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.
3MT Winner, University of Colorado Boulder (2018)
Mitchell D Ingram, Ph.D., expected 2019 (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 hegemonic systems and what this could mean for theory, pedagogy, and practice.
Desiree Pallais-Downing (Committee Member)
Desirée Pallais is a PhD candidate in the Bilingual/Bicultural program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is very interested in critically examining how assumptions derived from established ideologies and policy initiatives, guide educators in different contexts. She investigates cross-language and cross-cultural aspects of teaching and learning with Spanish-speaking populations, especially in the area of literacy. Her current work is focused on using discourse analytic techniques to identify the linguistic and pedagogical contributions, and...
Mohit P Mehta (Supervisor)
| Year | Semester | Course |
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| 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 |
