About

Patricia Marshall is a Professor in the Teacher Education and Learning Sciences Department at North Carolina State University. She is involved in teaching courses such as ECI 500 Theory to Practice In Teaching Diverse Populations, ECI 501 Foundations of Curriculum, ECI 530 Social Studies in the Elementary School Curriculum, and ECI 607/807 Advanced Seminar in Multicultural Education Groups Equitable Education. Her academic focus includes multicultural education and equitable education, contributing to the preparation of educators to serve diverse student populations. She is based in Poe Hall, room 602H, and can be contacted via phone at 919-515-1780 or email at patricia_marshall@ncsu.edu.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Social Science
• Epistemology
• Aesthetics
• Gender studies
• Geography
• Anthropology
• Cartography
• Gerontology
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Pedagogy
• Demography
• Law
• Environmental ethics
• Criminology
• Business

Selected publications

• Unpacking Critical Multicultural and Environmental Justice Education

  2026-04-24

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• The Praxis of CMEJE

  2026-04-24

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• Children and Youth Who Live, Learn, and Grow in High-Need Communities

  2026-04-24

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• Equity Movements and the Pursuit of High-Quality Education for a Sustainable World

  2026-04-24

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• Challenges of Teaching in Contemporary High-Need Contexts

  2026-04-24

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• Critical Multicultural and Environmental Justice Education

  2026-04-24

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  This book presents a clear, concise, and engaging discussion of critical multicultural and environmental justice education (CMEJE), elucidating what it is; why it is urgent for teaching professionals who work in urban and rural high-need contexts; and how to implement it. Written for teachers and environmental educators working in a range of settings, this book unpacks CMEJE by describing its foundation in three movements (multiculturalism, environmentalism, and environmental justice) that heretofore have not been combined in discourses about high-quality education. It details various ways in which cultural and environmental phenomena define and shape teaching and learning. Critical concepts such as geography of opportunity, sustainability, and space/place identity are deftly integrated into discussions that explain how belonging, relevance, and responsiveness are central to academic success. At its heart, this book serves as an urgent reminder that educators must acknowledge and respond to the cultural and environmental realities that shape where and how young people live, learn, and grow. Timely and discursive, this is an essential read for scholars and researchers with interests in multicultural education, environmental education, urban education, social justice, environmental justice, and diversity in education.

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• Critical Justice Pedagogy Meets Environmental Education

  2026-04-24

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• Toward A Discourse on the Threat of Performative Wokeness to Justice Agendas in Education

  Urban Education · 2023 · 9 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Social Science

  Among the most urgent matters in contemporary education discourses are those that delve into the justice issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Colleges of Education are critical sites for such discourse. In particular, the teaching methods course is where candidates are to acquire tools to take up such issues. Success of justice agendas depends on the receptivity of individuals to engage in ways that are critical, substantive, and above all authentic. But what challenges present if receptivity is feigned? In this paper, we describe encounters with the phenomenon of performative wokeness and how it threatens justice agendas.

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• Critical Race Theory Insights on Issues of Classroom Management

  Routledge eBooks · 2022

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  • Sociology
  • Gender studies
  • Sociology

  Racial diversity is a significant feature of the student population demographics in contemporary US pre-collegiate schools. However, as part of classroom management (CM) protocols and practices, the historical complications associated with race and racial diversity (including introduction and perpetuation of inequities) can intersect with other demographic axes such as sex/gender, socio-economic/class status, and even disability. This chapter details how Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been deployed to interrogate and analyze the impact and intersections of race in CM. Findings reveal that race/racism in CM, and its various manners of intersection with other social identity axes, is ubiquitous, insidious, and highly troubling.

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• Toward people-to-people understandings in short-term international travel: critical race reflections on four encounters in Cuba

  International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education · 2020-08-04

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  This paper details four encounters we experienced while traveling in Cuba as part of a multiethnic delegation of US social justice advocates. The encounters were linked by a common thread of race, which made them noteworthy and uncomfortably familiar to us as Black women. Since our return to the US, we have reflected on the four encounters and concluded that, as a collective, they reinforce a lesson and highlight a fundamental challenge that is at the core of the work of all critical multicultural and social justice educators.

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Recent grants

• Nurturing Mathematics Dreamkeepers

  NSF · $3.7M · 2004–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Allison W. McCulloch

  University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  14 shared

• Jessica T. DeCuir‐Gunby

  12 shared

• John Stull

  3 shared

• Phillip Nieburg

  3 shared

• Elizabeth Heitman

  The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

  3 shared

• Laura C. McKieran

  3 shared

• Michael Garland

  3 shared

• Hilary Alvarez

  Concord Hospital

  3 shared