Kris Gutiérrez

Kris Gutiérrez
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor
TitleCarol Liu Chair in Educational Policy
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley

Kris D. Gutiérrez is an American professor of learning sciences and literacy. She currently holds the Carol Liu Chair in Educational Policy[1] at the University of California, Berkeley and formerly held the Inaugural Provost's Chair at University of Colorado, Boulder.[2] She is professor emerita of the University of California, Los Angeles.[3] She has specialized in "culture and learning in urban schools," according to the Los Angeles Times.[4] She is a member of the National Academy of Education. In April 2020, Gutiérrez was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Biography

Gutiérrez grew up in Miami, Arizona. Her father worked in a nearby copper mine.[5] Gutiérrez earned her master's degree from Arizona State University and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder.[6][7]

She started working in the education department of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1989.[8] She earned the 1997 Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA.[8] At UCLA she helped create a computer learning club for elementary students and worked on the Migrant Student Leadership Institute for students from the migrant farm-working community.[5] Students from the Migrant Student Leadership Institute were more likely to apply to college and be accepted than a control group.[5] Gutiérrez also studied the effects of Proposition 227 in California in three different school districts after the law was passed in 1998.[9]

When President Barack Obama was transitioning to the White House, she was part of the transition team.[5] In 2012, Obama appointed her to the board of directors of the National Board for Education Sciences.[10]

Gutiérrez earned the C Sylvia Scribner Award in 2005 from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).[1] She earned the 2007 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education.[7] In 2009, Hispanic Business Magazine listed her as one of the top 100 influential Hispanic people in the United States.[3] Also in 2009, she became the president-elect of AERA.[11]

In 2014 Gutiérrez was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from AERA.[12] The Same year, she was honored with the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education.[12]

She has been published in Educational Researcher,[13] Mind, Culture, and Activity,[14] Harvard Educational Review,[15] Reading Research Quarterly,[16] Theory Into Practice,[17] Linguistics and Education,[18] Language Arts,[19] Review of Research in Education,[20] Research in the Teaching of English,[21] the Journal of Teacher Education,[22] and other publications.

References

  1. ^ a b "Kris Gutiérrez". UC Berkeley - Graduate School of Education. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  2. ^ "Six faculty members join ranks of University of Colorado Distinguished Professors". CU Boulder Today. 21 November 2014. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  3. ^ a b "Kris D. Gutierrez, Ph.D. -". Discipline Disparities. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  4. ^ Sahagun, Louis (1999-01-13). "L.A. Students Take to English Immersion". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d Latimer, Clay (28 September 2015). "Arizona-Bred Kris Gutiérrez New President of Research Association". The Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  6. ^ "Kris D. Gutiérrez". Learning Policy Institute. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  7. ^ a b "Kris D. Gutiérrez, Immediate Past President". American Educational Research Association. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  8. ^ a b "Kris Gutierrez". UCLA Alumni. 28 May 2015. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  9. ^ Gorman, Anna (1999-06-21). "Frustrations Abound in First Year of Prop. 227". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  10. ^ "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts". The White House: President Barack Obama. 20 November 2012. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  11. ^ "Applause — March 10, 2009". UCLA Newsroom. Archived from the original on December 20, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  12. ^ a b "Kris Gutiérrez receives Lifetime Achievement Award and Henry T. Trueba Award from AERA Division G". School of Education. University of Colorado Boulder. 14 April 2014. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  13. ^ Gutiérrez, Kris D.; Rogoff, Barbara (2003-06-01). "Cultural Ways of Learning: Individual Traits or Repertoires of Practice". Educational Researcher. 32 (5): 19–25. doi:10.3102/0013189X032005019. ISSN 0013-189X. S2CID 18103987.
  14. ^ Gutiérrez, Kris D.; Baquedano-López, Patricia; Tejeda, Carlos (1999-01-01). "Rethinking diversity: Hybridity and hybrid language practices in the third space". Mind, Culture, and Activity. 6 (4): 286–303. doi:10.1080/10749039909524733. ISSN 1074-9039.
  15. ^ Gutierrez, Kris; Rymes, Betsy; Larson, Joanne (2010-02-08). "Script, Counterscript, and Underlife in the Classroom: James Brown versusBrown v. Board of Education". Harvard Educational Review. 65 (3): 445–472. doi:10.17763/haer.65.3.r16146n25h4mh384. hdl:1802/23558.
  16. ^ Gutiérrez, Kris D. (2008-04-06). "Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space". Reading Research Quarterly. 43 (2): 148–164. doi:10.1598/RRQ.43.2.3. ISSN 1936-2722. S2CID 144185025.
  17. ^ Gutiérrez, Kris D.; Baquedano-López, Patricia; Alvarez, Héctor H.; Chiu, Ming Ming (1999-03-01). "Building a culture of collaboration through hybrid language practices". Theory into Practice. 38 (2): 87–93. doi:10.1080/00405849909543837. ISSN 0040-5841.
  18. ^ Gutierrez, Kris D. (1993). "How talk, context, and script shape contexts for learning: A cross-case comparison of journal sharing". Linguistics and Education. 5 (3–4): 335–365. doi:10.1016/0898-5898(93)90005-u.
  19. ^ GUTIÉRREZ, KRIS; GUTIÉRREZ, KRIS D.; BAQUEDANO-LÓPEZ, PATRICIA; TURNER, MYRNA GWEN (1997-01-01). "Putting Language Back into Language Arts: When the Radical Middle Meets the Third Space". Language Arts. 74 (5): 368–378. doi:10.58680/la19973230. JSTOR 41482886.
  20. ^ Gutiérrez, Kris D.; Morales, P. Zitlali; Martinez, Danny C. (2009-03-01). "Re-mediating Literacy: Culture, Difference, and Learning for Students From Nondominant Communities". Review of Research in Education. 33 (1): 212–245. doi:10.3102/0091732X08328267. ISSN 0091-732X. S2CID 143043791.
  21. ^ Gutiérrez, Kris D.; Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich (2006-01-01). "At Last: The "Problem" of English Learners: Constructing Genres of Difference". Research in the Teaching of English. 40 (4): 502–507. doi:10.58680/rte20065110. JSTOR 40171712.
  22. ^ Gutiérrez, Kris D.; Vossoughi, Shirin (2010-01-01). "Lifting Off the Ground to Return Anew: Mediated Praxis, Transformative Learning, and Social Design Experiments". Journal of Teacher Education. 61 (1–2): 100–117. doi:10.1177/0022487109347877. ISSN 0022-4871. S2CID 145544287.