Faculty Research Profiles: Antonia Darder

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Educational Policy Studies
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Research Biography

Over the years, my scholarship has focused on comparative studies of structural inequalities as these manifest within a variety of schooling and societal context. More recently, my research has turned toward examinations of culture and identity in a transnational context, issues of the body related to teaching and learning, and questions of Puerto Rican feminism and consciousness. My teaching examines cultural issues, racism, and class inequalities within education, with an emphasis on identity, language, and popular culture, as well as the foundations of critical pedagogy, Latino studies, and social justice theory.

I am the author of Culture and Power in the Classroom (Bergin & Garvey, 1991) and Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love (Westview, 2001) which was named outstanding book in curriculum for 2001-2002 by the American Educational Research Association; and co-author of After Race: Racism After Multiculturalism (NYU Press). I also edited Culture and Difference (Bergin & Garvey, 1995), and I am co-editor of Latinos and Education (Routledge, 1996), The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy and Society (Blackwell, 1997), and The Critical Pedagogy Reader (Routledge, 2002)---a featured text at the 2005 Sociology of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Annual International conference in London. I am also editor of Reflexiones Pedagogicas, a section of the journal Latino Studies and a member of the editorial Board of New Political Science. As a former scholar of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, I authored the report, The Policies and the Promise: The Public Schooling of Latino Children (1993). As a recipient of a Kellogg National Fellowship, I studied the education and culture of indigenous children in the Andes.

Over the years, I have been active in a variety of Latino/Chicano grassroots efforts tied to educational rights, worker's rights, bilingual education, women's issues, and immigrant rights. In 1998, I convened educators from across the state to establish the California Consortium of Critical Educators (CCCE), a member supported radical teachers' organization committed to an educational vision of schooling that is intimately linked to social justice, human rights and economic democracy.

I was born in Puerto Rico in 1952 and raised in East Los Angeles. As a young single mother of 3 children on welfare, I began my studies at Pasadena City College in 1972 and later attended Cal State Los Angeles and Pacific Oaks College. I eventually earned my Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in 1989. I had the honor and privilege of studying and working with renowned Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Education, Claremont Graduate College, 1989
  • M.A., Human Development, Pacific Oaks College
  • B.A., Rehabilitation Counseling, California State University- Los Angeles

Key Professional Appointments

  • Visiting Professor, Education, University of California- Irvine, 2001-2002
  • Professor, Education and Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, 1990-2001
  • Guest Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning/ Community Fellows Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990-1991
  • Assistant Professor, Education, Lesley College, 1990-1991
  • Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, California Polytechnic University, 1989-1990

Activities & Honors

  • Distinguished Senior Scholar, College of Education, 2008-2009
  • Faculty Fellow, Faculty Fellow, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, 2007-2008
  • Faculty Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, 2006-2007
  • Advisory Editorial Board Member, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2004- present
  • Board Member, Community Teacher Institute, 2004- present
  • Auxiliary Faculty Member, Latina/Latino Studies Program, 2003- present
  • Advisory Board Member, Center for Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELA), 2003- present
  • EPRU Fellow, Educational Policy Research Unit, 2003- present
  • Member of the LASA Latino Studies Dissertation Award Committee, Latino Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2003- present
  • Outstanding Book of the Year Award 2002-2003, In Division D Curriculum , American Educational Research Association, 2003
  • Editorial Board Member, New Political Science, 2002- present
  • Associate Editor, Latino Studies, 2002-2005
  • Member, New Political Science, 2002-2005
  • Member, Journal of Post-Colonial Education, 2001- present
  • UTEN Faculty Fellow Mentor, Urban Teacher Education Network, 2001-2005

Grants

  • Senior Personnel, U.S./Brazil Educators's Encuentro Dialogue Project, U.S. Department of Education (Center for Global Studies), 2004

Selected Publications

  • A. Darder. Radicalizing the Immigrant Debate in the U.S.: A Call for Open Borders and Human Rights in Ethnicities.
  • Darder, A., M. Baltodano, and R.D. Torres (2008). Critical Pedagogy Reader: Theory and Practice (second edition). New York: Routledge
  • Darder, A. and Torres, R.D. After Race: Racism After Multiculturalism. New York: NYU Press.
  • Darder, A., Baltodano, M. & Torres, R.D. (2002). The Critical Pedagogy Reader. New York: Routledge.
  • Darder, A. (2002). Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love. Boulder,Colorado: Westview.

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