Research interests
Paula Groves Price studies issues of equity, looking for solutions to the problems of inequalities in schools and society. Equity, broadly defined, includes fairness, social justice, and equality of both access and opportunity. To understand equity, Price researches a variety of subjects, including diversity in teacher education, state educational policies, educational reform, and the community context of education. Her interest in discovering and reclaiming the voices of black women has resulted in ethnographic research about community activists whose life stories enrich multicultural education today. Her work has this multicultural focus, she noted, “since I am multicultural in experience and background. I have an African American father and a Japanese mother. I am the youngest of eight children and the first in my family to ever go to college. And I have experienced the inequalities in the schools I have attended. My mission is to teach future educators so we do not reproduce the same problems.”
Teaching/professional interests
Groves Price teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in diversity, multicultural education, and social and cultural foundations of education. In addition, she teaches graduate courses in the Cultural Foundations and Social Thought in Education doctoral program. Course topics include critical race theory, critical ethnography, educational reform, and critical multiculturalism.
Recent accomplishments
- Price, Paula Groves and Cozart, Sheryl Conrad; “Black Women, Identity, and Schooling” Urban Review (Fall 2005).
- Groves, Paula; “Who Do I Represent?”; Noblit, Flores, and Murrillo (eds) Post-critical Ethnography: Reinscribing Critique Hampton Press, 2004.
- Groves, Paula; “Insider, Outsider, or Exotic Other? Identity Performance, Reflexivity, and Post-Critical Ethnography”; Generett and Jeffries (eds) Black Women in the Field: Experiences Understanding Ourselves and Others through Qualitative Research Hampton Press, 2003.
- Hayes, Michael and Groves, Paula; “The Medium is the Experience: Uses of Media in Multicultural Education” Multicultural Education v.10.2 winter 2002.
Educational background
- Ph.D. Social Foundations of Education, University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002
- B.A. Social Welfare and Interdisciplinary Field Studies, University of California, Bekeley, 1996
