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Michele Malamud Kahn
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Suite 1325 |
UH-Clear Lake |
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Educational |
2002 Doctor
of Philosophy The University
of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Major:
Curriculum and Instruction First
Minor: Language and Culture Second
Minor: Foundations of Education 1994 Master
of Arts
Major:
Teaching of Languages (Spanish Emphasis) The
University of Southern Mississippi 1992 Bachelor
of Fine Arts Major: Theatre
(Acting and Directing) The University
of Southern Mississippi |
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Areas of
Expertise |
Multicultural education |
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Summary of |
2004- Present The
University of Houston-Clear Lake Assistant
Professor of Multicultural Education Department
of Studies in Language and Culture School
of Education Courses
taught: SILC 6030 Foundations of Multicultural Education SILC
4135 Theories of American Pluralism 2002- 2004 The
University of Houston-Victoria Assistant
Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Courses taught: C & I 6332 Education in a Multicultural Society C & I 3323 Instructional Design C&I
3326 The Professional Educator [On-line]
C&I
4310 Teaching Diverse Populations ESE 4307, MSE 4307 & SED 4308 Early, Middle and Secondary School
Professional Seminar FED 6321 Foundations of Educational Research FED 3321 Educational Foundations of Teaching LNG 3310 Introduction to Language
LNG 4310 Language and Reading 1997-2002
The University
of Alabama Graduate Research and Teaching
Assistant Teacher Intern Supervisor
Taught CSE 493: Diversity Block Seminar and CSE 489:
Clinical Experiences in Secondary Schools (Foreign language) 1996-1997 UMS-Wright
Preparatory School Spanish
teacher
Mobile,
AL 1995-1996 The
University of Southern Mississippi Visiting
Spanish instructor
Hattiesburg,
MS 1995 Hattiesburg
High School Spanish
teacher
Hattiesburg,
MS 1994-1995 William
Carey College on the Coast Spanish
Instructor
Biloxi,
MS 1994 inlingua, international language center Consultant New
Orleans, LA 1993-1994 Oak
Grove Middle School Foreign
Language Exploratory Program (FLEX) The
University of Southern Mississippi
Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Hattiesburg,
MS |
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Current
Research |
Teacher dress codes, heterosexism, religious beliefs in
education, empathy and prejudice. |
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Teaching Areas |
Multicultural Education |
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Publications
and Presentations |
When the
public good and organizational imperative meet: Individual and collective
reflections on the faculty academy as a site of struggle and growth (April, 2006)
Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA) San Francisco, CA Learning from students’ life
altering experiences: Simulating conditions for belief examination and change
(April, 2006) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Educational Research Association (AERA) San Francisco, CA Love and hate in the diversity
class: Can we teach teachers to care? (February, 2006) Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Hispanic and
Latino Studies (NAHLS) Baton Rouge, LA Heterosexual hegemony:
Addressing gay and lesbian issues in the multicultural classroom (February,
2006) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of
Hispanic and Latino Studies (NAHLS) Baton Rouge, LA Enabling Empathy: An approach
for positive human connection in the multicultural education classroom (November,
2005) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational
Studies Association (AESA) Charlottesville, VA. The faculty academy: Enhancing
scholarship, developing community (October, 2005) Symposium presented with Cheryl Craig, Linda Ellis,
Andrea Forster, Catherine Horn, Mimi Lee, Carrie Markello, Susan McCormack,
Heidi Mullins, Emma Schorzman, Doris Williams-Smith, and Denise McDonald at
the annual meeting of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum
(AATC) Austin, TX World citizenship: How
imagination and empathy can help diversity students make global connections (October,
2005) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of
Teaching and Curriculum (AATC) Austin, TX Creating emotionally safe and
intellectually challenging classroom communities (April, 2005)
Workshop presented at the International Conference, “Diversity in an
International Context,” organized by the Centre for Intercultural Studies of
the University of Verona (Italy) the International Association for
Intercultural Education (IAIE), The City of Verona and with the cooperation
of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Verona, Italy The importance of empathy in creating world citizens: Stanislavski’s
use of action, faith, imagination, memory and communion (April, 2005)
Paper presented at the International Conference, “Diversity in an
International Context,” organized by the Centre for Intercultural Studies of
the University of Verona (Italy) the International Association for
Intercultural Education (IAIE), The City of Verona and with the cooperation
of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Verona, Italy Mujer,
levanta la voz! How feminist pedagogy can empower Latinas in school
(February 2005) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National
Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies (NAHLS) Houston, TX Gender
and gender equity discourse: Teachers talk about being female
(February 2005) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National
Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies (NAHLS) Houston, TX Engaging
education students in diversity issues: Lessons from the theatre
(February 2005) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National
Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies (NAHLS) Houston, TX Teachers’ Bodies: Reproduction
and Policing of Normative Femininity (November, 2004). Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association
(AESA), Kansas City, MO Gender equity and the irony of being a female teacher: An
exploration into women’s beliefs about gender (April
2004). Paper accepted at the annual meeting of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA) San Diego, CA Women high school teachers’
gendered lives (April, 2003). Paper presented at the annual meeting of
the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL Women teachers’ gender role
constructions of their students (November, 2002). Paper presented at
the annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA),
Pittsburgh, PA |
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Service
Activities |
Nominations and Elections Committee Diversity Plan Committee Teacher Certification Council Educational Policies and Courses
Committee Faculty Senator Ed.D. Activities: Course Development and Teaching in the
Communications Core, Dissertation Committees |
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Special
Recognition |
Phi Kappa Phi member (2005) Outstanding Dissertation Research (2003) Enron Teaching Award Nominee (2000) |
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Recommended WWW
sites |
Human Rights Campaign http://hrc.org/ Anti-Defamation League http://www.adl.org/default.htm Teaching Tolerance http://www.tolerance.org/index.jsp Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html |