Professor Emeritus, Chair – Gallup Graduate Studies Center, and Professor of Education and Counseling (1988-2011)

Dr. Maguire served WNMU for nearly twenty-five years at the Gallup Graduate Studies Center (GGCS). For most of those years, Dr. Maguire was GGSC Chairperson. Located in Gallup, a border town to the Navajo Nation and Pueblo of Zuni, the GGSC served one of the most culturally rich, linguistically diverse, yet economically poorest communities in the United States.

Beginning in 1988, Dr. Maguire helped build the GGSC from one fulltime faculty and 100 graduate students in a borrowed space to, at its height, a team of 9 full time faculty, numerous support staff, adjuncts, and 500 graduate students.

Dr. Maguire was privileged to work collaboratively with the GGSC team to develop and offer transformative, accessible, cutting edge graduate education programs aligned with the main campus SOE. Inspired by bell hooks and Paulo Freire, the GGSC team believed the classroom was a space of radical possibilities. Our teacher education programs were designed to facilitate the development of critically reflective teachers with strong mastery of teaching competencies. The curriculum helped teachers focus both inwardly on their identities and classroom practices as well as outwardly on the social conditions that shaped and influenced their students’ lives. GGSC wanted to help teachers find and raise their voices to question, unsettle, and revision the purposes and practices of U.S. education. The GGSC believed that meaningful education happened best in the context of respectful, caring, and mutual relationships.

In collaboration with Dr. Julie Horwitz, Dr. Maguire co-founded and directed the WNMU-GGSC Peace Corps Fellows Program (2000 – 2011). Through the Paul Coverdale Peace Corps Fellows Program, former Peace Corps volunteers continued their service to underserved, under resourced communities while earning a graduate degree in Education. Dr Maguire served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica (1975-77). She worked as a Peace Corps Training consultant (1979-88) in both the US and West Africa. She is currently a Board member of the First Coast Returned Peace Corps Volunteers.

During her 25 years at WNMU, Dr. Maguire shifted from teaching Counselor Education courses, to Teacher Action Research and other graduate education courses. Dr. Maguire is recognized internationally for her work in Feminist Participatory Action Research and Teacher Action Research. Her groundbreaking book, Doing participatory research: A feminist approach (1987) was one of the earliest feminist critiques of participatory action research and helped shape the field. She also designed a feminist framework for teacher action research. Under her mentorship, many GGSC graduate student presented their teacher action research at the American Educational Research Association conferences and the New Mexico Teacher Action Research Conferences. In addition to numerous publications and presentations, Dr. Maguire has presented internationally as an invited speaker and action research workshop facilitator. Her earlier work was in Women and Development as well as domestic violence. See her body of work at https://www.patriciamaguire.net

Dr. Maguire earned a doctorate in International Education from the Center for International Education (CIE), University of Massachusetts – Amherst. CIE recently recognized Dr. Maguire’s website as an inspiring and innovative model for sharing one’s body of professional work https://www.umass.edu/cie/news/patricia-maguire-sharing-history-my-professional-journey

Dr. Maguire earned a Masters degree in Counseling from Florida State University and a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Florida. Pat has volunteered with asylum seekers on the US southwest border, marched and witnessed for social justice, worked with battered women, counseled high schoolers, led Girl Scout troops, and worked locally with community coalitions to feed the hungry.

Contact maguire-website@hotmail.com https://www.patriciamaguire.net

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