Lilia I. Bartolomé is recognized as a highly influential critical pedagogue in the field of education. In 2010, she was awarded the American Educational Research Association Paulo Freire Special Interest Group Distinguished Scholar Award for her valuable contribution to social justice, Freirean work, and critical education. Similarly, in 2013, Dr. Bartolome was recognized as one of the most influential critical pedagogies in the field of education by James D. Kirylo in his edited text, A critical pedagogy of resistance: 34 pedagogues we need to know published by Brill/Sense Publishers. Her research interests include the preparation of effective teachers of linguistic minority students in multilingual contexts, and the exploration of teacher beliefs and attitudes about minoritized students as well as their actual teaching and interaction practices in both bilingual and English-only contexts.
Dr. Bartolomé received her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, M.Ed. from the Harvard University and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and San Diego State University. Dr. Bartolomé is currently Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Prior to entering the academy, Dr. Bartolomé taught in the public schools; she worked as an elementary school bilingual teacher in California, and in Massachusetts she taught both as an elementary bilingual reading teacher and as a middle-school reading specialist.
Dr. Bartolomé’s publications are extensive; she has published in notable journals such as the Harvard Educational Review (HER), the International Journal of Teacher Education, Teacher Education Quarterly, the International Multilingual Research Journal, and the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy. Dr. Bartolomé’s publications include her seminal journal article, Beyond the Methods Fetish: Towards a Humanizing Pedagogy originally published in the Harvard Educational Review in 1994 as well as her well-recognized books: Ideologies in Education: Unmasking the Trap of Teacher Neutrality; Immigrant Voices: In Search of Pedagogical Equity(with Henry Trueba); and Dancing with Bigotry: The Poisoning of Cultural Identities (with Donaldo Macedo).