Patricia Randolph Leigh

Patricia Randolph Leigh is Associate Professor of Curriculum & Instruction and is affiliated with the Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching in the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State University. Dr. Leigh also provides leadership to the George Washington Carver Academy, a university undergraduate scholarship program. She teaches courses in the areas of educational foundations, multicultural education, and instructional technology, in which she embeds her social justice and equity scholarship. Dr. Leigh’s research is also informed by this expertise as she focuses on the impact of historical discrimination on technology equity in the digital age, the equality of educational opportunities historically afforded underserved children, and the impact that economic discrimination and residential segregation has had upon the public schooling of ethnic/racial minority children in the U.S. Dr. Leigh’s more recent work center on globalization and social justice, particularly issues affection those in the Africa Diaspora.

Publications

Digital Equity and Black Brazilians: Honoring History and Culture
Digital Equity and Black Brazilians: Honoring History and Culture
Patricia Randolph Leigh. © 2011. 24 pages.
In this chapter, the author examines the history of the colonization of Brazil through the transatlantic Black slave trade and the effects this history had upon digital equity...
Digital Equity in a Traditional Culture: Gullah Communities in South Carolina
Digital Equity in a Traditional Culture: Gullah Communities in South Carolina
Patricia Randolph Leigh, J. Herman Blake, Emily L. Moore. © 2011. 20 pages.
In this chapter, the authors explore the history of the Gullah people of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. In examining the history of oppression and isolation of Black...