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Real name: 
Filiberto Barajas-López

Associate Professor

Director: Native Education

Director of Indigenous Education Initiative

Teaching, Learning & Curriculum

barajasf@uw.edu

206-616-3717

115H Miller

I immigrated from México to the United States (Boyle Heights) during the 1980s. I am of P'urhépecha lineage with relationship to lands and waters in the states of Jalisco and Michoacán. I am also a former Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME) NSF Fellow and earned a doctoral degree in Education from UCLA. I serve as an Associate Professor (Curriculum and Instruction/Learning Sciences and Human Development) in the College of Education at the University of Washington Seattle and as Director of Indigenous Education Initiatives and the Native Education Certificate Program. In collaboration with youth, families, teachers, community members and other scholars I intervene in Indigenous erasure by living Indigenous resurgence in my everyday life. A great deal of the work I engage with examines the realities of teaching and learning mathematics in schools serving predominantly African American, Latinx, Native American/Indigenous, poor/working-class, and immigrant youth. Central to this work is privileging youth/family experience, youth/family knowledge, cultural knowledge and culturally embedded forms of knowing. I contend that these forms of knowing offer both practical and theoretical insights on how race, culture, language, gender, class are intimately connected to the ways in which youth/families come to participate in mathematics learning. JUCHARI UINAPEKUA!

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Education, 2009. Division of Urban Schooling: Mathematics Education.

M.A. Claremont Graduate University, Education: Secondary Mathematics Education, 2001.

B.A. Occidental College, Mathematics and Politics, 1999.

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

2013 Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education, American Educational Research Association, Collective Award: Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME), Special Interest Group: Division G- Social Context of Education.

2013-14 University of Washington Technology Teaching Fellow

2003-2009 National Science Foundation (Grant No. 0119732) Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME) Fellow at UCLA

2000 Claremont Graduate University META Scholarship.

Publications 

(selected publications)

Barajas-López, F. and Larnell, G.V. (in press). Unpacking the links between equitable teaching practices and Standards for Mathematical Practice: Equity for whom and under what conditions? Journal of Research in Mathematics Education.

Barajas-López, F. and Bang, M. (2018) Towards Indigenous Making and Sharing: Implications for Mathematics Learning. Chapter in Annual Perspectives in Mathematics Education (APME): Rehumanizing Mathematics for Students who are Black, Indigenous, and/or Latin@/x.

Barajas-López, F. and Bang, M. (2018). Indigenous Making and Sharing: Claywork in an Indigenous STEAM Program. Equity & Excellence in Education.

Barajas-López, F. & Ishimaru, A.M. (2016). “Darles el lugar”: A Place for Nondominant Family Knowing in Educational Equity. Urban Education, June 14, 2016 doi:10.1177/0042085916652179.

Ishimaru, A., Barajas-López, F. & Bang, M. (2015). Centering Family Knowledge to Develop Children’s Empowered Mathematics Identities. Journal of Family Diversity in Education.

Barajas-López, F. & Aguirre, J.M. (2015) Fostering English language learner perseverance in mathematical problem-solving in high school. In L. de Oliviera, A. Bright & H. Hansen-Thomas (Eds.), Common Core State Standards in Mathematics for English Language Learners: High School. New York: TESOL International Press.

Barajas-López, F. (2014) Mexican Immigrant Students’ Schooling Experiences and the Construction of Disengagement in Mathematics Learning Contexts. Journal of Latinos in Education.

Rahn, M., Butler, M., Barajas-López, F., et al,. (2010) California Mathematics & Science Partnership (CaMSP) Statewide Evaluation. Pasadena, CA: Public Works, Inc.

Rahn, M., Butler, M., Barajas-López, F., et al,. (2009) California Mathematics & Science Partnership (CaMSP) Statewide Evaluation. Pasadena, CA: Public Works, Inc.

Diversity in Mathematics Education (2007). Culture, race, power, and mathematics education.  In F. Lester (Ed.), The Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (pp. 405-433). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Presentations

(selected presentations)

Barajas-López, F. and Meixi. (2018) Exploring Nature’s Mathematics to Build Indigenous Youth’s Sense of Relational Reciprocity. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York, NY.
Ishimaru, A., Barajas-López, F., Sun, M. and Anderson, E. (2017) Measures, Practices & Capacities for Racial Equity in Schools and Systems. Washington Education Research Association (WERA), Sea-tac, WA.

Barajas-López, F. (2017) Inclusion of Families Into School-Based Race & Equity Teams in Co-Designing Family and Community Wellness and Educational Justice: Findings From the Family Leadership Design Collaborative. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Antonio, TX.

Bang, M. and Barajas-López, F. (2017) Toward Indigenous Making and Sharing in Making Spaces for Youth from Nondominant Communities: New Approaches for Supporting Equitable and Consequential Experiences. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Antonio, TX.

Barajas-Lopéz, F. (2016) Forum on Mexico: Self-determination and Autonomy in Mexican Indigenous Communities. Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.

Barajas-López, F. (2015) Imagining New Directions in Latino/a and Native American Mathematics Education. “Imagine the Future” Seminars. Heritage University, Yakima, WA.

Barajas-López, F. (2014) Forum on Mexico: The Rise of Indigenous Autonomy in Rural Mexico. Seattle, WA.

Barajas-López, F. (2013) “Por uno pagan todos [All pay the price for the misdeed of one]”. Understanding Latino/a Math Learning Identities at a Northwest HS. Presenter at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), San Antonio, TX.

Barajas-López, F. (2012) Issues and Challenges of Enacting a Problem Based Learning Approach in Mathematics at a Pacific Northwest High School: Immigrant and Second Language Learners Voices and Perspectives. Presenter at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), Seattle, WA.

 

Courses Taught (* Graduate course(s), + Undergrad course(s))

*ED C&I 577: Current Issues in Mathematics Education
Mathematics Education Research Group (MERG)

*ED C&I 523: Conceptions of Race, Equity, and Social Justice in Mathematics Education                                    

*ED TEP 582: Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School 1

*ED TEP 583: Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School 2

*EDPSY 581: Indigenous Pedagogies

+EDC&I 352: Teaching to Change the World

 

Program Affiliations

Learning Sciences Human Development
Equity Studies
Teaching, Learning & Curriculum
Excellence In Content Instruction
Mathematics or Science Instruction
Teacher Quality & Teacher Education
Secondary Teacher Preparation

Research Areas

Land-based and Indigenous methodologies
Equity Studies
Immigration & Schooling
Learning Sciences & Human Development
Science & Mathematics
Teacher Education & Research
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