Mira Gambhir

Instructor

Mira Gambhir is an instructor in the Master of Teaching program at 
OISE/UT. She teaches the Anti-Discriminatory Education component in 
the Primary/Junior program.

As an educator and researcher, Mira Gambhir witnessed new teachers 
struggle to create inclusive classrooms for students. A lack of 
practical knowledge and skills coupled with unexplored attitudes 
towards difference lead to the exclusion of children who were in the 
greatest need of safe and supportive learning environments.

Mira has worked in classrooms in Canada, Taiwan and England and has 
experience working with marginalized communities. She is a children's 
author and curriculum writer. It was after working as an educational 
consultant in India, she realized that adults and children of 
marginalized groups in regions of the country are facing similar 
integration challenges  to those in the Ontario urban context. As a 
result, she is pursuing her doctorate at the Ontario Institute for 
Studies in Education. Her research focuses on how pre-service programs 
can better prepare teachers to embrace and understand the diversity 
they will encounter in their classrooms and communities.

Her areas of interest include: diversity education; inclusion; teacher 
education and development; comparative international education; policy 
and program design.