Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Contact Information

Patrick Camangian
pcamangian@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2004 – Present: Ph.D. Student, Education, University of California, Los Angeles.

2001: Credential, English Single Subject, Cross Cultural and Academic Development (CLAD) specialization, California State University, Los Angeles.

1999: Bachelor of Arts, Communication Studies with an English emphasis
California State University, Los Angeles.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Teacher Education; Pedagogy; Literacy; Critical Qualitative Research Methodologies; Sociology of Education; Curriculum Studies; Learning and Instruction; Cultural Studies (Youth and Popular Culture); Urban Education; Multi-cultural Education; Postcolonial Theory; Ethnic Studies; Communication Studies; Media Studies; Philosophy of Education; Social Studies; Social Movements

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2005 - Present Program Coordinator / Instructor
University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Achievement Program (AAP)
Educators for Tomorrow (EFT)

January 2007 – Present Graduate Student Researcher
Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA)
Youth Research

September 2006 - Present Teaching Associate
University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate Education minor program
ED130: Race, Class, Gender, and School Inequality in the United States
ED187: Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Studies in Urban Education

July 2006 - Present English 3 Composition Instructor
University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Achievement Program (AAP)
Educators for Tomorrow (EFT)


July 2006 – August 2006 Writing Instructor
University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Achievement Program (AAP)
McNair Research Scholars Program

August 1999 – June 2006 Secondary English Teacher
Crenshaw High School, Los Angeles, CA

January 2005 – November 2005 Graduate Theses Reader
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Teacher Education Program, Center X.

September 2004 – July 2005 Teacher Supervisor
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Teacher Education Program, Center X

May 2004 – August 2004 Research Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA)
Summer Seminar

September 2002 - July 2004 Teaching Associate
California State University, Los Angeles
Communication Studies Department
Oral Communications (COMM 150)
August 2005 - Present Program Coordinator / Instructor
University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Achievement Program (AAP)
Educators for Tomorrow (EFT)

January 2007 – Present Graduate Student Researcher
Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA)
Youth Research

September 2006 - Present Teaching Associate
University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate Education minor program
ED130: Race, Class, Gender, and School Inequality in the United States
ED187: Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Studies in Urban Education

July 2006 - Present English 3 Composition Instructor
University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Achievement Program (AAP)
Educators for Tomorrow (EFT)


July 2006 – August 2006 Writing Instructor
University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Achievement Program (AAP)
McNair Research Scholars Program

August 1999 – June 2006 Secondary English Teacher
Crenshaw High School, Los Angeles, CA

January 2005 – November 2005 Graduate Theses Reader
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Teacher Education Program, Center X.

September 2004 – July 2005 Teacher Supervisor
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Teacher Education Program, Center X

May 2004 – August 2004 Research Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA)
Summer Seminar

September 2002 - July 2004 Teaching Associate
California State University, Los Angeles
Communication Studies Department
Oral Communications (COMM 150)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE), selected participant in the mentoring program for graduate school scholars of color, 2006

University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, Regents Fellowship, 2004-2005.

Los Angeles Mayoral Certificate of Recognition for Inpirational Teaching in Los Angeles, 2002.

Crenshaw High School, “Most Inspirational Teacher,” 2000 – 2006.

Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2001 - Present

PUBLICATIONS

Camangian, P. (In review). “Transforming Lives In Urban English Classrooms:
Cultural Relevance and Critical Literacy.” English Journal.

Camangian, P. (Forthcoming). “Untempered Tongues and Unconditional Love: Performance Poetry for Self and Social Change.” In W. Ayers, T. Quinn, D. Stovall (Eds.), Handbook of Social Justice in Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, Inc.

Camangian, P. & Gray, S. (2004). “The Meaning of Education on Equal Terms”. Teaching to Change LA, 4:2. http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/equalterms/features/brown/issue2.html

Camangian, P. (1999). “A Postcolonialist Look at the Philippines’ Flag: Its History and Political Ramifications”. Communication Colloquy: A Journal of Communication Scholars, 2:1. California State University Los Angeles

PAPER PRESENTATIONS TO REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES

Camangian, P. (2007). "The Pedagogy of ‘Keepin’ it Real’ in the Urban Classroom: Transformative Teaching and Youth Resistance." Transforming Schools: Activist-Scholars, Empirical Analysis, and Grounded Theories of Critical Pedagogical Praxis. Paper to be presented at the American Educational Research Association 2007 Annual Meeting, The World of Educational Quality. Chicago, Il

