Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

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Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

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Chicano Studies-education and language of Chicanos and other Latinos within the U.S.

Education-bilingual instruction and methods; U.S. educational history and policy analysis; social context of curriculum design and implementation; multicultural curricular issues.

Linguistics-bilingualism (language demography, language maintenance and shift); language policy & planning with focus on the U.S. (especially language policy as a mechanism of social control).

Education-Bilingual education, biliteracy instruction, bilingual/ESL methodology, multicultural education, educational policy, language assessment and language use in the classroom, alternative schooling, language instruction and learning (reading, writing, and oral language), and futures.

Sociolinguistics-Applied sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language policy and planning, language demography, language change, methodology.

Chicana/o Studies-Chicano language and speech, Chicana/o Studies introduction, survey and theory courses, education and the Chicano.

Department of Education

Education Law

Education Policy

English Language Learners

Higher Education

History of Education

Multicultural Education

Reynaldo Macias

Urban Schooling

Ph.D., Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1979

M.S., Linguistics, Georgetown University, 1977

M.A., Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973

B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969

Macías, R.F. and Kathy O’Byrne. 2006. The Engaging Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies: UCLA in LA. In Kevin Kecskes, ed. The Engaged Department. Anker Publishers, Inc.

Macías, R. F. 2005. El Grito en Aztlán: Voice and Presence in Chicana/o Studies. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. (Special Issue on Chicana/o Studies). 18:2 (March-April). pp. 165-184.

Macías, R.F. 2005. Bilingualism and Multilingualism. In MaryAnne Cline Horowitz, ed. New Dictionary on the History of Ideas. Vol. 1. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons. pp. 209-213.

Macías, R.F., Victoria-María MacDonald, and Juan Carrillo. 2005. Bilingual Education. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 170-176.

Macías, Reynaldo F. 2003. Language Minority Students: Scope of the Issue. In James W. Guthrie.