Publications
Books
Bajaj, M., Walsh, D., Bartlett, L. & Martínez, G. (2023). Educating Immigrant and Refugee Youth: 20 Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond. Teachers College Press.
Scott, J.T. & Bajaj, M. (Eds). (2023). World Yearbook of Education 2023: Racialization and Educational Inequality in Global Perspective. Routledge. [Winner of the 2023 AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award]
Hantzopoulos, M. & Bajaj, M. (2021). Educating for peace and human rights: An introduction. Bloomsbury.
Bajaj, M. (Ed.). (2017). Human rights education: Theory, research, praxis. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Bajaj, M. & Hantzopoulos, M. (Eds.). (2016). Peace education: International perspectives. Bloomsbury. [Honorable Mention for the 2017 Prose Award in Educational Practice]
Bajaj, M., Cislaghi, B. & Mackie, G. (2016). Advancing transformative human rights education [Appendix D to the Report of the Global Citizenship Commission]. Open Book Publishers.
Bajaj, M. (2011). Schooling for social change: The rise and impact of human rights education in India. Continuum/Bloomsbury. [Winner of the 2012 Jackie Kirk Book Award]
Bajaj, M. (Ed.) (2008). The encyclopedia of peace education Information Age Publishing. Online companion available here
International Journal of Human Rights Education
The International Journal of Human Rights Education is an independent, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal founded in 2017 by its Editor-in-Chief Dr. Monisha Bajaj. The journal is dedicated to the examination of the theory, philosophy, research, and praxis of human rights education, and seeks to be a central location for critical thought in the field as it continues to expand. IJHRE is co-recipient of the inaugural Human Rights in Higher Education Award from the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education.
Teacher Handbooks
Bajaj, M. (2015). Righting wrongs: A handbook on children’s rights. Tulika Books.
Bajaj, M. (2003). Guía de educación en derechos humanos [Human rights education handbook]. Santo Domingo: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Peer-Reviewed Articles & Chapters
Dr. Bajaj’s research has been global in scope and has included in-depth qualitative research in places such as India, the Dominican Republic, Zambia, and with immigrant communities in the United States. Below, selected articles and chapters are offered under five areas that her scholarship has been concentrated in.
Human Rights & Education
Bajaj, M. & Mabona, N. (2021). Theories of Human Rights Education in Comparative International Education: From Declarations to New Directions (pp. 363-384). Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education. Bloomsbury.
Bajaj, M. (2017). Human rights education for social change: Experiences from South Asia. In K. Bickmore, R. Hayhoe, C. Manion, K. Mundy & R. Read (Eds.), Comparative and international education: Issues for teachers, 2nd Edition. Canadian Scholars Press.
Bajaj, M. (2016). The paradox and promise of children’s rights in Indian schools. In J. Rajan & O. Dwivedi (Eds.), Human rights and postcolonial India (pp. 49-64). Routledge.
Canlas, M., Argenal, A. & Bajaj, M. (2015). Teaching human rights from below: Towards solidarity, resistance and social justice. Radical Teacher, 103, 38-46.
Bajaj, M. (2015). Human rights education: Imaginative possibilities for creating change. Teachers College Record, 117(10), 1-9.
Bajaj, M. (2014). The productive plasticity of rights: Globalization, education and human rights. In N. Stromquist & K. Monkman (Eds.), Globalization and education: Integration and contestation across cultures (2nd ed.) (pp. 51-66). Rowman and Littlefield.
Bajaj, M. (2012). Human rights education in small schools in India. Peace Review, 24(1), 6-13.
Bajaj, M. (2012). From ‘time pass’ to transformative force: School-based human rights education in Tamil Nadu, India. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(1), 72-80.
Bajaj, M. (2011). Human rights education: Ideology, location, and approaches. Human Rights Quarterly, 33, 481-508.
Bajaj, M. (2011). Teaching to transform, transforming to teach: Exploring the role of teachers in human rights education in India. Educational Research, 53(2), 207-221.
Bajaj, M. (2004). Human rights education and student self-conception in the Dominican Republic. Journal of Peace Education, 1(1), 21-36.
Peace, Conflict & Education
Bajaj, M. (2019). Conceptualizing Critical Peace Education for Conflict Settings. Education and Conflict Review 2, 65-70.
