Dear Paulo Freire SIG members,

 

This is the ballot to elect new officers for the AERA Freire SIG Executive 
committee members.  We are very please and grateful to have many 
volunteers.  The Freire SIG Nominating Committee carefully chose those 
that were in good stand with the SIG as described in our new bylaws.  We 
certainly hope to have other positions opening in the near future for 
those interested in making a contribution, we will let you know in our 
newsletters.  Please see the ballot for this year’s election, below as 
text; read instructions, respective bios and vote accordingly.  I look 
forward to seeing you all in New York.

Warm regards,

Cesar

 

 

From Cesar Rossatto 

Chair of Nominating Committee for Paulo Freire SIG executive offices. 

 

Dear Colleagues,

These are the offices to be filled:

 

(1)    Secretary-Treasurer 

(2)    Communications Chairperson 

(3)    Program Chairperson 

(4)    Program Chairperson-Elect 

(5)    SIG Chairperson-Elect

 

Please read candidates’ bios and respective offices they are applying for 
and respond to me (Cesar: [log in to unmask]) by using the reply tab, with 
your vote.

 

 

Official Ballot for the Paulo Freire SIG Executive Offices

 

 

(1) Please read Pierre’s bio and vote accordingly below:

 

Secretary-Treasurer

 

Pierre Orelus, a native of Haiti, is currently a doctoral candidate at the 
University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 1997, Pierre finished his 
bachelor’s in Human Services Advocacy from the University of Massachusetts 
at Boston. In 2001, Pierre earned a Master’s degree in applied linguistics 
with a focus on ESL (English as a Second Language) from the same 
university. A former high school teacher in the Boston public school and a 
current cultural studies college instructor, Pierre has been conducting 
research in western Massachusetts that involves urban middle school 
teachers. His research interest includes: critical pedagogy, critical 
literacy, teacher education, colonial, neocolonial and gender studies. 
Pierre has spoken nationally and internationally about these issues. 
Pierre has been the beneficiary of several fellowships, including ALANA 
minority fellowship (Umass-Amherst, 2003-2004), ACCELA (Umass-Amherst, 
2004-2006) Robert E. Evans, Jr. fellowship (Holyoke Community College, 
2005-2006) and New Perspective Fellowship (Greenfield Community College, 
2006-2007). Pierre Orelus recently wrote a book called Education under 
Occupation, which has been well received nationally and internationally. 

 

__ I support Pierre Orelus as Secretary - Treasurer officer for the AERA 
Paulo Freire SIG.

__ I do not support Pierre Orelus as Secretary - Treasurer officer for the 
AERA Paulo Freire SIG 

 

 

(2) Please read Richard and Brad’s bios and chose one candidate.

 

Communications Chairperson:

 

RICHARD KAHN, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations 
and Research at the University of North Dakota. He is a SIG member in good 
standing who has demonstrated commitments to advancing the work of Paulo 
Freire in his scholarship and organizational praxis. His interest in being 
Communications Chairperson is so that he can lend his skills to the 
greater development of the Freirian community and coordinate/promote its 
various events and initiatives. He has significant web design experience, 
having created and maintained a wide range of websites such as for Peter 
McLaren, Doug Kellner, his own (http://richardkahn.org), and most recently 
for the Ecopedagogy Association International (http://ecopedagogy.org). 
For Ecopedagogy Association he has begun to coordinate the assembly and 
distribution of a monthly newsletter and previously had done so over 16 
months as Web Manager for the California Institute of Integral Studies in 
1999. He has managed listservs for over a decade.

 

Brad J. Porfilio is Assistant Professor of Education at Saint Louis 
University. He received is PhD. in Sociology of Education in 2005 at the 
University at Buffalo. During his doctoral studies, he served as an 
Assistant Professor of Education at Medaille College and D’Youville 
College, where he taught courses across the teacher education spectrum and 
supervised pre-service and in-service teachers from Canada and the US. His 
research interests include urban education, neoliberalism and schooling, 
critical literacy, and cultural studies. Selected recent publications 
include The Possibilities of Transformation: Critical Research and Peter 
McLaren in The International Journal of Progressive Education 2(3) and 
Student as Consumers: A Critical Narrative of the Commercialization of 
Teacher Education, in The Journal for Critical Educational Policy Studies 4
(1). He has also co-edited a volume An International Examination of Urban 
Education: The Destructive Path of Neoliberalism (Sense) with Dr. Curry 
Malott, which will be published this spring. 

