Cultural Historical Research SIG 30


Co-Chairs of SIG-30

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Patricia Martínez-Álvarez
Associate Professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education
Teachers College, Columbia University 
pmartinez@tc.columbia.edu

Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, PhD, is an associate professor in the program in Bilingual/Bicultural Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Employing cultural historical and critical disability theories, Dr. Martínez-Álvarez's research exposes the educational inequities that bilingual children with a disability experience in schools and prepares teachers for enacting inclusive education in bilingual programs. She is an Early Career AERA awardee from the Bilingual Education Research SIG and a recipient of the 2017 Early Career Reviewer Award from the Bilingual Research Journal and the 2023 Reviewer Award from the Research in the Teaching of English journal. Dr. Martínez-Álvarez is the co-chair of the AERA Cultural-Historical research SIG, an Associate Editor for the Teachers College Record, and an editor of the Exceptional Children journal. She has multiple publications, including her 2022 book Teacher Education for Inclusive Bilingual Contexts with Routledge and her 2023 book Teaching Emergent Bilingual Students With Dis/Abilities with the Teachers College Press. Visit Patricia’s Faculty Page

Selected Publications 
Martínez-Álvarez, P. (2023). Teaching emergent bilingual students with dis/abilities: Humanizing pedagogies to engage learners and eliminate labels. In A. J. Artiles (series ed.), Disability, Culture and Equity book seriesTeachers College Press. https://www.tcpress.com/teaching-emergent-bilingual-students-with-dis/abilities-9780807768105?page_id=1655

Martínez-Álvarez, P. (2022). Teacher education for inclusive bilingual contexts: Collective reflection to support emergent bilinguals with and without disabilities. In Routledge Research in Teacher Education book series. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003112259


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Monica Lemos
Cognition, Learning, Instruction & Communication
Escola Castanheiras/University of Helsinki 
monica.lemos@gmail.com

Monica Lemos, PhD, has recently defended the PhD expanding educational activities beyond school walls, which comprised a formative intervention in creative chain of activities and the study of a secondary students' social movement to improve educational management in São Paulo.  Dr. lemos research experience comprises her participation in the language and activities in educational contexts (lace) research group since the beginning of the 2000's, group in which she has been taking part as a researcher in different projects. In addition, she also contributes to the research group at (working accidents), who is involved in formative interventions to prevent working accidents and improve workers wellbeing using the framework of the change laboratory. Dr. Lemos contributes to the Mind Culture and Activity- An International Journal and Cultural Praxis collective and she is the current co-chair of the AERA Cultural-historical Research SIG.

Dr. Lemos works as a Pedagogical Coordinator in São Paulo, Brazil. linkedin 

Selected publications 
Lemos, M. & Cunha Júnior, F. (2018) Facebook in Brazilian schools: Mobilizing to fight back, Mind, Culture, and Activity, 25:1, 53-67,doi: 10.1080/10749039.2017.1379823

Lemos, M. & Liberali, F. (2019) The creative chain of activities towards educational management transformation. International Journal of Educational Management. vol. 33 no. 7, 2019 pp. 1718-1732 Emerald Publishing Limited 0951-354x doi 10.1108/ijem-08-2017-0219