Dr Hala Mreiwed

Profile

Dr. Hala Mreiwed is the Co-Chair of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children (CCRC), and a children's rights advocate, advisor, educator and researcher with over 20 years of experience in research, curriculum development and pedagogy, training and education, children's media and children's rights education. She holds a PhD in Educational Studies from McGill University. Her multidisciplinary research interests in children’s rights and human rights, working with non-government and civil society organizations, social policy, education, creative drama, participatory action research, arts-based educational research and critical discourse analysis come from her experiences in Canada and abroad.

Research

Publications

• Mreiwed, H., Wright, L. H. V., Butler, K., Bhavya, Isabel, Miyar, Siobhán & Sumira. (2024). Deepening our Understanding: Collaboration through Online Peer-to-Peer Participatory Action Research with Children. Childhood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682241266961
• Mreiwed, H., Carter, M. R., Hashem, S., & Blake-Amarante, C. (Eds). (2023, March). Making Connections in and through Arts-based Educational Research. Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/9789811980275
• Mreiwed, H., Carter, M. R., & Mitchell, C. (Eds). (2021). Art as an Agent for Social Change. Brill | Sense Publishers. https://brill.com/view/title/59159
• Mreiwed, H. (2020). Experiences from the field: Transforming teaching and learning through Child Rights Education. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS), 18(21), CSSE-CACS 2020 Proceedings.
• Shabtay, A., Carter, M., Mreiwed, H. (2019). A dramatic collage: Researching teacher experience through collaborative playmaking. Qualitative Research Journal, 19(4), 403–414.
• Mreiwed, H., Carter, M., Shabtay, A. (2017). Building classroom community through drama education. NJ: Drama Australia Journal, 41(1): 44-57.

Expertise