Merging my graduate degree training in developmental psychology (Ph.D., 2002) and in applied linguistics (Ph.D., 2004), I have developed a research program that is centrally concerned with the role of language and literacy practices in children’s development and education.
As a developmental psychologist, I have always been interested in discerning the sociocultural underpinnings of learning processes. The cognitive capabilities that our neurological apparatus enables us as human beings to attain do not pre-exist and are never abstracted from the social practices in which they...
Glynda Hull holds the Elizabeth H. and Eugene A. Shurtleff Chair in Undergraduate Education. A recipient of UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Hull offers undergraduate, graduate, and teacher education courses on literacy and media, and her research focuses on improving K-12 education with a focus on literacy, language, and technology.
Hull has published more than 100 articles, chapters, and books on topics ranging from the teaching of writing; digital technologies and their uses in schools; adult literacy and the changing contexts and requirements for work; and community,...
Patricia Baquedano-López is Professor of Education at the Berkeley School of Education. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist and as an applied linguist at UCLA, she is a scholar with a long-standing interest in the education of racialized and minoritized students in schools. She draws from decolonial and Indigenous thought in her recent projects on transnational Indigenous sovereignty and education in the Maya diaspora Yucatan-California. She is a member of the Decolonial Knowledges Working Group at the Latinx Research Center at UC Berkeley which is dedicated to the study and engagement...
Cati V. de los Ríos is an Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. de los Ríos's research applies critical, sociocultural, and translingual theories to examine the literacy and language practices of immigrant and bi/multilingual youth populations. Her ethnographic, community-based, and participatory research is situated at the axes of literacy studies, educational anthropology, civic and political learning, and ethnic studies, with an emphasis on studying the linguistic-semiotic repertoires that Latina/o/x youth and families deploy and...
Kristin Keane is Assistant Professor of Reading Development in the Berkeley School of Education. She uses mixed methods to study elementary literacy development and instruction in the modern, digital era. She examines 1) how multimodal, digital literacies, and technological approaches impact the teaching and learning of reading, particularly comprehension and text-based discussions, 2) how to best implement evidence-based reading instruction in classrooms, and 3) how varied types of text can be used by teachers as a lever for benefiting students’ meaning making and engagement.
