LUIS E. POZA
“To be a teacher who wants to affirm your students, who wants to give them the tools and the skills to be able to raise their own voice, to express the ideas and the brilliance that they bring with them into that classroom but having to do it in a climate of fear, takes its toll.”
WHAT TO EXPECT
Luis speaks about his current roles within San Jose State University and the larger education system, as well as the research, debates, and idea(s) behind Emancipatory Education.
BIO
Luis E. Poza is a husband, father, former elementary school teacher, and current Associate Professor of Teacher Education in the Connie L. Lurie College of Education at San José State University, where he also serves as the Director of the Institute for Emancipatory Education. Luis’s research examines how ideologies of language, race, class, and nation are embedded in educational policy and practice for bilingual learners, most recently with a focus on ensuring that bilingual learners can meaningfully participate and benefit from new Ethnic Studies requirements in California. His publications have appeared in Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Education Policy, Language Policy, Bilingual Research Journal, and Whittier Law Review, among other venues. Luis coordinates SJSU’s Ethnic Studies Teacher Residency and Male Educators of Color Initiative programs and teaches about multicultural education, bilingual education, and the roles of language and education in human rights frameworks.