Selected Publications
Publication in Refereed Journals
Taj, N. (2023). Toward Equitable Online Learning: Seeing the Missed Opportunities. Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, 7(1).
Taj, N. (2022). When Global Ideas Meet Local Contexts: The Case of Girls’ Education in Urban Pakistan (Doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto (Canada)).
Taj, N. (2020). Becoming-with Golden Daffodils [Review of the Annual Comparative and International Education Society Conference 2020-
Education Beyond the Human: Toward Sympoiesis]. Comparative Education Review.
Taj, N. (2020). Female Immigrant Students’ Sense-Making in Toronto Public Schools. International Journal of Student Voice. Special Issue- Centering Girls’ Voices in Education Policy, Practice, and Activism.
Other Publications
Taj, N., & Farrukh, A. (2022, March 22). Am I becoming Professor Mindy? A reflection on “Don’t Look Up” and my position in the academy. Retrieved March 23, 2022, from https://academicmatters.ca/
Taj, N. (2021). Student Research Snapshot. CIDEC, OISE Newsletter, Fall 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2021, from https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cidec/
Taj, N., & Bhutani, A. (2020, August 20). Where do students with children stand as Ontario universities and schools reveal reopening plans? Retrieved September 06, 2020, from https://academicmatters.ca/
Taj, N. (2020). A Bonding Stitch— in Honour of the Seamstresses in Toronto-A poem. Sociological Review Blog. Retrieved March 23, 2021, from https://www.solidarityandcare.org/
Taj, N. (2020). The Perils of the Educated [Watercolor on paper]. CIDEC, OISE Newsletter, Spring 2020. Retrieved from: https://mailchi.mp/b0804afee5b5/
Taj, N., & Beauregard, M. (2017). Equity in and through education [Report for the members of the IEFG Group]. International Education Funders Group.
Taj, N. (2010, March 28). Homework Horror. DAWN. Retrieved October 1, 2018, from https://www.dawn.com/news/880890/homework-horror
Taj, N. (2009, March 15). Experience School Traumas. DAWN. Retrieved October 1, 2018, from https://www.dawn.com/news/860265/experience-school-traumas
Selected Conference Presentations & Workshops
Workshops-Peer Reviewed
Taj, N., & Farrukh, A. (2022). From fairy-tales to sci-fi stories- Connect, Reflect and Write! Workshop conducted at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference (CIES 2022), Minneapolis.
Taj, N., & Ortega, Y. (2021). Reflexivity and Transformation in Research: Challenges and opportunities in comparative, international and development education. Workshop conducted at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference (CIES 2021), Virtual.
Other
Taj, N., & Ruano, C. R. (2022). Careers Beyond Academia. Workshop conducted at the Graduate Students Research Conference 2022, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto.
Taj, N., & Bhutani, A. (2021). Taking care of yourself and of each other. Three-part workshop series conducted in the community organised by The Neighbourhood Office and Flemingdon Community Support Services, Toronto.
Presentations-Peer Reviewed
Taj, N. (2022). Parents’ Cultural Capital, Local Institutions and Girls’ Education in Urban Pakistan. Paper presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference (CIES 2022), Minneapolis.
Taj, N. (2019). Global and Local Dynamics of Policy Discourses for Girls’ Education: The Case
of Pakistan. Paper presentation at the Nordic Comparative and International Education Society Biannual Conference (NOCIES and Global CIE 2019), Stockholm.
Taj, N. (2019). Understanding the rationales of making of concepts and policies in the arena of
Girls’ Education. Paper presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference (CIES 2019), San Francisco.
Taj, N. (2018). Global Norms and the Role of Parents as Right-Providers for Girls’ Education in
Pakistan. Paper presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference (CIES 2018), Mexico City, Mexico.
Taj, N. (2016). Interactional level adjustments of immigrant students from Pakistan in Toronto
Public schools. Paper presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference (CIES 2018), Vancouver, BC.
Taj, N. (2015). “Learning beyond Learning”-What immigrant students teach us? Paper
presentation at the International Conference- Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development, Pakistan.
Taj, N. (2015). Public-Private Partnership and Policymaking in Education: Some
Recommendations for Initiatives in Pakistan. Paper presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference (CIES 2015), Washington DC.