reconciliation gathering on Tahltan Territory, 2017
• Board member of “Do What you Love,” creative learning in inner-city schools, Vancouver, 2017-2018
• Project Based Learning collaboration between UBC teacher candidates and Norma Rose Point School, Vancouver, 2016
• Pedagogical collaborations with teachers and the principal of Norma Rose Point School, Vancouver, 2015-2016
• Organizer of multicultural youth group in Acadia Neighborhood (University Neighborhood Association, community grant receiver), 2015-2016
• Board member of “Groundswell,” accessible education and social ventures, Vancouver, 2013-2016
• Educational consultant at “Hoshen” – Instructional center of the LGBTQ Association, Israel, 2002-2004
• Coordinator of educational aid-delegation for refugee kids from Kosovo, Macedonia, 1999  

Other Professional Experience 

• Head of teacher education program and faculty member at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2009-2011
• Educational representative of the Jewish Agency in Houston, TX, 2006-2008
• Fellow at the Mandel Institute of Educational Leadership, Jerusalem, 2004-2006
• Research fellow at Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa, Israel, 2003-2004

Grants Awards and Honours 

2022

Simon Fraser University FIRE GRANT (FIRE = Funds for International Research in Education) for the project Teacher Recertification as a Site for Overlapping Discourses of Migration and Diversification: A Comparative Analysis (CAD 7000).

Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Teaching and Learning Commons Grant (TCL) for the project: Storying UDL: An Open Guide to universal design for learning (CAD 3000$)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University President Diversity and Equity Fund (PDEC) (CAD 2000) for the project centering students with disabilities.

2021

Dr. Irvin K. Barber funding for the project: Bridging seminar, supporting first- year international students in achieving academic success (Value: CAD 21,400)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Faculty Professional Development Award. Research project: Eding higher education (Value: CAD 32,400)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University. The Faculty of Arts Excellence and Advancement Funds (FAEAF) for the project: Storying UDL: An Open Guide to universal design for learning (Value: CAD 3,000)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University. President Diversity and Equity Fund (PDEC) for the project: Curating Indigenous Learning Resources with students (Value: CAD 1,000)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Open Education (OER) Award for the project: Storying UDL: An Open Guide to universal design for learning (Value: CAD 4,000)

2020

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Faculty Professional Development Award. Research project: Superdiversity and Canadian higher education (value: CAD 18,000)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Faculty Professional Development Award. Research project: The experiences of Punjabi international students (value: CAD 16,500)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Scholarly Inquiry Grant (SIG) Award. Project Based Learning (PBL) exhibition: Models of utopian schools (Value: 900 CAD)

2019

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Faculty of Arts Excellence and Advancement (FAEAF) Award for the creation of a week of Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation at KPU (value: CAD 5,000)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University. President Diversity and Equity Fund for the project: “What I would like my instructor to know about me” (value: CAD 1,000)

2018

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Faculty Professional Development Award. Research project: Ethical dilemmas of teacher candidates during practicum (value: CAD 5,000)

2017

Canadian Association for Teacher Education (CATE) Dissertation Award

2014-2016

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Doctoral fellowship (value: CAD 40.000)

2015

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education, Teaching Assistance Award (value: CAD 500)

2014

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education, Graduate Award (value: CAD 5,500)

2013

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education, Graduate Award (value: CAD 7,000)

2012

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education, Graduate Award (value: CAD 16,000)

American Education Research Association (AERA) Division B Travel Award (value: CAD 200)

2004-2006

Mandel School of Educational Leadership, fellowship (value: CAD 40.000)

2003

University of Haifa, Rector Mark of Thesis Excellence Award 

2001-2002

University of Haifa and European University Viadrina, MA fellowship (value: CAD 10.000) 

Publications

Current Projects   

2022-2023

EDI’ng higher education: Mapping tensions and perceptions

Marom, L & Chruters. Disability Justice and Storying UDL: Centring students with disabilities

Marom, L & Kahlon, B. “They are not ‘just’ international students: They are here to stay” education-migration and grassroots advocacy for Punjabi International Students. For India Migration Report (IMR)

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

2022

Marom, L. Market mechanisms' distortions of higher education: Punjabi   international students in Canada. High Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00825-9

Marom, L. Outsiders-insiders-in between: Punjabi international students in Canada navigating identity amid intraethnic tensions. Globalisation, Societies and Education. DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2021.1882291 

2020

Marom, L. [Not] speaking truth to power: Ethical dilemmas of teacher candidates during the practicum. Teaching and Teacher Education 89(3). DOI: 10.10.1016/j.tate.2019.103002 

2019

Marom, L. & Rattray, C. On the land gathering: Education for reconciliation, Critical Studies in Education. DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2019.1611613 

Marom, L. From experienced teachers to newcomers to the profession: The capital conversion of internationally educated teachers in Canada. Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education 78(2), 85-96. DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2018.11.006 

Marom, L. Under the cloak of professionalism: Covert racism in teacher education. Race Ethnicity and Education 22(3), 319-337. DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2018.1468748

2018

Marom, L. & Ruitenberg, C. Professionalism discourses and neoliberalism in teacher education. Alberta Journal of Educational Research 64 (4), 364-377.

