Johanne Jean-Pierre
Assistant Professor
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 60309
Email: jjpierre@yorku.ca
Dr. Johanne Jean-Pierre Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She previously worked as an assistant professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).
She conducts research projects in English and in French in the fields of sociology of education, sociology of race and ethnicity, youth studies, and research methodology. More specifically, she focuses on school and postsecondary trajectories, alternative school discipline interventions, and qualitative research. Her current research projects investigate the social-cultural dynamics that can inform promising policies and practices to work primarily with Francophone minority communities, and Black Canadian communities. She is also a co-investigator in the Empowering Next-generation Researchers In perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH) initiative. She is a co-founder of the Canadian Sociological Association Black Caucus and a co-founder of the first Canadian Sociological Association Francophone award: Prix d’excellence en sociologie de langue française de la Société canadienne de sociologie.
Degrees
PhD Sociology, McMaster UniversityMA Sociologie, Université d'Ottawa
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
The proposed partnered research with the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI), a not-for-profit center that promotes excellence in Africentric education, examines the role and meaning of intergenerational storytelling among African Nova Scotians. This research project explores the potential of intergenerational storytelling as a transformative educational practice. It will adress the fact that Black Canadians’ multifaceted histories are often relegated to footnotes, or minimized and erased in official narratives. It also responds to prior findings that Black students consistently stress the need for more culturally relevant and sustaining curricular content that values and fosters fluency in Black Canadian cultural heritage. In order to investigate intergenerational storytelling, the principal investigator will mobilize a qualitative approach.
Description:There are three objectives. The first objective consists of investigating how African Nova Scotian collective identity and generativity (intergenerational transmission of knowledge and lessons) take place during intergenerational storytelling. The second objective involves examining how intergenerational storytelling constitutes a counter-narrative that defies erasure from official narratives and promotes cultural sustainability. The last objective of this partnership is to generate knowledge to inform educational policy that fosters culturally educational content in schools.
Start Date:
- Month: Jun Year: 2024
End Date:
- Month: May Year: 2025
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant
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Summary:
This proposed interdisciplinary symposium brought together Black scholars working in the health and social sciences in Canada and provided them with opportunities to share their experiences conducting research with Black communities in various regions using diverse methodological approaches. The symposium consolidated and expanded the state of knowledge regarding how to conduct research with Black populations that can result in Black Canadian communities flourishing. It sought to highlight approaches and practices that build up Black communities and populations via four objectives: 1) Assemble French- and English-speaking Black scholars working with Black communities to exchange knowledge about their research. 2) Facilitate knowledge exchange between senior scholars and graduate students. 3) Establish the gaps and innovations needed within different fields to promote a more equitable society. 4) Summarize and disseminate the key lessons in at least one published scholarly article.
Description:This interdisciplinary project involved two phases: the one-day in-person symposium and subsequent dissemination of the findings. Phase 1, the one-day symposium took place on November 20, 2023 at York University. Phase 2 involves disseminating the important outcomes of the symposium, including in a research brief and at least one scholarly open access peer-reviewed article. The main audience of this in-person symposium was attended by faculty and graduate students, community-based organizations representatives , and the general public. The outcomes involved re-imagining research design, ethics and methodologies, knowledge creation based on the experiences of panelists, and more research collaboration between panelists, faculty, students, and community-based organizations.
Start Date:
- Month: Oct Year: 2023
End Date:
- Month: Sep Year: 2024
Collaborator: Alicia Boatswain-Kyte; Tya Collins
Collaborator Institution: McGill University; University of Ottawa
Collaborator Role: Co-investigators
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
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Summary:
This research focuses on four main objectives. (1) It explores the evolution of the school resource officer (SRO) program in Canada. (2) It investigates the experiences of persons with nexus to SRO programs in five Canadian cities. (3) It interrogates the organizational, institutional and contextual factors influencing divergent decisions about SRO programs within cities and across educational jurisdictions. (4) It is designed to produce empirically and theoretically informed knowledge to guide policy on school security and police presence in schools.
