The Conference on Education and Culture is a collaboration between the University of North Texas and the Jalisco Secretariat of Education, which supervises EC-12 and a number of universities, normal colleges and research centers.
The collaboration calls for cooperative projects, inter-institutional research programs, visits between UNT and schools in the state of Jalisco, and other programs that promote improved educational and cultural relations between UNT and the Jalisco Secretariat of Education.
Cross-Border Research
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. | March 27, 2019
Gateway Center Ballroom
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
Scheduled Topics
- Living Within and Across Borders: Elementary, Secondary, and Tertiary Student Trajectories
- Cross-Border Inquiries into Teacher Education
- Intercultural Bilingual Education: Different Contexts, Different Forms
- Children Moving from the United States to Mexico: Fractured Schooling and Educational Challenges for Teachers
- Education of Transnational Students in Jalisco and Texas
- Education with a View of the Border Land
- Perspectives from the Other Side of the Border
- The Importance of Mexico-Texas Relations
Event Parking
- Parking is available on the west side of the Gateway Center off North Texas Boulevard.
- Handicapped parking spaces are available along Avenue D on the east side of the Gateway Center.
Directions
From Dallas:
Go north on I-35 East to Denton. Exit number 466B toward North Texas Boulevard. Turn right onto North Texas Boulevard. Once past Eagle Drive, the Gateway Center will be on the right.
From Fort Worth:
Go north on I-35 West to Denton. Follow I-35/Dallas signs. Exit number 466B toward North Texas Boulevard. Turn left onto North Texas Boulevard. Once past Eagle Drive, the Gateway Center will be on the right.
From DFW Airport:
Take airport tollway north to TX-121. Exit east on TX-121 and continue to Lewisville to I-35 East. Turn left from TX-121 to I-35E going north. Continue on I-35E into Denton and exit number 466B toward North Texas Boulevard. Turn right onto North Texas Boulevard. Once past Eagle Drive, the Gateway Center will be on the right.
From Gainesville:
Go south on I-35 East to Denton. Exit number 466B toward North Texas Boulevard, and then turn left onto North Texas Boulevard. Once past Eagle Drive, the Gateway Center is on the right.
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Featured Speakers
Tatyana Kleyn
Tatyana Kleyn is Associate Professor and Director of the Bilingual Education and TESOL programs at the City College of New York. Dr. Kleyn, who received the Early Career Award from the Bilingual Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association, is author of Immigration: The Ultimate Teen Guide, co-author of Teaching in Two Languages: A Guide for K-12 Bilingual Educators (with Sharon Adelman Reyes), and co-editor of Translanguaging with Multilingual Students: Learning from Classroom Moments (with Ofelia García). Her articles are published in various journals, including International Journal of Bilingual Research, Bilingual Research Journal, and Multicultural Perspectives. She is also the director and co-producer of the Living Undocumented Series documentaries and Una Vida, Dos Países: Children and Youth (Back) in Mexico.
Her research is enriched by her own international experiences. Prior to her graduate studies, she was an elementary school teacher in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and in 2014-2015 was a Fulbright Scholar in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her doctorate in International Educational Development is from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has served as president of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education.
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Victor Zúñiga
Victor Zuniga, Professor of Sociology at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Tier 3 National Researcher (highest level) in Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, is well known for his extensive research on international migration and the challenges of transnational education. In 2018 he was recognized with the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education from Division G of the American Educational Research Association. His numerous authored and co-authored articles have been published in Mexican. US, French, Italian, and British journals, which most recently include Migraciones Internacionales, Estudios Sociológicos, Current Anthropology, Mexican Studies, and Children’s Geographies. He is co-editor of the book New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States (Sage Publishers) and co-author of the volume Alumnos Transnacionales (Secretaría de Educación Pública, México).
His newest book, published this year in Spanish (El Colegio de México Press) and to be published in 2020 in English, has the same title as his address for this conference: Children Moving from the United States to Mexico: Fractured Schooling and Educational Challenges for Teachers. Currently, he is leading a research project titled “International Migration and School Exclusion” (funded by CONACYT). He has been editor of the journal TRACE (Procesos Mexicanos y Centroamericanos) since 2012.
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Randy Bomer
Randy Bomer became Dean of the College of Education at UNT in August 2017. Prior to coming to UNT, he was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Charles Spence Sr. Centennial Professor of Education, held administrative positions as department chair, and directed the Heart of Texas Writing Project. A leader in secondary English/language arts education and former president of the National Council of Teachers of English, he has connected research to classroom practice in numerous scholarly articles, published in journals that include Research in the Teaching of English, English Education, Language Arts, Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, and Urban Education.
He has also authored or coauthored books, including Building Adolescent Literacy in Today’s English Classrooms and For a Better World: Reading and Writing for Social Action, and he co-edited the Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research. Dean Bomer received his master’s and doctoral degrees in English education from Columbia University and his bachelor's degree in drama from Trinity University in San Antonio.
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Lya Sañudo Guerra
Lya Sañudo Guerra, Educational Researcher for the Jalisco Secretariat of Education, has an active role in the Coordination of Teacher Preparation and Development/La Coordinación de Formación y Actualización Docente (CFyAD) Program and is affiliated with the Inter-institutional Council for Educational Research. She is also a member of the System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology. Her master’s and doctoral degrees are from universities in Mexico and Spain, and she also conducted post-doctoral studies in Argentina. Since 1990, she has investigated critical issues related to the production and distribution of educational knowledge. Current projects, supported by state and federal funds, focus on evaluation of educators during admission and follow-up; practices in basic education; and knowledge management in education.
Dra. Sanudo has published her research in national and international journals, has edited and authored books and book chapters, and has presented invited conference papers in the United States, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, and Spain. She spent a semester in 2013 as a visiting scholar at UNT, and for more than 15 years has provided leadership to the collaboration between UNT and the Jalisco Secretariat of Education.
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Francisco de la Torre Galindo
Francisco de la Torre Galindo, Consul General of Mexico in Dallas, represents the government of Mexico in north Texas, where the consulate assists Mexican citizens and serves the interests of Mexico in 121 counties. The Consulate General in Dallas is the third largest Mexican consulate in the US, following only Los Angeles and Chicago. De la Torre, who has been member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1998, was previously Executive Director of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico; Legal Director in the General Directorate of the Foreign Service and Human Resources; and Director for South America in the Undersecretariat for Latin America and the Caribbean. He was also assigned to the embassies of Mexico in Brazil and Argentina.
His law degree is from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and his master’s degree in diplomatic studies is from the Matías Romero Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has participated in seminars and forums related to international, diplomatic, and consular issues in more than 25 US cities as well as in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, Venezuela, Great Britain, Ireland, Indonesia, and Singapore.
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