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Klaudia M. Rivera
klaudia.rivera@liu.edu
(718) 246-6495
Klaudia M. Rivera is a Professor in the School of Education at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. Dr. Rivera’s work addresses issues of literacy, language and culture, gender, and ethnicity, and their relationship to power, equality and voice. She teaches in the area of language and literacy and conducts research about the role that Workers’ Centers have in providing English as a Second Language education to day laborers.
Dr. Rivera holds a doctoral degree from Teacher College, Columbia University and a master’s degree from Bank Street College of Education. Her publications are in the areas of adult native language literacy and biliteracy, English as a Second Language, language and educational policy and the practice of popular education and popular research. She has extensive experience creating and implementing programs of adult and family literacy in community-based contexts. These programs are designed to promote bilingualism and biliteracy by implementing the principles of popular education and critical theory. One of the programs that she developed was El Barrio Popular Education Program in New York City’s East Harlem. Under Dr. Rivera’s leadership El Barrio Popular Education Program was selected as one of nine exemplary adult education programs because of its participatory approach to the education on non-literate second language learners in a national study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education. It also received awards from The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Borough of Manhattan’s President Office for its services to women.
In April of 2002, Dr. Rivera received the David Newton Award for Teaching Excellence. She also received an award from the Literacy Assistance Center for her contributions to the field of adult literacy in 1996.
Dr. Rivera’s publications include:
Rivera, K. M., & Huerta-Macias, A. H. (Eds.) (September, 2007). Adult biliteracy: Sociocultural and programmatic responses. New York/London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Routledge.
Rivera, K. M. (2005). Sociocultural perspectives and classroom practice. In A. Huerta-Macías (Ed.), Working with English language learners: Perspectives and practice, pp. 15-27. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.
Rivera, K. (2001). Urgent need for adult ESOL: Programs cannot keep up with rising demand. Literacy Update, 10, 5-6.
Garcia, O., Morin, J. L., & Rivera, K. M. (2001). How threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? In Joshua Fishman (Ed.), Can threatened languages be saved? Reversing language shift revisited: A 21st century perspective, pp.44-73. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Rivera, K. M. (1999). Popular research and social transformation: A community-based approach to critical pedagogy. TESOL Quarterly, 33, 485-500.
Rivera, K. M. (1999). From developing one’s voice to making oneself heard: Affecting language policy from the bottom up. In T. Huebner & K. Davis (Eds.), Socio- political perspectives on language policy and language planning, pp. 333-346. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Rivera, K. (1999). Native language literacy and adult ESL instruction. ERIC Digest (EDO-LE-99-04). Washington, D.C.: National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education.
Rivera, K. M. (1997). El Barrio Popular Education. In D. Taylor (Ed.), Many families, many literacies: An international declaration of principles, pp. 128-133. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Rivera, K. M. (1996). Foreword. In E. Auerbach, Adult ESL/literacy. From the community to the community: A guideline for participatory literacy training. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Rivera, K. M., & Rabadeau, D. (Eds.). (1992). Language and literacy: Proceedings from a two-day symposium on the educational needs of low literate, limited English proficient adults. Unpublished manuscript, Literacy Assistance Center, New York.
Rivera, K.M. (1991). Foreword. In D. Fauteux, Cuentos de lucha y alegría. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press.
Rivera, K. M. (1988). Not ‘either/or’ but ‘and’: Literacy for non-English speakers. Focus on Basics, 1(3/4).
Rivera, K. M. (1987). A question of survival. World Education Reports, 3 (26), Spring.
Rivera, K. M. (1982). State of the art in bilingual special education. Reston, VA: Latino Institute, Research Division. (ERIC Document No. ED 246-635)
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