The Hope for Audacity

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Lilia D. Monzó is Assistant Professor at the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. Her research involves ethnography with Latino immigrant children and families and the educational contexts in which they participate. She teaches courses in the teacher education program on diversity and bilingual education and second language learning. She also teaches doctoral level courses in qualitative research methods.

Alice Merz is Associate Professor at the College of Education and Public Policy at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Dr. Merz’s research focuses on case studies that examine how teachers become aware of and use interpretive lenses, such as the Reggio Approach, to guide their students’ work, discourse, and dispositions. She teaches methods courses in elementary mathematics as well as graduate research methods courses.