Start Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2022
End Date:
- Month: Mar Year: 2026
Collaborator: Dr. Temitope Oriola
Collaborator Institution: University of Alberta
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant
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Summary:
The next generation of researchers in human development, child and youth health research must be equipped to lead the creation and application of knowledge across all sectors to achieve the best reproductive, infant, child, and youth health outcomes. To address this need, we designed a unique national training and mentoring platform -Empowering Next generation Researchers In perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH). We are an interjurisdictional, interdisciplinary,intersectoral, and bilingual team of 193 experienced applicants, mentors, collaborators, partners, and patients. Building on our collective national expertise with research training, we developed strategic partnerships with 16 Canadian pediatric academic health centres and established a unified platform spanning eight Provinces and one Territory.
Collaborator: Dr. Susan Samuel
Collaborator Institution: University of Calgary
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator
Funders:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health Research Training Platform (HRTP)
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Summary:
Drawing from organizational theory, this qualitative inquiry will examine if and how institutional resources facilitate first generation graduate students’ academic success and persistence and how these students negotiate the challenges and expectations of graduate programs. It will address 3 specific objectives: 1) assess the scope and nature of existing institutional resources that support first generation graduate students through a content analysis of 22 Ontario universities’ official policies, and grey literature about student services and programs; 2) explore how first generation graduate students use institutional resources and perceive their experiences as they navigate graduate school; and 3) examine how belonging to a Francophone minority community affects graduate education experiences.
Start Date:
- Month: Jul Year: 2020
End Date:
- Month: Jun Year: 2023
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant
Current Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
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Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SOCI3630 6.0 | A | Sociology of Education | LECT |
Upcoming Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
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Summer 2025 | AP/SOCI4060 3.0 | A | Sociology of Parent/Child Relationships | LECT |
Dr. Johanne Jean-Pierre Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She previously worked as an assistant professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).
She conducts research projects in English and in French in the fields of sociology of education, sociology of race and ethnicity, youth studies, and research methodology. More specifically, she focuses on school and postsecondary trajectories, alternative school discipline interventions, and qualitative research. Her current research projects investigate the social-cultural dynamics that can inform promising policies and practices to work primarily with Francophone minority communities, and Black Canadian communities. She is also a co-investigator in the Empowering Next-generation Researchers In perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH) initiative. She is a co-founder of the Canadian Sociological Association Black Caucus and a co-founder of the first Canadian Sociological Association Francophone award: Prix d’excellence en sociologie de langue française de la Société canadienne de sociologie.
Degrees
PhD Sociology, McMaster UniversityMA Sociologie, Université d'Ottawa
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
-
Summary:
The proposed partnered research with the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI), a not-for-profit center that promotes excellence in Africentric education, examines the role and meaning of intergenerational storytelling among African Nova Scotians. This research project explores the potential of intergenerational storytelling as a transformative educational practice. It will adress the fact that Black Canadians’ multifaceted histories are often relegated to footnotes, or minimized and erased in official narratives. It also responds to prior findings that Black students consistently stress the need for more culturally relevant and sustaining curricular content that values and fosters fluency in Black Canadian cultural heritage. In order to investigate intergenerational storytelling, the principal investigator will mobilize a qualitative approach.
Description:There are three objectives. The first objective consists of investigating how African Nova Scotian collective identity and generativity (intergenerational transmission of knowledge and lessons) take place during intergenerational storytelling. The second objective involves examining how intergenerational storytelling constitutes a counter-narrative that defies erasure from official narratives and promotes cultural sustainability. The last objective of this partnership is to generate knowledge to inform educational policy that fosters culturally educational content in schools.
