Carlos LópezLeiva, PhD
Chair of the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies (LLSS)
Associate Professor: Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies; Bilingual/TESOL
- Hokona Hall 292
- 505 277-7260
- callopez@unm.edu
- lopezleiva-carlos-cv.pdf
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
TESOL, elementary, and secondary school teacher in Guatemala; TESOL instructor, math club coordinator, and 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 different environments
- critical pedagogy
- identity development of Latinas/os and/or Hispanics as bilingual speakers and as doers of mathematics
- mathematization processes
- practitioner and participatory action research
Courses
- Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Elementary School
- Integrating Mathematics, Science, & TESOL
- Education Across Cultures of the Southwest
- Curriculum Development in Multicultural Education
- The Teaching of Reading in the Bilingual Classroom (La Enseñanza de la Lectura)
