Seminars & Events - 2012 Seminars and Events
Dr. Bettina Love: Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South
MONDAY
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
12-1PM
Room: G23 – Aderhold Hall
Dr. Love will discuss her new book, Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak. The book explores how young women navigate the space of Hip Hop music and culture to form ideas concerning race, body, class, inequality and privilege. The thriving atmosphere of Atlanta, Georgia serves as the nexus of the book and the background against which these youth consume Hip Hop. The text focuses on how the city’s social conservative politics, urban gentrification, race relations, Southern flavored Hip Hop music and culture, and booming adult entertainment industry rest in their periphery.
2012 DCOD Spring Seminars
Preparing Preservice Teachers to Educate All Students: The Role of Multicultural Mathematics Dispositions
Dorothy Y. White and Victor Brunaud-Vega
April 11, 2012
Noon – 1:00 PM
Aderhold Hall Room G23
Educating all students in mathematics requires that preservice teachers develop culturally receptive and critical dispositions in mathematics. These dispositions are termed multicultural mathematics dispositions (MCMD). MCMD are based on three dispositional factors: (a) openness to the role of culture in the teaching and learning of mathematics; (b) self-awareness/self-reflectiveness of oneʼs own culture, its relation to other cultures, and the mathematics classroom cultures experienced; and (c) commitment to using culturally responsive pedagogy to teach mathematics. In this session, the construct of MCMD is introduced and described. Findings from a study to identify preservice teachers MCMD during a mathematics methods course are then presented to illustrate how these dispositions are evidenced in preservice teachers. To conclude, a discussion of the importance of MCMD in the preparation of teachers and implications for teacher education programs and research is provided.
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION MISSION STATEMENT ON
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Officially adopted by the COE Faculty Senate
March 24, 2010
The College of Education is committed to multicultural education as a foundation for working towards a more just and equitable society. The scholarship, practice, and activism of critical multicultural education focuses on examining and transforming inequitable societal structures, policies, practices and values. As critical multicultural educators we work simultaneously to increase our own awareness of power, privilege, and positionality, as well as collaboratively with stakeholders to enact social change. As educational professionals we identify and challenge oppression and work for social justice, generally, and in local educational settings, specifically.
The imperative for social change arises from inequity based on systems of social, historical, economic, and political structures that influence and are influenced by culture, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, language, religion, national origin, educational and socio-economic status, and community.
The purpose of this statement is to reaffirm our College’s commitment to facilitate dialogue and foster the development of knowledge and action among students, staff, and faculty necessary to educate and counsel individuals from various cultural and socio economic backgrounds. The College will institute a process of continuous reflection and evaluation to accomplish the mission of social change for the just and equitable benefit of all people.
JANUARY 27, 2012 Noon–1:00 PM G23 Aderhold Hall
Shifting Discourses of Linguistic “Otherness” Toward Inclusive Notions of Human Movement and Second Language Education For All
Misha Cahnmann-Taylor & Stephanie Baker, Dept. of Language & Literacy
FEBRUARY 3, 2012 Noon- 1:00PM G5-7 Aderhold Hall
The White Interest in School Integration
Robert A. Garda, Jr. Professor of Law, Loyola University
Click here for video.
FEBRUARY 16, 2012 12:20-1:10 PM G23 Aderhold Hall
Black Women Faculty in Educational Leadership: Unpacking their Silence in Research
April Peters-Hawkins, Dept. of Leadership, Administration, & Policy
Black History Month February 2012
How are Georgia immigration policies affecting the teachers and counselors of immigrant students? What legal issues do educators and families need to know about?
Immigration Lawyer: Charles Kuck
Educators from CCSD: Matt Hicks, Ian Altman, And Sam Hicks
