Ken Moffatt

Dr. Ken Moffatt is interested in reimagining modes of learning, pedagogy, and practice through an arts-based reflective practice. He has also done extensive research on how new managerialism and neoliberalism constrains innovative approaches to learning in postsecondary education. Dr. Moffatt was the Jack Layton Chair, Faculty of Arts/ Faculty of Community Services from 2018 to 2022. He is the author of two University Press books: A Poetics of Social Work (University of Toronto) and Postmodern Social Work, (Columbia University) as well as editor of Troubled Masculinities (University of Toronto). He continues his interest in the arts, community, technology and social justice through his current SSHRC-funded Crafting Community Project as well as in partnership with Dr. Reena Tandon, Community Engaged Learning & Teaching (CELT), Faculty of Arts. 

He is interested in cultural studies, postmodern theory, reflective practice community practice, gender studies as well as symbol creation and meaning making in the context of global neo-liberalism.