Maria Tsiokos

Biography

Maria is an MA student whose research critically investigates how discursive constructions of students in Ontario’s e-Learning policy, Policy/Program Memorandum 167 (PPM 167), align with or diverge from families’ lived experiences and perspectives of e-Learning in practice. Her study combines document analysis of e-Learning policy texts with parent interviews to examine the suitability and equity of e-Learning, highlighting how power structures influence which students may benefit and which may face barriers or disadvantage. Her work contributes to scholarship on educational policy, online learning, and critical policy sociology by interrogating assumptions embedded in e-Learning policy and centring parents’ voices to reveal how social inequalities are reinforced or challenged through e-Learning policy enactment.