Dr. Roberto Bahruth serves as a Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Literacy, Language, and Culture. 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.