Special Guest Summer Institute 2008                      Dr. Donaldo Macedo

Donaldo Macedo is a full professor of English and a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the Graduate Program Director of the Applied Linguistics Masters of Arts Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has published extensively in the areas of linguistics, critical literacy, and bilingual and multicultural education. His publications include: Literacy: Reading the Word and the World, Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know, Dancing With Bigotry, Critical Education in the New Information Age, Chomsky on Miseducation, Ideology Matters, among others.

This summer Dr. Macedo is leading the ED-BLESL 497/597 special topics course "The Hegemony of English or Critical Citizenship". This course addresses arguments in favor of the promotion of equitable education experience for all learners and problematizes current educational practices and research designed for dehumanization. 

Class dates: July 21st-25th, 2008                                                                                                    Class times: 5pm-8pm                                                                                                            Location: Lookout Room SUB

News & Important Events

Master Graduates Fall 2007 Congratulations!

M. Ed in Bilingual Education                     M. Ed in English as a Second Language 

Deitra Batt                                                            Paula Carroll                                            Silvia Flores                                                         Kristin Cavanaugh                                     Norma Gonzales                                                   Elizabeth Elison                                     Yesenia Guevara                                                  Regina Indart                                        Gilberto Lara                                                        Jami Johnson                                            Maria Leija-Lara                                                   Mary Kaiser                                                  KC Longoria                                                         Christine McGrew                                       Luis Monjarras                                                      Cynthia Sandford                                     Elizabeth Ornelas                                                 Marvin Schroeder                                             Juan Salamanca                                                   Lisa Thilmont                                            Maria Iliana Sandoval                                          Tamara Vandeventer                                 Courtney Shearer                                                                                                                       Tryntje Van Slyke                                                                                                                   Courtney Davlin-Witherel          

Special Guest Speaker: Christine Sleeter

Christine Sleeter, a leading voice in antiracist multicultural Education was invited by the Bilingual Education Department to conduct presentations for graduate, undergraduate students, and faculty members on September 4 and 5 2007 at the Student Union.  The titles of her talks were: “Critical Family History and Historical Memory, “Intellectually Challenging Teaching in Multicultural Classrooms” and “Teaching  for Democracy in an Age of Corporatocracy".