Professor
OFFICE LOCATION
Education 380
OFFICE HOURS
MAILING ADDRESS
Box 41071
Lubbock TX 79409-41071
DIRECT PHONE
(806) 742-1997 ext. 290
DEPARTMENT PHONE
(806) 742-1997
FAX NUMBER
(806) 742-2179
EMAIL ADDRESS
Alfredo Benavides, Ph.D.
short biography
Alfredo Benavides is Professor of Bilingual Education and Diversity Studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University. He has been in the field of bilingual education for over thirty years having also held joint administrative and faculty appointments at the University of Iowa and Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Michigan State University. He served as Editor of the Bilingual Research Journal from 1997 to 2006 and is a current member of the BRJ Editorial Board as well as serving on the Editorial Board of the Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe. He has also performed editorial work for the National Forum of Multicultural Issues Journal, the International Migration Review, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Longman Publishers, and Harper and Row Publishers. He was honored as the recipient of the 2007-2008 Outstanding Researcher Award in the College of Education. He joined the Texas Tech University faculty in 2002.
professional interests
Dr. Benavides’s research interests are in the areas of bilingual teacher preparation, multicultural education, bilingual education policy,and program development, evaluation, and assessment. He has published a variety of journal articles, book chapters, and two books. Through his active participation and involvement in several national organizations such as the National Association for Bilingual Education, the American Educational Research Association, and the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, Professor Benavides has served on state, regional, and national committees looking for ways to improve the education of language minority children. Over the past thirty-two years he has made over 100 scholarly presentations at various national and international conferences.Because of his extensive experience in bilingual teacher preparation and his early experience in migrant education, Professor Benavides also maintains an interest in the health and well being of children exposed to pesticides and other contaminants in agricultural fieldwork, having published in this area early in his career.
representative publications
Benavides, A. & Midobuche, E. (2008). Melting pot theory. In J. Gonzalez (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, Vol. 2, (pp. 545-549), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Midobuche, E. & Benavides, A. (2008). Hispanic population growth. In J. Gonzalez (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education,Vol. 1, (pp. 353-358), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Benavides, A. H., & Midobuche, E. (2007). The American G.I. Forum: A Mexican American tradition of selfless sacrifice. In L. Díaz-Soto, (Ed.). The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S. (pp. 29-31). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing.
Midobuche, E. & Benavides, A.H. (2006). Preparing Teachers to Teach English Language Learners: Best Practices for School and After-School Programs. In Cultural and Linguistic Issues for English Language Learners, Dam, P. & Cowart, M. (Eds), No. 1, (pp. 83-107). CANH NAM Publishers, Inc.
Padilla, R. V. & Benavides, A. H., (Eds.) (1992). Critical Perspectives on Bilingual Education Research, Bilingual Review Press, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Benavides, A. H. (1985). Multicultural aspects of human relations, Multicultural/Nonsexist Education: A Human Relations Approach, Colangelo, Foxley, and Dustin, (Eds.), Kendall-Hunt Press, Dubuque, Iowa, (pp. 132-140), (2nd Edition).