Alexis Poirier-Saumure

Thesis title: Critical, anti-oppressive and queer pedagogies for sexual education

Alexis Poirier-Saumure is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Communication Studies department at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. He is a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Doctoral Scholarship. He is a research assistant for Concordia’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute, where he works on projects related to Gender & Sexuality pedagogy as well as contemporary discourses on the classroom and the university. He works as data analyst for the Institut de Recherche sur l’Immigration et les Pratiques Interculturelles et Inclusives (IRIPII) at Collège de Maisonneuve, where he specializes in pedagogy research around questions of ethics and care in sensitive teaching contexts. His thesis interrogates the educational practice of sexual education teachers in the context of critical, antioppressive and queer approaches to pedagogy. Within this work, he deploys a collaborative methodological approach through methods like collaborative autoethnography.