Alfredo J. Artiles, Ph.D.
Alfredo J. Artiles, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator
Alfredo J. Artiles, Ph.D., is a Professor in the College of Education at Arizona State University. Dr. Artiles' scholarship focuses on how constructions of "difference" mediate educational systems' responses to the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. His research examines the implications of the role of culture in learning for the construction of competence in two contexts: special education placement practices and teacher learning in urban multicultural schools. Dr. Artiles has published extensively for research, policy, and practice audiences in the general, special, and bilingual education fields.
His current work includes a project on teacher learning about diversity in the context of referrals to special education; another study aims to trace teachers' developing understandings about the intersection of learning, culture, and social justice in distinct preservice program contexts. He's also analyzing English language learners' (ELLs) special education placement patterns in the 12 states with the highest enrollment of ELLs. An additional project focuses on the empirical validation of a cultural historical model of teacher learning in urban schools.
Dr. Artiles has been a consultant/advisor to leading national and international organizations and programs such as the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Harvard's Critical Issues in Urban Special Education Institute, the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Harvard's Civil Rights Project, the National Institute for Urban School Improvement, the Kennedy Foundation, the Linking Academic Scholars to Educational Resources (LASER) Project at the University of South Florida, the Education Policy Reform Research Institute at the University of Maryland, the California Department of Education, and the IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement at Vanderbilt University, among others.
Dr. Artiles research and personnel preparation efforts have been funded by the Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education, the federally funded Center of Minority Research in Special Education (COMRISE), the U. S. Department of Education, and the University of California's Linguistic Minority Research Institute. Dr. Artiles has presented his scholarship at scientific conferences in the United States, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. Dr. Artiles received the 2002 Teacher Education and Special Education Annual Publication Award from CEC's Teacher Education Division (with S. Trent, K. Fitchett-Bazemore, L. McDaniel, & A. Coleman) and was bestowed the 2001 Early Career Award from AERA's Committee on Scholars of Color in Education.
