Biomedical Research
Genomic Medicine: Investigating the role of genetics in health and disease to personalize medical treatments.
Clinical Trials
Conducting controlled experiments to the safety and efficacy of new medical drugs, or interventions.
Public Health Research
Addressing population-level health issues, studying epidemiology, preventive measures, and health policy.
Materials
This is a collection of projects stemming from research and development in Critical Pedagogies at the University of California, Riverside, and from collaborations with colleagues at the University of Oregon, Western Illinois University, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Yale University, and the Autonomous University of Baja California in Mexico. The units presented here can be adapted for language teaching in general, for teaching Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, and for students with diverse linguistic backgrounds. Our focus is on content that supports language instructors in creating a curriculum incorporating elements of inclusive critical pedagogies.
CriSoLL Project
What does transformation for social and linguistic justice look like in lan-
guage teaching? What is the relationship between language education and critical literacy for social and linguistic justice? How can we achieve transformative lan-
guage education on a daily basis in the classroom? These thematic units facilitate recognizing how we manipulate language forms to make meaning and to engage and prompt other people’s reactions consciously or unconsciously. Our focus is on content that supports language instructors in creating a curriculum incorporating elements of inclusive critical pedagogies.
CriSoLL K-12
This project, led by teachers and Ph.D. students in the College of Education at the University of California, Riverside, Cristina Sánchez, Angélica Sierra, and Sofía Rivas, adapts and creates new thematic units. This material has been designed for elementary, middle, and high school education to promote the development of Critical Sociocultural Linguistic Literacy (CriSoLL). This project is also supported by the Just Futures Mellon Grant (photo by Fabrice Florin).
Empowering Learners of Spanish Project
Sponsored by the Renaissance Grant at the University of Oregon, ELS is a collection of activities based on critical pedagogies that serves to introduce students to a range of concepts in sociolinguistics and critical inquiry into language ideologies. The ESL project is published online by the Center for Open Educational Resources for Language Learning (COERLL) at the University of Texas at Austin ( https://espanolabierto.org/). The authors have been recognized with the UT OER Master Creator Badge https://community.coerll.utexas.edu/
Critical Literacy and Deaf Culture
Sponsored by a grant from the UC Mexus-CONACYT/CONAHCYT Alliance, this is a collaborative initiative between the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) in Mexicali. Using applied linguistics through the CriSoLL approach, innovative teaching materials are developed to foster critical awareness of human communication. Often, educators in higher education are unaware of the social dynamics that perpetuate the marginalization of deaf people. Because the first language of most deaf students at UABC is Mexican Sign Language (LSM), a visual language, this study and pedagogical application also developed the theoretical approach of Relational Structure as a method of graphic analysis for the development of visual teaching materials in the area of decolonial graphic design. (Image Design, Dr. Cynthia R. Mendoza Casanova).
Teach in Spanglish Project
Becoming Culturally Responsive