Camangian, P. (2007). “Stakes is High: Critical Literacy, Commercial Rap, and Cultivating Consciousness with High School Youth”. Beyond the Standards Fetish: Urban High School Teachers Empirically Analyzing Their Critical Culturally Relevant Curriculums. Paper to be presented at the American Educational Research Association 2007 Annual Meeting, The World of Educational Quality. Chicago, Il

Camangian, P. (2007). “Plan Your Work, Work Your Plan: Freireian Research and Early Career Teacher Support”. Paper presented for the California Association of Freireian Educators 5th Annual Conference, The University and the Community, Exploring the Connections. Los Angeles, CA

Camangian, P. (2006). “Reading Rap as a Revolutionary: Resisting Indoctrination and Renegotiating Identity with Black and Brown Youth.” UCLA Afro-American Studies Graduate Conference, Identity, Resistance, and Revolution in the African Diaspora. Los Angeles, CA

Camangian, P. & Tate, S. (2006). “Real Talk: Critical Pedagogy in Practice”. Critical Pedagogy in Urban Contexts: Toward a Grounded Theory of Practice. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association 2006 Annual Meeting, Education in the Public Interests. San Francisco, CA

Camangian, P. (2006). “Our Classroom is a Counter-narrative: The Epistemological Power of Self in a School that Normalizes Otherwise”. Paper presented for the California Association of Freireian Educators 4th Annual Conference, Governance, Praxis, and Social Change. Los Angeles, CA

Camangian, P. (2006). “(Our) Word is (Our) Bond: Rethinking Rap and Redirecting Literacy.” Paper to be presented at Echo’s 2006 Annual Meeting, Music and the Public Sphere. Los Angeles, CA

Camangian, P. (2005). “The Politics and Pedagogy of Keeping it Real in the Classroom: Students as Leaders and Learning as Hope”. The 4Cs of Effective Pedagogy in Urban Classrooms: Developing Critical Counter-Cultural Communities of Practice. 104th Annual American Anthropological Association Meeting, Bringing the Past into the Present. Washington, DC

Camangian, P. & Quijada, M. (2005). “Creating a Curriculum that Matters: Critical Pedagogical Practices and Community Change”. Urban Teachers and Critical Empirical Analysis of Social Justice Pedagogy in Schools. American Educational Research Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Demography and Democracy in the Era of Accountability. Toronto, Canada.

Camangian, P. (2005). “Subverting the Master(‘s) Syllabus: Toward a Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Urban English Classrooms”. Critical Media Literacy for Urban Youth. American Educational Research Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Demography and Democracy in the Era of Accountability. Toronto, Canada.

Camangian, P. (2005). “The Pad, the Pen, and the Podium: Paulo Freire’s Problem Posing Methods in Practice”. California Association of Freireian Educators 3rd Annual Conference, Pedagogy of Peace, Pedagogy of Struggle. Los Angeles, CA.

Camangian, P. (2003). “Yeshitela Fights Back: US Imperialism and the Philippines”. Arguments During War: The Constructions of Heroes and Villains. Western States Communication Association 74th Annual Convention, Communicating for Sustainability. Salt Lake City, UT.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND ADDRESSES

“Our World, Our Work, and Our Word: Political Clarity and Critical Pedagogy in Practice”. An invited lecture to a graduate course, California State University, Los Angeles, Sociological Foundations. March 8, 2007.

“Shakespeare and Socially Just Writings of the World”. Invited workshop to the Community-Based Education Outreach Program, University of California, Los Angeles. February 12, 2007.

“Teaching Social Consciousness, Analytical Writing, and Spoken Word Interpretations”. An invited lecture to a graduate course, University of California, Los Angeles, Teacher Education Program. February 5, 2007.

“From Brooklyn Beats to Beirut Streets: Hip-hop Pedagogy and the Language of Liberation”. Invited Interactive workshop for the California Association of Freireian Educators 5th Annual Conference, The University and the Community, Exploring the Connections. Los Angeles, CA

“The Process of Being a Powerful Progressive Pedagogue”. An invited lecture to a graduate course, California State University, Los Angeles, Sociological Foundations. December 1, 2006.

“Agency, Tensions, and Solutions in Urban Education”. An invited lecture to an undergraduate course, University of California, Los Angeles, Education Minor. November 28, 2006.

