Student - College of Education

Jimmy McLean

Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin, expected 2024
M.Ed. in Transformative Education, Miami University (Ohio), 2018
B.S. in Middle Childhood Education (4-9), Xavier University, 2014

Email: mcleanj@utexas.edu
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Jimmy McLean is a doctoral candidate in the Language and Literacy Studies program area in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. A former public school teacher, he is interested in how elementary literacy teachers imagine and enact critical and humanizing pedagogies with their students. Current and future research projects draw on critical, feminist, and queer theories to both contribute to the knowledge bases of literacy studies, critical curriculum studies, and gender/sexuality studies and inform transformative action in K-12 education.

Tracey T Flores (Supervisor)
Dr. Flores' research focuses on Latina mothers and daughters language and literacy practices, the teaching of young writers in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, and family and community literacies.

Noah De Lissovoy (Committee Member)
Examines effects of race, class and capital in schools and society; investigates and extends traditions of critical pedagogy and philosophy.

Adam Crawley (Committee Member)
Researches the inclusion and censorship of LGBTQ+ representation in elementary contexts, particularly via literacy and literature.

Alexander, K. & McLean, J. (2022). Toward a pedagogy of anti-racist professional discernment in elementary literacy learning: Swords to ploughshares.. Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research: From Radical Moments to Movements: Rowman & Littlefield. (View)

McLean, J. (2020). Review of Personalized learning in the middle grades.. Journal of Language & Literacy Education, 16(1), 1–7. http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/McLean_JoLLE2020.pdf.

McLean, J. & Alexander, K. (2020). Disrupting White teacher education. Texas Education Review, 8(2), 71–78. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/82196.

McLean, J.. (2019). Constructivist literacy learning as a vehicle for developing cultural identity and intercultural competence.. Internationalization in the classroom: Going global.: Rowman & Littlefield. (View)