Biography

Korina Jocson is Associate Professor of Digital Futures in the Faculty of Education at York University. Her scholarly interests include youth literacies and cultural studies, digital media and learning ecologies, race and ethnic studies in education, critical pedagogies, and arts-based qualitative methodologies. Her thinking is informed by radical women of color feminisms and decolonial inquiry. Her earlier research on youth poetry led to youth cultural production more broadly, including expressive cultures and civic engagement through digital media, further prompting questions about what/whose literacies and knowledges count while addressing educational and social inequities across settings. Recent studies in multimedia and information technologies have propelled related questions about the futures of pedagogy, technocultures and workplace learning, and AI in education.

Jocson is the author of several books, including award-winning Youth Media Matters: Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education, Youth Poets: Literacies In and Out of Schools, and a forthcoming monograph on race, gender, and technologies in the school-work nexus. She is also the editor of Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility featuring a range of perspectives on youth's participation in literary, digital media, and civic-related practices in local and global contexts. Her articles, essays, and poems have appeared in scholarly journals, including Curriculum Inquiry, Critical Studies in Education, Reading Research Quarterly, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Juvenilia Studies, and Daedalus. She seeks forms of knowledge-making through creative writing, storying/kuwento, poetic inquiry, and experimental media as part of her scholarship. 

Jocson holds a a PhD in Education from UC Berkeley and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. She was a recipient of the Fulbright Canada Research Chair of Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Ottawa. In addition to academic leadership, she remains active in community-engaged projects and collaborates with equity-minded organizations.

Recent Works and Experimental Writing

Carter, C., Rashid, M., Scherrer, B., & Jocson, K.M. (2023). there, not there: (un)disciplining study off the writing tracks/tracts. Qualitative Studies, 8(1), 250-278. https://tidsskrift.dk/qual/article/view/136809/181306

Rashid, M., Scherrer, B.,Carter, C., McIntee, K., Jean-Denis, A.S., Correa, O., & Jocson, K.M. (2023). Praxis of the undercommons: Rupturing university conviviality and coded formations of diversity. Globalization, Societies and Education. doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2023.2190876

Jocson, K.M., Carter, C., Correa, O., McIntee, K., Rashid, M., Scherrer, B.D., & Jean-Denis, A.S. (2022). Plateaus, puzzles, and PhDs: Un/making knowledge differently through digital storytelling. Educational Studies, 1-22.  doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2021.2010081

Teaching and Course Development

(De)Colonizing Research Methodologies (GS/EDUC 5225; GS/GFWS 6111)

Gender, Equity, New Technologies, and Education (GS/EDUC 5862; GS/WMST 6122)

Issues in Digital Technology in Education (GS/EDUC 5860)

Place and Learning (EDST 1200)

Faculty & School/Dept

• Faculty of Education

• Faculty of Graduate Studies, -

Selected Publications

• Jocson, K.M. (2018). Youth Media Matters: Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education. University of Minnesota Press
• Jocson, K.M. (2013). Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility. Harvard Education Press
• Jocson, K.M. (2008). Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools. Peter Lang

York University Affiliations/Cross Appointments

• Institute for Research on Digital Literacies
• York Centre for Asian Research
• Centre for Refugee Studies
• Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
• City Institute at York University (CITY)