Funke Oba
Associate Professor
Faculty of Community Services
School of Social Work
Toronto, Ontario
funoba@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 544581
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Funke Oba, associate professor, and celebrated teacher has received teaching awards from TMU, Wilfrid Laurier University and a President’s Teaching and Learning scholar award at the University of Regina. Dr. Oba brings to her work a background in clinical practice and community organizing, Afroce...
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Bio/Research
Funke Oba, associate professor, and celebrated teacher has received teaching awards from TMU, Wilfrid Laurier University and a President’s Teaching and Learning scholar award at the University of Regina. Dr. Oba brings to her work a background in clinical practice and community organizing, Afrocentric pedagogy and experiential learning to create or redesign courses such as TMU’s first anti-Black racism social work course, courses on Canadian diversity, social change, and social movements as well as an intercultural practice course and an interdisciplinary leadership seminar created for Faculty of Community Services Black students.
Reflective self-study and an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning connects her teaching with her research which integrates Black elders, art, drumming, dance and Afrocentric sharing circles with a common thread of cultural appreciation and transnational reciprocity. Dr. Oba seeks to forge North-South collaborations with African partners under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation as a fellow and African Diaspora visiting scholar. Dr. Oba has mentored over 50 graduate/undergraduate student researchers, post doctoral candidates and global interns. She is a proud alumnus of Lagos Business School’s Advanced Management Program and has clinical experience in Child Welfare, Domestic violence, and Field Education sectors.
Dr. Oba is a past president of the African Canadian Association of Waterloo Region, the founder of Community Academic Reciprocal Engagement (CARE) for Black youth, and Leading While Black projects. She sits on the boards of the Working Center, Kitchener, The Compass Center for Refugees, Kitchener and The Roots of a Black Girl project, Toronto.
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Reflective self-study and an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning connects her teaching with her research which integrates Black elders, art, drumming, dance and Afrocentric sharing circles with a common thread of cultural appreciation and transnational reciprocity. Dr. Oba seeks to forge North-South collaborations with African partners under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation as a fellow and African Diaspora visiting scholar. Dr. Oba has mentored over 50 graduate/undergraduate student researchers, post doctoral candidates and global interns. She is a proud alumnus of Lagos Business School’s Advanced Management Program and has clinical experience in Child Welfare, Domestic violence, and Field Education sectors.
Dr. Oba is a past president of the African Canadian Association of Waterloo Region, the founder of Community Academic Reciprocal Engagement (CARE) for Black youth, and Leading While Black projects. She sits on the boards of the Working Center, Kitchener, The Compass Center for Refugees, Kitchener and The Roots of a Black Girl project, Toronto.
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