“Authentically Caring Relationships, Social Justice Clarity, and Creating a Powerful Pedagogy”. An invited lecture to a graduate course, University of California, Los Angeles, Teacher Education Program. November 28, 2006.

“Creating a Critical Media Pedagogy for an Urban English Classroom”. Invited lecture to a Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Studies in Urban Education undergraduate course, University of California, Los Angeles. May 22, 2006.

“It’s Bigger than Hip-Hop: Re-writing Reality to Re-present Ourselves”. Invited to speak at the University of California, Los Angeles, Teacher Education Program Novice Seminar focused on Hip-hop in the classroom. May 6, 2006.

“Putting a Critical Pedagogy into Practice”. An invited lecture to a Culture, Language, and Society in Education graduate course, San Francisco State University, College of Education Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies. April 15, 2006.

“Cultivating a Critical Social Consciousness as a Scaffold to Sophisticated Literacy Practices with Urban High School Students”. Invited to lecture at a University of California, Los Angeles education minor undergraduate course focused on cultural historical activity theories and literacy. February 28, 2006

“Being and Developing Organic Intellectuals: Rethinking Urban Teacher Leadership”.
Workshop given at the Hermanos Unidos Annual Statewide Conference, University of California, Los Angeles. February 18, 2006.

“Ideological Critiques of Rap Texts: Classroom Activities of Analysis and Creative Interpretations”. Invited lecture to the Community-Based Education Outreach Program, University of California, Los Angeles. November 9, 2005

“Countering Dominant Media Ideologies with Urban Youth”. An invited lecture to a graduate course, San Francisco State University, Teacher Education Program. October 17, 2005.

“Crenshaw High: Power and Pedagogy for the People”. Invited speaker at the University of California, Los Angeles, Teacher Education Program Novice Seminar, Los Angeles Public
History: Racism and Education. March 12, 2005.

“Cultivating Voice, Identity, and Empowerment through Relevant Reading, Writing and Presentation Activities”. Invited lecture to a University of San Francisco teacher credentialing graduate course. March 11, 2005

“Motivation and Critical Literacy in an Urban High School Context”. Invited speaker to a University of California, Los Angeles, Teacher Education Program English Methods graduate course. March 10, 2005.

“Teach-In: The Impact of Hip-hop Music on Learning”. Invited panelist by co-panelist Congresswoman Maxine Waters at the Brown V. Board of Education – California State Conference Commemorating the 50th Anniversary, “Promise and Progress: Unfinished Agenda” hosted by LACOE, NAACP Los Angeles Chapter, California Alliance of Black School Educators. October 15, 2004.

“Stepping It Up: Critical Cross-content Literacy Towards Critical Civic Engagement”. Featured speaker for teacher faculty at Crenshaw High School’s Professional Development. October 5, 2004.

“Engaging Students of Various Learning Styles with Rigorous and Culturally Relevant Teaching Practices.” Workshop given to Local District G’s Achievement Council and the New Teacher Institute, Los Angeles Unified School District. July 9, 2004.

“A Pedagogy of Care: Students Voice their Needs”. Workshop given to teacher faculty at Crenshaw High School’s Professional Development. April 27, 2004.

“Actively Loving Your Students: A Key Ingredient to Meeting High Expectations”. Featured speaker, Crenshaw High School Professional Development. February 17, 2004.

“How to Authentically Care for Marginalized Urban Youth.” Invited speaker for a graduate course. University of California, Los Angeles, Center X Teacher Education Program. December 4, 2003.

Professional Memberships

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

California Teachers Association (CTA)

International Reading Association (IRA)

National Association of Multicultural Educators (NAME)

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

National Educators Association (NEA)

The Sociology of Education Conference (SEA)

United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)

Community Service

Educators 4 Action (E4A)
Teacher action group seeking to empower and build genuinely democratic learning communities dedicated to the ongoing struggle for justice and equity for all humanity. Summer 2003 – Present.

Institute for Democracy, Education, & Access (IDEA), UCLA
Special Topics in Urban Education and Community Study: A critical inquiry and curriculum development seminar with urban Los Angeles teachers. Summer 2003 - Present.

Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ)
Non-profit, grassroots community organization dedicated to promoting institutional change for social justice in education. 2001-2004.

Future Teachers Club (Cipher)
School based club for students interested in a future in teaching. 2001 – 2006.

Balagtasan Collective (BC)
Grassroots community organization dedicated in performance arts for social change. 1999-2005.