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| Silvia Bettez, Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Culture, Curriculum, & Change, UNCG; Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, UNCG Tel: 336.334.3492 Email: scbettez@uncg.edu |
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Biographical Information
Silvia Bettez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a bilingual, bicultural, mixed-race Latina - the daughter of a Colombian mom and a U.S.-born French Canadian father.Silvia is a former community educator. Her work has always involved the promotion of social justice, and she has a particular interest in cross-cultural understanding and communication.
Her primary areas of research and teaching specialization include: sociology of education; race, class, and gender intersections; critical multicultural education; qualitative research methods; and feminist gender studies. She has publications that cover a variety of topics related to social justice including: social justice activist teaching, experiences of Latinas in higher education, stories of mixed race women, and teaching about globalization issues. Currently, she is embarking upon a new research project that involves interviewing mother-daughter, refugee pairs from Burma, Vietnam, and various African countries about their experiences of schooling and education before and after relocating to the United States.
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