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Emery Hyslop-Margison is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has published numerous books and articles with a focus on bringing critical theory and conceptual analysis to educational discourse.

Hyslop-Margison was born in 1957 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada and worked a number of years for Canadian Pacific Railway. After completing a period of employment with the Irving Group of companies he began his university education in 1992, eventually completing four degrees over a period of nine years. His first four years as an academic were spent at Ball State University in Indiana, followed by two years as a Canada Research Chair at Concordia University in Montreal and finally he accepted an invitation to return to the University of New Brunswick where he received two of his four degrees.

Hyslop-Margison is perhaps best known for his work in career education where he argues for a critical and democratic model of learning that respects student agency to help shape labour market and working environment. He has argued vehemently against instrumental learning approaches that present social reality as fixed and predetermined, reducing the worker's role to passive adaptation.