 Associate Professor, Urban Schooling Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
Associate Director, Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, University of California at Los Angeles
Ph.D., (Language, Literacy, and Culture) University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA
Areas of Research and Practice: urban school reform; literacy and the everyday lives of youth; youth participatory action research; critical literacy; youth media production; urban teacher leadership; adolescent literacy practices in non-school settings.
Research and Scholarship:
Ernest Morrell is Associate Professor in the Urban Schooling Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was recently appointed Professor of Arts and Humanities and Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College/Columbia University, positions he will assume July 2011.
Drawing on the everyday lives and experiences of urban adolescents, for almost two decades, Dr. Morrell has worked to develop curricula that promote the development of academic literacy and civic engagement. For the past 12 years, working with high school students in Los Angeles, he has served as Director of the Council of Youth Research, a project that involves youth in researching issues in their communities and schools. He has also worked with teachers throughout the country on the infusion of youth media production into standards-based curricula across discipline areas. In an assessment-driven educational climate, Morrell's innovative approach to teaching transforms how teachers reach students as they navigate what it means to be a reader, writer, and engaged citizen in the 21st century.
Formerly a high school teacher and coach, Morrell is as effective in a high school classroom as he is in a research university. He is one of the leading voices in the country for expanding our definition of literacy and developing pedagogical practices that enhance the development of academic literacies in urban youth. In April, he will keynote the annual meeting of the Urban Writing Project, which will be held in Boston.
Dr. Morrell is the author of several books including Becoming Critical Researchers: Literacy and Empowerment for Urban Youth; Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation; Linking Literacy and Popular Culture: Finding Connections for Lifelong Learning, and The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools.
Dr. Morrell has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries; presented at national and international academic conferences and delivered keynote addresses to private foundations, school districts, colleges and universities and community groups.
Morrell received the outstanding dissertation award from University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. He was awarded a postdoctoral research grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He is currently involved in a research project, which is examining the effect of the application of critical pedagogy in several classrooms across Los Angeles.
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