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22nd Symposium Lecture

It's not a Conspiracy, it's Worse than That: a Critical Race Perspective on Racism and Education Policy

David Gillborn
Head of Policy Studies & Director of the Health & Education Research Unit,
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Founding Editor of the international journal, Race, Ethnicity & Education

November 9, 2005

David Gillborn is Head of Policy Studies & Director of the Health & Education Research Unit at the Univeristy of London, Institute of Education. He holds a doctoratein Sociology at the University of Nottingham (1987), and worked as a Research Fellow in Education Gilbornat the University of Sheffield before joining the Institute in 1992. Dr. Gillborn is the Founding Editor of Race, Ethnicity & Education, a refereed international journal dedicated to the study of race, racism and ethnicity in education contexts. The journal provides a vital forum for scholarly debate and critical research that is fast establishing itself as a leading publication in its field. In addition, Dr. Gillborn is also involved in several other journals and is an editoria board member of both the International Journal of Inclusive Education and Qualitative Research. Dr. Gillborn's profound scholarship includes Rationing Education: Policy, Practice, Reform & Equity (2000), and Racism and Antiracism in Real Schools: Theory, Policy, Practice (1995).

21st Symposium Lecture

Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Research, and Education

Professor Zeus Leonardo

2005 - 2006 Acting Director for the Center

Friday, October 28, 2005
University of Washington Club - Conference Room

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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Prof. Zeus Leonardo is an Associate Professor of social and multicultural foundations in the College of Education at California State University, Long Beach. His books include Ideology, Discourse, and School Reform (2003), Critical Pedagogy and Race (Editor, 2005), and Charting New Terrains of Chicano(a)/Latino(a) Education (Co-Editor, 2000). Professor Leonardo has published numerous articles and book chapters on critical education and social theory with special attention to issues of race, class and gender.

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20th Symposium Lecture
Science and Technology in a Multicultural and Postcolonial World:
New Issues and Challenges

Professor Sandra Harding
Professor of Education and Women's Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
University of Washington Club - Conference Room
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM


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Sandra Harding is Professor of Education and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Harding taught for over twenty years at the University of Delaware before joining UCLA in 1996. At UCLA, she served as the director of the Center for the Study of Women for five years. Professor Harding has written numerous books and articles on the subjects of feminist epistemology, feminist research and methods, and scientific knowledge. Her books include: Is Science Multicultural? (1998); Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives (1991); and The Science Question in Feminism (1986). She has also served as an editor and co-editor for several journals, including Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

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The 19th Symposium Lecture

The Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington
presents the 19th Symposium of its Symposium-Lecture Series

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What if We Leave All the Children Behind?

The Challenge of Teaching in the New Millennium

 

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, October 22, 2004

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The 18th Symposium Lecture

The Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington
presents the 18th Symposium of its Symposium-Lecture Series

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Expanding the Borders of the Nation: Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship Education in Japan

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Professor of Education
University of Tokyo

January, 28, 2004

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The 17th Symposium Lecture

The Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington
presents the 17th Symposium of its Symposium-Lecture Series

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The Development of Biliteracy in Children: The Mediating Roles of Language Ideologies

Luis Moll

Professor of Education
University of Arizona

Friday, October 25, 2002

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The 16th Symposium Lecture

The Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington
presents the 16th Symposium of its Symposium-Lecture Series

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Will Anybody Know Who I Am?
On Witness, Justice and Respect

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Professor of Education
Harvard University

Friday, November 9, 2001

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and a highly acclaimed educator and researcher. Since joining the faculty at Harvard in 1972, her research has focused on the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, the relationship between adult developmental themes and teachers' work, and socialization within families, communities and schools.

She is a prolific author of numerous articles, monographs, chapters and several books: Worlds Apart: Relationships Between Families and Schools (1978), Beyond Bias: Perspectives on Classrooms (1979) (with Jean Carew), and The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture (1983), which received the 1984 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association. Her book, Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer (1988), which won the 1988 Christopher Award, was followed by I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation (1994), and The Art and Science of Portraiture (1997) (with Jessica Hoffmann Davis), which documents her pioneering approach to social science methodology. In her most recent work, Respect: An Exploration (1999), Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot reaches deep into human experience to find the essence of this powerful quality.

In addition to her teaching, research, and writing, she sits on numerous professional committees and boards of directors including: The National Academy of Education, The Boston Globe, Bright Horizons, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 1984 she was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Prize Award, in 1993 she was awarded Harvard's George Ledlie Prize, and in 1995 she became a Spencer Senior Scholar. She is the recipient of twenty honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the United States and Canada and was awarded the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair at Harvard University in 1998.

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The 15th Symposium Lecture

The Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington
presents the 15th Symposium of its Symposium-Lecture Series

Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform

Jeannie Oakes

Professor of Education
Director of Institute for Democracy, Education & Access
University of California, Los Angeles

Friday, October 19, 2001
Faculty Center Conference Room
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Book Signing to Follow

 

Jeannie Oakes is Professor of Education and Associate Dean in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Oakes also directs UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education & Access (IDEA), which brings UCLA's research capacity and commitment to bear on what may be the most pressing public issue in Los Angeles and in California today: bringing neighbors together to address the critical problems of public education across the many communities of Los Angeles. Through a program of multidisciplinary scholarship and activities, IDEA addresses the relatiionship between educational access and the broader political economy in diverse Los Angeles.

Oakes studied how tracking and ability grouping created within-school segregation, and inequalities in students' opportunities to learn. Oakes' recent research follows the progress of educators who are attempting to eliminate schooling inequalities and build more democratic school communities. this work is reported in Beyond the Technicalities of School Reform: Lessons from Detracking Schools, in Creating New Educational Communities, the 94th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, and in her latest book, Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform.

In 1986, she received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Educatiional Press Association of America, The American Educational Research Association awarded her its Early Career Award in 1990, and its Palmer O. Johnson Award for Outstanding Research Article in 1997. In 1996, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference presented her with the Ralph David Abernathy Award for Public Service, and she received the National Association for Multicultural Education's Multicultural Research Award in 1998. This past February, she was awarded the Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Jeannie Oakes also directs UCLA's Center X-where Research and Practice Intersect for urban School Professionals. Center X links three major UCLA professional education programs: the pre-service Teacher Education program, the Professional Development programs for practicing educators, and School-University partnerships working to increase the diversity of California students who attend colleges and universities. Oakes' research program at the Center investigates teacher development aimed at social justice for urban schools serving low-income students of color. Her 1999 book, Teaching to Change the World explores the educational foundations, values, and approaches to teaching that are at the core of Center X.

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