About Christina Bosch

As a publicly-engaged scholar and a product of numerous types of formal and informal education systems, I seek to understand analyses of and personal experiences related to the school-prison nexus in order to advance a radically inclusive education system. As an assistant professor of special education at the California State University at Fresno -- a primary trainer of teachers in the state -- I am currently interested in how teacher education supports cultural competency (to achieve disability, racial, gender, and economic justice) and asset-based approaches in the classroom, so that youth can learn in nurturing communities where adults are cool with each other, everyone can come to feel creative/intellectual freedom, and all cultivate a deep love of ecological and human diversity. On the New Books Network, I hope to disseminate books that deal with these issues from a systems-change perspective, so that good ideas can hybridize across egoic, geographic, cultural, and linguistic borders.