Teresa McCarty

About

Teresa McCarty is a core faculty member at UCLA in the American Indian Studies Department. Her academic focus includes Indigenous education, language planning and policy, Indigenous language revitalization, and ethnographic studies of education both in and out of school settings. Her research encompasses social research methodology, educational-linguistic anthropology, youth language practices, education equity, and issues related to language endangerment, revitalization, and rights. She is involved in exploring educational practices and policies affecting Indigenous and minority communities, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural preservation.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Pedagogy
• Philosophy
• Linguistics
• History
• Gender studies
• Psychology
• Law

Selected publications

• New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival?

  Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · 2023 · 31 citations

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• “You Should Know the Name of the Wind Where You Live”—Relationality and Relational Accountability in Indigenous-Language Education

  Comparative Education Review · 2022 · 27 citations

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  This article explores relationality and relational accountability in Indigenous education, contextualizing these processes within a current US-wide study of Indigenous-language immersion (ILI) schooling. With the goals of promoting language and culture revitalization alongside education equity, self-determination, and community well-being, ILI exemplifies a form of holistic education. The teacher’s quote that gives title to this article speaks to the multifaceted relationality at the heart of IL…

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• Culturally Responsive, Sustaining, and Revitalizing Pedagogies: Perspectives from Native American Education

  The Educational Forum · 2021-09-15 · 26 citations

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  We examine culturally relevant/responsive pedagogy (CRP) and its extensions–culturally based and culturally sustaining and revitalizing pedagogy–focusing on Native American/Indigenous education. Teasing out the roots of these pedagogies in Indigenous education systems, we follow their “footprints” in contemporary education practices. How might these models of Indigenous CRP help nurture diverse learner assets, foster students’ critical engagement with power and privilege, and (re)imagine and act…

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• The holistic benefits of education for Indigenous language revitalisation and reclamation (ELR²)

  Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · 2020-10-12 · 25 citations

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  This article explores research and practice on the holistic benefits of education for language revitalisation and reclamation – ELR2 – efforts that link home, school, and community in mutually supportive language work informed by a critical understanding of coloniality as the root cause of language endangerment. The article examines ELR2 in and out of school, asking what can be learned from these projects in light of their combined aims of language revitalisation and education parity and the bro…

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• 9 To ‘Think in a Different Way’ – A Relational Paradigm for Indigenous Language Rights

  Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2022-07-29 · 8 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy

  Northwestern University

  21 shared

• K. Tsianina Lomawaima

  17 shared

• Ofelia Zepeda

  16 shared

• James Collins

  National University of Malaysia

  16 shared

• Rodney Hopson

  American University

  16 shared

• Sheilah E. Nicholas

  13 shared

• Stephen May

  Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

  12 shared

• Serafín Coronel-Molina

  Indiana University

  10 shared

Labs

• UCLA American Indian StudiesPI

Education

• Ph.D., American Indian Studies

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2000

• M.A., American Indian Studies

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1995

• B.A., American Indian Studies

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1993

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