Melanie M. Acosta, Ph.D | Source | Associate Professor - Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Florida Int...

Melanie is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her scholarship is focused on critical issues in teacher learning and preparation to support African American educational excellence within the contexts of elementary classrooms and in local communities. Her work also examines the professional practice and identity of African American educators to illuminate how they have relied on their cultural ethos to resist, transform and liberate themselves in ways that result in meaningful and non-alienating improvements in education and society.