Melanie Acosta
Select Publications
- Acosta, M. M., Woodard, P. (2022) Awakening the essence of classroom community- building. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984221136057.
- King, J. E., Warren, C., Acosta, M. M., Griffin, A. (2022). In Dialogue: Radical futures of Black literacies and Black education. Research in the Teaching of English. 57(1), 89-94.
- Acosta, M. M., & Hayes, C. (2022). “Come and get your soul food”: a duo-ethnographic account of Black teachers modeling the praxis of the black intellectual tradition, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2025494.
- Acosta, M. M., Duggins, S. (2021). Growth through crisis: Preservice teachers productive struggle to enact culturally relevant pedagogy. Action in Teacher Education, 43(30), 479-495.
- King, N. S., Collier, Z., Johnson, B. G., Acosta, M. M., Southwell, C. N. (2021). Determinants of Black families’ access to a community-based STEM program: A latent class analysis. Science Education. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/C7IVIAFQJVQNYDKIREBP?target=10.1002/sce.21669.
- Acosta, M. M. (2019). The paradox of pedagogical excellence among exemplary Black women educators. Journal of Teacher Education, 70(1), 26-38.
- Acosta, M. M. (2018). “No time for messin’ around!” Black educator urgency and implications for the preparation of urban educators. Urban Education, 53(8), 981. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280569790_No_Time_For_Messin'_Around_Black_Educator_Urgency_and_implications_for_the_preparation_of_urban_educators
- Acosta, M. M., Duggins, S. (2018). Community literacy learning spaces as counterhegemonic figured worlds for African American readers. Reading Horizons, 57(3), 49 -67. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol57/iss3/4
- Acosta, M. M., Foster, M., Houchen, D. (2018). “Why seek the living among the dead?” African American pedagogical excellence: Exemplar practice for teacher education Journal of Teacher Education, 69(4), 341-353. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323751845_Why_Seek_the_Living_Among_the_Dead_African_American_Pedagogical_Excellence_Exemplar_Practice_for_Teacher_Education
- Hudson-Vassell, C., Acosta, M. M., King, N. S., Upshaw, A., Cherfere, G. (2018). Development of liberatory pedagogy in teacher education: Voices of novice BLACK women teacher educators. Teaching and Teacher Education, 72, 133-143. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324259210_Development_of_liberatory_pedagogy_in_teacher_education_Voices_of_novice_BLACK_women_teacher_educators
- Acosta, M. M. (2017). EDG 6931 writes back!: Black Studies as emancipatory resistance to neoliberal tyranny in teacher education. Critical Studies—Critical Methodologies, 17(3), 269-276. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316602399_EDG_6931_Writes_Back_Black_Studies_as_Emancipatory_Resistance_to_Neoliberal_Tyranny_in_Teacher_Education
- Acosta, M. M. (March, 2017). You reap what you sow: High expectations and student achievement. Diversity Partners Magazine. https://diversityined.uberflip.com/i/582034-diversity-in-ed-magazine-fall-2015/0?m4=
Melanie Acosta
Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Office Location: ED 47 - 475
Campus: Boca