Assistant Professor
Department of Teacher Education, College of Education
116E Erickson
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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