2017

Marom, L. Mapping the field: Examining the recertification of internationally educated teachers. Canadian Journal of Education 40(3), 2-34.

Marom, L. Eastern/Western conceptions of the “Good Teacher” and the construction of difference in teacher education. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. 45 (6),1-17. DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2017.1399982 

Marom, L. “We have to be really careful with what we say”: Current challenges in critical teacher education with diverse teacher candidates. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 39(2), 161-189. DOI: 10.1080/10714413.2017.1296280

2016

Marom, L. A new immigrant experience of navigating multiculturalism and Indigenous content in teacher education. Canadian Journal of Higher Education 46(4), 23-40.

2015

Marom, L. Contradicting trajectories of diversity and exclusion in policies related to internationally educated teachers in British Columbia. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies 10(2), 1-12.

2007

Marom, L. On guilt and atonement: The Action Reconciliation organization and its activity in Israel. Yad Vashem Studies, 35(2), 187-220. 

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

In Press

Li, G & Marom, L. Framing and practicing equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization (EDID) in inclusive education systems: Progress, tensions, and ways forward. In P. Downes, G. Li, L. Van Praag, S. Lamb (Eds.). Routledge handbook on promoting inclusive systems and societies for equity in education.

Marom, L. Problematizing conceptions of the “good teacher” in the recertification process of internationally educated teachers in Canada. In A. Rakhkochkine (Ed.). Internationalisation of teacher education and international teacher migration. FAU University press. 

Chong, R., & Marom, L. Collaborative Indigenous OERs: Promises and Tensions via Two Cases. In K. Lar-Son, D. Langille, T. Kootenayoo, N. Cardinal & B. Wuetherick. Indigenous Knowledges and Open Education. Athabasca University Press. 

Marom, L. What I would like my instructor to know about me: A critical intercultural pedagogical activity. In T. Cappiali & J. Jean-Pierre (Eds.). Transformative pedagogy: A practical toolkit for higher education teachers working in diverse setting. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Marom, L. “I Wasn’t Good Enough through Their Eyes”: White dominance and conceptions of the “good teacher” in teacher education in Canada. In A. Sahlane & R. Pritchard. English as an International Language Education: Critical Intercultural Literacy Perspectives. Springer.

2022

Marom, L. The subtle work of Whiteness in Canadian teacher education. In M. Proyer, S. Krause, & G. Kremsner (Eds.). The making of a teacher in the age of migration - Recognition of internationally acquired teaching competences through a hegemonial lens. (pp. 269-185). Bloomsbury. 

Marom, L. Putting plagiarism under scrutiny: Punjabi international students and barriers within Canadian higher education. In C. Smith & G. Zhou (Eds.). Successful teaching strategies for culturally and linguistically diverse international students. (pp. 168-187). IGI Global. 

2021

Marom, L. et. al. Teaching and teacher education in an era of superdiversity: Challenges and opportunities. In G. Li, J. Anderson, & M. McTavish (Eds.) Superdiversity and teacher education: Supporting teachers in working with culturally, linguistically, and racially diverse students, families, and communities. Routledge.

Li, G., Marom, L. Anderson, J. Hare, J & McTavish, M. Superdiversity emergent priorities, and teacher learning, introduction. In G. Li, J. Anderson, & M. McTavish (Eds) Superdiversity and teacher education: Supporting teachers in working with culturally, linguistically, and racially diverse students, families, and communities. Routledge.

2019

Marom, L. Whiteness and Teacher Education. In Peters M. (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of teacher education. Springer, Singapore, Springer.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_199-1

2017

Marom, L. Tensions and intersections of self and subject: A new-settler teaching an Aboriginal education course. In E. Llyle (Ed.), At the intersection of selves and subject: Exploring the curricular landscape of identity (pp.19-31). Sense Publishers.  

2016

Marom L. & Illieva, R. Becoming the “good teacher”: Professional capital conversion of internationally educated teachers. In C. Schmidt & J. Schneider (Eds.), Diversifying the teaching force in transnational contexts: Critical perspectives (pp. 15-29). Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense Publishers

Blog Posts and Pressbooks

2022

A compilation of resources to support Indigenous education initiatives. Includes picture book and chapter book use for K - 12 classrooms. Activities to support mathematics and science-based learning. A portion of resources is also dedicated to intergenerational learning. https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/indigenousteachingresources/chapter/from-the-editors-2/

2020 

An urgency of teachers. The work of critical digital pedagogy. KPU Teaching and Learning Commons blog. https://wordpress.kpu.ca/tlcommons/an-urgency-of-teachers-the-work-of-critical-digital-pedagogy/

Pedagogic invitation: The Pandemic as a kinder egg. https://www.academia.edu/44544258/Pedagogic_invitation_The_Pandemic_as_a_Kinder Egg

Midterm observation on online teaching. KPU Teaching and Learning Commons blog https://wordpress.kpu.ca/tlcommons/midterm-observations-on-online-teaching/

Conference Participation

Selected Papers

2022

Critical and Transformative Pedagogy for Human Rights and Social Justice in Higher Education. European Educational Research Association (ECER) Plus (online) Sep 1-10.

