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"Only by being true to the full growth of all of the individuals who make it up, can society by any chance be true to itself." (John Dewey, 1900)
Teaching is not telling -- it's about my students, not me. To teach is to provide the time, experiences, and supports necessary for learners to develop personally valued knowledge, understanding, and skills. My role as a university educator is to collaboratively construct and ferociously protect that learning space. . |
Julia
Scherba de Valenzuela, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Special Education (Mental Retardation and Severe Disabilities Concentration: Studies in Educational Equity for Diverse Exceptional Learners) The University of New Mexico I also sit on the faculty of Bilingual Education/TESOL and Educational Linguistics at UNM.
The primary purpose of this website is to provide:
Office Hours (Summer 2009-Summer 2010):
If you need help with advising, please contact the Program Coordinator of your respective program: Special Education - Prof. Liz Keefe, Bilingual Education/TESOL - Prof. Holbrook Mahn, and Educational Linguistics - Prof. Lois Meyer (beginning August, 2009). . |
I have been a faculty member in the College of Education at UNM since 1998. My work is shaped around the notion of disability as a social construction and I currently am exploring that idea within the areas of bilingual special education (e.g. disproportionate representation), language socialization and communication development among culturally and linguistically diverse populations, portrayals of individuals with disability in the media, and alternative assessment/evaluation.
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