Kris Gutiérrez

Professor
Social Research Methodology

1026 Moore Hall

(310) 825 7467

krisgu@ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D., English / Curriculum and Instruction, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1987

Research Interests

Current research interests include a study of the sociocultural contexts of literacy development, particularly the study of the acquisition of academic literacy for language minority students. Her research also focuses on understanding the relationship between language, culture, development, and pedagogies of empowerment.

Current Research Projects

CO-PI, UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families: An Alfred P. Sloan Center on Working Families, The Role of Education in Middle Class Families

PI, Studying the development of literacy and problem-solving competencies in an after-school computer program: The effects of auxiliary mediational means in the 5th Dimension

PI, The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Learning: Examining Writing, Digital Story Telling, and Teatro as Tools for Learning for Migrant Students

Co-PI, Examining the social organization of helping and learning in children?s small group interactions in the U.S. and Mexico. Specifically the ways that language and joint activity help coordinate children?s thoughts and actions, and how children learn by paying attention to third party interactions

Teaching Interests

Qualitative Research Methods, Cultural-historical Activity Theory, Sociocultural theories of literacy, Theories of Reading and Writing, Classroom Discourse, cultural dimensions of learning

News

Professor Gutierrez was the 2005 recipient of the AERA Division C Sylvia Scribner Award and is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences 2006-07. She was also the Noted Scholar in Residence, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 23-August 10, 2006

Recent Publications

Gutiérrez, K. (under review). Intersubjectivity and grammar in the Third Space. Mind, Culture and Activity.

Gutiérrez, K. (2006). White innocence: A framework and methodology for rethinking educational discourse. International Journal of Learning., 12, 1-11. (View Complete Publication)

Gutiérrez, K. (2006) Culture Matters: Rethinking Educational Equity. New York: Carnegie Foundation. (View Complete Publication)

Gutiérrez, K., Izquierdo, C., & Kremer-Sadlik, T. (under review). Middle class working families' ideologies and engagement in children's extracurricular activities.

Gutiérrez, K. & Arzubiaga, A. (under review). Re-Imagining Community.

Gutiérrez, K. & Correa-Chavez, M. (2006). What to do about culture? Lifelong Learning in Europe., 3, 152-159. (View Complete Publication)

Stone, L. & Gutiérrez, K. (in press). Problem Articulation and the Processes of Assistance: An Activity Theoretic View of Mediation in Game Play. International Journal of Educational Research..

Gutiérrez, K. & Orellana, M. (2006). The problem of English Learners: Constructing genres of difference. .Research in the Teaching of English., 40 (4), 502-507. (View Complete Publication)

Orellana, M. & Gutiérrez, K. (2006). What's the problem? Constructing different genres for the study of English Learners. .Research in the Teaching of English., 41 (1), 118-123. (View Complete Publication)

Gutiérrez, K., Crosland, K. & Berlin, D. (submitted). Reconsidering coaching: Assisting teachers? literacy practices in the zone of proximal development.

Gutiérrez, K., & Jaramillo, N. (2006). Looking for educational equity: The consequences of relying on Brown. In A. Ball (Ed.) With More Deliberate Speed: Achieving Equity and Excellence in Education - Realizing the Full Potential of Brown v. Board of Education. 2006 Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Volume 105, Issue 2. (pp. 173-189). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. (View Complete Publication)

Gutiérrez, K. (in press). Fairness as Sameness: The New Tonic of Equality and Opportunity. In J. Larson (Ed.) Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix, Second Edition. New York: Lang.

Gutiérrez, K. (in press). Commentary on a Sociocritical Approach to Literacy. In Lewis, C., Enciso, P., & Moje, E. (Eds.) Identity, Agency, and Power: Reframing sociocultural research on literacy (pp. 115-120). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.