Donaldo Pereira Macedo (born 1950) is a Cape Verdean-American
critical theorist, linguist, and expert on literacy,
critical pedagogy and multicultural education studies.
Until 2019 he was Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the
University of Massachusetts Boston
The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a Public university, public US-based research university. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Ma ...
.
He was also the founder of the Master of Arts Program in
Applied Linguistics
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, Communication stu ...
at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and chaired the program until approximately 2012.
He has published extensively in the areas of linguistics,
critical literacy, and bilingual and multicultural education.
His work in translating and editing works of
Paulo Freire, his published dialogues with Freire, and his own research on Freire's pedagogy, have significantly contributed to the field of
critical pedagogy.
Macedo co-authored two books with Freire, ''Literacy: Reading the Word and the World'' (1987) and ''Ideology Matters'' (2002). His other publications include: ''Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know'' (1994), ''Dancing With Bigotry'' (with Lilia Bartolome, 1991), and ''Critical Education in the New Information Age'' (with Manuel Castells, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux and Paul Willis, 1999).
He also served as the editor for and contributed an introduction to
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a ...
's ''Chomsky on Miseducation'' (2000).
Biography
Macedo was born on the island of
Brava in the
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
islands, off the coast of northwest Africa.
[Miller, Yawu (January 11, 2012).]
Two Brothers, Two Sets of Political Viewpoints
. ''CommonWealth''. commonwealthmagazine.org. Retrieved March 1, 2020. He attended middle and high school on the island of
São Vicente.
He has six siblings, including a brother, Viriato (today known as
Vinny deMacedo
Viriato Manuel Pereira de Macedo (born October 16, 1965), also popularly known as Vinny deMacedo, is a Cape Verdean American politician, and was the Massachusetts State Senate, Massachusetts State Senator for the Plymouth County, Massachusetts, P ...
), who is 15 years younger.
In 1966, the family immigrated to the United States, and settled in the
Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts; three years later, Macedo's parents moved his siblings to the nearby coastal town of
Kingston, while he remained in Dorchester with his grandmother to finish his studies at
English High School.
He earned a BA at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a master's degree in Spanish literature at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
.
In 1989 he completed a PhD in applied linguistics at
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...
,
Applied Linguistics PhD graduates: 1989 – Donaldo Macedo
. Retrieved March 1, 2020. with a dissertation on Cape Verdean Creole
Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole languages, Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde. It is the native creole language of virtually all Cape Verdeans and is used as a second language by the Cape Verd ...
.
References
External links
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1950 births
Living people
Critical pedagogy scholars
Education writers
University of Massachusetts Boston faculty
People from Dorchester, Boston
American people of Cape Verdean descent