Marva Sylvana McClean

Marva Sylvana McCleanDr. 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 recently transitioned from her role as English Faculty at Florida Institute of Technology, where she taught Writing about Literature and Global Literature to pursue decolonized research methodologies with an emphasis on the African Diaspora, Education Justice and Black, Aboriginal and Indigenous societies. Her role as editor of The Struggle for Justice, Equity & Peace in the Global Classroom, IGI Global, 2023 is an outgrowth of this work. An award-winning educator-researcher, Dr. McClean is the Gladstone Library, UK, Political Scholar in Residence 2020, author of From the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter: Ancestral Writing as a Pedagogy of Hope (2019), Bridges to Memory: Poems by Marva McClean (2007) and co-author (with Marcus Waters, Griffith University, Australia) of Indigenous Epistemology: Descent into the Womb of Decolonized Research Methodologies (2020).

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...