Prof. Dr. Karen Armstrong

Dr. Karen Armstrong brings over 50 years of experience teaching and working in Higher Education after achieving her doctorate in literacy education in 1990. She has worked as a course writer and instructor in the post-degree education program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada. She is also a Course Director as in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto Canada.
Dr Armstrong teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the following topics: leadership; community organizations; families; place and learning; and literacy in all its dimensions.
She has participated on numerous professional committees at both universities and is a prolific invited speaker at international, national and local conferences across North America, Asia, and Europe.
Her current research interests are: AI and education, Indigenous ways of knowing and learning, Early and Family Literacy, Research methods, and Leadership and Community Engagement. Dr. Armstrong commutes between Toronto in central Canada and Gabriola Island, close to Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest area of North America.