Marva McClean

Marva McCleanMarva Sylvana McClean is a poet, author and scholar/activist whose research agenda focuses on the African Diaspora and the historical empowerment of people of color across the globe. She has an expertise in curriculum inquiry and strategies to attain student achievement. Dr. McClean is the Gladstone Library, UK, Political Scholar in Residence 2020, author of (2019), Bridges to Memory: Poems by Marva McClean (2007) and co-author (with Marcus Waters, Griffith University, Australia) of (2020). Recognized as a Fulbright Specialist 2014-2019, she advocates for conscientization of curriculum and pedagogy to foster students’ ability to become agents of change. Her research brings critical considerations to preparing educators to achieve educational justice through innovative experiences such as fieldwork in post- colonial nations and underserved school communities, engaging students as knowledge producers and critics in the classroom through an assertion of decolonized pedagogy. Dr. McClean most recently taught Writing about Literature at the Florida Institute of Technology (2022-2023). She has taught in the department of Educational Leadership & Research Methodology at Florida Atlantic University and Educational Leadership in Charter Schools at Nova Southeastern University. She leads the literary initiative, Strong in the Broken Places: Poetics of the African Diaspora and is editor of the online newsletter, Sound the Abeng: Writing Black, Aboriginal & Indigenous Lives. She has an expressed interest in collaborative inquiry with international scholars, activists, writers, artists and community leaders.

Publications

The Struggle for Justice, Equity, and Peace in the Global Classroom
The Struggle for Justice, Equity, and Peace in the Global Classroom
Marva McClean. © 2023. 275 pages.
In the current state of global upheaval with the rallying call for human rights and justice for people who have been historically marginalized, the curriculum must be decolonized...
Who Shall Teach Our Children?
Who Shall Teach Our Children?
Marva Sylvana McClean. © 2023. 33 pages.
This chapter presents decolonized research methodologies that interrogate the profile of a conscientized teacher, qualified and prepared to teach Black and Brown children within...
Education as the Practice of Freedom: Writing Truth Into the Curriculum Across the Globe
Education as the Practice of Freedom: Writing Truth Into the Curriculum Across the Globe
Marva McClean, Marcus Woolombi Waters. © 2021. 29 pages.
As a result of the complex, multilayered, and problematic environment in which they work, two scholars (Black Jamaican and Aboriginal), collaborating across the continents of...