Research interests: Narrative Approaches to Intergenerational, Bilingual and Multicultural Educational issues and School-Family-Community Connections in Cross-cultural Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education.

Dr. Shijing Xu is Canada Research Chair in International and Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Education at the University of Windsor and tenured Full Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Canada. Dr. Xu is Adjunct Professor of Southwest University International and Comparative Education Research Institute (since 2011), affiliated research associate of China National Research Center for Foreign Language Education (since 2007). Her current research is on the reciprocal learning between the East and the West in education.