Melanie Acosta

Select Publications

  • Acosta, M. M., Woodard, P. (2022) Awakening the essence of classroom community- building. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. .
  • King, J. E., Warren, C., Acosta, M. M., Griffin, A. (2022). In Dialogue: Radical futures of Black literacies and Black education. Research in the Teaching of English. 57(1), 89-94.
  • Acosta, M. M., & Hayes, C. (2022). 鈥淐ome and get your soul food鈥: a duo-ethnographic account of Black teachers modeling the praxis of the black intellectual tradition, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2025494.
  • Acosta, M. M., Duggins, S. (2021). Growth through crisis: Preservice teachers productive struggle to enact culturally relevant pedagogy. Action in Teacher Education, 43(30), 479-495.
  • King, N. S., Collier, Z., Johnson, B. G., Acosta, M. M., Southwell, C. N. (2021). Determinants of Black families鈥 access to a community-based STEM program: A latent class analysis. Science Education. .
  • Acosta, M. M. (2019). The paradox of pedagogical excellence among exemplary Black women educators. Journal of Teacher Education, 70(1), 26-38.
  • Acosta, M. M. (2018). 鈥淣o time for messin鈥 around!鈥 Black educator urgency and implications for the preparation of urban educators. Urban Education, 53(8), 981. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280569790_No_Time_For_Messin'_Around_Black_Educator_Urgency_and_implications_for_the_preparation_of_urban_educators
  • Acosta, M. M., Duggins, S. (2018). Community literacy learning spaces as counterhegemonic figured worlds for African American readers. Reading Horizons, 57(3), 49 -67.
  • Acosta, M. M., Foster, M., Houchen, D. (2018). 鈥淲hy seek the living among the dead?鈥 African American pedagogical excellence: Exemplar practice for teacher education Journal of Teacher Education, 69(4), 341-353.
  • Hudson-Vassell, C., Acosta, M. M., King, N. S., Upshaw, A., Cherfere, G. (2018). Development of liberatory pedagogy in teacher education: Voices of novice BLACK women teacher educators. Teaching and Teacher Education, 72, 133-143.
  • Acosta, M. M. (2017). EDG 6931 writes back!: Black Studies as emancipatory resistance to neoliberal tyranny in teacher education. Critical Studies鈥擟ritical Methodologies, 17(3), 269-276.
  • Acosta, M. M. (March, 2017). You reap what you sow: High expectations and student achievement. Diversity Partners Magazine.

Melanie Acosta

Melanie Acosta

Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Office Location: ED 47 - 475
Campus: Boca

acostam@fau.edu