Vega-Chaparro, L. & Bajaj, M. (2016). The right to education in protracted conflict: Teachers’ experiences in non-formal education in Colombia. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 14(3), 358-373.
Bajaj, M. (2015). ‘Pedagogies of resistance’ and critical peace education praxis. Journal of Peace Education, 12(2), 154-166.
Bajaj, M. & Chiu, B. (2009). Education for sustainable development as peace education. Peace & Change, 34(4), 441-455.
Bajaj, M. (2010). Conjectures on peace education and Gandhian studies: Method, institutional development, and globalization. Journal of Peace Education, 7(1), 47-62.
Bajaj, M. & Chiu, B. (2009). Education for sustainable development as peace education. Peace & Change, 34(4), 441-455.
Immigrant Families & Refugee Youth
Bajaj, M. & Suresh, S. (2018). The "warm embrace" of a newcomer school for immigrant & refugee youth. Theory into Practice 57(2), 91-98.
Bajaj, M., Argenal, A. & Canlas, M. (2017). Socio-politically relevant pedagogy for immigrant and refugee youth. Equity & Excellence in Education 50(3), 258-274.
Bajaj, M. & Bartlett, L. (2017). Critical transnational curriculum for immigrant and refugee youth. Curriculum Inquiry, 47(1), 25-35.
Bajaj, M., Canlas, M. & Argenal, A. (2017). Between rights and realities: Human rights education for immigrant and refugee youth in an urban public high school. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 48(2), 124-140.
Bajaj, M., Ghaffar-Kucher, A., & Desai, K. (2016). Brown bodies and xenophobic bullying in U.S. schools: Critical analysis and strategies for action. Harvard Educational Review, 86(4), 481-505.
Education Policy & Practice
Kidwai, H. & Bajaj, M. (2017). Educational development in South Asia: From regionalism to interregionalism. In T. Jules (Ed.), The new global educational policy environment: Gated, regulated and governed (pp. 195-216). Emerald.
Hantzopoulos, M., Zakharia, Z., Shirazi, R., Bajaj, M. & Ghaffar-Kucher, A. (2015). New curricular approaches to teaching about the Middle East and North Africa. Social Studies Research and Practice, 10(1), 84-93. [Social Justice Feature Article]
Iyengar, R. & Bajaj, M. (2011). After the smoke clears: Examining curricular approaches to environmental education in Bhopal, India. Comparative Education Review, 55(3), 424-456.
Bajaj, M. (2010). Inter-generational perspectives on education and employment in the Zambian Copperbelt. Comparative Education Review, 54(2), 175-197.
Bajaj, M. & Kidwai, H. (2016). Human rights and education policy in South Asia. In K. Mundy, A. Green, R. Lingard & A. Verger (Eds.) Handbook of global education policy (pp. 206-223). Wiley-Blackwell.
Bajaj, M. (2009). Sugar daddies and the danger of sugar: Cross-generational relationships, HIV/AIDS and secondary schooling in Zambia. In A. Wiseman & D. Baker (Eds.), Gender, equality and education from international and comparative perspectives (pp. 123-143). Elsevier Science Ltd.
School Culture & Student Agency
Bajaj, M. (2022). Decolonial approaches to school curriculum for Black, Indigenous and other students of colour. London Review of Education, Vol. 20(1). DOI: 10.14324/LRE.20.1.05
Bajaj, M., & Tow, D. (2021). Towards a praxis of educational solidarity. On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 4(10). https://doi.org/10.17899/on_ed.2021.10.6
Bajaj, M. (2018). Conceptualizing Transformative Agency in Education for Peace, Human Rights & Social Justice. International Journal of Human Rights Education 2(1), 1-22.
Bajaj, M. & Pathmarajah, M. (2011). En‘gender’ing agency: The differentiated impact of educational initiatives in Zambia and India. Feminist Formations, 23(3), 48-67.
Bajaj, M. (2009). Why context matters: The material conditions of caring in Zambia. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22(4), 379–398.
Bajaj, M. (2009). ‘I have big things planned for my future’: The limits and possibilities of transformative agency in Zambian schools. Compare, 39(4), 551-568.
Bajaj, M. (2008). Schooling in the shadow of death: Youth agency and HIV/AIDS in Zambia. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 43(3), 307-329.