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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)
Julia in her garden
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.
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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:
  • information about my courses to enrolled and prospective students,
  • an alternative means to access the materials and content of my courses, and
  • additional resources related to these courses.

Office Hours (Summer 2009-Summer 2010):
    I am on sabbatical for the 2009-2010 academic year (August-May). In addition, I am not teaching summer school during summers preceeding and following my sabbatical (2009 and 2010). I will not be holding regularly scheduled office hours during this period of time.
    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).
NOTE: Please contact me by e-mail to schedule an appointment. Please be patient in awaiting a response during this time, as I will be out of town and not have access to e-mail for extended periods of time. I will not be available via phone at all during this period of time.
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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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