Guadalupe Valdés
H. Samy Alim
Education Professors GUADALUPE VALDÉS and H. SAMY ALIM are recipients of awards given by the American Educational Research Association.
Valdés, the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, is the recipient of the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education.
Alim, an associate professor of education and, by courtesy, of linguistics and anthropology, received the Early Career Award.
Both awards are from the association’s Division G, which focuses on the social context of education. The division examines the processes of teaching and learning in the context of the social, political, cultural and economic forces in which that teaching and learning takes place.
“We encourage submissions that examine the ways in which the new knowledge economies operate to include and exclude, embrace and marginalize, offer access and create barriers for learning in formal and informal contexts,” the Division G website states.
Alim earned his master’s degree in linguistics in 2002 and a doctorate in educational linguistics in 2003, both from Stanford. He joined the Stanford faculty in 2009. His goal is to shed light on the relationships among language, race and ethnicity across a wide range of social, cultural and educational contexts.
Valdés, one of the nation’s foremost experts on Spanish-English bilingualism, has been a member of the Stanford School of Education faculty since 1992. She studies the sociolinguistic processes of language acquisition by those who set out to learn a second language in a formal school setting, as well as those in immigrant communities who must learn two languages in order to adapt to immediate family-based or work-based environments.
