Vincent Werito, PhD
Program Coordinator, American Indian Education (AIE)
Associate Professor, American Indian Education
- Hokona Hall 202
- 505 277-1832
- vwerito@unm.edu
- Ph.D., Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies; University of New Mexico
Elementary & Secondary education Teacher, Navajo Language Teacher, Language & Cultural Resource teacher, Native American Studies, Native American History and Navajo Curriculum Writer/Developer, Native Language assessment development, and Navajo and Indigenous Education.
Research & Scholarly Interests
Dine Education, Dine Language, Indigenous Pedagogy, Critical Indigenous Theory, Indigenous Language revitalization, Indigenous Research, Critical Race Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Multicultural Education, decolonization, and Transformative educational Models.
Courses
- Issues in American Indian Education
- History of American Indian Education
- Education Across Cultures of the Southwest
- Topics in Navajo Bilingual Education Curriculum development
- Teaching the Native American Child
- Decolonizing Pedagogies
- Critical Race Theory
