Victoria Trinder

Affiliation

University of Illinois Chicago

Biography

Dr. Victoria Trinder is a Clinical Associate Professor in Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the BA in Urban Education Program, a majority multilingual program leading to Elementary and Early Childhood licensure. Dr Trinder’s research examines historical and philosophical contexts that inform norms and systems of public education in post-conflict spaces. Across her career as an urban teacher educator, she has led three teacher preparation programs centered on justice for urban children, their families, and their communities. Her decades-long leadership in urban teacher education programs is founded upon her scholarship in historical theorizing and policy implementation in teacher education and has supported teachers nationally and internationally to practice their justice-centered pedagogies and embrace community epistemologies. Her scholarship in transformative frameworks for teacher education has been disseminated nationally and internationally, and she is the recent recipient of two university awards, the Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Teaching Recognition Program, presented by the UIC Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Dr. Trinder taught for a decade in Chicago's public schools, during which time she collaborated to found a heritage-language elementary school centered on arts, language, and culture - still thriving today. She is the author of Teaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy (Routledge), Honorable Mention Book of the Year Award by the Society for Professors of Education. Her urban teacher education contributions have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The McCormick Foundation, Fulbright, and the Chicago Community Trust.