The World Is Neither Flat nor Round: The Power of Research Paradigms
Gloria Ladson–Billings
Thursday, 12 Feb 2009 at 6:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Gloria Ladson-Billings will highlight the experiences and challenges of scholars of color who approach education from diverse and alternative perspectives. She is the author of Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education and the Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education and a professor of curriculum and instruction and educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She helped develop Teach for Diversity, a graduate program for teachers who want to teach in diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic settings. She also authored The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, which profiles eight outstanding teachers who differ in personal style but approach teaching in a way that affirms cultural identity. The 2009 Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences.7:30 p.m. reception following the lecture in the Multicultural Student Center, Memorial Union.
Lecture abstract:
The paradigms researchers employ to make sense of the social world are as important as the statistical and qualitative methods they use to analyze that world. This talk focuses on the major research dilemmas that many scholars of color face as they attempt to represent diverse and alternate perspectives in education and other social science research.
Cosponsored By:
- College of Human Sciences
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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