Faculty

Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Associate Professor and Early Childhood Education Program Head.

She received her Ph.D. from The University of California, Santa Barbara in Crosscultural Education and is a former bilingual teacher and teacher of English as a second language. She teaches courses on families, schools, and communities; research on teaching and classroom culture; anthropology and education; multicultural teacher education, and teacher action research. Her research interests include family-school linkages in diverse contexts, mathematics teaching and learning, and professional development and teacher education in multicultural and multilingual settings. She is participating in the development of alternative approaches to teacher education and the integration of multicultural perspectives in programs in the College of Education. She has evaluated and conducted research with a number of National Science Foundation projects designed to improve mathematics teaching and learning such as MAPPS (Math and Parent Partnerships in the Southwest), PRIME (Program for [Systemic] Reform in Mathematics Education, and IMEDC (Improving Mathematics Education in Diverse Classrooms. Representative publications are:

Allexsaht-Snider, M., & Hart, L. (2001). Mathematics for all:how do we get there? Theory into Practice.

Allexsaht-Snider, M. (1996). Windows into diverse worlds: The telling and sharing of teachers' life histories. Education and Urban Society, 29(1), 103-119.

Allexsaht-Snider, M., Deegan, J. D., & White, C. S. (1995). Educational renewal in an alternative teacher education program: Evolution of a school-university partnership. Teaching and Teacher Education, 10(2), 519-530.