Dr. Lirio Patton is a clinical assistant professor and program manager for the grant-funded Preparing Educators for Arizona’s Indian Communities (PEAIC) program. At ASU she has also served as an Elementary Multilingual Education (EME) site lead, supervising K-8 internship and residency experiences.
Dr. Patton is guided by critical pedagogies and decolonial perspectives, committed to serving historically excluded communities in education.
Education
Ph.D. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
M.A. in Education, Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education, Arizona State University.
B.A. in Psychology, California State University, Northridge.
Research Interests
Community Knowledge Systems
Son Jarocho and Fandango Jarocho Pedagogies
Research Group
Son Xinachtli Collective
Publications
Jeanne Powers and Lirio Patton. (2008). Between Mendez and Brown: Gonzales v. Sheely (1951) and the Legal Campaign Against Segregation. Law & Social Inquiry, 33(1), 127-171.
Research Activity
Son Xinachtli Collective. [Authors: Moreno Sandoval, C.D., Roaf, M., Ruiz Ramirez, J., Tabera-Rocha, G., Rodriguez, J., and Campos López, J., and Patton, L.] Planting son jarocho in the Central Valley: The power of expression, healing, and transgression for the co-liberation of all. Conference paper accepted for the American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting 2021.