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Jeremy Garcia, is a faculty member in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the Hopi/Tewa Tribes of Arizona. He was an Assistant Professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He was also an Endowed Professor of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education at UWM. His research focuses on culturally responsive curriculum, pedagogy, teacher education, and family and community engagement among Indigenous education. Grounded in critical indigenous research methodologies, his previous research analyzed curriculum and pedagogy in Indigenous education through an interactive process with Hopi and Tewa educators. His recent research examined how Indigenous parents and educators contextualize the process and experience of engaging with opportunities to collaborate with educators in a schooling context located in an urban setting in the Midwest. He continues to support tribal communities, educators and programs on curriculum development that is grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems, such as the Hopi Kuuyi (Water) Curriculum and the Hopi Natwani (traditional farming) curriculum in Arizona. He has experience as an elementary school teacher and parent involvement coordinator on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation, in Arizona. He is a member of the editorial board for the Mellon Tribal College Research Journal and a board member of the Hopi Education Endowment Fund. He received his undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Northern Arizona University, his M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies from Purdue University. While at Purdue University, he held a vital role in the development of the first Native American Educational and Cultural Center at Purdue University.

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Courses
  • SFCSP
    Sustaining Family, Community and School Partnerships

  • RRTS
    Recent Research on Teaching and Schooling

  • LCRIE
    Language, Culture, Race and Identity in Education

  • SCPEMSC
    Science Concepts and Practices in the Elementary and Middle School Curriculum

  • MESJ
    Multicultural Education and Social Justice

  • SIA
    Schooling In America

  • TESSSMS
    Teaching Elementary School Social Studies in a Multicultural Society

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    Natives Who Code: Creating New Stories - Creating Career Pathways

    Key Personnel (KP)

    2022

    $500.0K
    Active
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    Indigenous Teacher Education Program

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $2.0M
    Active
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    Teachers as Native Nation-builders: Igniting the Embers of our Languages

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $799.6K
    Active
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    Indigenous Teacher Education Project

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2018

    $1.3M
    Active
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    NRT-IGE: Indigenous Graduate Education in Science and Engineering - Southwest (IGESE-SW)

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2017

    $387.9K
    Active
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    Indigenous Teacher Education for Academic and Cultural Sustainability

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2016

    $966.9K
News
  • UArizona Program for Indigenous Teachers Will Expand With New Federal, State Funding

    2021

  • $1.2M Grant Will Help Prepare Indigenous Elementary Teachers for STEM Instruction

    2018

Publications (2)
  • Re-Examining Indigenous conceptualizations of family and community involvement

    2014

  • Performing decolonization: Lessons learned from Indigenous youth, teachers and leaders’ engagement with critical Indigenous pedagogy.

    2012

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