Graduate Study in Curriculum & Instruction • The Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture • Texas A&M University

patricia larke

 

Since 1984, Patricia Larke has been a faculty member in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture (TLAC), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and received the rank of Professor in 1998.  She was the Coordinator of Graduate Programs in TLAC from 1999-2004.

Dr. Larke has been a scholar in the field of multicultural education for over seventeen years. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in multicultural education in which she developed the first graduate research and theory course in multicultural education and the first undergraduate course in multicultural education at Texas A&M University.  Her specific research interests are educating teachers for diverse classroom by using a cultural sensitization model that is built on the tenets of multicultural education and critical theory, recruitment and retention of teachers of color and mentoring. Dr. Larke was a co-developer of the Multicultural Mentorship Project (formerly Minority Mentorship Project) that was disseminated in California, Illinois and Virginia.  Dr. Larke has over 60 publications in the field including journal articles, two co-edited books, book chapters and newsletter articles. She has published in such journals as Action in Teacher Education, Equity and Excellence, Journal of Urban Education, and Journal of Public Management & Social Policy.   

Patricia Larke has over 250 international and national conference presentations at such meetings as American Educational Research Association, Association for Teacher Educators and the National Association for Multicultural Education. She is a national multicultural education consultant for school districts, higher education institutions and professional organizations. She is a charter member of National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) and a former member of NAME Board of Directors (2000-2003). Dr. Larke currently serve as  president of Texas NAME Chapter.  In 2004, she was awarded the  J. Pritchy Smith’s Multicultural Educator Award for my service to the field of multicultural education.  Dr. Larke has been a member of the National Council for the Accreditation for Teacher Education Board of Examiners since 1997.  She was selected as 2005 Fulbright-Hayes Scholar to China in June 2005.

Dr. Larke currently works with over 35 doctoral students in the area of multicultural education and English as a Second Language. Many of these students are a part of the Aldine (Houston,TX) Cohort, Corpus Christi Cohort, and Laredo Cohort.  

Before joining the faculty at Texas A&M, Patricia Larke was a public school teacher for 10 years. She taught elementary (1st grade) and middle school (6th grade mathematics) and junior high school (7th and 8th grade mathematics) in St. Matthews, South Carolina and Columbia, Missouri.