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Lucia Cardenas Curiel

Assistant Professor

Department of Teacher Education, College of Education

116E Erickson

Area of Expertise

Curriculum Instruction and Teacher EducationElementary EducationTeaching and Teacher EducationTeaching and Teacher Education

Biography

Lucia Cardenas Curiel examines literacy practices that authentically engage culturally and linguistically diverse students in the classroom and support their academic success in schools. Her work explores the relationship between language, literacy, and the use of a variety of texts to understand how young learners build knowledge in different subject areas, in particular Latina/o bilingual children. Her interests include using multicultural literature in the elementary classroom to discuss issu

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Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin