Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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About Me
- Barbara Monroe
- As a nontraditional student, I got my degrees in three different decades: BA, UHouston, 1969; MA, Southwest Texas State, 1975; PhD,UTexas 1992. Along the way, I raised a family (two daughters) and taught school for ten years, Grades 7-12. Although I taught all ability levels of English Language Arts (as well as History and Journalism), my favorite classes were the so-called "incorrigibles"--because they already critically questioned "the system." From them, I learned what mattered to me as a teacher: critical literacy. My current research interest focuses on the indigenous rhetoric of the Plateau Indians--and how that influence is still manifest in student writing today in reservation schools. My graduate seminars focus on teaching writing to working-class students of color. Much of my research has been funded through grants I've administered: over $4 million in all.