Shireen Keyl
School of Teacher Education and Leadership
Associate Professor, Cultural Studies

Contact Information
Office Location: SLSLCR 132Phone: 435-283-5649
Email: shireen.keyl@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Licensures & Certifications
Biography
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. Her research interests are in nonformal education related to refugee and migrant education. 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 Lebanon, Turkey, and Iran as well.
Teaching Interests
Foundations of Education; Culturally Responsive Education; International/Comparative Education; Global Education; Anthropology of Education; Study Abroad.
Research Interests
Anti-Racism Education; Girls' and Women's Education in Global Context; Education and International Development; NGOs and Education of Women and Girls; Educational Processes of Marginalized Groups in the U.S. Context; Global Education; Refugee Education in U.S. Schools, STEM Critical Literacy among Diverse Populations.
Awards
2016 Emerging Visionary Award, 2016
UA Commission on the Status of Women
Publications | Books
- Keyl, S., (2016). Critical Views on Teaching and Learning English around the Globe: Qualitative Research Approaches. Information Age Publishers
- Keyl, S., (2025). Subaltern ways of knowing: A critical spatial analysis of migrant domestic worker knowledge production in Beirut, Lebanon.: Decolonial Feminist Genealogies & Futures. . University of Illinois Press
- Keyl, S., (2016). Learning English in the Margins: Migrant Worker Knowledge Production in Beirut’s NGO Spaces: Critical Views on Teaching and Learning English Around the Globe.
Publications | Book Chapters
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Publications | Curriculum
- Keyl, S., (2020). Privilege & White Fragility: Entering Research: A Facilitator's Manual: Workshops for Students Beginning Research in Science (2nd Edition).
- Keyl, S., (2020). Diversity in STEM: Entering Research, 2nd edition.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Keyl, S., (2017). Freirean Pedagogy in Beirut’s Migrant Worker Classroom.. Pedagogy & (Im)Possibilities across Education Research (PIPER), 1:1, doi: 10.4148/2576-5795.1001
- Keyl, S., (2017). Subaltern Pedagogy: A Critical Theorizing of Pedagogical Practices for Marginalized Border-Crossers. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
- Keyl, S., Subaltern Praxis: A Vygotskian and Freirean Framework in NGO Education. . International Journal of Multicultural Education
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.