Cathryn Teasley
(University of A Coruña, Spain)
Cathryn
Teasley is a PhD student in the Department of Pedagogy and Curriculum
Studies in the Experimental Sciences, at the University of A Coruña, Spain,
where she holds a research fellowship in the program Innovation and Research in
Education. She is also currently affiliated with the Division of Language, Literacy
and Culture, at the Graduate School of Education of the University of California,
Berkeley, as a visiting scholar. She is conducting her dissertation research on
anti-bias teacher education, with a special focus on linguistic biases, and how
they relate to expressions of ethnic (including racial) discrimination in teacher
preparation, at both individual and institutional levels. She has come to anti-bias
teacher education not only through her studies in sociology and pedagogy, but
through her eight years of teaching experience both in the California public schools,
as a bilingual resource teacher, and in the Spanish university system, as a lecturer
of English Philology. She is author of "Hacia una pedagogía para la
diversidad en la formación del profesorado de California" ("Toward
a Pedagogy for Diversity in Teacher Education in California") in Alfieri,
F., et.al., Volver a pensar la educación (Vol. II): Prácticas y
discursos educativos (Rethinking Education [Vol. II]: Educational Practice and
Discourse) (Madrid/A Coruña, 1995), and of "El estado actual de
la formación del profesorado para una población escolar culturalmente
diversa. Los programas universitarios de California" ("The Current State
of Teacher Education for Culturally Diverse Students: University Programs in California").
In Comunicaciones del Congreso Internacional: Nuevas Perspectivas Críticas
en Educación(Proceedings from the International Conference on New
Critical Perspectives in Education) (Barcelona, 1994).