Project Type: FundedRole: Principal Investigator
Start Date:
- Month: Jun Year: 2024
End Date:
- Month: May Year: 2025
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant
-
Summary:
This proposed interdisciplinary symposium brought together Black scholars working in the health and social sciences in Canada and provided them with opportunities to share their experiences conducting research with Black communities in various regions using diverse methodological approaches. The symposium consolidated and expanded the state of knowledge regarding how to conduct research with Black populations that can result in Black Canadian communities flourishing. It sought to highlight approaches and practices that build up Black communities and populations via four objectives: 1) Assemble French- and English-speaking Black scholars working with Black communities to exchange knowledge about their research. 2) Facilitate knowledge exchange between senior scholars and graduate students. 3) Establish the gaps and innovations needed within different fields to promote a more equitable society. 4) Summarize and disseminate the key lessons in at least one published scholarly article.
Description:This interdisciplinary project involved two phases: the one-day in-person symposium and subsequent dissemination of the findings. Phase 1, the one-day symposium took place on November 20, 2023 at York University. Phase 2 involves disseminating the important outcomes of the symposium, including in a research brief and at least one scholarly open access peer-reviewed article. The main audience of this in-person symposium was attended by faculty and graduate students, community-based organizations representatives , and the general public. The outcomes involved re-imagining research design, ethics and methodologies, knowledge creation based on the experiences of panelists, and more research collaboration between panelists, faculty, students, and community-based organizations.
Project Type: FundedRole: Principal Investigator
Start Date:
- Month: Oct Year: 2023
End Date:
- Month: Sep Year: 2024
Collaborator: Alicia Boatswain-Kyte; Tya Collins
Collaborator Institution: McGill University; University of Ottawa
Collaborator Role: Co-investigators
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
-
Summary:
This research focuses on four main objectives. (1) It explores the evolution of the school resource officer (SRO) program in Canada. (2) It investigates the experiences of persons with nexus to SRO programs in five Canadian cities. (3) It interrogates the organizational, institutional and contextual factors influencing divergent decisions about SRO programs within cities and across educational jurisdictions. (4) It is designed to produce empirically and theoretically informed knowledge to guide policy on school security and police presence in schools.
Project Type: FundedRole: Co-investigator
Start Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2022
End Date:
- Month: Mar Year: 2026
Collaborator: Dr. Temitope Oriola
Collaborator Institution: University of Alberta
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant
-
Summary:
The next generation of researchers in human development, child and youth health research must be equipped to lead the creation and application of knowledge across all sectors to achieve the best reproductive, infant, child, and youth health outcomes. To address this need, we designed a unique national training and mentoring platform -Empowering Next generation Researchers In perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH). We are an interjurisdictional, interdisciplinary,intersectoral, and bilingual team of 193 experienced applicants, mentors, collaborators, partners, and patients. Building on our collective national expertise with research training, we developed strategic partnerships with 16 Canadian pediatric academic health centres and established a unified platform spanning eight Provinces and one Territory.
Project Type: FundedRole: Co-applicant
Collaborator: Dr. Susan Samuel
Collaborator Institution: University of Calgary
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator
Funders:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health Research Training Platform (HRTP)
-
Summary:
Drawing from organizational theory, this qualitative inquiry will examine if and how institutional resources facilitate first generation graduate students’ academic success and persistence and how these students negotiate the challenges and expectations of graduate programs. It will address 3 specific objectives: 1) assess the scope and nature of existing institutional resources that support first generation graduate students through a content analysis of 22 Ontario universities’ official policies, and grey literature about student services and programs; 2) explore how first generation graduate students use institutional resources and perceive their experiences as they navigate graduate school; and 3) examine how belonging to a Francophone minority community affects graduate education experiences.
Project Type: FundedRole: Principal Investigator
Start Date:
- Month: Jul Year: 2020
End Date:
- Month: Jun Year: 2023
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant
All Publications
Current Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SOCI3630 6.0 | A | Sociology of Education | LECT |
Upcoming Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
Summer 2025 | AP/SOCI4060 3.0 | A | Sociology of Parent/Child Relationships | LECT |