Theron Ford

Theron Ford obtained her doctorate from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has decades of classroom experience having taught at every grade level from Head Start through university graduate students. Additionally, she has a background in special education. She acknowledges that the endless efforts African Americans and their allies from other races and ethnicities have used in an attempt to actualize the concept of social justice in American came into her consciousness when she was in middle school when she lived through the disparate behaviors of some teachers and administrators in her school. As a youth, she found herself in marches for equal rights and in protest of the war in Vietnam. Her research interests focus on issues of race, class and culture within the spheres of education and religion as well as education and women in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1998 her work in Malawi with a Non-Governmental Organization earned her an award for outstanding teacher.

Publications

Gender and Diversity Issues in Religious-Based Institutions and Organizations
Gender and Diversity Issues in Religious-Based Institutions and Organizations
Blanche Jackson Glimps, Theron Ford. © 2016. 353 pages.
As religions grow and evolve, they adapt to their current circumstances, with new ideologies often deviating dramatically from their roots. The variety of religious institutions...
Implementing a Problem-Based Technology Learning Environment to Foster Cultural Literacy and Responsiveness Instructional Skills
Implementing a Problem-Based Technology Learning Environment to Foster Cultural Literacy and Responsiveness Instructional Skills
Blanche Jackson Glimps, Theron Ford. © 2016. 14 pages.
Technology is part of our daily lives; we can observe the use of technology in our cell phones and portable computers and, most notably, within classrooms. If used within the...
Implementing a Problem-Based Technology Learning Environment to Foster Cultural Literacy and Responsiveness Instructional Skills
Implementing a Problem-Based Technology Learning Environment to Foster Cultural Literacy and Responsiveness Instructional Skills
Blanche Jackson Glimps, Theron Ford. © 2014. 13 pages.
Technology is part of our daily lives; we can observe the use of technology in our cell phones and portable computers and, most notably, within classrooms. If used within the...