Paty Abril-Gonzalez completed her PhD in Social, Multicultural, and Bilingual Foundations with an Emphasis in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her dissertation is titled: Recuerdos, Expresiones y Sueños en Nepantla: Identity Journeys through Spoken, Written, and Artistic Testimonios. Her research agenda includes exploring long-term caring relationships between bilingual Latinx teachers, students, and their families through Chicana Feminist orientations using qualitative arts-based methods.
Prior to her returning to graduate school Paty Abril-Gonzalez was a bilingual elementary school teacher for 7 years in Denver, Colorado, including dual immersion and traditional bilingual education settings. She taught in the same district where she learned English as a young student years before.
Ph.D. in Social, Multicultural, and Bilingual Foundations with an emphasis in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction, Elementary Bilingual, & ESL, University of Colorado Denver, 2009
B.A. in Art History, University of Colorado Boulder, 2003
B.S. in Business Marketing, University of Colorado Boulder, 2003
Research interests include relationship building among bilingual Latinx elementary students, their families, and their teachers.
Committee Member, Cultural Diversity and Global Culture Flags, (2019 - Present)
3MT Winner, University of Colorado Boulder (2018)
Mitchell D Ingram (Committee Member)
Mitch's research interests include the role of humor as a site for the mobilization of community cultural wealth, relajo in bilingual contexts and he is passionate about the different linguistic varieties, dichos, refranes, modismos, and chistes of the Spanish-speaking world. In addition, he is fascinated by how minoritized mono/bilingual Spanish-speakers leverage humor in both affiliative and disaffiliative ways to navigate the US education system and what this could mean for theory, pedagogy, and practice.
Desiree Pallais-Downing (Committee Member)
Desirée Pallais holds a PhD from the Bilingual/Bicultural program at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Pallais investigates cross-language and cross-cultural aspects of teaching and learning, especially with Spanish-speaking and Latino populations. Pallais main focus is on Spanish literacy, as part of a strengths-based approach for reading and writing instruction, with prospective bilingual teachers. Her work examines how assumptions derived from established ideologies and policy initiatives guide educators in different teaching and learning contexts,...
Year | Semester | Course |
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2020 | Fall | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-Y |
2020 | Fall | EDC 381F: Intro To Teaching & Teacher Ed |
2020 | Spring | EDC 370E: 20-Teach Eng As Sec Lang-D |
2020 | Spring | EDC 381F: Intro To Teaching & Teacher Ed |
2019 | Fall | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-D |
2019 | Fall | EDC 385G: 96-Biliteracy/New Lit Studies |
2019 | Spring | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-R |
2018 | Fall | EDC 370E: 2-Language Arts-Y |