Margaret Early

Margaret Early is Associate Professor and Associate Dean at UBC's Faculty of Education, specializing in multilingual literacies and refugee education.

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Her research investigates multimodal literacy development among marginalized learners, particularly refugee-background youth. Recent SSHRC-funded projects examine digital storytelling as a tool for language acquisition and identity reclamation, challenging deficit-oriented pedagogical frameworks.

Publications advocate for play-based pedagogies and identity text approaches in EAL contexts, demonstrating how collaborative creation of multilingual artifacts supports academic engagement. Current fieldwork extends to rural Kenya and Swedish language introduction programs.

Co-edited the TESOL Quarterly special issue 'Multimodality: Out from the Margins' and co-authored 'Identity Texts: The Collaborative Creation of Power in Multilingual Schools'.