Faculty Profile
Jean Kayira
Associate Professor
205 Marshall Hall
Jean Kayira
Education
- Ph.D., Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 2013
- M.A., Environmental Science & Policy, Clark University, Worcester MA, USA, 2004
- B.Ed., Science, University of Malawi – Chancellor College, Malawi, 1991
Research Interests
Indigenous knowledge systems, food sovereignty, decolonizing and Indigenous research methodologies, community-based research, youth participatory action research, climate change education, and culturally responsive & equitable evaluation
Courses
EST 797: Indigenous Research Methods
Publications
Kayira, J., Lobdell, S., Hertz, S., Healey, J., McHone, E. Gagnon, N., Schuttenberg, E. (2022). Responsibilities to Decolonize Environmental Education: A Co-Learning Journey for Graduate Students and Instructors. Societies, 12(4), 96, DOI: 10.3390/soc12040096
Datta, R., Kayira, J., & Datta. P. (2022). Land-based environmental education as a climate change resilience: A learning experience from a cross-cultural community garden. In E. Walsh (Ed.), Equity and social justice in climate change education: Exploring social and ethical dimensions of environmental education, pp. 214-233. Routledge.
Marshall. A.A., Kayira, J., Tegegne, Y.T., Gruber, J. (2020). A Comparative analysis of the institutional capacity of FLEGT VPA in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, and the Republic of the Congo. Forest Policy and Economics. 112, DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102108
Marshall. A.A., Kayira, J., Gruber, J., Idemudia, U., Tegegne, Y.T., Attah, A.N. (2020). Good governance practices in Ghana’s FLEGT voluntary partnership agreement process: An application of Q methodology. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 23 (1), 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2020.1784116
McVittie, J., Datta, R., Kayira, J., & Anderson, V. (2019). Relationality and decolonisation in children and youth garden spaces. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35 (2), 93-109. doi:10.1017/aee.2019.7
Tuokuu. F.X.D., Idemudia, U., Gruber, J., & Kayira, J. (2019). Linking stakeholder perspectives for environmental policy development and implementation in Ghana’s gold mining sector: Insights from a Q-methodology study. Policy. 97, 106-115, DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.03.015.
Tuokuu. F.X.D., Idemudia, U., Gruber, J., & Kayira, J. (2019). Identifying and clarifying environmental policy best practices for the mining industry—A systematic review. Journal of Cleaner Production. 22, 922-933, DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.111
Kayira, J. (2018). Exploring hybrid third spaces in the place mappings of Malawian youth. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 34, 30-47, DOI 10.4314/sajee.v34i1.3
Tuokuu. F.X.D., Gruber, J., Idemudia, U., & Kayira, J. (2018). Challenges and opportunities of environmental policy implementation: Empirical evidence from Ghana's gold mining sector. Resources Policy. 59, 435-445, DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.08.014
Anderson, A., Datta, R., Dyck, S., Kayira, J., & McVittie, J. (2016). Meanings of culture in sustainability education research. Journal of Environmental Education, 47(1), 1-18, DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2015.1056077
Anderson, A., McKenzie, M., Allen, S., Hill, T., McLean, S., Kayira, J., Knorr, M., Stone, J., Murphy, J., & Butcher, K. (2015). Participatory action research as pedagogy: Investigating social and ecological justice learning within a teacher education program. Teaching Education. 26 (2), 179-195, DOI: 10.1080/10476210.2014.996740
Kayira, J. (2013). (Re)creating spaces for uMunthu: Postcolonial theory and environmental education in Southern Africa. Environmental Education Research 21 (1), 106-128. DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2013.860428
McKenzie, M., Butcher, K., Fruson, D., Knorr, M., Stone, J., Allan, S., Hill, T., Murphy, J.,McLean, S., Anderson, V., & Kayira, J. (2013). Suited: Relational methodologies and critical eco pedagogies. In M. Brody, J. Dillon, R. B. Stevenson & A. E. J. Wals (Eds), International handbook for research on environmental education. Routledge.
PROFESSIONAL AND ASSOCIATION OFFICES AND COMMITTEES
Reviewer:
African Sun Media
Australian Journal of Environmental Education
Environmental Education Research
Environmental Education Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association
Institute for Gender in Research and Development
South African Journal of Higher Education
Southern African Journal of Environmental Education
Sustainability Science
Member:
American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2010 - present
New Hampshire Environmental Educators (NHEE), 2014 - present
North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), 2013 – present
Daughters of Toleza Scholarship Fund, 2016 – present
Keene YMCA Social Justice Committee, 2020 - 2023