Naved Bakali

By Kate Hargreaves 

Faith is an important part of how some students understand themselves and the world around them, and they do not leave this part of their identity at the classroom door. 

A new additional qualification (AQ) course offered by the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Education aims to help teachers gain the knowledge and practical tools to better support Muslim students and respond to Islamophobia in educational settings. 

By Kate Hargreaves 

Kathleen Rose (MEd ’25) calls herself a long-time gamer, playing early role-playing games (RPGs) like Baldur's Gate since the 1990s. 

As the mother of young children at the time, and as a woman in the male-dominated video gaming space, she began to wonder about what messages these games were sending to players about gender and bodies. 

“As an English teacher, games are a text. They’re a media text like anything else,” she explains.