Punjabi International Students in Canadian Higher Education. In the International Conference on Innovative Leadership and Management in Higher Education.  The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO RETRAC) in collaboration with the British Columbia Council for International Education (BCCIE, Canada) July 7-8, 2022 (online).

2021   

Education Distorted by the Market: Punjabi International Students in Canadian   Higher Education. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), University of Alberta, May 30-June 3. (Online)

Outsiders-insiders-in between: Punjabi international students navigating identity amid tensions during Canadian higher education. Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE), University of Alberta, May 31-June 2. (Online)

Education Distorted by the Market: Punjabi International Students in Canadian Higher Education. American Educational Research Association (AERA), April 9-12. (Online)

[Panel] Engaging Indigenous Sovereignty in Higher Education: Stories of Disruption through Land-Based Pedagogies in Teacher Education. American Educational Research Association (AERA, ICQ1, CSSE), April 9-12. (Online)

2020

Ethical dilemmas of teacher candidates during the practicum: Moving from individual to institutional analysis. American Educational Research Association (AERA), SF, CA, April 16-21. (Conference cancelled)

The experiences of Punjabi international students in Canadian higher education. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), London, ON, June 1-4. (Conference canceled)

2019

Keyeh ya ho Dene: On the land gathering: education for reconciliation. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Vancouver, BC, June 2-5.

[Not] speaking truth to power: Ethical dilemmas of teacher candidates during the practicum. (CSSE), Vancouver, BC, June 2-5.

[Panel] Supporting Teachers to Work with Culturally, Linguistically, and Racially Diverse Students, Families, and Communities: A Two-Day International Symposium. UBC, Vancouver, BC, May 30-31.

2018

Under the cloak of professionalism: Covert racism in teacher education. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Regina, SK, May 26-June 1.

In but not of the institution: Challenging the coloniality of education. Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA). Vancouver, BC, June 21-24.

The subtle work of Whiteness in teacher education. American Educational Research Association (AERA), NYC, NY, April 13-17.

2017

“We’re talking about diversity and inclusion, but I’ve never felt it”: Talking diversity reproducing whiteness in pre-service teacher education. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Toronto, ON, June 27-31.

Navigating controversial topics in diverse classrooms. 16th Annual Symposium on Teaching and learning, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, May 17-18.

2016

“We have to be really careful with what we say”: Is diverse teacher education teaching diversity? Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Calgary, AB, May 28-June 3.

[Panel] Diversifying the Canadian teaching force: Critical conversations. (CSSE), Calgary, AB, May 28-June 3.

Freire in Hebrew: Critical education in Israel. International Conference on Paulo Freire, Vancouver, BC, May 6-7.

“You have to be a lot more enthusiastic”: On enthusiasm in teacher education. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, March 6-10.

2014

Contradicting trajectories of diversity and exclusion in policies related to internationally educated teachers in British Columbia. International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (SSC), Vancouver, BC, June 11-13.

Immigrant teachers, Canadian multiculturalism and notions of the “good teacher: A multiple case study of recertification programs in Metro Vancouver. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA, April 3-7.

2013

Can teacher education be really different? A case study of a progressive teacher education program in Israel. Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Victoria, BC, June 1-8.

Migrant subjects, local knowledge, and the dilemma of social justice. (CSSE), Victoria, BC, June 1-8.

2012

Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone! A case study of a progressive teacher education program in Israel. 13th Annual Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 1-10.

An alternative model of teacher education- the Israeli case. 15th Annual Investigating Our Practices Conference, UBC and BC Teachers’ Federation, Vancouver, BC, May 6.

Invited Talks and Visiting Scholarship

2022

Drawing on students’ experiences to build academic skills. Internationalization Teaching and Learning Centre University of the Fraser Valley (Oct 23, 2022)

International Student Experience Summit: The International Student Experience: Issues and Challenges (July 26, 2022) Sheridan College

Keynote UBC Teacher Education Mentoring Series: Support for supervisors of Indigenous teacher candidates (June 6)

2021

Visiting Scholar. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology. Diversity Education und International Educational Research. (October 17-27).                  

Closing Talk. Critique of the notion of professionalism in teacher education in an era of super-diversity. In paths of transition in education –

(Re-)qualification of (recently) immigrated and refugee teachers in Europe and beyond. International multiplier event by the ERASMUS+-R/EQUAL consortium. (March 11-12 Online)

2020

Keynote. The (Re)certification of internationally educated teacher in an era of internationalization, migration, and superdiversity. international conference on internationalisation of teacher education and international teacher migration Nuremberg, Germany, December 3-4. (Online)