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Melanie Janzen
She/Her
Professor
Dr. Melanie Janzen (she/her) is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. She is a settler living and working in Winnipeg, Canada, on Treaty One Territory and the homeland of the Red River Métis. Melanie’s research uses critical perspectives to explore the inter-related workings of power and discourses and how these affect the experiences of classroom teachers, the ongoing marginalization of children, and the undermining of public education. She currently serves on the boards of the Canadian Association for Young Children and People for Public Education.
Publications/Papers
Phelan, A. M., & Janzen, M. D. (2023). Feeling obligated: Teaching in neoliberal times. University of Toronto Press.
Mayor, C., Janzen, M. D., & Sanni-Anibire, H. (2025). Neoliberalism and white corporate saviourism in public education outsourcing: A critical examination of Project 11. Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 20(10), 110-147. doi.org/10.20355/jcie29723.
Mayor, C., Hathout, S., & Janzen, M. D. (2025). Missing, punishing & pushing kids out: Manitoba education policy enactment and the marginalization of Indigenous youth in child welfare. Critical Education, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v16i2.186873
Janzen, M. D., Mayor, C. & Sanni-Anibire, H. (2025). Outsourcing mental health programs: Harms to public education and to students. Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l’éducation. https://doi.org/10.53967/cje-rce.6975.
Johnson, G. & Janzen, M. D. (2023). Leading the blind: A critical look at Visible Learning. Critical Education, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v14i4.186745.
Janzen, M. D. & Heringer, R. (2023). “Who is the “student”?: A critical analysis of neoliberal education reform legislation. Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l’éducation, 46(3). https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/5641
Heringer, R., & Janzen, M. D. (2023). Is there room for the Other in a “modernized” education. Critical Education, 14(1), 57-71. https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v14i1.186676.
Janzen, M. D. (2022). Stigmatized: In/forming identities of children in care. Power and Education, 15(3). https://doi: 10.1177/17577438221117770.
Phelan, A. M., & Janzen, M. D. (2021). Faith in the unexpected: The event of obligation in teaching. LEARNing Landscapes, 14(1), 305-315. doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v14i1.
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