Dr. Roberto Bahruth serves as a Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Bilingual Education and Applied Linguistics. His education includes a M.A. in English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education from the University of Texas in San Antonio and a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction, with a concentration in Linguistics & Bilingual Education from the University of Texas in Austin. Dr. Bahruth's teaching interests are in the area of bilingual education, English as a second language, and education for social justice, taught from a critical pedagogy stance. His goal is to prepare teachers to be transformative cultural workers in order to bring about change in the educational system. Dr. Bahruth is a fluent speaker of Spanish who learned the language while living and working for eight years in Latin America. While teaching in a bilingual 5th grade in Texas, he employed a whole language approach with his students. Literacy con Cariño is their success story (Heinemann Educational Books 1991, 1998). Dr. Bahruth has been a frequent invited guest lecturer at locations including Harvard University; Universidad de la Habana, Cuba; San Carlos National University, Guatemala; Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México; Seminar Kibbutzim Teachers’ College in Tel Aviv, Israel; and Sun Yat sen National University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He has also been a presenter at numerous national and international conferences.
Articles
The Pros and Cons of Progress in a Neoliberal World: Transforming the Lives of Men, Women and Children, Korean Association of Women’s Studies Conference (2012)
Careful consideration of changes occurring in a globalized world turning on neoliberalism provides insight into...
Mágico Encuentro, Bilingual Education and ESL Faculty Publications and Presentations (2010)
Cuando aprendemos a caminar detenidamente, sin apuro, la vida nos revela algunos de sus secretos,...
Ojos Claros, Bilingual Education and ESL Faculty Publications and Presentations (2010)
Seis noches seguidas doña Clara soñó agua, soñó cielo, soñó luz. Fue así como Pati...
Despacio, tengo prisa: Caminos de concientización a el alcance de educadores, Docencia: Revista de Educación y Cultura (2009)
En esta exposición, deseo expresar algunos criterios sobre el problema de la actual vida tecnológica...
Humanizing Education in an Age of Apathy and Greed, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Applied English Teaching, Ta-Hsu Hsiang, Taiwan (2009)
"I want to begin by recognizing that the ideas I will address here may not...
Books
Freirean Pedagogy, Praxis, and Possibilities: Projects for the New Millennium (with Stan F. Steiner, H. Mark Krank, and Peter McLaren) (2000)
Scholar, activity, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate...
Literacy con Cariño: A Story of Migrant Children's Success (with Curtis W. Hayes and Carolyn Kessler) (1998)
Profiles in Success: Reflections on the Community College Experience (with Phillip N. Venditti) (1990)
We conceived the idea for this book at the conclusion of an especially invigorating professional...
Contributions to Books
Juxtaposing Cultural Artifacts to Peel the Onion of Hegemony, Teaching for Global Community: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategies of the Oppressor (2011)
In this chapter, I intend to delineate the sources of antipedagogical practices and the unseen...
Schooling, Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal / Neoconservative Age (2008)
Forward, Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism : A Critical Pedagogy (2005)
Peter McLaren: A Scholar’s Scholar, Teaching Peter McLaren (2005)
The nature of the questions originally sent to us by the editors of this book...
Presentations
Four Day Workshop: “Capacitación en alfabetismo y educación para la vida” (Preparation in Literacy and Education for Life) (with Elva Reza-López), San Elizario School District (2012)
This is the fifth year Reza-López and Bahruth have presented a workshop like this for...
Discussant: Panel La educación en América: Lo fundacional en la construcción del futuro, Latin American Studies Association Conference (2012)
International Panel Presentation: La globalización neoliberalista de materiales y métodos antipedagógicos que deseducan a los pueblos en “desarrollo”, Latin American Studies Association Conference (2010)