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Evelyn Young
Lecturer; Supervisor of Student Teachers
School of Education

Email: evelyy1@uci.edu

Education
  • Ph.D., Educational Leadership, Boston College (2010)
  • M.Ed., Teacher Education, UCLA (1998)
  • B.A., Psychology, UC Berkeley (1995)

Biography

Evelyn Young is a lecturer and a supervisor of student teachers in the Master of Arts in Teaching program at UCI. Her teaching and research interests focus on critical race theory, multicultural education, diversity and equity, and education policy. She has previously worked as a public school elementary teacher in Lawndale, CA and St. Louis, MO. She has also worked in private and international schools as a curriculum coordinator and the Director of Academic Affairs. Her teaching excellence has earned her the District Teacher of the Year Award at Ritenour School District in St. Louis, Missouri as well as the Donald J. White Teaching Award at Boston College. ​

Courses Taught
  • EDUC 124/CHC 183: Multicultural Education in K-12 Schools
  • EDUC 230: History and Culture of Schooling in the United States
  • EDUC 347: Culture, Diversity, and Educational Equity
  • EDUC 243: The Policy Environment of Teaching
  • EDUC 348B: Educational Equity and the Exceptional Learner
  • ED/PY031: Family, School, and Society
  • ED/PY030: Child Growth and Development
  • ED 720: Curriculum Leadership

Publications
  • Young, E. Y. (2015). Legal and educational issues in critical race theory. In L. Drakeford (Ed.), The Race Controversy in American Education (pp. 3-32). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
  • Young, E. Y. (2011). The four personae of racism: Educators’ (mis)understanding of individual vs. systemic racism. Urban Education, 46(6), 1433-1460.
  • Young, E. (2010). Challenges to conceptualizing and actualizing culturally relevant pedagogy: How viable is the theory in classroom practice?  Journal of Teacher Education, 61(3), 248-260.

Presentations
  • Young, E. Y. (2010, May 24-26). Engaging educators in critical discourse on the policies, practices, and perceptions of racism in urban schooling.  Paper presented at the Duquesne University Educational Leadership Student Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Young, E. (2009, Nov. 19-22). The practice of racism among "social justice" educators in perpetuating the racial achievement gap. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the University Council of Educational Administrators Conference, Anaheim, CA.
  • Young, E. (2009, May 7-9). Challenges to defining, implementing, and assessing culturally relevant pedagogy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Educational Research Association, Portsmouth, NH.
  • Young, E. (2009, April 13-18). Grounding critical race theory in participatory inquiry: Raising educators' race consciousness and co-constructing antiracist pedagogy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
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