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Norma E. Gonzalez

Language, Reading & Culture
The University of Arizona College of Education
P.O. Box 210069
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0069
Phone: 520-621-1311
Fax: 520-621-1853
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Language, Reading & Culture

Julio Cammarota - Assistant Professor
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Julio Cammarota Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research: Julio Cammarota is the co-director of a youth participatory action research program, the Social Justice Education Project (SJEP). The SJEP teaches high school students in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) how to conduct research on issues and problems related to inequities experienced in their schools and communities.

Teaching: Ethnography of Latino Youth, Latinos and Education, Urban Education, Anthropology of Education, Multicultural Education, Educational Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Race, Class, and Gender Studies, Ethnography of Work, Youth in Society, Social Theory, Globalization, Political Economy.

Julio Cammarota is an assistant professor in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and the Mexican-American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latina/o youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, and liberatory pedagogy. He has published articles on family, work, and education among Latinas/os and on the relationship between culture and academic achievement. He is the co-editor of "Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America’s Youth" (RoutledgeFalmer Press 2006). Cammarota's work has been instrumental with advancing social justice in education and youth development. Currently, he is the co-director of the Social Justice Education Project in Tucson, Arizona.