Carlos LópezLeiva, PhD
Chair of the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies (LLSS)
Associate Professor, Bilingual Education
- Hokona Hall 143
- 505 277-7260
- callopez@unm.edu
- lopezleiva-carlos-cv.pdf
- Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction, emphasis in Bilingual Mathematics Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Taught elementary, and secondary school in Guatemala; taught TESOL and bilingual middle school in USA, coordinated math club afterschool program, and was a research fellow at the Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinas/os (CEMELA) in Chicago.
Research & Scholarly Interests
- Social construction of culturally and linguistically diverse learners
- dis/ability construction and positioning
- social dimension of teaching, learning, and doing mathematics in in- and out-of-school environments
- critical pedagogy
- decolonizing pedagogies and research
- identities of bilingual speakers and doers of mathematics
- mathematization
- ethnomathematics
- and practitioner and participatory action research.
Courses
- Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Elementary School
- Language, Culture, and Mathematics
- ESL across content areas
- Education across Cultures of the Southwest
- Exploring Third Spaces in Education
- Curriculum Development in Multicultural Education
