Name: Olga Vásquez
Title: Associate Professor, Department of Communication and TEP
Associate Director, CREATE
Email: ovasquez@ucsd.edu
Campus Address: Media Center/Communications Building (MCC) 107
Phone: (858) 534-6284

Education:
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989
M.A., San Jose State University, 1981

Field of Expertise:
Vásquez's research examines the intersection of literacy, language, and culture in intercultural settings. As an ethnographer of education, her work examines bilingualism in society and the learning context, cultural and globally responsive curriculum, and the social and academic integration of underrepresented youth and their families.

Regions of Interest: Mexico, United States

Media Interview Topics:
Prof. Vásquez is an expert on bilingualism and biculturalism, minority education, after-school learning and pedagogy for the global context. Vásquez is an expert on bilingualism and biculturalism, education, literacy, after-school learning and education for the global context.

Selected Publications:
La Clase Magica: Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners , New Jersey, Laurence Erlbaum Publishers, 2003.


Vásquez, O.A. (in preparation). Education in a global age:  A Path to the Future


Vásquez, O. A. (2007).  "Technology Out of School:  What Schools Can Learn From Community-based Technology," in L Smolin,  K Lawless & N. C. Burbules (Ed.s) The The 106 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education: Information and Communication Technologies: Considerations of Current Practice for Teachers and Teacher Educators.  Vol.106:  pp.182-206.

Vásquez, O.A. (2007).  "Latinos in the Global Context:  Beneficiaries or Irrelevants?"  Journal of Latinos and Education.6(2): Pp. 119-138.

Vásquez, O.A. (2006). "Cross-National Explorations of Sociocultural Research on Learning ." In Judith Green and Allen Luke (Eds.), Special issue on Rethinking Learning:  What Counts as Learning and What Learning Counts , Review of Research in Education ; 30 : 33- 64.

Vásquez, O.A. (2006).  "A Pedagogy of the Future." Inaugural issue of Pedagogies: An International Journal. Nanyang, Singapore, 2006


Vásquez, O.A.(July-Dec., 2002) "Education in a Global Age: An Inter-California strategy for the Tijuana-San Diego Region."  Revista Frontera Norte 28 (14), pp. 21-46.