Lilia I. Bartolomé is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. As a teacher educator, Bartolomé's research interests include the preparation of effective teachers of linguistic minority learners in multicultural contexts. In addition to her focus on teacher education, she is also equally interested in working with immigrant parents to ensure that they understand their responsibilities and rights in regards to their children's schooling. In fact, the dual focus of the Title III Parent Teacher Project is to: (1) prepare urgently needed English as a second language (ESL) educators to effectively collaborate with parents of their English language learning (ELLs) students so as to tap and build upon already existing home cultural and linguistic funds of knowledge in school as a way to improve students' academic achievement; and to (2) help immigrant parents in their understanding of how schools work in the United States while simultaneously assisting them in developing the necessary language and literacy skills in English so they can, in turn, participate more fully in the educational process of their children. This project teacher/parent model represents an ongoing two-way conduit between the school, the parents, and the community that will promote the all-around well-being of the ELL student.

Dr. Bartolomé has published the following books: Ideologies in education: Unmasking the Trap of Teacher Neutrality; The Misteaching of Academic Discourses; Immigrant Voices: In Search of Pedagogical Equity (with Henry Trueba), and Dancing with Bigotry: The Poisoning of Culture (with Donaldo Macedo). She is currently in the process of developing a manuscript that discusses immigrant parent education/collaboration.

 

Ideologies in Education: Unmasking the Trap of Teacher Neutrality

(Peter Lang Publishing, January 2008)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pedagogia da Subordinacao

(Edicoes Pedago. December 2007)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dancing with Bigotry: The Poisoning of Culture (with Donaldo Macedo)

( Palgrave Macmillan, September 2001 )

 

 

 

 

 

Immigrant Voices: In Search of Pedagogical Equity (with Henry Trueba)

(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2000)

 

 

 

 

 

 The Misteaching of Academic Discourses

 (Westview Press, April 9, 1998)

 

 

 

 

 

 

updated on 04/02/2010