Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Dr. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is known for her work in the areas of language brokering, cultural modeling, pedagogies of the heart and mind, immigrant youth and families, and power dynamics around literacy and gender. Her research centers on the experiences of immigrant youth in urban schools and communities, including experiences of young people as language and cultural brokers for their families. Marjorie is the author of several books including Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth and Cultures, Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning and Love, a 2019 co-edited volume Language and Cultural Processes in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups, and most recently, Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart, and Activity for Transformative Social Research. She has authored or coauthored more than 50 articles that have appeared in an array of interdisciplinary journals including American Anthropologist, Harvard Educational Review, Social Problems, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy Research, Language Arts, American Journal of Education and Linguistics in Education. Marjorie has received many awards for her teaching and research, and she has recently been named as a 2021 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. She is a past president of the Council of Anthropology and Education. Marjorie served as a bilingual classroom teacher in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1993. Dr. Orellana is a Professor in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, where she serves as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of International Migration and teaches in UCLA’s Urban Schooling and the Teacher Education Program.
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To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2021, Oct 26). A conversation with Marjorie Faustich Orellana. (Season 2, No. 12) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/5FE1-378A-4CB9-4E69-9DB4-5