Students & Teaching

“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.” 

bell hooks from the book Teaching to Transgress

“Pedagogies of Migration” Class Field Trip to Angel Island Immigration Station, June 2018

IME Department (USF) faculty and students at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Mexico City, 2017

IME Department (USF) faculty and students at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Mexico City, 2017

Over the past two decades, Dr. Bajaj has taught a variety of courses across the different institutions she has taught in (Stanford University, New York University, Columbia University Teachers College and the University of San Francisco). She has mentored hundreds of students through their thesis and dissertation projects, as well as with academic publishing opportunities.

Selected courses Dr. Bajaj has taught include

  • Human Rights Education: History, Philosophy, Debates (University of San Francisco)

  • Peace, Conflict & education in Global Contexts (University of San Francisco)

  • Global Perspectives on Education and Decolonization (University of San Francisco)

  • Pedagogies of Migration (University of San Francisco) 

  • Foundations of International and Multicultural Education (University of San Francisco)

  • Youth, Citizenship and Education in South Asia (Teachers College)

  • Education and the Development of Nations (Teachers College)

  • Human and Social Dimensions of Peace (Teachers College)

  • Doctoral Seminar in International and Comparative Education (Teachers College)

  • Issues and Institutions in International Educational Development (Teachers College)