About the Authors

Dr. Valda Leighteizer, PhD, teaches in the Education Faculty of Mount Saint Vincent University.  She has been working with pre-service and classroom teachers for more than twenty-five years.  Her teaching and research areas include: curriculum theories, critical curriculum practices, and the intersectionalities of social identities with one another and how they impact the teaching and learning processes in schooling.  She works with a critical and feminist lens.

Sonya Singer, MAEd., MEd., was a teacher and English department head for thirty-one years in the Nova Scotia public school system. Since her retirement, she has held faculty positions at Mount Saint Vincent University, Acadia University, and Cape Breton University, where she has most recently served as a curriculum development consultant and part-time instructor in the Bachelor of Education program. She has a particular interest in teaching for social justice and L’nu education.