Who we are
Dr. Frkovich and Dr. Nelson are K-12 teachers who have been working in higher education for the last decade, encouraging educators to critically engage with dominant discourses, challenge norms, and fight tirelessly for students. In 2022, they began to work together to develop new methods for qualitative research that would blend aesthetics with empiricism, offering the world a better chance to understand the experience of teacher precarity in its many forms all over the world.
Ann Frkovich, Ph.D., is a Professor of Research at Concordia University Chicago. Her scholarship explores the globalizing educational experiences of teachers and students. She was a high school English educator and administrator for 18 years. She has published two edited volumes from Routledge—Belonging in Changing Educational Spaces: Negotiating Global, Transnational, and Neoliberal Dynamics (2022) and Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts (2022)—as well as subsequent articles on post-qualitative inquiry. She works with educators in rural and urban, private and public, affluent and under-resourced, educational spaces all over our rapidly globalizing world.
Jenna Nelson, Ed.D., is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Concordia University Chicago. Her current research focuses on curriculum and teaching practices that support learners in gifted and talented education. Dr. Nelson’s research interests include curriculum and instruction, online learning, gifted and talented teaching, secondary English education, literacy, and adult learning.
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