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Alexander, Rebecca - Faculty Bio

Alexander, Rebecca

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(765) 658-4421

7 East Larabee Street Room 318
Greencastle, Indiana
46135

Education Studies 

Director of the Sanger Leadership Initiative

Courses Taught

  • EDU 170 Foundations of Education
  • EDU 197 The Cyborg and the Trickster: The Human Educational Machine
  • EDU 223 Deconstructing Differences
  • EDU 240 Issues and Trends in Education
  • EDU 290 Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory
  • EDU 290 Banned Books, Banned Pedagogy
  • EDU 290 Decolonizing Education
  • EDU 297 Social Justice and Education

Publications

  • "Thinking through the Decolonial Turn in Research and Praxis: advancing New Understandings of the Community-School Relation in latino/a Parent Involvement" (2014) with P. Baquedano-Lopez and S. J. Hernandez. In Portes, P. R., Salas, S., Baquedano-Lopez, P., & Mellom, P. Eds. U.S. Latinos and Education Policy. Routledge.
  • "Equity Issues in Parental and Community Involvement in Schools: What Teacher Educators Need to Know" with P. Baquedano-Lopez and S.J. Hernandez. Review of Research in Education, 37, 149-181.
  • "Marketing Whiteness: Geographies of Colorblind Liberalism." (2009) Institute for the Study of Social Change, Graduate Fellows Working Paper Series, UC Berkeley.

Education

  • Ph.D., Social and Cultural Studies in Education, UC Berkeley, 2012
  • MA, Social and Cultural Studies in Education, UC Berkeley, 2005
  • BA (Summa Cum Laude), Globalization/Interdisciplinary Studies, Humboldt State University, 2002

Honors and Awards

  • Institute for the Study of Social Change Fellow (2007-2009)
  • Summer Grant, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley (2007)
  • Spencer Foundation Research Training Grant (2004-2005)
  • Department Award, Department of Education, UC Berkeley (2003 and 2007)