Dr. Eliane Rubinstein-Avila
Assistant Professor in Language, Reading and Culture
College of Education
University of Arizona
College of Education
University of Arizona
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Dr. Eliane Rubinstein-Avila
Assistant Professor in Language, Reading and Culture
College of Education University of Arizona |
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Bio Dr. Eliane Rubinstein-Avila is an Assistant Professor in the department of Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona. Dr. Rubinstein-Avila teaches undergraduate courses in content literacy and graduate level courses in qualitative research methods and literacy research. Dr. Rubinstein-Avila is also an affiliate faculty in the Second-Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) program, an interdisciplinary graduate program, and an affiliate researcher with the Center for Mathematics Education for Latino/as (CEMELA). Dr. Rubinstein-Avila’s research interests focus on the multiple intersections between new literacy studies and Latino/a immigrant youth, both in and out-of-school learning environments. Dr. Rubinstein-Avila has been a bilingual teacher in San Francisco Unified School District and a member of a district-wide task force formed to address the overrepresentation of minority students referred to SPED services. At Harvard Graduate School of Education, while obtaining her doctorate degree in the department of Human Development & Psychology (program in language and literacy), Dr. Rubinstein-Avila conducted research across Cambridge Public Schools' bilingual programs and worked closely with Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco for three years on the Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation (LISA) study following approximately 400 immigrant students from several language groups living in the San Francisco and Boston greater bay areas. Dr. Rubinstein-Avila has been a member of the National Conference on Research on Language and Literacy (NCRLL) since 2005. She has published articles in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Linguistics and Education, Anthropology and Education Quarterly and Educational Leadership. Education
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