Event: Powerful Teaching: Towards a Pedagogy for the Global City
Date: March 15, 16, 17 of 2011
Event Name: POWERFUL TEACHING: TOWARDS A PEDAGOGY FOR THE GLOBAL CITY
Sponsor: Simmons College
Type of Event: Lecture/Book Series
Location: Simmons College, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
Time: 4:30-6:30 pm
Event Website: http://www.raceandeducation.com
The Race, Education and Democracy Lecture and Book Series, a collaborative effort of Simmons College and Beacon Press, will bring annually to Boston a prominent scholar to deliver four to five public lectures on the topic of Race, Education and Democracy. These lectures will form the basis for a book to be published by Beacon Press.
Dr. Ernest Morrell will deliver the 2011 Race, Education and Democracy Lectures. Professor Morrell is Associate Professor in the Urban School Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at University of California at Los Angeles. His recent publications include, Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation, Routledge Press, 2008; The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools, with Duncan-Andrade, Peter Lang, 2008 and Linking Literacy and Popular Culture: Making Connections for Lifelong Learning, Christopher-Gordon, 2004.
March 15, 2011
Powerful Teaching: Toward Pedagogy of the Global City
March 16, 2011
Youth Participatory Action Research, Academic Literacy, and Civic Engagement in Urban Schools
March 17, 2011
Popular Culture, Media Production, and a Re-Imaging of Classroom Life