 

Chose only one:

 

__ I support Richard Kahn as Communication Chair Person officer for the 
AERA Paulo Freire SIG.

 

or

 

__ I support Brad Porfilio as Communication Chair Person officer for the 
AERA Paulo Freire SIG.

 

 

(3) Please read Suzanne’s bio and vote accordingly:

 

Program Chairperson

 

Suzanne SooHoo is a professor in the School of Education and the co-
director of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project at Chapman University in 
Orange, California. She has been a member of AERA for the past 17 years 
and has been an active member and served as a program chair for Division K 
and for the Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG. Publications 
include Talking Leaves: Narratives of Otherness, Hampton Press, We Change 
the World by Doing Nothing in Teacher Education Quarterly and Politics, 
Pragmatics and Passion in Scholarly Partnerships Education. She teaches 
courses in multicultural education, critical pedagogy, curriculum studies 
and teacher research. Current research interests include promising 
recruitment and retention practices of faculty of color and international 
perspectives of social justice. I have been a member of the bylaws 
committee for the Paulo Freire SIG and would be very interested in serving 
the SIG again. 

 

__I support Suzanne SooHoo as Program Chairperson officer for the AERA 
Paulo Freire SIG.

__I do not support Suzanne SooHoo as Program Chairperson officer for the 
AERA Paulo Freire SIG.

 

(4) Please read Vivian’s bio and vote accordingly:

 

Program Chairperson Elect

 

Vivian Lopez’ dissertation, Forging a path of ACTION toward liberation: 
How Research As Praxis (RAP) provides opportunities for conscientización 
in a group of Méxicanas along a U.S./México border town.  She utilizes 
Paulo Freire’s work to frame her dialogic and activist efforts with 
Méxicana immigrant, Chicana, and Indígena women within a colonia on the 
U.S./México border. This study documents Las Mujeres’ transformations and 
praxis to counter dehumanization acts experienced including violations of 
their civil and human rights, long-standing mis-educational practices such 
as linguicide, identity desensitizing, and abominable gender practices. 
Vivian’s research interest include social justice & equity issues in 
education, critical literacy, bilingual & critical multicultural 
education, parents’ voices within education, identity/language/culture, 
research as praxis, border issues, and issues relating to Indigenous 
peoples, Latinos, immigrants, and disenfranchised populations.  Vivian 
will earn a Ph.D. in Literacy, Language, & Culture from the Curriculum & 
Instruction department at NMSU.

 

__I support Vivian Lopez as Program Chairperson Elect officer for the AERA 
Paulo Freire SIG.

__I do not support Vivian Lopez as Program Chairperson Elect officer for 
the AERA Paulo Freire SIG.

 

 

(5) Please read Hermán and Michele’s bios and chose one candidate.

 

SIG Chairperson-Elect

 

Hermán S. García received his doctorate in curriculum and instruction from 
New Mexico State University in 1982.  After graduating from NMSU, Dr. 
García taught at Eastern Washington University, Texas Tech University and 
Texas A&M University, respectively.  While teaching at Texas Tech, he took 
time to study and complete Postdoctoral Studies at Harvard University in 
Higher Education Administration in the areas of Management and 
Leadership.  He returned to join the College of Education as a faculty 
member in the fall of 1991 and currently serves as Regents Professor of 
Curriculum and Instruction.  He served as Department Head of Curriculum 
and Instruction at NMSU from 1997-2003 and Associate Department from 1995-
1997.  He is a nationally recognized critical bilingual educator and has 
authored and co-authored numerous articles, chapters, and books in 
critical bilingual education.  He has written grants to support teachers 
and students begin and complete their teaching degrees in bilingual 
education and ESL.  He has obtained over $6 Million dollars in grant 
writing.

 

Michele Hamilton has been in education for 15 years as an English Teacher, 
Secondary Administrator and After School Literacy Director.  She completed 
her Ed. D. from the University of the Pacific in Educational 
Administration and Leadership.  As a former assistant principal at an 
urban high school, Michele became increasingly concerned with the 
disproportionate number of at-risk and underrepresented students who were 
being processed through the school’s disciplinary system.  Her current 
dissertation, Restorative Justice:  Reconceptualizing School Disciplinary 
Theory and Practice examines the use of Circles to address behavioral 
infractions among high school students.  Her work also utilizes Paulo 
Freire’s theory of liberation and problem-posing education as a tool to 
engage administrators, teachers and students in dialogical pedagogy around 
issues of discipline, self-discovery and behavior.  Finally, Michele will 
present Critical Pedagogy and the Restructuring of School Discipline 
during the Involving Other Freirean Participatory Research Session at the 
2008 AERA Annual Meeting. 

Chose only one:

 

__ I support Hermán S. García as SIG Chairperson-Elect officer for the 
AERA Paulo Freire SIG.

 

or

 

__ I support Michele Hamilton as SIG Chairperson-Elect officer for the 
AERA Paulo Freire SIG.

 

César Augusto Rossatto, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Critical Pedagogy & Multiculturalism and Social Justice

The University of Texas at El Paso

College of Education, Room #812

El Paso, TX 79968-0574

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