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John Attinasi

John Attinasi

Joint Professor of Teacher Educatation - Department of Teacher Education
Foundations Professor - Single Subject Credential Program

Office: ED2-182
Phone: 562-985-4955
Email: jattinas@csulb.edu

Website: http://www.csulb.edu/~jattinas

Biography

On leave Fall semester; in residence Spring semester.

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Degrees

Ph.D. [Linguistic Anthropology] , University of Chicago , 1973

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Research Interests

Education and Culture. Multicultural and Bilingual Education. Language and Educational Policy. Sociolinguistics: dialect diversity, language maintenance. Indigenous languages of Mexico and Central America. Chol Mayan.

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Representative Publications

See my personal website: http://www.csulb.edu/~jattinas

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Campus Leadership

Chair of Linguistics--current; Chair of Teacher Education 1998. Director of Bilingual Education Programs--1993-2004. International Teacher Education Council [ITEC]-founding Chair. Veffie Milstead Jones Endowment in Education committee--1994-2004.

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Current Projects

Survey of Indigenous Mexican and Guatemalan languages in communities of Southern California. Critical pedagogy and transformation of teachers in multilingual schools. Language immersion in international settings.

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Last update: 7/18/07
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